Le Cuir à Paris unveils new winter trends
According to trend experts at Le Cuir à Paris, the winter period oscillates between extremes and each trend contradicts the other. The trends for the winter 2011-12 period are no different.
The experts expect to see subtleness and interiorisation rubbing shoulders with extreme femininity and rigorous androgyny. Creativity and mathematical formulae cross paths, and the call of nature is enhanced with an urban touch.
Within each trend there are subtle shadings of colour and monochrome tints, measured neutrals and tantalising reds. Materials are rich with exaggerated decors, or are modest and downy, contrasted with oversized volumes.
One of the trends, ‘a tribute to absence’, looks at how to do better with less; less colour, more nuances, fewer words and more sensations.
Its ‘tribute to the other’ is about living in a community, sharing experiences and means, changing the course from recent narcissistic and selfish decades. It focuses on knowing the other to find out more about oneself.
‘A tribute to softness’ shuts out the hardness of the times, welcoming tenderness and innocence. This means switching from refined to rustic, from urban temptress to country chick and from formal elegance to nonchalant sloppiness.
The trend that is ‘a tribute to disorder’ is about ousting idols and installing our own creative zones. It puts an end to the frenzy for celebrities and the conventional. The single rule is to express yourself.
‘A tribute to right angles’ uses spirals, circles, arabesques, criss-crossings, cocoons, scrolls and twists, while ‘a tribute to red’ looks at the warmth and violence that the colour can convey. It is red with anger, pink with pleasure, orange like a flame and incandescent like sulphur. It is the cockerel’s crest, crimson curtain or blackcurrant black. Materials have been carefully finished. Many are lacquered, velvety, powdery or badly painted.
