I f you have been reading the blog, you will know that the 2016 Resort collections have provided a new hint of the future of our fashion direction after years of retro indulgence. This new shift is slowly revealing itself in the same way that the sporty streamlined Gibson girl had done. In that case, it indicated the active sporty aspect the 20s would take our 20th century fashion towards as it liberated us from accepted constraint the century before had embraced.

Now we have a new freedom as our palette of artistic appreciation and craft takes a more sophisticated turn. The technology we have is providing the actualization of vision in greater detail matching the creativity designers craved. Not only if this possible in cuts and construction, but in materials and combinations with greater detail. Collections such as those from 3.1. Phillip Lim, Tess Giberson and Thakoon are carrying forward the haphazardness mentioned in the prior article.

What these are showing is the elevation of recombination and haphazard styling that the street level is experimenting with taken to another level in combination with the Franken-assembly we have been entertaining in collections for the last few years that Michael van der Ham started. Collectively, these techniques in tandem are forging new directions that give birth to possible combinations that no longer seem as familiar. true, they have some of the avant garde experimentation that the 80s and some of the 90s allowed, but there is more to this; the evolution revealed lets us know our hunger for a new way of being is dictating the permission for new forms and constructs that only advanced technology available can provide.

This new perspective may see further development as technology provides new processes, such as the recent Kickstarter campaign for a desktop 3D printer for fashion that Electroloom revealed to the media. This technology, as it becomes more sophisticated (as all our technology does), opens the door to further grassroots experimentation that will, in turn provide new combinations that defy convention. The support of DIY culture in recent years has laid the groundwork for enveloping this approach and, just as the streets influenced fashion evolution last century, you can be sure this stage will find similar cultural set-up. History repeats; that is nothing new. What is coming our way, though, will be.