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Trend observations with a sociological eye from afar...

by Darryl S. Warren  

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W  hile we wait for the next round of collections to appear and the fashion world is busy at the Metropolitan Museum in Manhattan celebrating Rei Kawakubo, designer of the rule-breaking label Comme des Garcons at the museum's annual Met Gala, now is the ideal time to further speculate on the coming fashion direction. This is especially as the exhibit focuses on the massive influence this designer has had on fashion while taking fashion towards new visions that have made it easier for fashion to forge into new directions well beyond the constraints the last century has instilled in us.

The realities of the world will not stop the higher forms of creativity, for there is a market that always exist to keep this level of fashion going. The retro foundations have been set, and as we slowly let go of our past, trend organizations are bracing for technical expressions that are shiny, silvery and technically based.

The high ideals of modernity of the 1920s that fashion delved into as the decade progressed meets the experimentation foundation that culminates in expressions the Japanese brought forward in the 1980s. Together, these spirits that are more legend for the new generations already shine forth, bringing inspiration while making it easier to charge forward with new incarnations that embrace technical applications in the form of groundbreaking materials, cuts and assembly techniques that we have been witnessing in early stages now.

The retro visions of the future will merely be a rough launch pad as those we based on materials, cuts, techniques and aesthetics of frozen moments in the past that we may borrow from out of irony more than anything while fitting it with current modern ways of living. The gender-neutral, faith-sensitive, environment adaptive and function-ready aspects all play as markets aim for international reach, meeting nuances of lifestyle while being flexible enough to suit wide appeal.

All in all, exciting moments to look forward to. Only textile labs and technical advancements now need to reveal what will be next. After that, the passing of the torch to the mature 21st century citizens will see how it plays out. And that's not far way anymore. 

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