Take Four Trends (AW09)
Take Four Trends
(Autumn /Winter 2009)
The shops are now full of beautiful Autumn/ Winter clothes and there are many different trends to choose from. Colour Me Beautiful consultant, Tanya Arturi, looks at four key trends and gives an overview of what might be the right look for you and why.
1. Camel Coats
This season sees a return to elegance and luxury; designers understand that people are looking for ‘investment pieces’ instead of high-end trends that only last one season. Therefore, one of Autumn’s most versatile classics, the camel coat, has made a come-back and was seen on the catwalks of MaxMara, Chloe, Derek Lam and Michael Kors.
However, this colour doesn’t suit everyone so you need to understand your dominant colour personality before deciding to invest in this wardrobe staple. Camel will suit women in one of the following colour ‘types’ (there are six dominate colour types in total):
Light You have light blonde or white hair; light blue or green eyes and a porcelain and delicate skin (e.g. Joely Richardson and Denise Van Outen). Most winter coats are dark, so this trend gives you a great opportunity to invest in a coat because camel is a great colour for you (just make sure it doesn’t match your hair too closely)
Warm You have red hair tones (from Strawberry blonde to auburn), your eyes are blue, green or hazel and your skin is freckled or golden (e.g. Sarah Ferguson and Nicole Kidman). Wearing a camel colour near to your face will cast warm tones over your skin, flattering your complexion
Deep You have black to dark brown hair, your eyes are dark brown and your skin is anything from very dark to very pale (e.g. Nigella Lawson and Halle Berry)
2. Houndstooth
Traditional prints are back and houndstooth checks dominated the A/W catwalks – from micro to jumbo proportions. These black and white pieces are tailor-made for city dressing and were seen on suits, A-Line shit dresses and sleek coats. Designers such as Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, Preen and Moschino all used houndstooth fabrics.
The following two dominant colour types can wear this print next to their face, everyone else should only wear it on their bottom half or on accessories such as bags and shoes.
Deep As described above
Clear You have medium to dark hair; bright blue, green or topaz eyes and a clear and fresh complexion (e.g. Liz Hurley and Courtney Cox-Arquette). The contrasting black and white colours will look particularly good on you
3. Sequined Jackets
Disco divas will love the shimmering effect of sequins for a bit of night-time glamour. The catwalk had dazzling displays of sequinned skirts, dresses and tops from designers such as Nina Ricci, Carolina Herrera and Gucci. Don’t try too hard by wearing top-to-toe sequins, just throw a jacket over a plain t-shirt and wear a pair of jeans.
Luckily, every colour type can wear this trend because the high street has a range of coloured sequins (Dorothy Perkins stock jackets in pink, purple and grey). Below is a guide to what colour will suit you best:
Soft You have mousy (often highlighted) hair, soft brown, green or blue eyes and a neutral complexion (e.g. Sarah Jessica Parker and Jennifer Aniston), you should opt for silver, grey and pink jackets
Cool You have ash blonde, black or grey hair; blue, grey or cool brown eyes and skin with cool undertones (e.g. Annie Lennox and HRH The Duchess of Cornwall). If you have this type of colouring you should look for a grey, silver or purple jacket
Women with a Light dominant colour (as described above) should look for pink and grey jackets.
Women with a Warm dominant colour should look for jackets in pink and gold.
Deep and Clear dominant colours should wear deep and rich colours such as black and purple.
Dorothy Perkins has a range of sequinned jackets in a variety of different colours.
4. Fabulous Forties
Feminine dressing is back this season with beautifully tailored 1940’s skirt suits, emphasising womanly curves with a nipped-in waist. This type of suit was shown in bold bright red on the Prada, DKNY and Dior catwalks.
You can wear bright red if you are Deep or Clear but look for hot pink if you are Cool, coral or apricot if you are Warm and blush pink if you are Light or Soft.
If you would like to have your colours professionally analysed to find out what clothes and make-up best suits you, please contact Tanya Arturi, Colour Me Beautiful Consultant, on 07811 430 730 or visit www.cheshireimageconsultants.co.uk
About the Author
Tanya Arturi is a Colour Me Beauitful consultant based in Cheshire. She regularly writes fashion articles for local publications and has a fashion blog (http://www.budgetsyle.co.uk). More information about Tanya and her services can be founat at http://www.cheshireimageconsultants.co.uk
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People in the industry know, the wood-based panel of the baseboard should use those substrates? How to measure their strength, size, formaldehyde content standards? In the future, these will be strictly in Chongqing "playing the table." Chongqing Industry Association from the floor sources said, March 1, the association has co-Chongqing Institute of Standardization, submitted to the municipal food safety regulator, "plywood baseboard local standards," the development of reporting. Now proceed with the pre-market research and data collection work.
Wood flooring has been inextricably linked with the modern home life, the industry's big push this year is more from the whole wooden floor shop concept, but in addition to production, installation standards, wooden flooring accessories have no quality standards. Chongqing Flooring Industry Association, said Peng Jianming, in 2009 the Association to collect consumer complaints valued at more than pieces of wood flooring, which involves the baseboard that has been more than 50%, mainly focused on the business part of the gift.
It is understood that, at present, the market is divided into solid wood flooring wood flooring, wood-based panel (ie, laminate flooring), multi-layer flooring and bamboo flooring resurrection. Wood flooring accessories, there are two sales methods: first, sold separately to consumers, the second is based on the total floor purchased by consumers to take a 1:1 distribution. Most consumers opt for the latter. Since the state of wooden flooring accessories is currently no clear quality standards, some medium and small, and brand-name businesses, the majority of distribution is that poor quality goods, baseboard is particularly prominent. Formaldehyde exceeding the standard is a poor foaming baseboard more focused performance in severe cases, the use of even affect to the floor of the beauty and life.
In order to regulate the market, more favorable to protect the legitimate rights and interests of consumers. Peng Jianming said the association promoted to consumers in addition to separate charges of baseboard, the Chongqing Institute of Standardization have been jointly to the City, submitted a development of food safety regulator, "Wood-based panel baseboard mandatory standard" applications and is expected to be completed within this year, project acceptance.
This reporter learned from Chongqing Institute of Standardization was informed that the mandatory standards, once promulgated, will have baseboard formaldehyde content of wood-based panels mandatory limits to its testing methods, inspection rules and signs, packaging, transport and storage, will be the industry standardized in order to achieve stable development.
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