Yasmin Kianfar. Topshop

"Mass market retailers copying independent designers is nothing new. What is new, however, is having a single (albeit influential) blogger call out a mega-retailer like Topshop for ripping off a design, and having them respond not only appropriately, but almost instantaneously.

Earlier today, Susie Lau of Susie Bubble published a series of tweets accusing Topshop ofknocking off young British designer (and Central St. Martins grad) Yasmin Kianfar.

It’s not the first time I’ve asked high street retailers to take down designs that copy young designers so here goes…

Yasmin Kianfar S/S 11 vs. @Topshop current lazer cut dress?http://tinyurl.com/83c3dpz http://yfrog.com/oe7izicj

Come on @Topshop, @YasminKianfar is too small a designer to be aping. I say, take it down!

Just so you know, I still love you @Topshop and it’s no skin off your back to take down one design misdeed off the site…

And less than two hours later, she posted this update:

Yay @Topshop will be taking down the dress (24 hrs to effect)

Now that’s the kind of response we like to see. We’ve included photos of both Topshop’s and Kianfar’s dresses below, and they’re incredibly similar. Good for Susie for sticking up for young designers — and great for Topshop for listening to her."

http://www.styleite.com/shopping/susie-bubble-topshop-yasmin-kianfar/

http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG9148634/Topshop-accused-of-copying-a-design.html

Trade Shows

Name: Scoop
Location:
Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York’s Headquarters, King’s Road,
London, SW3 4RY
Phillips, Howick Place, London, SW1P 1BB
Time:13-15 July 2014
Main focus: Fashion trade show

“Welcome to Scoop, Europe’s most exciting fashion trade show

Scoop is a boutique womenswear tradeshow, showcasing emerging and established directional fashion designers across two London venues.

Housed within the Saatchi Gallery and Phillips, this July 2014 edition of Scoop will be featuring more than 400 collections to represent the best in contemporary and premium womenswear, accessories, footwear and lifestyle products.

Launched in February 2011 by fashion industry expert Karen Radley, Scoop’s first seven seasons have already been an amazing success

The spring/summer 15 event takes place on 13 – 15 July 2014.

Stylish designer collections seen at the last autumn/winter 14 edition of Scoop included: Plein Sud, Rebecca Taylor, Edward Achour Paris, Goat, Didier Ludot, Vilagallo sitting alongside new faces from Hoffman, Traffic People, Crumpet, Zoe Karssen, Cameo and NSF. Accessories and jewellery from Missoni Accessories, Givenchy Silks, Jamin Puech, Campomaggi, MySuelly, Liebeskind Berlin, Angela Caputi Giuggiù and featured footwear from Ikkii Boots, Sargossa, Penelope Chilvers, Ash Footwear, Peter Non and many many more...”

-http://www.scoop-international.com/aboutscoopjuly14.html

Name: Pure London
Location: London Olympia
Time: 3-5 August 2014
Main focus: Fashion (womenswear, accessories and footwear )

Credits

Geo print suit, Silvian Heach

Cream blouse, Stefanel

Silver font black sandals, London Rebel

White fur stole, Helen Moore

Silver and black box clutch, Ruby Studio

The 'trends' industry

Trends company.

Name: Mudpie Design

Mudpie is one of the world’s leading Fashion Trend Forecasters with twenty years experience working with global brands.

Below are inspirations from their A/W 2014-15 Trend Journal.  

Trend 1 (top 2 images): Nuclear blue and softened neon pinks contrast with earthy base tones for a futuristic take on natural landscapes envisioning a dystopian future.

Trend 2 (middle 3 images): An atmospheric palette is conveyed through cosmic fusions of midnight indigo, planet green and mars red, combined with iconic retro futurist hues.

Trend 3 (bottom 2 images): Retro digital interfaces are summoned through synthetic, clashing shades of cyan, neon pink and acetate green, blending with pastel shades to evoke a techno aesthetic.

Image source (clockwise from top left): theartfuldesperado.com; ghosthotel.bandcamp.com; wrongsideoftheart; society6/Jetter Green; thestijlfille.wordpress.com; verdicted.tumblr; Alain Vonck; Roberto Piqueras; Penabranca.

Laser bright colours give a futuristic, spacey feel to fall collections. These bright beams of colours invoke images of Luke Skywalker fighting Darth Vader in Star Wars. It’s nice to nerd out and be fashionable at the same time.

This space theme will continue to evolve into autumn/winter 14/15 where contemporary futurism dictates silhouette and styling.

Image source: The Local Firm; Nasty Gal and Marie Claire Italia

Words by edited by MPDClick’s Trend Journal Editor.

-http://fashionvignette.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/trends-mudpie-aw-1415-trend-journal.html

The 'trends' industry

Trends companies

Name: Trend Bible
Main focus area: Interior
Process and metrology:
"Home is at the heart of everything we do. Because we centre all of our efforts on the home, we develop in-depth insight into how householders engage with technology, food, healthcare products and their environment. How people live and what they use becomes the foundation for our projections of up to five years.

We have a deep understanding of family life, for adults and children, and how the home will have to perform to meet their future needs.

Whilst we look at a broad range of industries to track and monitor innovation, we don't believe it makes much sense to try and forecast trends for everyone. We're experts in our field, and providing this specialist service makes our experience very rich. We dedicate our whole team, all of the time, to scrutinising and understanding the home environment and how this will evolve"
--http://www.trendbible.com/how-we-do-it/our-process-methodology/

Kids Trends: Spring Summer 2014

Posted on March 27, 2014 by Trend Bible

We’re reflecting on our Kid’s Lifestyle forecasts for Spring / Summer 2014. Published over two years ahead of the season, back in 2012, we’re now starting to see these trends emerge in store.

Below we’re sharing a snapshot of the trends we forecast. Check out ourPinterest feed to track all of our past forecasts and join us on Google+ to stay up to date with our newest releases.

Peaceful Protest Spring / Summer 2014

Peaceful Protest references 1960s hippie culture, taking inspiration from an era that represents a time of peace, love, happiness and appreciating the simple pleasures in life. Inspiration also comes from festivals such as Coachella, Glastonbury and Woodstock in its heyday, where the scene is set singing around the campfire.

A strong sense of creativity and exploration is retained in material and form with decorative homespun crafts featuring as an important part of this trend. Handknit and crochet combine with cotton embroidery, patchwork, quilting and naive floral prints for textiles. The colour palette compliments this free-spirited, bohemian attitude, mixing peach-tinted pinks, ochres and layered deep greens.

Luminescence Spring / Summer 2014

Children’s natural enthusiasm for exploration and learning influence this highly scientific trend, where nature is scrutinised and the wonder of the natural world begins to enthral and excite. Capturing the impossible begins to fascinate us and at-home prototyping becomes feasible for a whole generation of kids, who can play, experiment, make and sell like never before.

Blending biology and mathematics, Luminescence mixes the idea of experimentation with the very real possibilities of suborbital space travel. Natural and synthetic materials mix and imitate one another as we begin to integrate the science of nature into design and interior spaces.

Strange Stories Spring / Summer 2014

Drawing on rich cultural influences, this trend is a melting pot of inspiration. Strange Stories blends African heritage with craftsmanship in a colourful, highly decorative look. Inspired by the South African ‘Smarteez’; a collective of young street style creatives who use fashion to celebrate colour and pattern, this trend is playful and has a sense of humour. It encourages individualism, self expression and confidence.

Clashing patterns are juxtaposed with technical elements in a playful, eccentric way. Products take on a contemporary narrative with use of geometric, irregular and assymetric form, executed in intelligent synthetics. Characters are fun, delicate and odd animals, wearing bow ties, hats and spectacles and illustrated and painted in delicious colours.

Mechanical Spring / Summer 2014

This story is all about products with personality, as gadgets become more like companions or pets with human emotions or elements which come to life. Algorithms and data interpreting adds a technical feel and computer generated concepts add a graphic edge to this slick kid’s story.

A minimalist ‘less is more’ approach drives this trend with clean lines and purist shapes, but there is a nod towards old-fashioned mechanics and industrial heritage with beautifully crafted wooden cogs and simple mechanisms. Textiles soften the edge of this trend and make it baby friendly.

-http://www.trendbible.com/blog/kids-trends/kids-trends-spring-summer-2014/

Week 6, professional study. trends ppt

week 6: Introduction to the textile industry. the 'trends' industry


Seasons

Within the Fashion and Interiors Industry
• Spring/Summer (SS)
• Autumn/Winter (AW/FW)
• Indicators?
• Fabric/yarn choices/weight/colour/cut of garments

Within the Gift/Surface Design and Designer Maker Industries
• Less ‘weather’ influenced
• Holiday times/specific annual events are often very influential
• E.g.?
• Christmas/birthdays/Easter/Halloween/Mothers Day etc.

• Trends books/predictions/journals are used by the majority of commercial design companies who produce design work for all levels of the market. Anyone wishing to work within design MUST acknowledge this.
• The ‘Trends’ industry is a multi-million pound business in itself.

• It started in Paris in the late 1950’s as a tool to help the local textile
industry modernize and adjust to the demands of a post war market.
• First trend-spotters were usually fashion journalists or society women. Initially recommending seasonal colour charts and fashion sketches.
• Today – music, film, global culture, cross over design trends, social trends, etc..... influences are more of a ‘melting pot’
• Use of ‘PANTONE COLOURS’ across most sectors of Industry
• Trend books are now the ‘bread and butter’ of the trends business. They are published 18 months ahead of the season, to adjust to the demands of the spinning, fabric and ready to wear industries
• At Trade Shows, fabric and yarn swatches as well as films/concepts are presented in Trends Forums

Influences on the Trends Books/Trend Cycle

• Other cultures
• Street fashion/sub cultures/’underground happenings’
• Internet phenomena
• Popular Culture, e.g. film, music etc.
• Cross over influences from other areas of art and design – fine art, fashion, graphics etc....
• Boutique hotels – often influence Interior trends
• Decorating cycles and reactions
• Consumerism
• New books
• Exhibitions


Influences on Retail and consumer trends
• Trade Shows – trends forums – trend predictions on a very commercial level – produced to sell fabrics etc. (Heimtex, Indigo, 100% design Surtex etc.)
• Journals

Drawing of making

The works of my first college program- Drawing of making.

Vintage inspired packing design: Andrea Garland

About Andrea Garland:

"Take a peek at the fabulous Andrea Garland beauty collection, a medley of beauty treasures in vintage inspired packaging. Andrea’s handmade ranges are a dressing table delight and a vintage-loving beauty addict’s dream. 

Andrea began her journey into beauty via a market stall in London’s ultra fashionable Brick Lane in 2009 with the much loved lip balm housed in vintage tins, pill boxes and compacts which are themselves miniature works of art. 

Her handmade balms contain only natural ingredients and in Autumn 2011, Andrea launched her vintage inspired range; whimsical jewellery and beautifully illustrated pill boxes, with mirrors, that open to reveal lip balm.  These soon became a sell out and were featured in The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail, Vogue and many other national and international publications. 

In the Autumn of 2012, a collaboration with Liberty of London also resulted in a collection of historic Liberty print pill boxes filled with lip balm - this collection is still a best-seller.

Alongside the flagship balms Andrea has put all her expertise and research into a beauty skin care range comprising of face and body creams, cleansers, toners, beauty oils, body washes and scrubs. All packed with an abundance of natural ingredients and packaged beautifully with hand painted illustrations. Sure to make the best of your beauty in a beautifully natural way."
-http://www.andreagarland.co.uk/#/about-us/4553039771

Her compact lip balm are sell for £15, with handmade lip balm and a mirror. Packing with vintage inspired illustrations and pattern.

Textile designer maker. Gift design. Selvedge

Selvedge is a design-led, 100 page, bi-monthly magazine that covers every facet of textiles – interiors, fashion, art, craft, travel and shopping – in an intelligent and inspiring way.

"With a solid interior and a bit of padding these patchwork needlecases are ever so tactile. Each needle-case has the hand embroidered Ellie Evans monogram stitched with silk thread and includes a combination of spots, stripes and floral fabrics so no two are ever the same. The inner is made from a felted wool blanket which is then edged with blanket stitch by hand to prevent any fraying. Leather ties."

-http://www.selvedge.org/shop/needle-case-velvet

"Ellie Evans' pin cushions have a home-spun charm. Each one features a hand cross stitched Ellie Evans monogram and is filled with emery sand which sharpens your pins. The perfect present for any seamstress, each one combines digitally printed, remnant and vintage fabrics and comes complete with a set of coloured pins."

£30.95

-http://www.selvedge.org/shop/pin-cushion-esme

 Antique linen teatowel. Approx. 65 x 60cm

£25.00

 With a solid interior and a bit of padding these patchwork needlecases are ever so tactile. Each needle-case has the hand embroidered Ellie Evans monogram stitched with silk thread and includes a combination of spots, stripes and floral fabrics so no two are ever the same. The inner is made from a felted wool blanket which is then edged with blanket stitch by hand to prevent any fraying. Ribbon ties.

£41.95

http://www.selvedge.org/shop/needle-case-tilly

Package Design: Steam Cream

STEAMCREAM is a skincare product brand in UK. The reason I notice this product was because of the packaging, this brand only sells one kind of cream, but there are so many different beautiful tins. Same cream, same packing size, different surface design. Every designs are unique, there are always something new comes up like they will never run out of designs.

"Our beautiful, eco-friendly limited edition tins are designed by us but we do also enjoy working with other inspiring designers to spice things up. Grab your favourites before they sell out!

When you’ve used your STEAMCREAM, keep your tin for storing things and come back to see what’s new.

STEAMCREAM is an award winner. We won the CEW (UK) Award for Best Everyday New Skincare and Pure Beauty Award for Best Design & Packaging. Once you’ve tried it you’ll understand why!"

"STEAMCREAM’s latest collaboration with talented Japanese poet, designer and embroidery artist Mako Kikkawa is here. Inspired by the majestic Hoàn Kiêm Lake in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, this design was carefully embroidered by hand and transformed into a beautiful tin."

special edition of 2014: Ma- the year of horse.

design based on one of the 12 Chinese birth signs of the Chinese zodiac.

In their blog there are also shows the other years of horse, and other famous that were born in the horse years. That makes this design more special and more collectable for certain people.

 Mockingbird by Nadia Syaheera: The winner of "Design A Tin Compition" 2013