Power of Flowers in Textiles and Accessories

Prints for apparel are no doubt one of the key trends this spring and beyond.

At Textile Forum in London last week, floral prints with a Japanese sensibility were in full bloom.

Nunoya

Barcelona-based distributor Nunoya specialises in quality Japanese fabrics and offered a wide selection of prints and designs from Kokka, a Japanese fabric producer with over 70 years of history.

Nunoya

Kokka’s designs include traditional Japanese floral prints, abstract, geometric and the more quirky fun designs perfect for children. Base fabrics include 100% cottons, cotton/linen mixes, polyester, polyester and knits.

Nunoya

Another Japanese company at the London fair was Yuwa Shoten which showcased

fine quality cotton, linen or linen mixed fabrics printed in Japan.  

Yuwa Shoten

The designs ranged from vintage floral and roses, in modern and retro style to novelty children’s designs.

Yuwa Shoten

McElroy Fabrics

Elsewhere from British company McElroy Fabrics of Derbyshire was a selection of feminine florals from their “Lady McElroy” luxury range.  The designs have a painterly style in delicate strokes and soft pastels.

McElroy Fabrics

Details on these suppliers and others are available on the Textile Forum website.  Click HERE.

Première Vision Paris had conducted a survey on “The Best”, gathered from interviewing buyers for their reaction to solid and decorative fabrics for spring summer 17.  The PV teams at the February 2016 fair interviewed 291 exhibitors representing every specialty: high fancy, embroidery, laces, knits, prints, silks, shirting, tailoring, lining, tech, premium relax and high-end jeanswear.

The survey revealed several themes for Spring Summer 2017.  The most sought-after attribute was lightness across all sectors. The desire for naturalness is moving away from rusticity in favour of a dry feel; a blast of technicality works itself into everyday wear and the apparent simplicity of visuals evoke a fresh, tonic and refined spring summer 17.

Details on the Best survey are available on the Premiere Vision website.  Click HERE.

Photos: Lucia Carpio

With the promise of Spring in the air, blossoms are already starting to emerge on trees, in towns and the country side, and were in full bloom recently at the Première Vision Paris trade fair (held 16- 18 February 2016 at the Parc des Expositions de Paris Nord-Villepinte).

Taking the cue from Mother Nature, the forum disiplay designs throughout the fair took on a garden theme, in particular flowers with all their evoking qualities as the main influencing factors of the Spring/Summer 2017 season. 

In the world of fashion and textiles, with surface treatments, textural treatment and prints being aat the forefront of trends, the colours of nature, life and in particular flora and fauna remain strong sources of inspiration for designers, textile and material developers.  

For dresses and women ensembles, a lively and dynamic fluidity was transcribed onto crepes and tactile surfaces with subtly grained texture, along with stretch silks,  satiny gleam, smooth and matte viscose blends and rich textures with enhanced surfaces.    There wwere climbing or bouquet-style roses, at time appeared to be floating on air, featherweights and fresh flowering patterns blooming on supple, cotton or linen-blended grounds.

Vegetation and pervasive foliage, along with exotic animal and jungle prints as well as fruits, simplified or in complicated executions, as well as authentic floral blooms, from micro to macro scale. 

Even for haberdashery and decorative materials, there was a unique balance between technology and poetry, merging sensitive and scientific innovation.  Encased in display boxes, technologically modified flowers grew in futuristic greenhouses, gigantic and voluptuous roses bloomed, incongruous florals displayed gentle pastel petals.  Embroideries too dripped with beads and metallic punctuations.

At the PV Leather Trends Gallery, tribute was paid to the flower showcasing it as fragile, ephemeral and perfect incarnation of beauty, forging the link between four contradictory and complementary scents  At the entrance to the Leather hall, a booth was set up to allow visitors to sniff and admire four distinctive scents.

 All photos by Lucia Carpio for My Fashion Connect Global.