FADED SPLENDOUR – Mood + Colour
A sense of dreamlike splendour inhabits our final trend for autumn/ winter 10-11, which speaks of faded romance and evocative memories of a past, maybe just glimpsed through the veil of time. But all is not what it seems in this seemingly innocent cosmos. There are darker forces at play with slightly macabre influences hinting at a fantasy world inhabited by beautiful tragedian heroines. The recent movie ‘Grey Gardens,’ about the somewhat eccentric and poignant lives of two faded reclusive New York socialites living out their days in a twilight world gives us a modern interpretation of the trend, which has its roots in Victoriana and its accompanying gothic revival. There might be a subtle sense of brooding menace behind the mood but there is also a delectable fragile femininity and sense of opulence, its gilding burnished by the annals of time like a faded photograph whose image is almost nothing more than a blurred memory.
COLOUR | Faded memories and nostalgic romance colour our palette with the softest barely-there tinted greys, rising like a misty vapour into the pitch black of night. Faded pot-pourri pinks and pale spun gold add a dreamy femininity to the look.
BUZZ WORDS
Nostalgic
Romantic
Dreamy
Fragile
Subversive
