This trend looks at the possibilities of a new world order. Set in a post-apocalyptic landscape, the mood is born out of the recent global fiscal meltdown. There is something raw and compelling about its evocative primitivism that draws on surreally forbidding landscapes for inspiration. Monolithic structures take on an idiosyncratic feel, abandoned in barren environments, like giant futuristic aliens misplaced and isolated in an ancient land. That singularly stark futurism is counterbalanced by the re-invention of traditional homespun techniques, born out of survivalist necessity rather than any desire to be merely creative. Quilting, patchwork, crochet and felting are all ancient crafts celebrated within this trend, creating a kaleidoscope of colour and pattern that can be used as inspiration for new fur techniques. There is a sense of using age-old crafts to redefine nature, as seen here with Janet Morton's lace-covered linden trees, or of combining the cosiness of feminine domesticity with the contrast of bleak desolated exterior spaces. Architecture has a part to play within the mood as we look to the scale, colour and density of urbanism, generating a unique vernacular that relies on futuristic form and function. Just another contradiction within this multi-layered trend with its many faceted influences and a span that combines age-old techniques with bio-engineering or savage primitivism and a sense of post-apocalyptic modernism.

Colour - The palette for this trend conjures up the sparse greys of an urban landscape combined with warm scorched earth umber browns and clean rain-washed blues that speak of wide uninterrupted skies, highlighted with unexpected vivid brights.