Monochrome Marble - Trend Forecast A/W 16/17

Monochrome Marble

My third trend incorporates a 60’s monochrome colour palette theme, but with a more futuristic approach. My key inspiration for this theme came from the recent New York Fashion Week, where Caroline Herrera showed her catwalk line; http://newyorkfashionweeklive.com/carolina-herrera-mercedes-benz-fashion-week-fw-2015/



For my trend I used the inspiration from Herrera and also the fluidity of the pattern on her garments. Marble was a key theme that stood out to me and intrigued me to think of how this trend could be pushed into the industry.





Key words:

Marble, stipple, speckle, hard, flowing, broken, catalyst

Materials:

Cotton, canvas material, batik, wool, acrylic, nylon

Colour:

White, hues of grey, hues of black, strong black

Carolina was quoted in saying she doesn’t like looking into the past for inspiration, although the designer turned 76 last month she seems to be becoming less conventional and pushing into a more futuristic approach to inspiration for each of her new lines. Earlier in the season her line saw a botanical and natural world theme, and she seems to have progressed with this into the fall by choosing to explore ‘water’. ‘Her approach was both literal and abstract’


One of the pieces stood out to me, the most forward-leaning look, was an ivory techno jersey top accompanied by a long blue bias-cut skirt with a single ruffle rippling down the side, wasn't really about embellishments at all. The modernity was in the efficiency and glamour of its cut.




Images from Style.com



More Inspiration came from the blog, Pattern Curator although this board called blue moon doesn’t have a monochrome colour palette, it illustrated the fluidity of colour that I think that marble can also show. This is popular at the moment within a street style area of the fashion industry.





Metamorphism causes variable recrystallization of the original carbonate mineral grains, to explain this simply original when metamorphism occurs marble is always created uniquely. Each piece of marble is not the same. This I think is the key to this trend, with the rise in street style and people searching for uniqueness in their style marble as well as having an interesting and futuristic look to it, is unique, unless factory made in mass, each piece could be made different. Also from this the monochrome theme emerges, monochrome has trended in the past mainly encouraging statement pieces and accessories. Marble gives monochrome a softer edge, therefore enabling it to move away from the mainstream statement pieces.



Monochrome marble would work well as a modern interiors look but also as a garment textile pattern; marble could be manipulated into different patterns. Personally I think marble monochrome pointed flats would look brilliant.