Fashion & retail trend forecast for spring summer 2020 inspired by romantic city Venice
A place situated in the Adriatic sea called Venice. The capital of northern Italy’s Veneto region. That is one of the favorite spots in Italy, the world popular place which is built on more than 100 small islands in a lagoon. It is small and compact, perfect to be explored with just a few days time. The canals, the gondolas, the architecture, the colorful towns are very much capable to hypnotize anyone’s mind.
The culture of this historic city is vibrant and intriguing. The city has been referenced in many films, songs, novels, and poems, all of which have helped Venice spread its attraction worldwide. Venice is a city with an immense heritage of art and culture. It is impossible to inspire by all the attractions and monuments, In short, it’s romantic, historic, and gorgeous. Beautiful buildings and art can be seen throughout Venice. The lagoon city is itself a piece of art. Apart from this, Venice hosts an unusually large number of art treasures. The elements of the architecture, the colorful towns, the lagoons, aquatic plants are the things that make Venice so unique.
As a retail apparel designer, we can not go so deep in Venice art and culture but we can find lots of inspiration for our retail business from architecture, colorful towns, lagoons, and nature. As we know this is a popular tourist place where people come from all over the world so we can observe multi trends at one place and blend the romantic, historic inspiration with other international trends.
Romantic textile direction
Creativity grows rapidly at the grassy, lagoon and borderlands between the city and countryside, inspiring a new urban and countryside design mix. Venice with an immense heritage of art and culture blending with countryside inspirations and giving a key influence for the romantic retail fashion direction.
As per the above Mood board and direction making a collection for Spring summer 2020 which will be suitable for the retail market.
Crew neck tees with floral prints on linen blend and viscose 160 gsm s/j
Allover printed shirts with floral motifs on linen blend and30’s poplins
Allover printed polo tees weight 220gsm s/j with softener wash
Allover printed crewneck tees on 160 gsm slub fabric with softner/bio wash
Henley in textured fabric-Popcorn, space dyed and snow melange with softner wash
Solid henley and polo tees with ball wash
Garment dyed Solid and allover embroidered shirts on20’spoplin with ball wash
Solid garment dyed bottoms with mid-weight canvas+heavy ball wash
Yarn-dyed crewneck tees weight160 gsm with softener wash
Printed crewneck tees on 160 gsm single dyed pc melange with reactive technique plus softner wash
Yarn-dyed pique polo tees weight-240 gsm with softener wash
Written by Khursheed Rabbani
