Fashion trend colour orange

The main color of the new season is, without any doubt, the energetic orange. Bright, positive and capable to arouse only good emotions, orange is the best vitamin and cure to the winter blues.

Voted as the colour of the year by Pantone, tangerine tango is one of the hottest colour trends of spring/summer fashion 2012.

The colour was popular in the 20s and 60s and began to ascend in popularity again last year, belying the argument that orange is uplifting and comforting during miserable economic times.

Whether teamed with a pair of jeans, worn as a dress, or used to accessorise, orange shades can easily add a bright burst of colour to your wardrobe.

Dolce e Gabbana, Marc Jacobs, Jil Stewart 

Mulberry, Oscar de la Renta, Vivienne Tam

This is my new shibbori nunofelt scarf inspired by this colour trend:

Fashion trend SS2012 pastels and my new scarf

I made a new shibori scarf after a loooong time, inspired by the beutiful pastel hues that are so trendy for this spring/summer season!

Pretty pastel hues popped up all over the Spring runways from many designers such as 

Ralph Lauren, Oscar de la Renta, Issey Miuake, Carolina Herrera, Versace and Valenitno. 

I  love this feminine color palette – lavender, mint green, candy pink, saturated coral, light yellow and sky blue !

 The upside for this trend is that it's both pretty and appropriate for the season. The downside for petites is that light colors tend to visually add bulk.  For those who still want to wear pastels, but don't look their best in pastel clothing, it would be easy to add a touch of light color with pastel fashion accessories, such as a pastel handbag, a bag or jewelry in pastel hues.

The shibori technique

After the lovely comments on my first shibori scarf -thank you all so much-, I thought to write a liitle about this art.

 Shibori is an ancient Japanese art and has many interpretations. It essentially denotes shaped resist textile, and is commonly associated with dyeing cloth with a pattern by binding, stitching, folding, twisting, or compressing it.

It is utilized in knitting and felting, for transformative knitting, either by the use of physical resists (marbles, corks, hazelnuts) that prevent specific areas of knitting from felting, creating unique fabric with bobbles and dimensionality, or by the use of non felting fibers as resists, for example a silk yarn with a wool yarn.

 

  

  

 

My first scarf with the shibori technique

The new challenge for this week is “sea creatures”, chosen by Nicole, aka UltimateOrganicSoap, who was the winner of “spring” challenge. You can read more about it and see the submissions so far on her blog. I was inspired for this challenge by this photograph of underwater life and made this scarf, trying for the first time the shibori technique: