Trend Update: Fall 2011 - Color Blocking
Michelle Lynch, Fashion-Ade Style Director
There is nothing new about the trend of color blocking - except everything! Lucky for you: this flattering-for-everyone trend has come back this season with a vengeance! And, this is one of my favorite trends to create; it's so easy to piece together separates (yes, the ones already in your virtual closet!!).
- Just mix together cool jackets, sweaters and pants, each in a different shade of fall's exciting colors.
- Consider mixing in bright blues and cool jades - colors of the moment.
This trend gives you the freedom to play around and mix colors.
- Go ahead, put that emerald green turtleneck top with those short silver cigarette pants and add a great yellow overcoat.
- Or how about a royal blue high-neck blouse with a long red skirt? Add a solid color boot and you're look is totally color blocked!
Now for me, color blocking is about taking a regular, monotone outfit and popping it with color. For instance, You know black & white is always right, but
- Add a red coat.
- Pair it with a mustard yellow leather jacket
- Add a great green scarf
- Wear it with a pair of hot blue boots
Voila! Apply any one of thes styling tips and you have color blocking at its finest. Just take a look at what you have, pop the color and you're set!
Don't make this complicated - rather than embracing a whole new idea of what to put where, think more about sprucing up the muted. This is a trend that's hard to mess up, just go for color, BOLD color! Colors of Substance! Add a pop of color to that plain-jane outfit you've been wearing forever. Now is the time to revive, restore and recreate.. by stepping into the wonderful world of color blocking!
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