Fashion Trend: Winter Garden
Flowers, Florals, Feathers, Fur & Leaves Add Nature to Winter Styles
Feb 6, 2009
Foliage flourished in print, leaves were laser cut onto garments, fur coats & details reigned, feathers fluttered, making dresses take flight, & flowers brightened the looks of the season for Winter 2009. Nature-loving designers remained keen on green and indulged in motifs of both flora and fauna for Winter styles. Foliage flourished in print, leaves were laser cut onto garments, fur reigned, feathers fluttered, making dresses take flight, and late blooms and frosty wintery blossoms brightened and lightened the looks of the season.
Key Elements of the Winter Garden Fashion Trend
Ice queens everywhere will be able to enjoy a little wild whimsy thanks to feather-adorned dresses and skirts, feather- and fur-trimmed collars, leaf embellishment, and cool winter floral prints.
Fashion Designers Leading the Winter Garden Fashion Trend
Jean Paul Gaultier Winter 2009
Jean Paul Gaultier let foliage and furs flourish run wild throughout his collection using prints and pattern influenced heavily by the hunt, creatively incorporating furs, exotic animal skins, tribal prints and camouflage-colored leaves and florals that take their cues Mother Nature's raw, primal side. The slaughter was inescapable as faux tiger parkas and trench coats, stoles (complete with feet), pelts as hats, and even a crocodile jacket decaled with tails traipsed down the runway on the backs (and heads) of models.
Fendi Winter 2009
The autumn-woodland theme popped up again in Karl Lagerfeld's Winter 2009 collection for Fendi, with fur very politically incorrectly making its trademark (and rather mind-blowing) appearance in his handcraft. Aside from the exemplary execution of fur fashioning, Fendi also featured more subtle natural details such as leaves laser-cut onto jackets and purses, feathery fringe, and frills evocative of plumage.
Burberry & Ralph Lauren Winter 2009
On the topic of feathers, Burberry helped its dresses take flight with plumage and downy tufts, and gave an edge to accessories with talon-esque metallic bling, while Ralph Lauren punctuated a chic collection with a bit of wild flair most notably using feathery trim on glamorous dresses, poking gravity-defying feathers in hats and neck-pieces, and with leopard prints adorning accessories, jackets, vests and jumper dresses.
Dries Van Noten Winter 2009
Nature-lover Dries Van Noten used a few, big and bold blossoms in his Winter 2009 collection, but mostly he replaced last season's giant painterly blossoms with micro-flowers, which appeared on narrow, chiffon mid-calf sheaths, tunics, and at the finale, on two fabulous floor-length fan-pleated dresses. And of course, fur.
Find out how to incorporate the Winter Garden fashion trend into your wardrobe.
