Woman’s Passions

Autumn has come! After a rage of summer colors, we have to get used to not just calm tones, but dark and slightly gloomy tints again. Black color is among invariable hits of several seasons already. However, every time world designers offer us something new. It seems that we tried everything we could, - cold tints, softness, strictness, aggressive sexuality. Well, no, all the same we can see something of this day in a permanent black.

 

Today’s black can be called luxurious without any exaggeration. It is devoid of aggression, regardless of clear Gothic origin. This autumn black looks romantic, somewhere even mystical, magical, filled with magic power. We see a combination of black velvet and transparent black gauze from Bill Blass, soft sateen from Byblos, thin pleated silk from Derek Lam (not only on skirts, but also blouses), the most delicate stockinet with smooth surface from  Emilio Pucci.

 

Telling about trends of previous fashionable seasons, keen on black color, we always spoke about elegance. Today we need more. Today elegance is not the main thing. Maybe, it’s time to pay attention first of all on style, formation of a certain image. You can keep yourself within the bounds of most actual trends only this way. But anyway: if you don’t know how to look attractive and stylish, - choose black. It’s very difficult to make a mistake with such choice.

 

 

 

Another hit of this season is grey palette, which requires more careful approach and considered choice of things. Black is still a very bright color (no matter how strange it may sound). If you wear black (and also use actual silhouettes and materials), then you won’t be lost in a crowd.

 

Grey tones do not give you such advantage. Add here also pale makeup palette, which is also among hits, - and you will understand how difficult it is to make a right choice.

 

On the other hand, it is grey color that is marked with surprisingly wide spectrum of offered tones today. It varies from very dark and cold (almost anthracitic) to warm and soft (close to a switch to beige and brown). So, if you wish to look stylish and actual, you still can choose an appropriate variant for yourself.

 

 

 

First of all, concentrate your attention on knitted things. Today they look good in grey color spectrum, as never before. Famous fashion houses offer slinky dresses of thin knitted jersey (Bottega Veneta), quite traditional polo-necks (Dolce & Gabbana) with rather unexpected stockinet romantic flounces and frills (Burberry). Volumetric pullovers and cardigans of knitted fabric, which you should wear with black or dark-grey leggings, are also good.

 

Regardless of the fact that general color spectrum of autumn wardrobe still has clear inclination for grey-black tones, those who love a brighter life will find their own attractive variants. Main of them - are ardent colors of scarlet, which you can see in most collections of leading fashion houses. They will help to satisfy that psychological hunger, which will inevitably appear while lack of bright colors in surrounding nature.

 

First of all, this concerns dresses - from tiny cocktail to luxurious evening, which can be made of any materials (scarlet velvet, which used to be a privilege of noble families, is especially magnificent, - you can see it in Dolce & Gabbana, Lanvin, Valentino collections).

 

 

 

However, little short-cut coats of A-shape silhouette of red ratine woollen cloth, cashmere and broadcloth will become a sign of this autumn. They look really stylish due to their color spectrum.

 

If it’s too unbearable for you, you can sink into most extreme trends of stylish mind and choose clothes in yellow color spectrum - from reserved ochroid-mustard to penetrating acidic-lemon. Various designers will offer you their choice - from always classically reserved fashion house DKNY to usually radical Krizia. 

 

 

 

And you shouldn’t think that this lies somewhere behind the limits of actual main stream of autumn fashion. Even such followers of elegance and style, like Nina Ricci, offer interesting and unexpected things in yellow colour spectrum today.

 

But, telling about an actual autumn palette, you cannot ignore offers with lilac tones. On the one hand, they are wonderfully combined with hits - black and grey, refreshing them with bright unexpected touches.

 

 

 

On the other hand, monochrome choice of wardrobe in this color spectrum turns to be also very interesting (for example, a complete choice of knitted things from little cap to gaiters from Emilio Pucci of fuchsia color). And the farer a motley summer and golden autumn move away from us, the more attractive we will find this choice.