Our Top Fashion Trends for 2012

Here's a round up of our top men's and women's fashion trends from the catwalks for 2012. Always great to see how vintage clothes have inspired today's catwalks, and that vintage never goes out of style!


Womenswear

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Bold Prints - from floral to geometric prints, seek out the fab 60's and 70's prints and we're not just talking a top or bottom we're talking head to toe!

Pink and Pastels and Block colours - this spring summer embrace the romance of pink and pastels or make a statement and go full on block colours!

Dropped waists - a favorite of ours the 20's inspired looks of the dropped waists and embellished sequins. 

Peplum jackets and shirts - we love this 40's look on jackets and blouses to skirts too!

Red Peplum Blouse

Mad Women - forget Mad men lets go Mad women, the 50's inspired look with hitched in waists and long full skirts

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Menswear

Bold colours - the men will also be sporting the bold colours alongside the ladies this year, think orange and blues!

Graphic prints - bold graphic were also a big hit on the SS catwalks.

Double Breasted Blazers - a great vintage look!

Wide-legged Trousers - as men's trousers have been getting slimmer and slimmer this years catwalks have gone the opposite way going for a wide legged look.

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Plaid and Stripes - plaid jackets and shirts, and as with the ladies bold prints, they're going top to toe! alongside the plaid is also the stripes!


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How do you define vintage?

Many friends and people i meet often ask me 'what is vintage?' which got me thinking of how i define what is and isn't vintage, so here's a few of my thoughts.

In general, many people would say anything between 20 and 100 years old is vintage, anything older than 100 years then becomes 'Antique'. Antique items of clothing are mainly collectors items and the delicate and aged fabrics would not survive if worn. There is also debate as to whether clothes in the 90's are classed as vintage, and for the majority i'd say are borderline. However some early 90's puffy dresses (which are now 30 years old!) look fantastic and men's flannel shirts from the early 90's grunge scenes look great with today's re found love for skinny jeans. Over 8 decades of fashion gives you so many styles to inspire you from 50's circle skirts to 70's bold prints!

But what distinguishes something from being just old clothes from something vintage? Some may say designer labels, for some anything goes. In my opinion vintage fashion is anything that was iconic enough for people to deem worthy of being resurrected and worn with pride! Style is, in my mind, quite a personal thing as what is one persons individual style is not necessarily anothers so who can really 'pigeon hole' what is vintage fashion and what is not? because as they say..... beauty is in the eye of the beholder!

So, i wonder.... what is vintage to you?

Kate