6. Creative fashion show

Have you ever seen an underwater fashion show?
In Aug 22, 2010, the world's first underwater Korean traditional costume fashion show was held in Seoul, Korea. This event was performed by synchronized swimmers and designed by Korean traditional costume designer Sulnyo Park. It was held publically out front of Lotte department store. Korean traditional costume called Hanbok is known for its simplicity and the beauty of contour. The models' performence underwater and the wave of water made the costumes softly flutter, it added the beauty of lines the costume has.

Here's the video of the show.

5. Color Trend

I recently went to Promostyl forecasting lecture held in FIT. For an hour, what I heard about color trend over and over again was Orange & Blue color family! It's not only from Promostyle lecture but also from the whole S/S 2011 runway shows. Catwalk was a flood of orange and blue colors for the next spring.
As I mentioned before Giorgio Armani did his whole collection with monochromatic dark blue color, and a lot of brands such as Prada, Celine, YSL, and Gucci showed a gorgeous orange color on runways. Also, I noticed many brands used both orange and blue color in the same garments or styling. A funny thing is that even this blogger website is decorated by blue with orange symbol! What a surprise!

<Orange>


From left; Celine, Balenciaga, YSL S/S 2011




From left; Prada, Gucci S/S 2011

 <Blue>



From left; Balenciaga, Peter Pilotto, Fendi, Miu Miu S/S 2011



 <Orange and blue together>




From left; Celine, Peter Pilotto S/S 2011



Fendi S/S 2011

Prada S/S 2011

4. Navy for fall 2011!

Navy tone is one of the key color for next fall season according to forecasting companies such as Doneger, WGSN, and Fashion snoops. Blue is definitely dominant color for SS2011 season since we can see the waves of blue colors on runways. For instance, Giorgio Armani SS2011 runway show was all about beautiful elegance monochromatic blue-navy color. According to WGSN, the colors in his show was explained as "A palette of moody blues ranging from lustrous prussian blue to rich inky navy and shadowy midnight blue-black in monotone matt/shine mixes."

Giorgio Armani SS2011

Giorgio Armani SS2011

And it is almost impossible to find any runway shows that did not use blue-navy color for the next spring season. The blue color is expressed as bright sky blue, royal blue, electric blue, and denim blue for the next spring season.

Versace SS2011

Stella McCartney SS2011

Blue-navy color will still be the key color for fall 2011, but it will appear more as navy, dark indigo blue, and blue-black which can replace boring black color for the next fall season. According to fashion forecasting company, Fashion Snoops, explained this color as "after many seasons of small showings, this season Inky blue really made a statement as a key base color in deep almost black shades, grayed expressions."