Thursday, December 22, 2011

santosh shah: Matchstick Garden Chair

santosh shah: Spring/Summer 2012 Material Direction

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santosh shah: Lifestyle Accessories / Ceramics Collection

Lifestyle Accessories / Ceramics Collection

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Spring/Summer 2012 Material Direction

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

santosh shah (FDDI): Trends Spring/Summer 2012

Mix of epochs and styles in an exquisitely European matrix reinterpreted with irony. Nineteenth-century floral fantasies recreated in abstract mode. Grande soirée mood.
Hints of damask cloth from jackets from vintage shows. Baroque details. High society eccentricity. Laser etching inspired by decorations on men’s sixteenth-century clothing. Surfaces with a strong natural impact such as raw materials for complex couture structures. Sculptural vegetation. Dense and luminous fluidity, multilayer transparency. Ultra-soft leathers.

Oriental Inspiration

The Orient in art form. Floral themes sublimated to the ultimate degree of decorative abstraction. Indian and Japanese figures. Bamboo designs. Graphic fluidity. Artificial reinterpretation of marine fauna and flora. Cyber fantasies. Anthology of multicolored virtuosity, including popular traditions, street style, Bollywood irony and new talent on the catwalk. Paisley all over. Simplified chinoiserie for Western consumption and use. Indigo tones. Tattoo graphics. Pearls and gemstones. Antique jewelry as a starting point for new high value metallics.

African Sensation

Latin Vivacity

South American vitality. Luxuriant vegetation, savagery in shock colors, fantasies striped in psychedelic version. Folk, ultra-summery translated into stylish forms. Shooting new Brazilian talent. Report on Cuba and neighboring areas. Inspiration from artistic stained glass, murals, full color Havana colonial style. Urban geometries in typographic saturations. Ultra-hot orange as a color accent on tobacco brown. Gaucho parade: inspirations from harness and saddlery from Argentina.

santosh shah (FDDI): Spring / Summer 2011 color trends

Spring / Summer 2011 color trends

Written by Daniel P Dykes

With 2011's fashion trends on the horizon it's time to look forwards to the year's first full season and the fashion trends for Spring 2011. Helping to shape the numerous trends we'll wear throughout the year are a number of colour trends that a lot of designers and labels will use to shape their collection. Read on to get a sneak peak of what they'll be.

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Cloth / Fabric Spring 2011 Colour Trends

For their take on the colours for Spring 2011 clothing trends, cloth manufacturers Lenzing believe that we won't just be throwing off the darker colours of Fall 2010's trends but possibly even the mentality that has gone with recent financially tough times. Thus they see Spring / Summer 2011 colours as those which are "uplifting" and "soften, energise, and excite."

For the Spring / Summer 2011 season they've put forwards five key colour trends.

Celebration
Spring personified in a palette, the colors that make up this Spring 2011 color trend are mostly named after flowers: iris, viola, daffodil, poppy, and geranium. Unsurprisingly, should this color scheme take your fancy, this one should be worked into your Spring 2011 wardrobe as a part of your florals.

Abstraction

I must confess to not liking this color palette in the leastl the turquoise clashes with the maroon to my eye, and how yellow green made it in there has left me stumped. This is one color trend for those who are loud and proud.

New Classic
According to Lenzing new and unexpected twists on classic elements, and naturally bright pigments, will develop into new classics. "Fabrics are classic, materials the same but all elements are somewhat twisted: fibers in unusual yarn-spinning and -counts, classical weave patterns in atypical materials clashed with a curious checkered design, an embroidery where you didn't expect it - nothing loud, just enough to make you startle."

Aqueous
Sitting as our favourite Spring / Summer 2011 color trend 'aqueous' is also the most dangerous. An obvious color theme for Spring 2011 because of its nautical tones, such obviousness is also what is likely to see it lazily interpreted and applied - a danger for designers and labels looking to apply seasonal colors to their basics. To avoid such misapplication Lenzing believe it should be used with "floating" pieces where the fabric is the focus; an interpretation of the sheer clothing trend seems a strong contender if you intend to work this color theme through your wardrobe.

Perleage
Subtle colours, bar for the jet black, this is a color trend all about sheen; in effect, luxurious and radiant colors menat to match with your radiant Summer tan.

Lingerie / Swimwear Spring 2011 Colour Trends

Along with their take on the motifs that we'll be wearing in Spring 2011, Interfiliere have also released their interpretation of the season's colour trends. Their choice for the colours you should be picking for your swimwear and lingerie are an eclectic range of hues, and ones better suited to swimwear than they are to the boudoir.

Leather Spring 2010 Colour Trends

Le Cuir A Paris is another fashion trend based event, though different to Interfiliere in that it concentrates on leather and fur trends. Their picks for Spring / Summer 2011 colour trends are divided into five separate motifs:

Archaic Garden
"The range is whitened, stony, mineral or delicately fruity. The softness of faded, evanescent, light and serious colors."

Underwater Variation
"The range delves into the blue, and extends to an aqua green. Sea anemone pink is enhanced by inky blues and purples. Navy and brown darken the landscape. White soap bubbles refresh the saturated atmosphere."

Tropical Dramaturgy
"The range is solar, incandescent, spicy and suffocating. Yellow singing at the top of its voice, uninhibited parrot green, the orange of Tibetan monks, the entire spectrum of reds from purple to salmon pink. Bushy brown, deep blue."

Enchanted Picnic
"The range sets your teeth on edge. The neon colors are whitened. Jelly pink is transparent, the pastels are over-bright. The brights are on fire, tempered by a reasonable grey and a measured beige."

Shadowy Shores
"The range is tinged with vegetal colors. Bathed in red, boat hull; dark navy, hut; strong green, canvas. Or lightened colors, bleached by the salt, faded by the sun and the sea."

santosh shah (FDDI): Leather Bag Trends 2011.

Leather Bag Trends 2011.

Leather bags are sometimes used as a symbol of luxury fashion. Besides the style, leather material that became the material of the bag is one of the reasons. The leather material is very difficult to always be available on the market that make the price of the bag becomes increasingly expensive. Here is a review of Material Leather Bag Trends 2011.

Leather bags are also sometimes used as one item of the antique collection. This causes the higher value of the leather bag with age. This is what makes the leather bag has many fans.

Now the leather bags have been designed with a very stylist so it can be used in a variety of casual events. Leather bags are no longer impressive stiff and can only be used in formal occasions. It can be found in collections among the leading fashion designers. Unique color palette is more pale spring for their latest collection.

Pale colors intended to make the bag can be combined with various types of clothing. For 2011, Out of spring colors, like peach, pink, blue. Ornaments were added to increase the value style of bags such as flowers, crystals, and beads or emboss effects. For material bag, stingray and lizard leather would be material leather bag trends of 2011. However, alligator and snake leather is still in demand.

santosh shah (FDDI): Summer 2012 - A Season of Commitment

Summer 2012 - A Season of Commitment

santosh shah (FDDI): COLORS PROMOSTYL..

COLORS PROMOSTYL..

santosh shah (FDDI): Autumn/Winter 2011 - 12

Autumn/Winter 2011 - 12

CINEMATIC MYSTERY

The starting point is the clear trend of contemporary culture, and in particular of modern cinema, to favor gloomy and dark themes, themes that are oppressive or at least linked to a feeling of fear and mystery. Awareness of this fact has inspired this trend to imagine a spectral scenery, inhabited by apparitions and dreamlike visions. Ectoplasmic consistencies, faint halos, flashes, changing chromatic features, liquefied details and veils attempt to translate contemporary anxiety into a more poetic, fruitful aesthetic and into a challenge for new materials that possess high-quality technical and creative features.
Colors: muted shades preponderate, from prune to Insigna Blue and red, in combination with neutral grey, highlighted by metallic effects.

ECO TECH

Eco Design. A green philosophy based on the very latest in bio-architecture. The organic aesthetics are the visual result of a conscious scientific attitude, aimed at imitating, reproducing and highlighting the key features of biological structures through technology. A curvilinear world, soft, flexible and elastic. The shapes and patterns are inspired by the skin, by scientific visions of the human body, images of internal organs and enlarged photos of cells. Alveolar structures, clear skin juxtaposed with technical colors from the world of design. Smooth wooden accents but with well-defined grains that have been studied, stylized or, on the contrary, radically revived, are complemented by steel or aluminum in a playful and striking contrast. Chrome accessories with natural, fluid and iridescent reflections
Colors: natural shades like beige, coffee and green combined with orange or highlighted by silver accents.

STEAM PUNK SCI- FI

Variations on the theme of the Steam punk, the London underground scene inspired by the science fiction genre. A phenomenon that is somewhere between role-playing games and themed parties characterized by eccentric dress codes that are inspired by science fiction seen through the eyes of the nineteenth century, reflecting the traditional setting of the novels of the genre, which are often set against the backdrop of Victorian London. An anachronistic world in which weapons and instruments are complicated futuristic steam-powered machines, manufactured with the standard materials of the English Industrial Revolution: iron, steel, cast iron, copper, rubber, wood, glass, leather, with their full paraphernalia of rust, oxidization and various imperfections. A range of surfaces inspired by the mechanical era, by the old analogue world that we continue to need as an antidote to excessive virtualization.
Colors: focus on metal-like shades, imitating iron, steel and rust in combination with ebony and antique white.

VOLCANIC ACTION

The fascination of a landscape. Sicily - reawaken of Etna, one instance of worldwide volcanic action and its influences: The current renaissance in the cultural scene and nightlife of Catania. Winter reflection, in search of something truly auto chthonous and recognizable = Design made in Italy. The inspiration for the surfaces draws its life blood from the geographic features of the territory and from the various cultural influences that have put down roots over the centuries. Soot-black, lava-red saturations, magma effects, lava powders, sulfurous chromatic features and precious crystals on a coal-black matt background alternate in arabesque patterns, baroque decorations and theatrical velvets, to paint the picture of a warm, magniloquent expressiveness that paves the way for the return of gold.
Colors: bright and warm shades like red and Forest Green in combination with stone tone and golden accents.