Hot Fashion Tips

Ankle trousers
An interesting trend of the season - narrow or wide trousers to an ankle. They should be worn with wide top and high boots.

Wide trousers
This trend has been borrowed from man’s clothes - this time designers have taken trousers - wide and with a short waist, especially effective on a slim figure. However such trousers will suit everyone - the short waist in combination with footwear of the same color visually “stretches out” a figure.

Knee skirts
As it has already been told, this season designers promote restraint. Therefore there is no mini, hobble-skirt to a knee and nothing more - it is modest and womanly. It can be worn with a jacket or knitted cardigan. The main accent is made on a waist - “sand-glass” silhouette is again in fashion this season.

The fashion, as well as the history, spires, and almost always something new is very well forgotten old, therefore in searches of fresh ideas designers quite often look at old collections. This year has not done without retro style – 40s set the fashion in autumn-winter collections 2007/2008. 

Apparently, even designers have already satiated with pretentiousness and diversity peculiar to the previous seasons, and have decided to recollect feminity, elegance and… modesty. Skirt up to a knee, a shoe-pumps and high gloves are again in fashion. Most fashionable colors this season are grey, black, red accents, turkish azure, green olive, purple.  

Short coats
Coats are obvious favorite of the season - in the military style, skintight or of the А-shaped form. The most fashionable length - up to a knee or shorter. The main tendencies - the short sleeve, absence of a collar and a wide belt.

Medieval motives
In the center of attention stands well-known warrior Jeanne Darc. Dresses, reminding armor, metal shine… Influence of this image is precisely traced in collections from Barbara Bui and Dice Kayek.

The choice of footwear traditionally remains one of the most difficult in formation of an autumn-winter wardrobe. Don’t be afraid to seem ridiculous putting on warm high fur boots and an evening dress or any other solemn attire. In fact such models are promised to become screamer of the forthcoming winter. Soft high fur boots on a thick rubber sole and completely trimmed with fur will perfectly supplement both a business suit and an evening dress. Such models can be found at Timberland, Uggs, Camper and Moregor.

More austere models from a soft canvas of white, grey and black colors are offered in new collections from Stella McCartney for Adidas and Puma. Boutique Aldo also offers a huge choice of convenient boots and fur boot with winter furnish on a flat sole. Creatively trimmed rubber boots with thick warm woolen socks and classical valenki have especial call: being shown by Uggs Australia, they began to be copied by all fashionable brands without exception.

Anyway, warming of feet, hands and head is the major task for each woman of fashion. Designers have done the utmost to do this pastime pleasant.
Warm and cozy winter to you!

As soon as the temperature outdoors falls below zero mark, it is time to put on hands warm mittens or gloves. All know, strong wind and a frost damages the gentle skin of hands, it becomes rough and unpleasant to the touch, and frequent exposing of hands to cold winter is fraught with serious allergies and irritations.

That is why in each winter collection leading fashion designers place high emphasis on accessories for hands. This winter season you may enjoy original knitted mittens up to an elbow with pompons, and elegant leather gloves on a warm lining - lengthened, with silvery and gilt buckles on a wrist, and very practical “double” woolen gloves with unfastened mitten, releasing fingers for convenience (Accessorize, TopShop, Benetton, Westland, Levi’s).

For those who does not want to hide the fingers in thick mittens, there is more prosy variant of “leggings” for hands from a thin wool (Monsoon).

The most important at first colds, as it is known, to warm feet, head and hands. Here you have latest winter accessories tendencies.

Hats
To cover a head and to protect it from a strong cold wind and snow was always the big problem for women of fashion. Many girls believe that even the most talented designer in the world can not create such headdress which would suit them.

There are, however, more reasonable persons - for them designers have offered a huge spectrum of convenient and practical headdresses which will warm a head in a new season and also will give additional charm and a highlight to an image.

Berets are again in fashion. Those for whom a beret or a tiny fitting hat with an application or a bow, or a knitted rose (Accessorize, Mango) is a garish accessory, can pay attention to classical caps-bowlers from mohair. Designers have preferred the black and white variants, which are perfectly combined almost with any model of a coat or even of a sports jacket.

Courageous and extravagant girls, inclined to shocking, can choose from numerous creative knitted caps with long tassels, bright striped hats-bowls with fluorescent applications and fur skull-caps, painted in bright-pink, dark blue and green colors (Monsoon, Benetton, Zara).

Often you may hear that it is very difficult to find a stylish business suit which would not be classical and at that did not look cheaply. Advice on how to find an ideal suit for work, are always identical: to get a standard classical suit, to find such which can be combined with other pieces of clothing or, as a last resort, to find a suitable suit and to buy five suits - different colors for every day of a working week.

Whether it is committee of directors meeting or a business meeting, it’s not of necessity to refuse quickly varying fashion and to prefer always gaining, but sometimes a little boring classics.
In this very season, with “a strong woman” on podium, designers have started creation of business suits. In result collections of fashionable brands such as Hermes, Valentino, Jil Sander, Miu Miu have fitting strict suits, narrow trousers with high waistline in a combination with jackets, womanly suits in style of the 40s.

This trend has been kept on in collections of shop networks, sometimes at quite democratic prices. So, the wide range is offered by United Colors of Bennetton, F Carriere and Max Studio, and autumn - winter collection from BCBG includes some very stylish jackets which will be ideally combined with any model of classical black trousers.

The accented staging this autumn and winter will touch even the most classical ensembles and will find reflection both in clothes, and footwear. Complex compositions created by designers unite expensive furnish from stones, pastes, velvet and tiny accent inserts. The main accent is made on a combination of materials: velvet and thick woolen cloth, lace and a metallized leather, wool and fur (first of all, astrakhan fur) and, certainly, textured leather. At the same time, laconic models are added with the original details made from fur, pastes, and feathers. The riches of furnish guarantee riches of a choice to all who has not got used to limit himself in magnificent footwear and also magnificent leather accessories.

Classics of the ascetic
As distinct from bright and exaggeratedly epatage appearance, European designers offer to look in a new season at a forgotten minimalism. This line of fashionable footwear will please those, who prefer classical style to many-sided luxury. The main theme is created by laconicism of forms and a worthy choice of traditional materials. Rare details only emphasize a modest and at the same time noble image of these models.

The ethnic theme will sound this winter season as strong, as it was past summer season. The only exception - hot motives of the Mediterranean countries are removed by the European trends. First of all – Nordic and Scandinavian. Northern motives were reflected in quiet colors and laconic proportions, and also in the choice of materials (the leading role is given to velour, mohair and fur - it also is the main detail of decor).

Many fashion houses have also gone to Russian theme which popularity with enviable continuity grows from collection to collection. This autumn and winter boots are generously decorated in Old Russian stylistics: rich fur lists, bright color accents (emerald, claret, scarlet, red), and magnificent embroidery.

At last, the British motives. It is very difficult to describe the style suggested by footwear designers this year, as well known British trends have received new filling. The style as if is given birth on a joint of two opposite worlds: riches of artistic bohemia and poverty of English working quarters; staging and opposite to it ascetism; opposition of luxury and brevity. On this thin border appeared collection of “new romanticism”: fur, leather,  tweed, jersey, rich deep brown and black colors.

Eclecticism
Mixture of styles, dialogue of various cultures – this season stylish footwear is the hottest hit.
The first reason - stylistics of the shoe collections. Fashion designers this season do not offer cardinal changes concerning both current forms (a round toe, high steady heel still keep with leading positions), and texture solutions, choosing traditional embossed or smooth leather, velour, natural fur. However the question of presentation and combinations is solved by designers in a new fashion. Obtrusion of images are changed with freedom of your imagination.

The second reason - accents. This season you are free to put them, choosing between classical and ethnic motives, between modern luxury and traditions of retro of glamour, between discreet classics and bright “adaptation for the stage”. New footwear collections were cast by many-sided plots: northern motives of Nordic countries, luxury of Old Russian patterns, luster and glamour of bohemian secular style, British themes of the end of 19 centuries … Despite of numerous themes, reflected in footwear and accessories, the majority of collections are made to be easily and harmoniously blend with any ensemble.

Boots are an irreplaceable thing this season. Choose - classical with lacing or vanguard in “disco” style. Pay special attention to black varnish high-heeled boots.

Shoes with small straps
Favorite small straps have returned from the 50s. Shoe with straps and buttons are especially moving such shoes had beauties from old black-and-white films.

Stiletto heels
The rare footwear this season has no heel, but the most popular are classical stiletto heeled pumps.

Varnish
The more shine - the better! Your footwear will draw attention for certain.

Jack boots
Jack boots are again in fashion - stiletto heeled or steady square heeled. Bootlegs reach a knee, and sometimes get higher - such extreme variant are worn with a miniskirt, leggings or narrow jeans.

Other fashionable variant is simple black boots without a heel, very much reminding army ones.