Louis Vuitton Textiles for Fall 2012

The more time I spend looking at Louis Vuitton's Fall 2012 collection, the more I love it. What is not to love about the rich hues, beautiful silhouettes, detailed embellishments, and intricate textiles? This week I will be focusing on the textiles that Marc Jacobs utilized. I will show you the photos of the complete look, as well as what inspired them.

 

For my first look, which I found in Louis Vuitton's accessories, was inspired by the fur on animals and fur vests. I call this trend, 'Dog Days.'





 

 

                                           

The Fur trend from Louis Vuitton's Fall 2012 collection seems to have been inspired by animal fur or from the popular fur vest. This textile trend was used for the accessories line. There are two different satchel style bags and they are featured in colors such as; white, gray, red, brown with a marigold hue, brown with peach hue, and navy blue.

In addition for textile trends from Louis Vuitton's Fall 2012 collection, I call this trend, 'Going Marbles.'

 

 

For this trend, you must look at the finer details of the design in order to see it. These designs originally reminded me of a coat of armor because of the cage like design. If you look closely at the patchwork details, you can see that in between the squares there are clear beads placed in the middle. These beads are very intriguing to the eye. They give this dress, shirt, and skirt sculpture and add shape. With the lighting, they also have a beautiful reflection.

 

 

What every design house needs is a person like Marc Jacobs. He is a creative genius because he is able to think outside of the box, as you can tell from his usage of textiles.

 

 





 



 

 

 

 

 

 

On the Street

And at the mall, in your local coffee shop, and in college classrooms everywhere are Combat boots. They are a shoe you must have in your closet this season. I am seeing them everywhere. On my quest the past two weeks to shoot street fashion, I have over 70 photos of people in combat boots.

Although combat boots are not my personal style, they are effortlessly cool. (After seeing this trend everywhere, I had to try them on. They did not look so great on me.) There are many ways to wear this trend. I saw girls wearing combat boots with dresses, skirts, shorts with black hosiery, leggings, denim, black straight leg jeans, and printed pants. On the street, it is easy to tell that the style is "anything goes" and that also applies to combat boots.

Here are some photo's I took while at school, Starbucks, the mall, and just walking around College hill. They are being worn by men and women at any age. I was also inclined to ask someone why they loved combat boots and she told it was because they are extremely comfortable. Shoes that are stylish, easy to wear, and comfortable? That is a no brainer! Ladies and gents, if you don't already own combat boots, buy them now! Unless you are like me, the only person that does not look good in them!

 

 

What is also great about combat boots, is they can fit your personal style. Whether you are girly and feminine, hipster and edgy, American classic, Californian cool, or just like to wear jeans and a plain white tee shirt, combat boots can fit into your wardrobe.

One designer that incorporated some key elements of combat boots into their runway show is Marc Jacobs. In his collection for Louis Vuitton Fall 2012, some of the footwear some distinct design details to them.

Here are some photo's from Louis Vuitton's Fall 2012 collection.

 

As Jacobs was designing for this season, he was likely inspired from street fashion. His interpretation of combat boots might have been these lace up pumps. These shoes have the same fabrication of combat boots - leather. They also have toe caps of the same color leather and are featured in nuetral hues. The most important similarity of these shoes is the style of shoes laces and the tongue of the shoe. 

I dare to try this trend for Fall 2012.

 



French Coffee House Colors

In Louis Vuitton’s Ready to Wear Collection for Fall 2012, the colors resemble a coffee house in France. “French Coffee House” hues are rich and warm, just like you would expect from a French Baguette straight out of the oven.  Attempting to describe these tones makes me smell warm baguettes, chocolate croissants, crepes, macaroons, biscotti, and fruit tarts. Perhaps Marc Jacobs has a sweet tooth?

In the Fall 2012 collection, some of the main colors are beige, camel, pale rose, marigold yellow, dark roast, and grey;  or as I like to call them Light Roast, Sweet Crepes, Macaroon, Croissant, Dark Roast, and Earl Grey.  The accent colors are lavender, burgundy, mocha, and silver; or as I like to call them Lavender from Marseille, Cherry Pie, Brioche, Fine China. These colors are all names for coffees, teas, china, pastries, coffee house scents, or things France is known for.

 

 

Louis Vuitton Fall 2012 Ready to Wear is a collection that you have to look at all of the finer details. Every time I scan through this collection, I manage to find another color or detail. This collection has traditional fall shades, such as beige, chocolate brown, and gray. It also features unexpected tones; such as pale pink, marigold, and lavender. These tones to me are unexpected because I feel that fall is a ‘darker’ season.

Although I love Marc Jacob’s choice of hues, I have to add some new colors that Jacobs could have added to take the collection to take it the next level. The main colors of this collection are very similar. The beiges and browns are all in the same color family, just with a different shade or intensity. I spent a lot of time lining up new colors or shades of colors with hues already featured in the line. I tried to get a feeling of this “French Coffee House”, to see what worked and what did not work. One color that did not compliment this collection in the way it deserved is blue. I attempted different tints and shades of royal blue and navy blue and it just did not work.

Furthermore, the colors that just felt ‘right’ to me were dark burgundy, dim gray, light cream, eggplant, and olive green. I could see a model wearing a dark burgundy coat, or a dim gray dress, or having a porter carry her eggplant bag. I could also see these colors in France at a coffee house. They might be in the dessert case or on the fine china.

 



Coeur à la Crème

 

 

Blueberry Tart

 

Angelfood Cake

 

Kiwi Fruit Tart

Serving Spoon

Along with adding colors to this current collection, I also looked at what colors might be featured in the next collection, Spring 2013. I predict that Marc Jacobs will have some of the main hues used in Fall 2012. I feel that Jacobs will utilize Sweet Crepes, Croissant, and Macaroon. I don’t think they will be the exact shade, I feel that the colors will be tinted to have a lighter feeling. From the accent colors of Fall 2012, I think we will see Lavender from Marseille and Fine China again. I feel that both of these hues will stay the same. Lavender from Marseille is already a warm, spring tone and Fine China has a year round feeling to it.

Looking back to Louis Vuitton Spring 2012, the main color was white. The show also had navy blue, pale yellow, sky blue and peach. Marc Jacobs is one to do an entire 360 degrees in his collection, so I expect more colors then Spring 2012. Some hues I expect to see: Pale Rose, Marigold, Tangerine, Lavender, Teal Blue, and Mint Green.  Pale Rose, Marigold, and Lavender will be continues from Fall 2012. Tangerine, Teal, and Mint Green are bold and totally different from Spring 2012, which I think change is to be expected.

 

(Featured below: Pale Rose, Marigold, Tangerine, Lavender, Teal Blue, and Mint Green)