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This page is for me to post stuff that I think you might be interested in: some e-mails from my trips, the latest jewellery styles, what people are wearing, what I'm buying, topical articles about jewellery (stones, pearls etc.). 

I hope you find it interesting.

Hanne Andersen

 

Trend Report from Hilary Alexander 

Following the success of the first Catwalk Front Line Report, this second edition features news from the recent high profile Fashion Weeks in New York, London, Milan and Paris. Hilary Alexander, the award-winning Fashion Director of the Daily Telegraph and Telegraph Media Group, returns to report on all of the top catwalk shows she attended. With her love of accessories, Hilary is the ideal insider to provide an expert insight into the next big fashion trends and identify the looks and products which are set to take the jewellery industry by storm in the coming seasons.

Syreeta Tranfield
IJL Event Manager

Hilary Alexander - Fashion Director - Jewellery and Trends - Spring/Summer 2010

The Spring/Summer 2010 designer catwalk shows, recently finished in New York, London, Milan and Paris, promise a major shift in the way we dress - and accessorise our clothes - for next season.

Certainly, there was an emphasis on the underwear-as-outerwear phenomenon. But this saucy, sexy vibe - strictly for the under-30's - was counter-balanced by a new focus on tailoring and an equal concentration on the 'grown-up' wardrobe, in that many designers pinpointed the needs of the customers who will actually pay for, and wear, their clothes. 

But fashion, as ever, is never quite so cut and dried and there are always a myriad of ideas and inspirations bubbling just under the radar, like seasonings in a casserole, to provide the vital element of variety which keeps our interest in shopping alive.

 

Statement Jewellery Beige Rage Military

Image: Lanvin
Image: RM by Roland Mouret
Image: Balmain
The 'statement necklace' continued its reign as the most awe-inspiring weapon in the jewellery armoury. The Marni show also saw the launch of the Statement Earring. Plus Chanel and Louis Vuitton have made hair accessories the new eye-candy... No longer a scorned shade in fashion's rainbow, beige was re-elevated to the hue hit parade in every shade from sand to camel. Roland Mouret, inspired by North Africa, used chunky gilded necklaces in the decolletage of his pannier-skirted dresses... When combat trousers and camouflage first re-surfaced at Blumarine in Milan, there was a general air of disbelief.  But then the flashback became an army on the march, spearheaded by the cult figure of Christophe Decarnin at Balmain...
     
Undercover Tribal High Tech Fantasy

Image: Christian Dior
Image: Missoni
Image: Alexander McQueen
Lingerie and lace, and lashings of it, featured strongly at major shows. We can expect chokers with the corset and delicate, cameo-style necklaces and pearls, which will work with the sweet, petticoat mood of many of the dresses, especially at Nina Ricci... Dries Van Noten explored the four corners of the earth for exotic paisleys, batiks and Ikat patterns accessorised with chunky pendants dangling from multi-strand, beaded necklaces. Angela Missoni and Nicolas Ghesquière also featured their own spin on tribal... Alexander McQueen yet again proved himself the master of the digitalized universe with a 'waterworld' collection inspired by evolution and the concept of everything on Planet Earth being engulfed by a great flood...