The new seriousness: fashion gets more reticent – value and luxury are again current. Fashion is more reticent, more grown-up, dressing instead of disguising is the point. Inspirations are still taken from past epochs; yet a quality thinking and stylistic perfection are prevailing playful details and ornamental decorations. A tendency towards luxury brings about noble leather types and valuable furs.

The new clarity prefers a simple and clear styling.

The majority of the bag designs is sporting. Clear oblong formats, many practical pockets, robust straps, clasps and metal components are typical for the trendy fashion bags.

Decoration is reserved. Ornamental embossings, floral applications, tendrils and passaments, velvet or metallic lustre guarantee an impressing appearance.

The world of colours in autumn/winter

Ambience - reticent and reserved: modern architecture, classy and clear design. Diverse shades of grey reaching from silver, concrete, shale to anthracite. Cold beige and lute-white, a spell of rosewood and as an exclamation mark: Black!

Autumn Novel - natural, vital, authentic: sunny autumn scenery, leaves and plants in a warm colour harmony. A wide spectrum of brown shades reaching from brass, bark and terra up to tobacco, also moss, amber and fir-green. Brass and copper with metallic effect.

Exciting Fiction - exciting, mystic, surprising: shady woods, gnarly roots, nordic lights. Night blue and Russian green, tundra, dark khaki, petrol blue and ink blue. With it brass.

Folk Poetry - joy and romanticism, naturalness and love of life: Eastern culture, festivals, music and dance. Pepper, amber and ruby-coloured in combination with Hungarian green, porcelain-blue or golden yellow. Black is always in the running.

The bag topics of the season:

NORDIC WINTER  - Sportiness matters
With cosy outfits in fur, leather, knitwear, and stitched material come oversized pouches and flap bags, supple and ‘unconstructed’. Clear oblong formats or trapezoid shoppers set the tone.

Soft velours leather, washed and crinkled leather are hip. Shearling trimmings on the edges and carrying belts, fur and felt in combination are striking. Sporting accents by a variety of front pockets, decorative clasps and rivets, metal chains and rings are prevailing.

MIXED CHIC - Main thing contrasting effects
Strict and playful in the same way, clarity and romanticism in a mixture, the uniform style is in companionship with feminine aspects. The bags appear in sporting and ornamented design. Flap bags and shoulder bags with a broad and long strap are part of the appearance. They are supplied with practical front pockets, clasps, metal parts like rivets, loops, hinges.

Shoppers and nostalgic clutch bags are decorated with passaments, tassels, laces, and cords. Medals and emblems are decoratively embossed and applied. Natural, untreated leather types, mostly strong or in vintage look are absolutely trendy.

CLASSIC AVANTGARDE - Tradition in new appearance
Chic, luxurious and challenging – the Haute Couture of past decades supplies the inspiration. Business class in a cool but not masculine look and very British the new trend towards conservatism. With the bags we encounter an unexcited and unagitated styling, traditional shapes are in the centre of attention. The formats are medium-sized to large, the manufacture supple but correct.

Kelly-bag variations, nostalgic clutch bags, bowling types, flap bags, hunting bags, and weekender bags are stylish companions. Small rounded-off shapes with supple gatherings and drapery are fully feminine. The noble material is often supplied with a decent glimmer or brilliant lacquer or metallic lustre. Imaginative crocodile-, snake, and lizard embossings still determine the trend. Furs in combination stand for value and luxury.

BALALAIKA MELODY - Decoration is allowed
The fashion presents a harmonious play with colours and patterns. Carpets and church windows are the design prototypes, paisleys and cashmere designs, trendrils and borders, flowers and above all roses, printed and embroidered, bring about a decorative styling. Bags are still precious attributes, not superficially decorated, but designed in an imaginative and kind appearance.

Shining leather in gem colours, pretty leather embossings, embroideries, ribbons and borders, tendrils and blossoms as applications on leather and textile material bring a decorative note. Folklore Jacquard patterns, Paisleys and ornaments, embossed velvet or burnouts, velours leather in lace design, pearls and sequins tone in tone supply imaginative variations.

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