Your Ultimate Guide to the Hottest New Season Trends - The Gloss Magazine

Your Ultimate Guide to the Hottest New Season Trends

Easy, elegant and eminently wearable: take your socially distanced front row seat for the hot fashion trends of AW21…

After comfortable sweats and loungewear have prevailed for 18 months, AW21 collections are landing in stores and boutiques. Some of the usual suspects are back (plenty of black, knitwear, smart tailoring), but dramatic capes, luxe sequins, and super-bright tones are some of the new autumn trends you can start getting amped up about now. 

Most of the AW21 shows were audience-free virtual experiences. But they did not disappoint, delivering bright colour, novel textures and luxe materials. This season, designers have put classic tailoring, couture-like knits, butter-soft leather boots and witty ski wear (for the city) at the centre of their AW21 collections.

Dress yourself happy? Yes you can! Dopamine dressing demonstrates how bright colour in our wardrobes helps to elevate our mood, lift our spirits. Colour and emotions go hand in hand: whether feeling blue, seeing red or green with envy, we can embrace playful dressing in this colour-coded world.

Discover this season’s hottest trends below …

CAPES AND CLOAKS

Ankle-grazing capes and cloaks took centre stage at the autumn shows, chic alternatives to a wool winter coat. Pair with sweaters, trousers and boots for an easy daytime look. For added wow factor, choose interesting colours and textures like tweeds, stripes and statement colours.

PLEATED SKIRTS

Pleated skirts are seasonless and therefore keep coming back for winter and summer. This skirt – knife-pleats are smartest – will work as workwear but when styled with chunky boots or shoes and a great knit, can also be the epitome of casual good taste.

PATCHWORK PLEASE

Chalk it up to a return to craft, bohemian patchworking is back, on bags, dresses, trousers and coats. Designers even fashioned patchworked fabrics from deadstock (the industry name for unused fabrics) and vintage swatches, in another positive move towards sustainability.

SKI SPIRIT

Snow bunnies rejoice! Ski trip revival alert! Think padded puffers, XL fake-fur overcoats, après-ski alpine knits, moon boots and cosy quilted salopettes, all for city wear. Perfect for the Irish winter.

CHAIN BAGS

If you buy one bag this season, make it chain-handled. The chain-handle is back with a bang. Valentino, Louis Vuitton and Stella McCartney all showed bags with sculptural chains, some wrapped in leather or clad in playful materials. We loved the freshness of the XXL chains at Acne and Ports 1961.

KNEE-HIGH

Knee-high classic leather boots in modern neutrals (at Hermès) as well as metallic hues (at Jil Sander and Victoria Beckham) are high on the fashion agenda. Also noted were prim pumps at Giambattista Valli, power heels at Valentino and ladylike slingbacks at Gucci.

THE SHACKET SUIT

Pre-Covid corporate dress codes will not be missed. Easywear is where it’s at right now. Contemporary designers Gabriela Hearst and JW Anderson showed luxe suiting in the form of a shacket (shirt-cum-jacket) paired with a matching skirt, and the high street is following
suit. These are the pieces that we want to wear now. Layer over fine knits when it gets colder.

NIGHT OUT

Autumn evening-wear had a distinct Studio 54 feel; we spotted scores of glistening sequined dresses and trousers, as well as fringe and feather details. Get ready to go out out.

OPTIMISTIC HUES

Want to update your winter wardrobe and steer away from black? Opt for pops of bright colour instead. It can look very modern. The key to getting the look right is to pick one bright item and keep everything else neutral.

BACK TO SCHOOL

Valentino, Prada and Tory Burch presented their AW21 take on businesswear. Well-cut wool trouser and skirt suits paired with statement blouses are the simplest way to nail a back-to-the-office wardrobe.

NICE KNITS

Swathe yourself in super-soft luxe knits. Unsung everyday heroes, stylish knits should be a key component in every autumn wardrobe. Combine comfort and cool in alpine sweaters, longline tanks and slinky knitted dresses.

LOGOMANIA

Logomania has again reached the dizzy heights of the 1990s. Attention-grabbing monograms appeared on several runways; branding was bold on suiting, accessories and even outerwear. A little goes a long way. Try a sweater, bag or boots to start.

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