Images from fashion shows and street style looks are never limited to one trend. Stylists and fashionable people often combine several trends at once in an outfit. Is there any logic to these combinations? The main trend is taken as a basis, and several styling features and current accessories are added to it.
Main trend: total look
To create an image, choose items of the same shade. Since it is difficult to put together such an image, there are fewer complaints about the styles. If you manage to choose a trendy color, for example, from the seasonal Pantone list, you will get the perfect trendy look.
Turquoise looks
But the most advanced fashionistas go further. On the first girl, the current rich blue is combined with silver ankle boots. A fashionable item to wear is a long, voluminous scarf. The second girl from the left is wearing a turquoise baseball cap, tweed palazzo pants, and a long sleeve satin shirt unbuttoned at the bottom. On the third, in addition to fashionable shoes and a waist bag, a chain, the texture of the dress (noodle knitwear) is also in fashion.
Beige total look
The first girl’s image is designed with an emphasis on fashionable “quiet luxury”, but is overloaded with details and slightly resembles the looks of novice stylists. The second from the left is dressed in a long, voluminous coat, an image on the verge of fashion and playing with trends. The style may be relevant in the image, for example, boho in a modern interpretation, as on the fourth model.
Fuchsia
On the contrary, if you choose a somewhat outdated color, then the items and styles should be trendy. The popularity of fuchsia color is declining. The first model wears a fashionable dress with slits and colored tights, the second wears gloves and a maxi-length turtleneck dress, the third look cannot be called current, the fourth model overplayed it with oversize, but the look is saved by the fashion for office style.
Don’t try to build a total look around one branded item, for example, a handbag.
Pistachio images
The first dress combines long sleeves, asymmetry, ridiculous folds, lacing, and the look is pulled together by hard shoes and a bag. The second girl is wearing a short vintage top. The third remembers about colored tights.
total white
Working with white is difficult, but don't be afraid of it. Even a sophisticated white suit, tailored to order, can be saved with trendy pumps and glasses. The second model wears an unusual puffy scarf, a voluminous white shirt and stitched trousers; she riskily combines shades of white in her look, and also uses a stylish trick on shoes that don’t match the look. The third model has perfect taste, her style is impeccable.
total black
Styling can make or break an image. Hair and makeup in black monochrome are especially important. The first girl on the right is wearing a jacket with fashionable polka dots, which imitates no less current pearls. The model in the middle has a basic combination of a slip and a biker jacket, but the combination is with trendy sheer black lace inserts.
Gray monochrome
When creating gray total looks, take a long coat as a basis. You can play with differences in length, but it is better that the coat overlaps the length of the bottom layer. Under a gray coat you can hide a T-shirt with a sequin skirt or a printed dress.
All denim look
High denim boots, a bag and a baseball cap will help you create a trendy denim outfit if it fits into the idea.
Main trend: color block
When composing images in the color block style, styles, textures and shapes also fade into the background. This is an artistic style in which trends are an additional plus, and not a requirement.
Among the trends in the photo: a long scarf, a bodice, cargo pants, an electric blue suit, a chain at the waist, a pleated texture on the dress.
Looks in the color block style can be created not only with bright colors, khaki with yellow on the girl in the center is a stylish idea.
Stylistic devices and details
The trend around which the image is built can be a stylistic device.
Sweater-scarf
A knitted sweater can contrast with your main outfit, but we know about the monochrome trend, so we wear a green sweater with a green dress.
Sleeves and gloves
Another direction in which it doesn’t matter how many trends there are in the image is trash fashion. It’s hard to argue that high gloves or oversleeves are inconvenient to wear in everyday life; these are details for trash-style looks.
Leg warmers and knee socks
Knee socks have become a macro trend, but they alone will not pull off the look. The first girl is wearing a cargo jacket, the second is wearing a Barbie-core, the third is wearing an it-thing, albeit from last season.
Despite their simplicity, knee socks need to be felt in your outfit, you should feel comfortable in them. If in doubt, simply cover them with a top layer, such as a raincoat. Socks draw attention to the legs, so the legs should not be an area of complexes.
Headbands
A black headband will complicate a simple look. If total denim looks rustic without denim shoes and a bag, then a black headband will immediately take it to the next stylish level.
shawls
All the girls in the photo combine accent scarves with beige items. This way, the main trend and feature of the image, despite its size, will be noticeable.
Accent waist
Sometimes the main trend is so prominent that others become invisible. For example, an elastic band from panties or tights, a cutout on the stomach that reveals the navel, an inverted belt of trousers. The girls in the photo are wearing a lot of other fashionable clothes, but they are invisible.
Bows
Micro trend – drawing attention to the rear view. Many people have complexes because of a wide back; a long bow, for example, will help make it look better. Also, the bow at the back will be able to draw all the attention to itself.
Fishnet tights
Openwork tights are a romantic, gothic and sexy trend, so other trends should support the chosen style in the image. In the first photo, the tights are supported by shoes with a bow, in the second there is a chain at the waist and a rose at the neck.
Red tights
Which total look look with colored tights will be the easiest to create? Red. So there will be much fewer questions for the red tights than for the third girl on the left.
Festive to everyday
If you really want to continue wearing your corporate outfit afterward, then combine elegant items with trendy or basic ones. A combination with a jacket, a strapless dress with a white shirt or a voluminous cardigan, a black low-cut mini with leggings.
Black and white
A simple trend requires a lot of attention. The black and white combination is in fashion, but old things cannot be used. The first girl is wearing a black mini and a shirt bordering on banality; the situation is saved by a fashionable watch and flip-flops.
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White shirt
It’s difficult to call a white T-shirt a trend, even if it is one. To pair it you need to add a long skirt, a denim suit with wide jeans, and a full skirt. The second girl from the left is wearing fashionable voluminous headphones, the model in the middle is wearing a silver slingback.
Pearl
If it seems that a string of pearls ages or cannot qualitatively change the image, then it is in vain. The main thing is not to go classic, but to combine pearls with bright evening dresses, denim, fur coats and a fun dress code. Pearls can be on the waist, bags, shoes.
Blue things
What to combine fashionable blue things with? A voluminous jacket with a transparent skirt, a zip hoodie with a long denim skirt, a crop top with low-waist trousers, a cutout dress with a tweed jacket. But each look also has trendy details: shiny texture, eyelets, chains, wedge heels.
Leggings
Leggings are a simple thing, but provocative at the same time. Nowadays, tights are in trend, which means you don’t have to cover the groin area with a top layer. Let leggings imitate tights. Other details in the image will be difficult to notice.
Motorcycle jacket
Another example of a complex thing that draws attention to itself. But so that no one thinks that this is a retro jacket that you accidentally put on, you need to combine it with white cargo, sports glasses with white frames, leather palazzos, wide jeans, floral dresses, denim maxis.
Biker jacket
A biker jacket is a base, but to prevent the look from becoming boring, combine it with trends. Instead of a T-shirt, wear a vest, instead of a flower dress, wear a white or blue slip. Replace rough boots with tabis or ballet flats.
Neon things
There are things that ask you to throw many trends into an image at once. Choose neon items in trendy styles. Pair an oversized neon T-shirt with ripped jeans and snake print on your shoes. An alternative would be high black boots or wide patina jeans and a silver biker jacket.
pantsuits
What trends can you add to a basic pantsuit? Instead of a T-shirt, wear a bodice, knit tank or asymmetrical top. You can also leave the suit without a bottom layer or find a Saint Laurent-style top with a deep neckline.
White handbag
Does a trendy item have to be combined with other fashionable details in the image? No. The white bag is proof of this. Yes, it can be combined with white monochrome, but you don’t need to select shoes for it separately, there are no mandatory rules, there is your desire and possibilities.
Not all images are described in the article; try to find trends and anti-trends in the remaining images yourself. This kind of exercise develops observation.
