Smita Arora, design expert in Home Fashion who has been running her own export house for home segments for many years, reviews the home textile trends seen at Tex-Trends 2012 for Apparel Online exclusively…
[bleft]If I were asked to say what is at once, the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, a beautiful House.” – William Morris[/bleft]
Textile industry today is emulating the words of William Morris. Keeping abreast to beautifying homes, home furnishing industry today is aspiring to compete with international home fashion. Tex-Trends 2012 saw diligent efforts from exporters in terms of home fashion and use of interesting textiles.
Tex-Trends had a wide array of products: home furnishings and made-ups namely bed linen, cushion covers, curtains, floor coverings. Not only does the show have the broadest range of products on exhibition, it also offers to the buyers products ranging from the smallest price point to the high-end product in design and price.
While chatting with the exporters, It was evident that their buyers are not following any specific trends since there is slowdown in the global market scenario and the overall sentiment is of insecurity. However, the exporters are up-to-date with the weak market scenario and offering good priced products and even offering stock products to keep the wheels running.
The range were in line with the key international trends that can be defined as under:
- Purity, elegance, basic forms, origami, tonal patterns, 3-dimensional angles, embossed construction, geometric cutouts, subtle techniques and simplistic concepts.
- Green vision, sustainability, renewable raw materials, textural weaves, irregular and complex patterns, organic surface dimension, vegetal shades, handcrafted detail with loose constructions and volume to textiles.
- Warm earth tones, rippled texture, refined contrast in colours of berry & violets with a dash of copper, tonal jacquards, iridescent trims and embroidery, volume to light weight constructions, exaggerated yarns, gathering details and quilting to lend a contrast.
- Kaleidoscopic patterns with playful colour blocking, vivid grids and clashing hues, dramatic fabric manipulation, folk feel, prominent floral patterns with exaggerated sensual tones and blended hues.
Riot of Colour
- Craft feel to the fabrics with vibrant colours with a mix of ecru/white to enhance the look
- Bright contrasts clubbed together with simple styling like knife edge or thin piped
- Color blocking with simple structured look
- Muted/soft base with bright coloured applique or embroidery
- Raw natural look to the fabric structures with an added vibrance
Bare Simplistic
- Simplistic earthy tones
- Basic geometric prints with earthy inspirations
- A feel of minimalism and simplicity
- contemporary clean lines with pleating/layering/quilting
- Abstract clean lines in embroidery & prints
- Use of shells/buttons to create contemporary styles
3 Dimension
- Heavily textured look gives a voluminous feel
- An added 3rd dimension on the fabric gives a rich supple feel to the product
- Pleating/layering gives a structured feel to the product
- Simplistic tonal volume adds elegance
- Sensual and rich feel to the product
Earth Craft
- Woody tones with patchwork and embroidery to create surface textures
- Tonal quilting in earthy colours to give a supple yet simplistic look
- Tonal patchworks give a soft gradation to the design
- Crewel embroidery to add volume to motifs
