7 Tips to Stay Updated With Latest Fashion Style
Design and fashion sense comes to some people as naturally as eating a hamburger. To others, the very mention of these words can cause severe anxiety, making them fall short of ideas and motivation to go on. To those whom it may concern, it’s all in your head! Take our word! When it comes to style and fashion, there are no rules or guidebooks, only truly your inner calling that you are supposed to follow. Genuine style exudes straight from the heart and surfaces to one’s body effortlessly. The women who realize this simple little rule of thumb, and turn their inner calling into a fashion statement, are bound to go places.
Keeping your personal inclination towards trends of past and present primary to all other advice, we would, however, like you to consider a few quick tips that will give you an edge over others and help you stay in the green zone of stylometers. Below detailed are fairly easy ways of staying notified of up to the minute trends in clothing and accessories that do not require you to deviate from your daily groove; rather, make it more pleasant and reviving. After all, you do good if you feel good, you feel good if you look good.
As much as I believe that fashion style is an intrinsic quality, I understand how intimidating some fashion divas can be. No denying, we all take fashion inspirations from them. And it’s perfectly fine to do so. Austin Kleon’s book ‘Steal Like An Artist’ was the first time someone told me how all art is stolen. Since fashion and style are almost synonymous with art, safe to say they are also always stolen.
However, your personal inclinations and preferences thresh that stolen style and mold it into your own. That’s what makes your style so unique. My point is, if you want to develop a style statement of your own.It is primarily very important that you follow latest fashion trends. Only then would you be able to personalize the latest trends into your own style.
So we narrow down the talk to following latest fashion and style. It can be overwhelming for a lot of us with a 9-5 job or kids. But carrying out the quick and easy following steps will keep you right in the loop with all latest fashion trends. Here’s what you must do:
1. Surf the Social Media
Be it breaking news or fashion trends, you can find it all on social media. Social media is a central hub for fashion trends and style ideas. You can read fashion blogs, aimlessly surf Pinterest or Instagram profiles of your favorite celebrities, designers, fashion bloggers, etc. All of these upload tonnes of photos everyday glammed up in the most chic fashion styles. Social media can be a free of cost way to stay updated with what’s hot and what’s not.
2. Sign Up For Newsletters
Once you’ve shortlisted the fashion blogs and websites you wish to follow, sign up for their newsletter. Most fashion blogs and websites add the gist of their best fashion ideas and news in the newsletters. This way, you will be spared the hassle of going through online clutter and the top trends will be delivered monthly to your inbox. Read them at your earliest convenience and pick what you like from them!
3. Go Window Shopping
By window shopping, I genuinely mean window shopping. Leave your money home and go to malls with the intent of exploring fashion styles. Gaze at mannequins, flip through look books and decide which piece to put together. Take out the time to check out latest arrivals in your favorite brands before you settle on where to spend your money.
4. Attend Fashion Shows and Exhibitions
You may feel what models on runways wear lacks practicality in your life. But, runway looks are highly exaggerated and imaginative versions of the ensembles that are displayed in the market. Fashion shows are primarily events where people come to try different kinds of fashion, fashion that pleases them.
Visiting fashion shows will give you know-how of what’s going to hit the market. The latest UAE Fashion (online) Show had such a vast variety of new launches and creative ensembles that I was drooling while watching the show.
5. Read Fashion Forecasts
Many online bloggers and inside personnel of the fashion industry make fashion forecasts. And just like it’s wise to check the weather forecast before heading out, it’s advised that you also read fashion forecasts before going on expensive shopping sprees. You don’t want to end up your precious money on a dress that’s reaching its end in the latest fashion.
6. Have Your Own Fashion and Style Idols
It’s very important to look up to some people around you. They can be your friends, random strangers, celebrities, or practically anyone whose fashion style you admire.
Having fashion idols does not mean you stalk their every move in a shopping mall.
Check up on their online profiles and public presences and take inspiration. Note the colors, patters, and the way they carry different dresses. Then try to adopt that style for yourself. Fashion idols do not only keep you informed on latest clothes, accessories, and trends but also give you many ideas on how to put them in an ensemble.
7. Trust Your Instincts
Follow famous figures of the fashion industry and get your lifestyle news to your heart’s content, but most importantly trust your instincts. You have a distinctive fashion sense inside of you. After taking the right amount of inspiration and ideas from the fashion world, turn to yourself when deciding what must you buy and wear.
1. Experience the Runway
Designers and fashion brands showcase their upcoming merchandise once or twice every year. The runway shows organized for this purpose can educate you profusely on the wide range of latest fashion trends, as these shows are hosted and attended by people who are in the industry or piqued by it.
Being among a plethora of fashion enthusiasts is a guaranteed way of inspiring your individual styling. This is why it is always enlivening to be part of fashion related events as audience, volunteer, organizer, whatever you may.
You might not find yourself wearing the slightly queer clothes and accessories runway women are so comfortably cat walking in, but notice the colors, designs, patterns, shapes, etc. and the cut of the dresses. You can get more wearable versions of runway fashion in street stores a couple of months later. Having prior knowledge straight from the runway will keep you ahead of others when these trends hit the local stores.
2. Read Fashion Publications
Fashion publications by experts and amateurs are available online and in paper, fairly easily. You can skim through the latest edition of Vogue while on a tram or dig online into the website of a fashion blogger who gives off the same style vibe as you. Either way, fashion publications compile and review the endorsements of trendsetters from around the world. It’s a great way of knowing what’s hot and what’s not in the fashion industry that blends in with everyday life.
3. Surf the Social Media
Social media brings you snippets from the personal lives of celebrities and designers. Fashion bloggers and enthusiasts are found offering free advice and insights into which mix and matches work good and which do not. Twitter and Instagram are the most widely accepted channels for exchange of such exciting inside stories. Follow your style inspirations or find your way to new, young people through any fashion hashtag. You can also converse with people and get your fashion queries answered. Internet is truly a great place to begin.
4. Go Window Shopping
This might apparently sound like an utter waste of time, but if you’re really into staying up to date with latest fashion trends, window shopping will be nothing short of inspiring for you. Because you are examining things beyond their suitability for your specific taste, you run into a lot of random displays that you wouldn’t have noticed otherwise.
Sometimes, window shopping can drive you out of your comfort zone to try new, unique trends that might actually complement your outlook. It also opens you up to designer wear and shops you seem to overlook while shopping for a specific occasion. So, go loitering into malls and discover the prevailing trends you had been missing out on.
5. Visit Thrift Stores
Thrift store chic has been a popular style of dressing among the hippies since 1960s. Grunge bands, such as Nirvana, revived the style and it is still widely endorsed by the youth. The fun in thrift shopping is that it’s inexpensive and raw. The more raggedy your outfit, the more edgy your outlook!
At thrift stores, you can find antique clothes and accessories, which were part of trends of the past, and add a contemporary piece of jewelry to top a punk, style diva look. The amalgamation of vintage and contemporary trends never has, and never will go out of fashion.
6. Accessorize
Accessories and jewelry add an unfathomable life to your outfit. For Tamara Rappa, founder and editor-in-chief of an anticipated forthcoming online fashion magazine, “Personal style is the mix of clothing and accessories that one constantly gravitates toward. To find your own, I(she) think(s) you should first focus on what looks good on you, then tune in to which accessories always attract your attention.”
Wearing a heavily bedazzled necklace with a plain little dress is a glamorous way of gleaming up your look. Accessories are timeless and can jazz up even out of fashion outfits. A good collection of accessories and jewelry stocked up is a valuable closet compartment.
7. Stay in Loop with Trend Forecasts
Trend Forecasting is an expanding stem of the fashion industry; you can already find many professionals and experts busy in the act. Read their blogs and journals, learn from them, and be friends with people in the field. Through collected data, they analyze where public fashion tendencies lie now and in the future.
Many designers hire trend forecasters and launch products based upon their forecasts. If you get the inside word directly from the sources of designers, you can edit and rejuvenate your wardrobe beforehand.
The aforementioned tips do come in handy in staying atop the latest trends in fashion and design, but no trend should deluge your own fashion sense. The key to finding your own fashion statement is in preferring your taste in outfits over what the experts say. In the wise words of Olga Kammerer, the U.S. correspondent for the German magazines Freundin and Donna, “Style is taking elements from ‘fashion’—what you see in magazines and movies and on the street—and making it completely your own, wearing it in a way that only you would wear it.”
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