Margit Publications Color Symposium Spring/Summer 2009 Report

The industry’s most creative and influential fashion leaders provide their expertise and insight into the interaction between all aspects of fashion for Spring/Summer 2009.

Colors, trends, fabric and print directions are the focus of the symposium, which covers women’s wear, menswear, retail, home furnishings & interiors and creative lifestyle.

MPNews ~ Color Symposium Report is available for a yearly subscription (two seasons of  the Color Symposium Report) and includes two issues of the MPNews Newsletter -- all for $295!

Report includes complete detailed presentations by our featured forecasters:

Jamie Ross ~ Creative Director, The Doneger Group
European Street Scenes
An insightful review of street and retail trends across all categories and classifications. Colors, items and merchandising vehicles were discussed with an eye toward Fall ’08 and Spring ’09.

Paul Pelssers ~ Creative Director, Paul Pelssers Ltd.
Early Color & Trend Directions Spring/Summer 2009
Women’s Wear
Spring/Summer 2009 is a season for women’s wear in which color enhances -- rather than hides -- fabric texture and weave. A desire for simplification, a wish to be daring and a feeling for the technical become the new priorities.

Tod Schulman ~ Vice President, Fashion & Home, Pantone Inc.
Pantone View Colour Planner Spring/Summer 2009: “Independence”
We celebrate the Spirit of Independence. The promotion of individuality has emerged as being selfish and solipsistic. Independence is a step ahead. It's the other side of the coin to Globalization. It focuses on the not so obvious, the hidden, the tucked away. It celebrates the individuals whose contribution is small in scale, compared to the impact of the mega brands, but giant in the spirit of doing things that mean a lot to smaller communities, be it a neighborhood, a street, a local group... one's own people.

Patti Carpenter ~ Creative Director, Carpenter + Company,  Interior Trends
This trend presentation is a comprehensive visual overview of the home furnishings and decorative accessories market. It outlines color, trends, prints/pattern, form, function, techniques and materials. Color and trend for the upcoming season were addressed.

Pat Tunsky ~ Creative Director, The Doneger Group
Color, Fabric & Design Trends
An inspiration overview of Summer 2009 colors for women’s, men’s and home that complement runway and mood images in an inspiring and informative format. Key seasonal fabric directions are also explored, along with highlights of ongoing and emerging trends.

Paul Pelssers ~ Creative Director, Paul Pelssers Ltd.
Early Color & Trend Directions Spring/Summer 2009
Menswear
In menswear, Spring/Summer '09 will be remembered as a season that is powerfully masculine yet modern in approach. Soft touches will be important. Color becomes a meditative space and is a key medium for texture.

David Wolfe ~ Creative Director, The Doneger Group
“Timeless or Timely”
Making choices. David Wolfe looks at the difference between “always” and “now” in terms of fashion ideas and items, influential icons and designers of the past and present.
                                                 

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