By now many of you have seen the Cotton Incorporated Home 2008 Color and Fabric Forecast. This season’s forecast has a new sleek design that hopefully caught your eye and enhanced your outlook on seasons ahead. We move into 2008 with an enhanced awareness of the environments and influencing factors that surround us causing us to continue to strive to produce products that are more personalized and stylized than ever, thus allowing us to differentiate ourselves from everyone else and to ultimately inspire our customers. Here is an overview of some of the information that we covered in the presentations. I hope that you enjoy this review of the season and as always if you have any questions or comments please do not hesitate to contact me.
Dana Poor
Home Trend Forecaster
Billowy washes of light colour
Delicate snow, carved rock and cloud formations
Blurring of boundaries of nature and sculpture
Borrows from vast scale of nature
Snowcapped mountains, weathered stone, rolling clouds
Amplified thickness and puckered constructions envelop and provide new levels of comfort
Inviting, soft and supple textures encourage you to touch and feel
Exaggerated details maintain a modern perspective
Palette borrows from architecture
Radiant peach brings interest to tones of blue and brown
Understated and modern, a new spin on elegance
Pull inspiration from architectural elements and structures
Simple but sophisticated design
Slight masculine influence provides fabrics with boundaries and structure that add dimension to subtle patterning
Challenging the norm and pushing the boundaries of colour
Neon tapestries and urban eccentricity
Edge and attitude of brights combine with muted cools
Provocative fabrics that inspire us to see pattern in new ways
Traditional elements cleverly updated with contrasting colour combinations and surface textures
Reinvented classic textiles with edge and attitude
Moody colour reflects frequently changing personalities
Alluring yellows are uplifting and optimistic
Mysterious dark tones encourage subtle dysfunction
Versatility and adaptability anchored by subtle colour variations and discreet appearances that gently fade into the environment
Rich colour combinations offer elegance without being over-abundant.
A hint of mystery unfolds as etched appearances offer various degrees of texture and depth
Innocence, agelessness and creativity
Colours push the levels of fantasy and imagination
Carefree moments produce colours of nostalgia
Fabrics celebrate fun and fantasy and a sense of indulgence
Prints and motifs capture our imagination and allow for creativity in everyday life
Brilliant colours and added details extend a more youthful appearance to sophisticated design
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