How To Spot Catwalk Fashion Trends

Hi. I'm Clare Watson, owner of personal styling business, Miss-dress. Today, I'm going to be showing you plenty of tips and tricks on style and lots of fashion advice that you can use for both work and play.

When it comes to choosing your items that you're going to mix and match together, go and visit different high street stores and get a really good feel of who's doing what and who's got the best price to match. And the easiest way to kind of create that expensive catwalk look is to mix and match together different textures. So, for instance, the leather and the sheepskin along with the chiffon along with the tweed, it just breaks it up and makes it more interesting and gives that desired designer look.

There are normally five key trends per season that the high street adapt and copy from the designers on the catwalks. It's really simple to be able to spot catwalk trends and that involves just sifting through a variety of different magazines for different target markets and age groups to decipher what the trend is. Spotting current trends is a really simple task to do and it involves just sifting through a selection of magazines for all different target markets and age groups to decipher what are the top five trends.

All magazines will follow the same top five trends and they will give their own ideas and versions of how best to wear that trend. You can then start to collect together a series of tear sheets from magazines dictating which trend is which and put them together in a folder so that when you go shopping, you can refer back to it and know exactly what you are looking for. On the other hand, if you want to be able to spot future fashion trends, then you need to be a little bit more resourceful and that involves, first of all, watching out for when the fashion shows happen which are February for spring/summer and September for autumn/winter.

At those times of year when the fashion weeks are on, the newspapers will write about what they've seen on the catwalk. Collect together those cuttings at that time of the year and you can then start to piece together what trends keep cropping up from the different designers around the world. You can also utilize the internet to provide you with information about what current trends are going to be predicted for the future.

So, to keep your finger firmly on the pulse of fashion, keep your eyes open. Keep looking at magazines, keep looking on the internet, but also keep looking on what people are wearing on the street. That's where most designers get their inspiration from, looking at what other people wear and how crazy or quirky or original their combinations of outfits are. .