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Mini Trend: Toile de Jouy on the catwalks
The sharp eyed among you may have noticed a mini-trend rocking London Fashion Week - and now Paris Fashion Week - Toile de Jouy. Yes, that traditional 18th Century print of pastoral scenes. (Not sure how to pronounce it? Here’s how to say Toile de Jouy.)
In London Fashion Week, Duro Olowu used it on dresses and jackets, Teatum Jones used it on t-shirts and dresses (theirs featured Winston Churchill, rather bizarrely), and Sister by Sibling showed long tennis dresses with an urban-themed Toile de Jouy, featuring scenes of London rioters.
Paris Fashion Week has brought us Toile de Jouy featuring safari jeeps and tourists wielding binoculars from Carven. With 3 days to go, it seems only likely that there will be further appearances of this pastoral print. Watch this space!
Carven at Paris Fashion Week
Duro Olowu at London Fashion Week
Teatum Jones at London Fashion Week
Sister by Sibling at London Fashion Week
Of course, we had our future fashion radar firmly switched on earlier in the year and have no fewer than 3 different Toile de Jouy print scarves already in stock. Get ahead of the fash pack with the following beauties:
Celebrity Scarf Watch: AnnaLynne McCord wearing a colourful outfit with an oversized patchwork scarf in Los Angeles. We’re loving how her outift colour-coordinates, without looking in the least bit matchy-matchy. Her delicate blouse has yellow from those fabulous jeans, and the scarf ties it all together.
Celebrity Scarf Watch: Lindsay Lohan wearing a blue fringed square scarf with stripe detail in New York City. Simply draped around her neck, this scarf peps up her navy outfit, adding interest and movement.
Celebrity Scarf Watch: Alyson Hannigan wearing a brown floral scarf in Santa Monica. Blooming lovely!
Wearing a scarf simply draped around your neck is a good look for pregnant women. Too much fabric around the neck area can make you look large overall, rather than accentuate your pregnancy figure like this look does.
Scarves also help you work a limited maternity wardrobe and are fantastic once you’ve had the baby, for hiding all manner of baby mishaps (as Jessica Alba will attest). Great for providing breastfeeding privacy too.
Celebrity Scarf Watch: Alyson Hannigan wearing a beautiful loosely draped pink shawl.
Celebrity Scarf Watch: Model Karolina Kurkova wearing a stone coloured scarf tied in an interesting way.
Celebrity Scarf Watch: Jason Priestley wearing a grey checked scarf in Paris, France.
Celebrity Scarf Watch: Danii Minogue wearing a fantastic map print grey scarf in Melbourne.
