Top winter fashion trends

Navigating your way through the fashion world this season requires more than just stars for guidance. This vast ocean of colours and fabrics can leave some fledgling fashionista treading water or even getting completely lost. This season is an exciting one because there is so much choice; yet at the same time this can be daunting – how do you know where to start?

With some help from all the major high street shops, designers and fashionable ladies on the street, we have drawn together two of the best, hottest and most covetable trends of the winter for you to pick and choose from at will.

Nineties grunge meets twenties flappers

First up is the modern twist on the roaring twenties. The 1920s was a major turning point in woman’s emancipation after the suffragette movement had paved the way for women’s rights. Fashion, always echoing the social status quo, was a major outlet women used to express themselves. They did this by raising the hem lengths on their dresses, wearing tailored masculine suits and loose fitting dresses and blouses. Materials were luxe and opulent, including fur, lace, silk, feathers, sequins and diamante.

This same styling and detailing is being used this winter, so think of embellished flapper dresses, cropped faux-fur jackets, leather and shearling aviator jackets, cigarette trousers and dinner jackets.

However, the modern reworking has thrown elements of nineties grunge into the mix, with slouchy jumpers, corsets and bodices, velvet, wool and metal. Dark shades of red, green and black mix with nude hues of pink, cream and brown. Altogether the trend is eclectic but stylish and oozes a relaxed kind of luxury. It’s the perfect look for night-time parties.

Globetrotter

It is winter after all, so what better way to embrace the cold than with chunky knits, faux fur, velvet, shearling, leather, suede and nubuck. Throw in some Fair Isle patterns, animal print, Navajo themes and a healthy dose of gypsy styling and you have the season’s most eccentric, eclectic and sumptuous trend. All this mixing and matching makes this trend hard to get right; but actually the more clashing and layering you can muster the better. Mix casual skinny jeans with embellished, beaded tops, thickly woven woollen jumpers, faux-fur gilets, trailing scarves and Navajo ponchos. Alternatively, opt for a jumper dress, coloured wool tights, a Fair Isle cardigan and a duffle coat with a floppy woolly hat. Next’s range of dresses online are particularly on the mark; it has a decent collection of textured dresses that sit harmoniously with this trend.

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