Trend Direction: FESTIVAL

June 17, 2016 Jill Lawrence

Wear It - Festival

Decorate with braids and beads, badges and bows.

Wear chunky ankle boots with frayed cut offs to emphasise your calves.

Embroidery in primary brights give your old denims a folksy flavour.

Mixed patterns and mixed fabrics look spontaneous and fresh.

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Faith Connexion £625

Junya Watanabe £495

Marc Jacobs £375

Roberto Cavalli £1,630

Ripping, repairing and fraying combined with contrast fabrics and prints. Mix, match and play with unusual combinations of denim and other fabrics.

Trainers or boots are the preferred footwear and fringing is a must for accessories.

Traditional Festival girlie dresses from MiH and The GREAT!

MiH £245

The GREAT $275

Fringed suede waistcoat traditionally indian inspired, combined with a gathered bottom indigo shirt.

Abercrombie £58

Zara £29.99

Valentino £960

Zara £29.99

Trend Direction: FESTIVAL

June 15, 2016 Jill Lawrence

Close Up - Painted Denim

Creative imagery painted onto pre-washed jeans. Original and unique. These jeans are old Energie men's denims - also good for women's boyfriend trend. Best to use dark slightly washed jeans as your personal canvas for painting.

Trend Direction: FESTIVAL

June 13, 2016 Jill Lawrence

Close Up - Decoration

Folk appliqué, embroidery and delicate decoration onto dark denim. Burnt out leaf structure could be a tonal bleached print onto mid shade indigo enhancing the wash out abilities of the indigo dye.

Mexicana embroidery onto worn out vintage denims.

Exotic printed florals onto worn out denims. giant flowers plus rough denims create a tension of opposites with added interest of weft shredding.

Frieda Kahlo style Mexican florals pigment printed onto denims. Make your own artistry using acrylic pigment paints on yesterday's denims.

Gold pigment looks more Boho than luxe when combined with scraped and worn-in areas.

Trend Direction: FESTIVAL

June 9, 2016 Jill Lawrence

Close Up - Patched

Pieced and patched indigo boyfriend jeans from Egome - hand stitched patching with stripes placed inside the jeans and lined with natural lace are enhanced by scrape and spray finish. All this can be achieved at home using whatever contrast fabrics you have to hand.

Crazy creative Wrangler jeans pocket from the 70's. The Jean is a 2x1 real vintage twill and the pocket is a retro mix of hand woven plastic and denim enhanced by heavy stone wash to highlight the seamed weave. The woven plastic looks like the formica patterns from the 50's.

Hand embroidered MiH jacket designed and made exclusively for Selfridges Denim Studio, London. Light blue bleached out indigo embellished with graduated blues is refreshingly sunny after all the dark trends from fall winter.

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Hand embroidered patched MiH boyfriend jeans. The lightweight denim is vintage ring spun with a slight aged tint which when combined with the Navaho style decoration is spot on for the summer trend. Comfort with high style.

Trend Direction: FESTIVAL

June 6, 2016 Jill Lawrence

Close Up - Whitewash

Painted or sprayed with white pigment onto dark denims. Haphazard brush marks can be abstract or representational.

Apply thickly using quick strokes for the background and more precise for the motifs.

Coat the whole of the denim piece with white pigment; rub off excess with a cloth and score into the heaviest coated areas with a sharp edged implement. Wait to dry before adding another layer or wearing.

Easy to do yourself by hand - don't overdo the pigment painted areas otherwise the garment will become too stiff.

Very lightly coated or brushed over the surface to give the appearance of white stains and raindrops.

Abstract and haphazard splashing and spraying above evolves to hand stencilled flowers on these Abercrombie short ankle flares below. Right on trend.

Trend Direction: FESTIVAL

June 2, 2016 Jill Lawrence

Free Spirit Jeanswear. New Age traveller and open air concert goer promoting personal expression of complete freedom. Vintage denims in 3x1 and 2x1 constructions with real authentic attitude for flares and boyfriend styles, patched and pieced with up-cycled old denims to include hand crafted decoration for the personal touch.

Frayed, faded and decorated with exotic flowers

Trend Direction : RIPPING AND SHREDDING

May 30, 2016 Jill Lawrence

Wear It - Ripping and Shredding

Oversized mid weight Paige denim shirt artificially "aged" with holes, rips and shredded areas. Looks very "worn in" but sufficiently aged to be classy fashion.

Cool over emphasised ripping and shredding as demonstrated by two of the best brands for on trend denim and jeans. Just click the images to access their sites.

Alexander McQueen £1,285

True Religion Liv Relaxed Skinny $319

Either extreme high end or high street denim fashion, both demonstrate a different side to the trend. The Diesel example is super creative and has "I want it now" written all over it. Can we persuade Diesel to make these for women? Whilst the Zara girls culottes are none the less desirable given their discrete hem shredding.

Zara Frayed Denim Culottes £19.99

Diesel Buster 0853D £860

Trend Direction: RIPPING AND SHREDDING

May 26, 2016 Jill Lawrence

Close Up - Repairing and Distressing Combine

MiH Phoebe Jeans show original shibori hand dyed indigo cotton through the customised holes, adding special interest to the trend of ripping and repairing.

Creative patching gives the ripping and shredding a reason to exist. This can be customised at home making your jeans totally personal.

Below is an intriguing printed jean from AG. The jean is made from a non denim high stretch undyed fabric. All the effects are digitally printed including the reverse and face sides twill effects. The ripped and patched areas are also part of the digital print as are the fly, pocket and waistband both front and back.