Zoot Suit Gangster
What Fashion Is Telling Us About Upcoming Directions In Home Decor
Fall fashion is long gone, so once again it is a good time to reflect stylistically on how fashion affects upcoming trends in the home decor market.
I have previously outlined my 2009 predictions for the HOME DÉCOR industry at the end of 2008. If you remember, I kept mentioning the 1980s as the most dominant theme for the year. This so far, seems to have rung true. What I would not know in DEC 2008 was how exactly these trends would fully take form. I suggested that it might be in bright bold patterns, a relook at Italian Memphis furniture, large colored glass items, and sculptural furniture with an eco twist.
Nine months into 2009 the picture is more clear of what was only able to be hinted at back in 2008.
We had been in a 1950s Era, 60s, and Hollywood 1940s glamour mode for almost 20 years – 10 to 15 of those in the main stream. It is obvious that such a connection to the then PROSPERITY would mirror other prosperous eras like the 40s, 50s, and 60s. Boom times would equal BOOM time looks. That is why my prediction of 1980s, another era bent on money, made clear sense for our moment. With the economic crash, more conservative, less luxurious, and a less decadent mood was starting to hit the air – but no one willing to give up their just lost luxury completely. And what makes sense for the transition is still the 1980s.
In the 1980s (c.1985-87) it was all the rage to re-work 1920s culture like the gangster ZOOT SUITS with large shoulder pads and cropped jackets, slim peg leg pants and high paper bag waists. Fabrics went TARTAN crazy and bold stripes and plaids could never be enough, even the paisley print exploded. Some of the same 1980s obsessions are back today. If we look what has been dominating the catwalk for the last few seasons and what I expect to see this on the runway this month, it is the continuing trends of the 1980s do the 1920s, Gangster/Pimp, Goth Rock Star, The WPA/Depression Era, Russian Tsar, and German Military.
What I think this might mean to the home décor market is several fold:
-Prepare to see WPA DECO come back
-Less leather – more tone on tone with tailoring fabrics mixed with some unusual futuristic textiles (vinyls and metallics)
-Less overt money and more “Old Money” classic good taste looks – possibly going toward Tsarist Russia or even Vienna. Traditional antiques might be making a come-back.
-Industrial farm (similar to WPA) and Depression Era but souped up with 80s industrial Goth
-Mostly Moderne (30s-40s) and Deco Bronzes and sculpture making its way into the room (the more abstract figurative)
-Alabaster and other STONE sconces where light is hidden behind the stone and projected through
About the Author
Director of Operations and Co-Founder of VandM.com (Vintage and Modern).
Before starting VandM in 2006 with fellow co-founder Chris Sansbury, Bill was the founder and owner of FLASHcap Interactive (now VandM Interactive), an award-winning, New York City-based, marketing and interactive firm. With offices in both the USA and Russia, the multi-national teams produced projects on behalf of clients such as SONY, Panasonic, Popular Photography & Imaging Magazine, Adobe, American PHOTO Magazine, Tamron, ColorVision, DataColor, Epson, Canon, Sound & Vision Magazine, Ford Motor Company, Kodak, SanDisk, The Photo Imaging Information Council, The PMDA, Todd Merrill Antiques, Center44, Showplace Design Center, Antique and Artisan Center, Noonan Antique, and over 175 more clients.
Previous to starting FLASHcap Interactive, Bill worked in the New York fashion industry running the technical design portion of Liz Claiborne’s RUSS division and was a technical designer for Clifford and Wills, a former catalog division of J.Crew.
Bill graduated with a Master’s Degree in Architecture from the University of Cincinnati, OH with a minor in Fine Art Ceramics.
Bill is actively involved in the Classical Realist movement of promoting traditional realist painting and actively paints in a small studio in Chelsea’s Gallery district. Bill is represented by Art Modern Gallery in Naples, Florida. As part of his grass roots activities to promote realism in the arts Bill founded the Non-Profit organization Classical Realist.org which supports realist artists and artist run atelier.
You can visit Bill’s painting site (he paints under William Eric) at http://www.WilliamEric.com.
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