TFL colour trends and fashion inspirations

The colour preferences in the catalogue are divided up into three categories: Chic, Classic and Casual. Styling directions, as well as general fashion considerations and article trends are included, together with leather samples and recipes from beamhouse through to finishing. The Colour Trends & Fashion inspirations catalogue for leather is published twice a year, in February and September. According to Rimoldi and Belloni, a strong sense of certainty dominates this autumn/winter 2008-09 season, marked by opposites and contradictions. This is a season with no half measures but determined choices, contrasts and juxtapositions that push for the accentuation of features, to select and pursue creations according to a personal style. Opposing colours, shapes, prints and lines and patterns take precedence. Chic In the Chic category, colours also play with opposites, inspired in the interplay between light and shadow for a rich range full of darkness and mystery. The colour pallet features a melancholy harmony, with shades of technology and passion. The details in dresses and accessories vanish to make way for ultra-modern, vigorous forms, combining architecture and design. Both noble and simple materials are incorporated, where squares take the limelight, creating order. The square communicates intuition, but when cut on the bias it is frivolity itself. Subtle facets that make materials sparkle, make leather shiny and metallic, diamond-encrusted intrusions and mineral consistencies give surfaces a shiny and opaque appearance. Classic Here, contrasts are inspired by abstract painting, where many colours seem natural, but are not. Unusual colours and combinations melt into one another, playing upon futuristic and ecological nuances. Classic is a harmony contaminated by electronics, with something chemical blended in to transform colour schemes, with powdery and nocturnal shades. A close-up view of nature and its components allows us to play with abstract proportions and rhythmic repetitions. Clothes and accessories are composed of multiple layers, held together and draped with cords, strings, laces and elastic. Materials that blend the archaic and futuristic, the rustic with the technical, handcraft with manufacture, over-turning any sense of balance. A glossy impact, with frosted and varnished leather, treated with waxes and glycerine fills the atmosphere with a milky effect. Casual In the casual range, faded, almost invisible colours are tinged with shades lifted from nature. This colour palette gives a false sense of security, with its neutral tones that take shape and stifle the brighter colours, diluting one another. An intimate and pleasant sense of harmony is enlivened with light and opalescent effects, with soft and delicate nuances. An enveloping roundness with contrasting volumes combines small details with overstated proportions. These subtly erotic shapes caress the body, surrounding it like a cocoon. The crystallised and padded materials play against micro and macro surface motifs. A sense of soft lightness and delicateness is created in part by the intangible and rarefied consistency of the leatherwear.