This article was written by Matthew Tucker and is part of the Moss Fraser Blog.
Christmas is the time to wrap up with many layers - vests, hats, gloves and that knitted reindeer jumper your Aunt gave you. But is there a Festive Fashion Code that we should all adhere to?
Fashion Trend Shows such as Premier Vision in Paris and Pitti Filati in Italy are the places where designs for the winter season get decided. These shows plan ahead - Designers will be spending Christmas creating what you’ll be wearing on the beach next year, rather than under the mistletoe this year.
Christmas colours red and green are famed for clashing - a colour combination best left to elf costumes and novelty boxer shorts. It would seem fashion specific to Christmas is not with us just yet.
Christmas may not be the season of the catwalk but it is of course big business for high street retailers. ‘Black Friday’ is America’s annual discount day, when retailers go from being in the red to in the black - in profit. This year’s rush for bargains was more chaotic than ever with a tragic fatality in a Wal-Mart in New York.
Online shopping is the safer and more popular option this year - the high street may be suffering but online sales in November surged by 16% on last year.
With matching red jacket and trousers, Santa needn’t worry about his Christmas dress sense. But if you could reinvent Santa, how would you picture him? The Guardian asked ten media personalities about their personal reinterpretations of the man of commercial Christmas. Creations included: a topless smoking Santa, a Santa made out of Christmas dinner and Santa as a crestfallen Gordon Brown.
This article was written by Matthew Tucker and is part of the Moss Fraser Blog.
Flickr image from meagan.lloyd’s photostream.
