The Leather Trend

Leather is probably my most favorite trend to wear because it's so chique and trendy. At the moment I only own a pair of leather leggings and a black leather motercycle type jacket but my goal is to invest in a leather skirt and a leather dress if I can find a nice one. The leather trend was huge for the fall/winter 2010 season and it definately dominated the runways for this spring as well. It's not the old style leather statement pieces that were worn back in the day when our parents were in their 30's but it's a more up to date version that includes classy slim fitting leather jackets, leather tailored trousers, leather pleated skirts, leather blazers, versitile leather dresses, leather leggings as well as shearling leather jackets which more so fit in with the aviator trend for fall/winter 2010. Leather was found in most designers collections and was espeacially a main focus in collections such as Balmain, Acne, DSquared, Rag and Bone and many more.

I find it really intresting that for the next season coming up-fall/winter 2011, the designers were able to take the leather trend a step further by exploring with different colours and styles of clothing. It was amazing to see that the different colours of leather clothing really stood out on the runways because they were constructed in such a way that these paticular items are so wearable but yet classy because of the strong, shiny black material. The exploration of different colour statement pieces of leather clothing were most effectivily shown in the Acne collection for fall/winter collection (to see a picture of this collecton go to one of my older blog posts), only because they did such a great job pairing up the different leather pieces with pieces such as trousers, skirts and blazers and this made each outfit look even more elegant. They even explored with leather by making leather overalls which I thought was quite fascinating. There are thousands of ways to wear leather and I think that a must have staple every girl should own in their closet is a leather jacket because it can be worn with almost every item of clothing you have! Now a days there is no excuse to find a leather fitted jacket because they can be found at pratically any big clothing store such as H&M, Aritzia or even Zahra.