Prints have never seemed so lively and rich as they did at the Costello Tagliapietra Fall 2012 show. With A-listers Susan Sarandon and Padma Lakshimi sitting in the front row, it's no surprise that femininity and beautifully cut designs were on everyone's mind.
Design team duo Jeffrey Costello and Robert Tagliapietra explained the inspiration behind the prints, telling Style.com "It started with the prints," Tagliapietra explained. "Jeffrey painted them and they looked like Beetlejuice, quirky and almost spooky. So we started thinking about the idea of hauntings, that feeling of something spectral."
With soft, elegant draping and rich, autumn-hued colors, the Costello Tagliapietra Fall 2012 collection is perfect for the upcoming season and characteristically fall-themed. This may be the perfect collection for some fun wardrobe inspiration for the cooler weather.
What's Driving This Trend
- Rich Prints
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Develop high-quality digital printing technology that can reproduce intricate and vibrant prints on various fabrics.
- Soft Draping
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Create innovative fabric manipulation techniques that allow for effortless and dynamic draping in garment construction.
- Autumn-hued Colors
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Explore sustainable dyeing and coloration methods for creating natural-looking, eco-friendly autumn color palettes in textiles.
Who This Affects Most
- Fashion
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Develop AI-powered fashion design software that can simulate and generate unique prints, drapes, and color schemes for designers.
- Textile
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Invent eco-friendly dyeing technologies that can achieve vibrant autumn colors without the use of harmful chemicals or excess water.
- Printing
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Design advanced digital printing machines capable of reproducing rich prints with high precision and efficiency on various types of fabrics.
