Fashion Meets Home Design

March 12th, 2010 | Interior Design | 2 Comments

Wow, it's been a month since I posted.  The last I blogged I was off to Fashion Week courtesy of Brizo faucets, where a small group of designers were invited to attend the Jason Wu show and after party.  And from there it was a flight straight to San Francisco where I finished-up this super-small (700 teeny square feet!) urban loft in the Financial District:

Interiors Photography by Greg West

And these two events:  Fashion Week and the Urban Apartment had much in common.  Both were examples of fashion emulating home interiors.

Fashion dictates what trends become popular in the home.

There once was a two year lag, now the gap is closing.  Now we’ll specify finishes for a project and later that day, I’ll open a magazine to see the current month is featuring the same hue that I just specked for the wall finishes.

Fashion is dictated to us through industry insiders and if you’re unsure of what this means, just click here to see how fellow designer Paul Anater brilliantly described this very same process.

In last month’s issue of InStyle magazine, there is a spread with over-the-top, fabulously high heels with the brightest color we have seen in shoes in a long time.  (I snuck the spread right in with the interiors-to show the correlation). The Jimmy Choo and Versace platforms knock you over with their color; fiery oranges, egg-yolk-yellows, and electric blues, and all paired with black; to give us this great contrast.

This very same contrast is what we are seeing in the home, and what I brought into-our short on space, but big on color-Leather District apartment.

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