NYFW & Tartan

Hi everyone!

The New York Fashion Week (NYFW) held in February and September of each year. It is a semi-annual series of events, generally lasting 7–9 days when fashion collections are shown. After the NYFW in February I wanted to share with you the best tartan (or plaid as the Americans say) creations of the year. 

As always, the New York Fashion Week brings the biggest trends of next year. This year, there was a strong recurring looks and one of them was the plaid!

Brands like Rag & Bone; Victoria Beckham; Calvin Klein; Rachel Zoe used the tartan pattern in their collection and they approached it in a much cleaner, subtler, muted way as you can see with the picture below. 

Nevertheless the most impressive collection with tartan was during the show of Victoria Beckham. The designer mixed sleek stripes and pristine plaid with cool cut-outs at her fall 2016 NYFW show. During the show you can see the evolution of her personal style. She told to Vogue 'I wanted to find a new cool, fresh way of wearing it again, making it more daywear, more modern,' and it was a success.

To finish, the tartan lesson style by Vera Wang!

This year Vera Wang presented a collection with a new key item: the plastron, integrated into a linear silhouette, exaggerated with monster platform sandals (thick and high), and worn with spats of varying height. The long line was inspired by Giacometti. During the NYFW Kendall Jenner, the 20-year-old model walked the runway for the Vera Wang show with a nice plaid.

Why you should wear Tartan: 
You can be trendy and sexy with this pattern. Kendall Jenner is wearing a traditional tartan shirt with a black oversized trench coat, the perfect mix.

Show by Vera Wang, 16/02/2016, New York.

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The history of Tartan

Let's learn about Tartan!

 Tartan is a woven material usually in wool and the Scottish pattern used for the kilt.  It's a pattern consisting of criss-crossed horizontal and vertical bands in multiple colours. It's one of the most important symbols of Scotland.  Tartan is often called plaid in North America, but in Scotland, a plaid is a tartan cloth slung over the shoulder as a kilt accessory, or a plain ordinary blanket such as one would have on a bed.
Nowadays Tartan is worn by a lot of people, but before to come in our dressing room, Tartan had a story!

Concerning the etymological history of tartan, the DSL, Dictionary of the Scots Language, derives the term from old French “tiretaine”, ‘a sort of cloth half wool, half some other yarn; stuff of which the weft is wool and the warp linen or cotton’. This form of cloth is now called linsey-woolsey. The French word “tiretaine” was used in the Breton for cider made half of apples and half of pears. 

Nowadays if you search the definition of Tartan on the DSL website you will read a woollen cloth woven in stripes of varying width and colour repeated at regular intervals and crossing a similar set of stripes at right angles so as to form a pattern.

There is a debate among people who see tartan as the visual symbol of an ancient Scottish clan system and people who regard its role in that same system as primarily a nineteenth-century socio-political invention. Other studies suggested parallels between tartan patterns and other cultures’ weaving traditions.

Tartan was used as a  Clan or Family form of identification. One of the first recorded mentions of Tartan was is 1538 when King James V purchases "three ells of Heland Tartans" for his wife to wear. It is now generally accepted that clan tartans were established and named towards the end of the 18th century. 

Complete story on the link below!

Read more: http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/The-History-of-Tartan/