Michelle Lamb, Editorial Director for The Trend Curve, has been in Dallas for the Holiday & Home Expo. Her top trends are below. Read the next issue of The Trend Curve for even more from this summer show.
Noteworthy in Dallas:
COLOR
- Spring green was out in force
- Indigo still had emerging status
- Verdigris-influenced hues advanced
- Something about complex, cosmetic hues just had to be noticed
- Black’s role was key, yet its growth was almost under the radar
- Gold metallic kept building
MATERIALS
- Mixed media drove lots of creativity
- Wood stepped up in a big way, especially straight-from-the-tree looks
- Pierced ceramic took off
- Cotton emerged
- Jute worked with nearly everything
- Paper had new, more-substantial uses
- There seemed to be no end to uses for chicken wire
PATTERN AND MOTIFS
- Collages of words and phrases remained massively important
- The farm-to-table trend was nowhere near done growing
- Vintage looks persisted, generally minus the industrial overtones
- Foxes began appearing where only bunnies and chicks had before
- Carrots popped up as small-scale print subjects
- Spools with ribbon or thread were trending