Sandra Halliday
Sandra Halliday is an independent trend and business analyst and editor of Trendwalk.net. Formerly Editor-in-Chief of WGSN and Stylus Fashion, she has spent 30 years working on business and consumer magazines across the fashion, retail, marketing and cosmetics sectors.
AW19 trends: Feet first
Key footwear trends for AW19 see designers taking on retro influences and mixing the very practical with their never-quite-shaken-off fondness for the craziest
AW 19 Trends. Dresses: Sport, Slips, Smock & Strapless
Women may spend their lives in jeans, but the dress remains the centrepiece of most womenswear collections and autumn/winter looks like a strong
AW19 trend-to-go: Knit one, wear one
Designers must be hoping that this autumn flies in with some gale force winds and other very autumnal weather as the runways were
AW19 key item: Boilersuits
Last month, luxury search engine Lyst made a bold statement. It said boilersuits were the “trend of the season”. That callout was based
AW19 key looks: Battle of the decades
The autumn/winter collections flirted with two key fashion decades and while the retro influences weren’t aways explicit, the shapes, details, and key items
AW19 trends: Cosy cocooning coats for troubled times
Designers may sometimes feel like they’re hitting their heads against a brick for autumn/winter as they offer up numerous coat options and consumers
AW19 print & pattern: Our top five takeaways
Considering the recent shows were for autumn/winter (well, most of them were), there was a surprisingly spring-like feel as the floral swept all
AW19 colour: Our top three directions
The AW19 shows were a feast for colour junkies with plenty of “new” colour stories to drive consumer interest, update key items and
Dior AW19: Commercial callouts
Dior’s AW19 show was a return to form for Maria Grazia Chiuri as she took the 1950s as inspiration but kept the collection
In Brief. AW19 Trend to Go – Cape Crusaders
The cape has been making a big impact on runways in all the fashion cities so far this Fashion Month with the variety
Trends AW19: Prada, top 10 takeaways
Prada is one of those labels you either think is the greatest thing since sliced… sorry, sourdough bread, or that you can’t quite
New York Fashion Week: Top 10 Takeaways
New York’s fashion week may not have offered up the fireworks we expect from some cities as the very long event included very