Let's treat fashion as the art it is, art often being inspired by surroundings or feelings.
This guide explores how outfits can be colour-coded and texturised to near perfection by drawing from all that is naturally occurring.
This idea sparked from watching @zeopatra, whom I think is one of the most creative and stand-on business fashion creatives on the internet. The introduction to a lot of her videos start with the statement “Finding inspiration for personal style from literally anything except other people’s outfits”. And when she says “literally anything”, she means literally anything.
Case in point number 1:
This LOEWE perfume ad as inspiration for the subsequently stunning and undeniably interesting outfit.
Case in point number 2:
What @zeopatra essentially does is play on the colours, textures, and lines present in the selected photo. We can apply this same approach to naturally occurring landscapes and livelihoods. Elements found in nature carry a kind of quiet visual harmony shaped by time, seasons, and function which is why they tend to feel inherently appealing to us as humans.
We can use this to define the success of fashion designs and also to curate more successful outfits.
Beach Landscape
First up is an iteration of a classic beach landscape that the majority of us have sitting in our camera roll.
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Key features: Sharp angled browns, flowy blues, hints of white
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Forest & Foliage
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Key features: Hues of green, mysterious pops of black, pleats inspired by leaves |
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Cherry Blossom
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Key features: Pale pinks, ruffles, dark pink accents, soft whites, muted greys
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No coincidence that Japan is on everyone's bucket list. The cherry blossom palette is super wearable in fashion — soft, layered, and effortlessly cohesive.
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Now this isn’t a groundbreaking concept. Colour combinations that work well have long been recognised and are often named accordingly. Think of earth tones, jewel tones, or muted colour palettes. The aim of this blog post is to encourage you to look at designs differently when shopping and to consider why certain colours work well together, or why elements like ruffles and pleats add the right amount of punch to an outfit. I would also encourage you to keep this idea in mind when putting together your next outfit, consider where the colours in a particular clothing piece may appear in nature and draw from those natural combinations to help you build a successful overall look!
