Yellow, the It colour

Yellow was the Guest star on the Autumn/Winter 09' catwalks and will probably be ever present for the winter to come... Indeed, while on the New York catwalk there are countless collections punctuated with touches of bright yellow, fashionistas on the street are already wearing the colour even as its plebiscite has not yet been officialised.

At a time where street style is the new leader and where pictures from the Sartorialist are more informative in order to pinpoint new trends, as new styles and recurring pieces and colours now bloom on Bryant Park before the catwalk.
Current moods are now as obious to people on the street and designers are the ones taking inspiration from what young hype boys and girls. They take information and knowledge from places, musics, designs they like. Therefore it is now more and more common for collection to be "illustrated" in the street before even being commercialised. As it is happening now for yellow...
Fashionistas have been led by the everpresent buttercup colour on the September catwalks and they are now wearing it on accessories or small touches in order for it to really bloom during February's cold period. Until there, nothing really surprising as the colour has been present for two whole years on the catwalks now...
Still, when girls gravitating around New York's Fashion Week display the same yellow-detailed colour look as on the catwalk, radars go crazy! Marc Jacobs, Band of Outsider, Lacoste or Karen Walker all have contributed to making yellow the headlight colour of accessories this season.
Simple coincidence or is it that fashion designers aren't the only ones to know what women would like to wear in the near-future? The only sure thing is that thanks to countless fashion magazines, domcumentaries, hyp-exhibitions, fashion followers have all the information in order to know, at the same time as Marc Jacobs what will be trendy or not.
From there onwards, if fashion designers and stylists want to remain the one and only prophetes, they will have to observe fashionistas and rapidly develop anything on them they find promising, or find other new sources of inspiration less accessible than the ones they deal with actually...This said, streets and catwalks have the same clear message nowadays: yellow should now be a part of our wardrobes.