Winter is a nice, beautiful season but there are certain things that irritate us about it.

It is of course the temperature and lack of colours. Everything looks so monotonous… grey, faded and drab. White snow looks perfect but sooner or later you get bored of it.

That is why it is so important to choose color palette for your winter clothes.

It should cheer you up, comfort and give positive emotions. Fashion for winter 2009 is rather contradictory in this respect. Black and grey are the hottest trend colours, though one can hardly describe them as optimistic or invigorating.

Here are ten colours that will be popular this winter:

Black

No wonder it is again in fashion. Designers love it and we do either. It seems to be comfortable, practical, noble, and what is even more important - black creates a leaner image of us.

Besides, it goes well with all closing items we have in the wardrobe. Black garments do not usually become old-fashioned; in case they do you can wear them as vintage ones.

Zac Pozen, Sandler, Chanel, Rad Hourani

The peculiarity of fashion for black in this season is that every item of our outfit should be black – headwear, a scarf, a blouse, a skirt or trousers, a coat or a jacket, tights (black opaque tights are a hot winter trend) and of course footwear (shoes or boots).

Accessorize your look with black gloves and a bag of the same colour.

Black and white

This season the combination of black and white takes on special significance. These tints are vastly included into office and business style outfits and evening wear as well.

Temperley, Julien MacDonald, Naeem Khan, Jens Laugesen

It looks elegant and is rather practical because you can wear the garments of this colour mix for various occasions accessorizing your looks with various bags and jewellery.

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Autumn with its rains and chilly winds is already here and we strive to look nice and trendy despite all those weather conditions.

It is not easy but if we mix and experiment a lot we’ll certainly succeed.

Leather items

Leather items are the trendiest things and the favourites of this season but they are those which have to compile every woman’s wardrobe as well as clothes made of denim.

Nowadays leather is produced to be light, thin and plastic, it can be dyed any colour, ornamented with any décor.

Givenchy Fall 2008

Therewith, it doesn’t absorb moisture and is used by designers for creating various clothing – from erotic corsets to coats. Leather jackets, coats, belts can be a perfect choice for fall.

Temperley, Marc by Marc, Temperley Fall Winter 2008

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As we’ve already mentioned before, leather is a big in thing this fall and winter. Leather boots, leather jackets and, of course, leather pants are ultimate must-haves for a fashionista.

Leather pants first showed up at catwalk shows of McQueen, Preen, Temperley and Givenchy and soon became the high street fashion must haves this fall and winter. They tie in nicely with this season’s goth and grunge trends.

Leather pants tendencies this season are tight-fitting skin on skin pants and leather treggings, which are a hybrid form of leggings and trousers.

Keep the silhouette long and lean, ” Pippa Holt, fashion features associate at Vogue says. “Wear them skinny with a tunic top cinched in at the waist by a thin belt. Or for a soft-goth look, pair them with Jaeger London’s black fringed cape. If you’re wearing them in the evening, take inspiration from Ricardo Tisci at Givenchy and add gold chain necklaces and a jacket,” she adds.

Leather trousers should always have a rock edge. The rock wardrobe is their heritage. So wearing them with heels in an Abigail’s Party way can look really Sloaney and uncool,” says stylist Emily Barnes.

So these are simple tips you can follow when wearing leather pants and treggings:

1. Unless you’re a biker, don’t do double leather (trousers and jacket).

2. Wear lather trousers in black. You don’t have to stick to black in all other outfit details, try yellowish-brown, grey, or navy in tops and shoes.

3. As for shoes, ankle boots look great with leather pants.

4. Keep a balance between hard and soft, boyish and girly.

5. In case you don’t want to emphasize your bottom or visually expanse it, don’t wear pocketless leggings.
Choose skinny pairs like Christopher Kane’s, which have carefully positioned back pockets to avoid this.

6. If you’re a Vegan try “pleather”, leather-effect jeans.

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