Eyebrows – A Trending Detail
Every season the major trends are presented on the runway, and as most trends, quickly trickled down, adapted and redefined to garments sold to the big masses through department stores. Together with these, there is the staging of the minor ones – the details making the look. These trends are for sure carried out to all levels of the market as well, but might claim a bit more work than a simple buy, and at least momentarily they tend to be a permanent change in a person’s everyday look. This season and even more so for Fall 2012 it’s the eyebrows calling for attention, or, if one is gifted with large, dark and rather rough ones – no attention at all.
Just like the dip-dye and bi-coloured hair trend, eyebrows have been trending and growing over the past seasons. From the thin, super shaped “Kevyn Aucoin 90’s eyebrows” all the way to fuller and less well defined ones. Looks rarely come out of the blue – they are a logical evolution from a forerunner, a way to express a cultural drift or a response to changes in the society.
Eyebrows might seem like an insignificant thing in the whole trend discussion but the fact is that they often do a lot for the total look, answering to the demand of change. The non-perfect, thick arches are often associated with a feeling of youth, as well as they contribute to a carefree, “wake-up-and-walk” look. In opposite, we have throughout previous seasons also seen the bleached out eyebrows creating a much more dramatic act and referencing to a different type of appearance. For Fall 2012, several fashion houses presented magnified eyebrows. Brushed up at Chloé, deep dark and enlarged at Missoni to the striking, Maison Lésage crystal and pearl embroidered stripes used at Chanel, among others.
Micro-trends and the different ways of “carrying” the eyebrows are presented, and the magazine editorials add other aspects to the trend as it develops. With quite radical changes occurring every ten years, the current eyebrows might pave the way back for the fine, concealed and penned-out ones, which have already been seen on a few runways. Every trend needs the appeal of “newness” and with a few more rounds on the large scale, extreme or natural, it wouldn’t be more than expected that someone steps out and takes it back to the minimal.
