Fall 2015 trend guide

“It’s a slimmer silhouettemuch more concise and much more grown-up,” said Lizzy Bowring, who identifies the key trends to emerge from the global runways for fashion forecaster WGSN. “It isn’t a granola look, as one might say.”

And while the 1970s reign supreme, Bowring wonders whether things won’t hark back even further to a time of “historical romanticism,” as she calls it, with high, intricately laced necklines, empire-waisted gowns and tapestry prints.

CNN