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My favorite, Papierdoll, all this week is posting fashion predictions and recapping 2007 for us all. It is great, because they aren’t your run of the mill.  The first, expert papierdoll turned to is by Lauren Sherman, fashion writer for Forbes. Sherman’s predictions weigh heavy on the minds of the business intelligentsia as fashion investors might look to her crystal ball statements and double down on fashion companies she deems worthy.[...]So what does Sherman have to say?

Minimalism will be in, in a big way. She uses the example of:

“gray jeans with a lemon yellow belt or an oversize blazer with a sports watch”

The Second, Cathy Horyn’s predictions for 2008. Reading Horyn’s tea leaves is particularly hard since she rarely makes overt mentions or prognostications of what to look forward to in the seasons to come. What I did was take a snapshot of some of her blog quotes to get a read on what she believes will be runway-worthy next year. By no means are these official prognostications from Horyn, it’s a Tim Russert-like effort to use her statements as to what she would like to see in 2008:

In regards to a trip Horyn took to Berlin where she found that certain fashion stores along a street were devoid of advertising displays. December 24, 2007 Horyn says:

We discovered things in nearly every shop we went into, but I can’t remember a name of a single place. These were not big-name stores, anyway.[...]

Today’s Post is about Ten Disappointing Moments in 2007. This is what they are saying: 2007 was a year of change in fashion. Several designers shifted their employment from one house to another, several designers left the scene altogether, and an even larger batch decided to go out on their own. While we abhor top ten lists, we couldn’t resist creating our 10 disappointing fashion moments of 2007. Being the [...]

So keep checking in to see what the rest of the week will bring us from Papierdoll’s recaps and predictions.