A fashion runway can be inspiring from different points of view: people working in the industry may be able to spot future trends, write about them or, if they are designers and manufacturers, they may consider how to take further, improve and develop in future certain ideas.
Fashionistas watching the runways will instead automatically make a mental note of what they may want to buy (if they have the money to do so...) once a collection hits the shops.
But crafty fashion fans should instead run through the images from the runways to see if they could easily and quickly replicate some of the designs. Sure, not many of us have the tailoring skills to make some of the designs (especially the most complicated ones...), seen on the runways. Yet there are quick ideas that could be borrowed here and there.
On Junya Watanabe's S/S 20 runway for example there were large pearl necklaces with white beads alternating with beads covered in aluminium foil or with what looked like chocolate wrappers.
This is a trend that you can easily replicate using the same materials, after all you may find aluminium foil in most well-stocked kitchens and you can easily collect discarded chocolate wrappers (the ones from chocolate balls and spherical pralines work better for this type of necklace).
You could even use wrappers of chocolates you received as a present in special occasion to make the necklace more" valuable" for you.
Just remember not to buy a box of chocolates and eat it all in one go just to get the wrappers for your necklace as that wouldn't be that wealthy (I usually save candy wrappers every now and then for scrapbooking purposes so I had a little stock left that came in handy for this necklace).
The final effect is quite surreal (some of the beads look like real chocolates...), but the best thing of this upcycled necklace (apart from being the fact that it allows you to reuse chocolate wrappers that would otherwise end up in the rubbish bin...) is that you can easily remove the wrappers when they get torn or change them in accordance with the colours of your clothes, radically transforming in this way the necklace.
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