The fashion trends are, usually, directely related to the entertainment factory and the mutual exchange between the screens success and the fashion scene!
The most successful movies influence at least one designer to developt his collection following the stheriotypes created by the producers and costume designers behind the plot. Alice in Wonderlnd, Sex and the City, Flashdance, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Rebel without a Case are some examples of that inteference in female or male fashion, current or old!

Twilight's Vampires inspires fashion styles! Foto:Picture: Advertisement.
Most part of the movies that are detached amoung many premières, are based on book’s plots that marked an epoche. Recently we have following the Harry Potter serie, that today can be compered with the phenomenon that turns around the fiction of Stephenie Meyer :The Twilight.
With quite mysterious personages, Stephenie have conquered the teen public! The sequences of his book gained even more detach when the hystories wore reported on movies, and from it, to the fashion follows the Hollywood trend doesn’t took too long.
This new vampire’s rise brings back to the Winter 2009/10 trends a style that characters the 80’s punks: Black predominance and a worn esthetic cloth. However, it’s not from today that those immortal beings make succes amoung the teens!
The worship for the myths that surround the vampire world extends by years, having the focus moments that happens, concidentaly or not, when is launched new materials about those creatures. In 1931 we had the first version of “Dracula”, adapteded to the movies, an later a big success would portray again the classical history about the blood thirsty in the movie that joined Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, Vampire Interview (1994).
From there to now, the vampires had conquiered a detached place also in tv. The launch of “Buffy, the Vampire Hunter” in 1997, was the pioneer of the trend that again inspired designers and gained space in the media with the series “True Blood” (2008) and “The Vampire Diaries” (2009).

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Into this new stage, the ficcion is renewed and from “monsters” the vampires had turned normal human beings that counts with a few quirkies and still scheming liestyles, factor that make easy the fashion approach.
Rarely, in this long history, we saw a so sumptuous vampire’s portray! Ready to the cameras and to take off wispers from the public, this last immortal generation have quite sensuality, mystery and a fierce touch that plots even more our curiosity and appeal!

Vampire's Trend for Winter 2009/10! Foto:Picture: Advertisement.
The temptation is so much that the fad follows like one of the mainly trends for Winter 2009/10. In worn jeans, leather jackets striking dresses and many boots, the fashion world present their version for this vampire real pandemic!
With a tight silhoutte, the esthetic marked by this shadow’s world puts in vogue the V-waist, torn and stained jeans, laces, studs and the contrast between the darkness of the costumes and the pale appearence of those creatures.
Vintage references and vitorian touches translate all the classy style that have marked the portraited vampires in movies and books versions. The current sexy-blasée behavior erns the fashion editorials and collections with corsets, velvets, vinis, leathers and matches between black, white and rouge that evidence the bowdy vampire of this new generation!
The final esthetic is quite similar to the gothic style and have being work in proposes like Top Shop, Bebe and Nordstrom brands. With prints that mix fun and horror shows, the result pledge to catch everyone, mainly the youth!

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Talking about the fever around the expected new movie based in Meyer’s romances – the New Moon première will be November 20th – we have seen with more attention the work developted by Nordstrom, that brings many t-shirts, perfect for the fans show their love for the famous vampires! Sentences from the movie like “Bet you can’t read my mind” and love avowals like “ Team Edward” or “ Team Jacob because Edward bites” are amoung garments that conquier the teens!

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With a urban touch or a classic style, the vampire trend is not just for youngs, and therfore seems, we’ll see many fashionists adopting the seducer and bold style of this trend, wearing much black, leather, transparence and laces in Winter!

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Described in the first romance of Meyer’s saga like “devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful” and “faces that we’d never expect to see out of fashion magazines”, vampires looks to ensure more, unless, a year of good news and promisse to keep thenselves in evidence for a while! That’s why, bet in garlic chains and crucifixes, it’s time of the blood sucking to become our stylish friends!
Camila Cemin Rolon
Staff Writer Portais da Moda – Fashion Department
Translated by Mariana Medeiros Seixas