Velvet Underground

WHO: Enough designers to confirm velvet as a trend

WHAT: Fashion designers

WHEN: FW 2010 Fashion Week

WEAR: Velvet

WHY: Velvet made its return to the runway at Alexander Wang's fall show, and picked up more than enough steam throughout New York fashion week to confirm it as a trend. Velvet dresses, pants, blazers, skirts; you name it. Now, as fashion month continues, velvet has turned up in London at the Richard Nicoll show. While the velvet in New York skewed more toward shades of red, Nicoll showed several options in blue, as well as red.

As a whole, velvet hasn't had much of a presence on the runway in the past few seasons. Aside from Tom Ford's infamous velvet blazers, which he reintroduced for his farewell collection at Gucci, I cannot recall such a major moment for the fabric. It'll be interesting to see how many more designers put their spin on the fabric of the moment.

Photos from Style.com