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1. Ikat prints: Historically used "to dress the grandest pashas, the ikat pattern has become a patchy print on kitchen towels," said Los Angeles-based designer Martyn Lawrence Bullard. Laguna Beach designer Sheldon Harte agreed: "You know it's over when it's showing up on paper plates at CVS."

2. All-white kitchens: A decade after the 2003 Diane Keaton film "Something's Gotta Give" glorified the control-freak look, the all-white kitchen "feels cold, stark and humorless," said New...