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This illusion dress by Simply Be just ticks all the boxes for the monochrome trend for
me. It's really, really flattering, it's a beautiful cut, brilliant for an hourglass
figure and it's just become so synonymous with the red carpet A-listers. So stripes,
zigzags, checks, all these kind of graphic monochrome styles are really, really cool
for Spring/Summer. It's a really easy trend to wear because it's so hard to get it wrong.
Basically think Channel and you're there. Take all the colour out of it and just wear
black and white and be bold in your contouring and be bold in your shapes and be bold in
your patterns.
So camouflage colours and camouflage dresses have been around for a few seasons now and
none more so in spring/summer 13. Really for me they're just pieces that add a little base
plate to your outfits.So with Justine we put on a wet look legging, a galaxy print vest,
and then we added the camouflage jacket and it just kind of brought it all down. It's
kind of grungy, utilitarian and really, really easy to wear. They're all kind of in this
slightly oversized fit so you feel like you can put it on over a jumper or a long line
shirt. I absolutely love this.
Colour pop is my favourite rainy day trend. If you wake up and it's a dull day and the
sun has not come out, put on something bright and you will feel better. I always do this
and it does make you feel brighter. So the main thing about colour pop is clashing in
a kind of controlled way. So it's all about one step dressing or pieces that are just
block colours that you cement together with a neutral in the middle so you can feel like
an explosion of a rainbow with out being too OTT. So think a bright red dress and then
cobalt shoes. One step dressing, really easy to do but looks really put together and really
styled in an easy way.
Taking inspiration from the far east has been massively important for lots of designers
this season, none more so than Anna Scholz for Simply Be. I absolutely love this capsule
collection. I think it encompasses everything, that kind of exotic nature that you want to
get from the idea of the far east but is still in really to easy wear pieces. The key for
it is the colour. Go wild with the colour. It's the opposite to the graphic art trend.
Paisley prints, lots of bright colours, exaggerated draping and then little tight contours where
you need them on the body. It's just made a really, really successful capsule collection
for me.
So, outrageously patterned florals particularly have been the talk of high season catwalks
of Spring/Summer 13. I love that this piece for Simply Be, that I've put on Candice, can
take you right through from the start of the season to the end of the season because the
base colour is black and then the neon flashes just make it really, really current for Spring/Summer.
I also love that the botanical floral print isn't that same thing we see every season.
It feels fun, it feels fresh and it goes with all the bright pops of vest that they've got
throughout the collection. You could literally wear this with seven of the different colours
of the vests and feel like you're wearing a different suit every time and i absolutely
love that.
Some people call it nautical, some people call it colonial, some people call it blues,
i just think that these polka dot, blue and white prints are absolutely everywhere this
season, it's kind of taking a nod to the 1950's and then just kind of making it really easy
and really simple to wear. This polka dot dress is absolutely stunning. I'll let you
in to a secret, we put it on at the fitting and the girls were fighting over which one
of them wore it and in the end, they went straight to the Simply Be shop and two out
of the three girls bought the same dress. This is not something they thought they would
love but it just fits so well and looks absolutely beautiful. It nips in at the waist and then
flares out like a just brilliant 1950's tea dress so you just feel like a woman in it.
I absolutely love it.