The New Spring Trends and Colors!

The biggest thing influencing Spring Fashion this year is the EARTH. With our daily lives in turmoil, there is an underlying commonality among all; the desire to save the planet. Seems like everyone wants to contribute, in some way, to be "eco-friendly". Now while there is a movement in apparel for eco friendly fabric and clothes, in this blog we talk FASHION not recycling. So my approach is how does this feeling we have inside for wanting to "do good" and wanting to "be happy" and "be earthy" reflect in our choice of fashion.

1. The first and Easy answer is GREEN as a color in fashion. As spring moves into summer, look for the infusion of a SOFT sage like green to be prevalent as a fashion color, an earthly green that reminds you of eco and that is accented with brown tones of the earth. Also, OLIVE will be strong as a bottom color, beautiful mixed back to turquoise and all shades of lighter green.

2. The Second influence is WATER as a direction for color, AQUA, TURQUOISE, DEEP BLUES. Clean water colors make us feel cool and fresh and cleansed from all the dirty nonsense of the world. I call it the Mermaid trend, be sexy and beautiful and re-newed in water colors.




3. The Third Trend I call "Gerber Daisy" that brings CORAL as a key color for this Spring. A color that's fresh and HAPPY. Seems like when ladies go out to buy something new to wear it's for a specific purpose like a Date, or meeting the girlfriends for lunch, or heading to a BBQ or a weekend get-a-way. They want to present themselves as happy and cheerful and glowing, and CORAL is the perfect color for that.




4. The Forth trend is a change in the direction of screen prints on tee shirts. While the Ed Hardy tattoo look continues to be be strong, that's more relevant in juniors, and men's fashion. The COOL CHICKS, will have the confidence to move into a more feminine type of print. It pairs scroll stencil art with flowers and soft colors. Add to that, BUTTERFLIES and BIRDS as important accents and Fleur de Lis motifs continue to be strong as well.


So leap forth into spring with a smile and fresh look. Love your earth, the ocean the sky and the flowers. Let your fashion bring a sprig of happiness into your day and ENJOY the moment!!

Cheers,
Jacq