The spring awakening lifts us from our sluggish winter fashion habits, ignites a review of your wardrobe, and inevitably leaves you feeling like you have nothing to wear. That’s certainly how I feel when I look over the dreary black, grey and navy hanging mournfully on the rack of my cupboard. With the sun finally peering out from the cold clouds, it suddenly all looks so dated. I need to get a spring in my sartorial step and update my look.
The starting point seems to be the 70’s for a lot of designers, whether the soft Linda McCartney inspired collection by Stella, or the more lurid and sexy Studio 54 inspired collections, there is genuinely a smorgasbord of looks to suit all shapes, sizes and ages. Tailored wide leg trousers with high waists flatter female figures and give the illusion of longer legs, silk blouses are 
incredibly feminine, soft denim skirts to the calf sound tricky but with buttons down the front open to the knee they are surprisingly sexy, evening wear in draped colourful jersey, all in one’s and wrap dresses, and fabulous accessories – mini bags in rainbow colours, oversized shades 
and floppy brimmed hats. It’s a true revival of an era, but brought bang up to date to suit our times.
Denim is back (did it ever really go away?), but now it’s all about coloured denim, soft pink flares, skinny mint jeans, white cropped….don’t limit it to casual wear, beautifully tailored denim by the likes of G-Star, Seven for all Mankind and Diesel Black Gold could now be worn for smart events, or even as eveningwear. Worn with clean white shirts, crisp good quality t-shirts, denim looks ultra modern.
You don’t have to look far to realise that colour is definitely the new black, and by just injecting some rainbow hue’s into your wardrobe, you will automatically note a freshness and relevance to your look. Go for mad clashing colours, chartreuse and violet, turquoise and magenta or hot pink and ruby red. Feeling extra brave?
Take crazy clashing floral patterns and layer them up, you’ll look like an eccentric elegant English garden in bloom. Yup, it’s true, the sun has got his hat on and we’re all coming out to play with fashion.
