Seasonal Trends: Flaunt your Flower Power!

It's turned sunny again and it’s time to open the windows and welcome the colours of Spring!

If Spring 2012 runway hits are any indication, floral prints are the way to go! Be it London, New York or Tokyo...flower-inspired designs for tops, pants, bags, footwear, skirts, jackets and more are making their way to all international ramps this year!

Spread some cheer with flowers!
You can start making your breezy Spring statements of fashion with floral dresses which are an all-time hit! 

   From left to right: Marni, Marc Jacobs, Lela Rose, Peter Pilotto, Peter Som, and Versace                                          

Aquamarine shades are the in-thing right now, like this short Arrow dress. Seems like a good buy, don't you think? This round-neck floral dress has complete lining, pin-tucks on the chest and flares at the waist. Great way to bring out the colours!        

Bigger, bolder floral prints are also making their way into Spring 2012. The fabulous London Fashion Week held recently witnessed some of these prints.

This Jonathan Saunders dress sets the stage on fire with a black dress featuring white floral motifs, and accessorised with contrasting coral red accents. 

In fact I do have a plunging neck floral dress in olive green by AND in cotton with an attractive splatter print on the fabric. 

                                 
The top and bottom of it
If girly dresses aren’t exactly your cup of tea, you can opt for bold botanical prints in tops or blouses, slim pants, and other accessories such as floral bags and shoes!

This head-to-toe floral print ensemble was featured at the J.Crew’s Spring presentation at the New York fashion week.

If you feel you can’t pull of a fully floral option, fret not! You can opt for chic tops or blouses with simple flower prints.  

Spring and the colour pink are inseparable! I decided to shop online for this set of products I adore!

Tokyo Talkies women printed white top / Denim shorts from Zara / Kiara women pink handbag / Carlton London women casual denim blue shoes / Plaited bracelet from Zara

If you would like to get a bit more experimental, you can look at floral pants, skirts or even shorts.

Designers like Vivienne Tam, Peter Som and Richard Chai Love have made floral pants extremely cool this Spring 2012. Better get your hands on some of these before everyone does!

Accessorise with the power of flowers!

If you haven’t looked beyond clothes to bring out your flower power this Spring, think again! Look uber cool with accessories and shoes which feature hip floral prints. You can choose bags, shoes, scarves or jewellery with floral prints but you do not have to wear them all together! Printed accessories are best teamed with apparel in single tones (solids). 

United Colors of Benetton multi-colored handbag / United Colors of Benetton women white top / Nike women sports black capris / Carlton London women white Ballerina shoes

Floral prints can be seen in attractive patterns even in scarves such as this Femella women printed red scarf. You can also include floral embellishments to this collection as featured in this Spice Art ribbon embroidery red clutch. 

Handbags with floral features were all the rage at the Yukiko Hanai Tokyo Fashion week held recently!

So there’s no time left to waste! Start flaunting florals with the variety of cool options waiting to be worn!

- Aarthi Nandakumar @ Myntra
 

Sources:

http://www.chicagomag.com/

http://www.glamour.com/

http://www.laurenconrad.com/