Digitally Enhanced Fabric Prints
Digitally Enhanced Fabric Prints create a whole new world of up-to-the-minute fabrics. These are sometimes mixed with other equally demanding prints to create clashing print mixes that dazzle and confound whilst crying out novelty. This feature extends from jersey knit dresses through into knitwear.
Below digital watercolour effect fabrics and sculptural forms from brilliant young designer Mary Katrantzou. Image courtesy Swarovski.
Far Right – Value for Money Print Dress from George at Asda.
Tribal Structured Dress £16 George at ASDA.
Petal Prints 
Petal Prints – This uses large fulsome blooms to pinhead prints and mystical blurred watercolour effect flora, to form fabrics of ethereal beauty. This is an exceptionally pretty girly look, feminine and easily made more edgy with statement jewellery in bold designs and shoes that shock.
BLUE – BLUE – Beautiful Blue.
Whilst purple is still having its moment make way too for blue – the colour of the year. Stock up on anything turquoise through to cobalt blue and cornflower.
The marine blues add a cool calm elegant sophisticated aura to a woman. Like an image of sea breezes the tones are naturally expensive looking so make a good colour choice for new investment pieces. 
Right – M&Co Ladieswear SS10 Jewelled Floral Shift Dress £40.
Left – Hobbs Summer 2010 – Vaudeville Dress £159.
If you are now ten years older since you last wore one of the richer royal blue tones, then this colour may appear harsher against your skin tone than you first recall. So select the colour and fabric carefully to maximise the wondrous effect blue can have on a woman. Deeper cobalt blues are especially suited to the business and evening environment as they make a refined, yet glamorous in control alternative hue to black.
The iris/electric blue/purple/violet colour spectrum has stayed in favour and so there are still plenty of mauve tones filtering down through lavender to cornflower blue for spring.
Still in the blue green spectrum the sea greens, turquoise and aqua have once again made us more comfortable with the green family. The rise of blue based accessories in bags and jewellery reflect this.
Right – John Lewis Collection Turquoise Cuff – £20.
The brights, acid green, lime, citron yellow tones all remain popular colour choices especially in summer cotton and linens, but now move toward warmer khaki, olive green and yolk gold.
Shimmering brocades are glam and make for perfect occasion wear as summer weddings make their mark. Glimmer and a burnished glossy mirror shine are easily achieved with glossy bags, metallic footwear or the gold cuff just shown above.
Textures – Check out the Dolce and Gabbana crochet dresses and watch out for macramé bags and casual layering pieces. Look out for torn edges, frill layers, crunchy lace, Cornelli tape work, and 3D floral forms on dresses jackets and knitwear.