Richard Nicoll S/S10

I didn't discover the designer Richard Nicoll until his autumn/winter 2008 collection, but his Spring/Summer collection shown yesterday feature some very pretty dresses. Although it doesn't excite me as much as his autumn winter collection did, I still see some good pieces in his collection.

The collection began on a slightly dark note with browns and light greys, with a sort of floral motifs that remind me of wallpaper, but in a good way. Dresses then became tribal with tassells and brown embellishments.

The collection then lightened to teal and rose colours with pink tassells replacing the browns.

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These are my favourite dresses from the collection. I love the contrast between the structured bodice and the draped skirt. I find the nude coloured dress very sweet and almost delicate despite having this structured element.

Altogether a good collection but I liked a/w08 the best.

Circle of Fashion

Anyone will tell you that fashion works in cycles. Highly respected designers take a trend from the 60s, 70s or currently 80s and rework the trend in their vision. For Autumn/Winter 09 there's an explosion of studs and glitter and sequins, rock and roll with a glamorous twist. But this of course has already been done. Whilst looking through my sister's old Elle magazines, I came across a spread about trends of a/w 07. Its similar to trends of this year, but today we've taken the whole 'rock and roll' trend further with the addition of glitter and sequins and putting studs on everything within our reach. I just though I'd share with you what we were wearing two years ago, after all it does hurt anyone to have a look back at the past. Give it a few years and you might be considered a trend setter for wearing the hottest 'new' piece first.

PS I remember that Burberry Prorsum dress in right hand corner of the second page, I coveted it badly, and I still want it!

PPS. I wouldn't say no to the Pink studied Giles handbag (even though pink isn't really a colour I wear much of I'll make an exception) and I love the white Richard Nicoll playsuit in the left hand corner in the middle of the page.

Richard Nicoll!

The first I heard of Richard Nicoll was in UK Elle magazines run down of all the designers in the A/W fashion week. I was blown away by his simple, smart and well made pieces that are my current craves. Another attraction to his line is that while everyone else is going plaid/lace mad I can turn to his cute and original collection when I'm getting sick of all the overkilled trends, though I do love plaid and lace. A lot.

These are just some of my favourites but you can have a real browse of a great collection here or here.

This dress is another one of my favourites it was in Nicolls A/W 2007 collection. It's unlike any other lace dress thats been made this season.