Cineál Saoil: Trend Spotting - Early June '09

Leeeeeeet theeee Sunshinnneee Innnnn!! I know I cannot be alone in feeling like the bright and sunny weather (when we get it!) makes me want to pile on every color of the rainbow into each of my outfits! Luckily, this season there is a booming trend that helps us to get as sunny as we'd like with our fashion choices without looking like a giant Rainbow Bright on crack!

Spring - Summer '09 is all about geometry ladies! Ughhh, I know, I've done my leaving cert too! I'm so over Maths! Don't worry, these geometrical wonders are all about being cute and fun, something none of my maths teachers knew anything about! This year graphic prints and most importantly color blocking are huge. Breaking an outfit up into sections, shapes or blocks (duh!) makes a bold statement with every look you try and may also transform the appearance of your form.

Mixing hues, shades and colors will make any ordinary outfit look one hundred times more fashion forward instantly. Additionally, color blocking creates great optical illusions that you can totally use to your own individual advantage. Let the mixing of different shades either highlight hat you like about your shape or downplay what you aren't quite sold on with you bod. If you think you've got Michelle Obama guns or a killer upper body wear the canary yellow cardi or bright teal tube top. If you think that your bum may fall on the wider end of the spectrum cover it up with a color that falls on the darker en of the spectrum. Look at your closet and wardrobe of summer frocks and pretend you are back at primary school learning about colours for the first time. Complimentary and contrasting and primary and secondary blah blah blah....spin that color wheel and see what works for you and your style! Carpe Diem ROYGBIV!!

If your not a huge fashion risk taker stay within one tone or shade. Mix a fire engine red with and orange red and maybe a dash of a magenta pink or keep warm colors with warm colors (flamenco red, dusty rose, mustard yellow, burnt sienna brown etc) and cools with cools (lily pad green, Robbin's egg blue, lilac purple, you see where I'm going with this...) If you like to make a statement and turn heads for even a trip to Mase, mix up contrastors (I'm not sure that is a word but it hasn't stopped me before) Wear the purple shirt dress with the orange fitted blazer. But caution here gals, love the show Ugly Betty but DON'T covet her wardrobe. If you do pair contrasting colors together keep it to maybe just two? If your rocking the dress in one color and the jacket in a total opposite pick on of those two for the bag and shoes or opt for a third neutral like black or brown - depending on what goes best with your look. Now that your armed with the rules and the how to keep scrolling to see how some Irish lasses on the town rocked the look as well as some of Hollywood's trendiest ladies, Mischa Barton, Lindsay Lohan, Lake Bell and Cheryl Cole.