Safari Inspired Fashion and how to look your best

This spring/summer is showing a Safari inspired fashion trend, which may appeal to some more than others. If you are going to follow this particular trend, it is important to find the best shades and shapes to suit your natural colouring and body shape. The earthy, natural colours are perfect for "Softs", which can blend different shades of the same colour to get the perfect look. Look out for sand, taupe, beige, cream, stone, coffee brown and chocolate. If you want to go wild, how about adding a bit of muted animal print? Safari isn't exclusively for "Softs"; other groups can manipulate the safari look by adding different colours. "Lights" can wear the lighter safari colours, such as sand or cream and team them with pastels. Pink or pale apricot and sand or taupe can be stunning on a blonde. These colours will not over power your light colouring. "Warms" will look very up to date matching orange or warm red with khaki or taupe. The yellow undertones of the orange will give warmth to the neutral colours and enhance your natural colouring. "Cools" need to keep to neutral colours, mixed with colours that have a blue undertone. Pink and taupe, as I mentioned earlier look great but for "cools" the colours need to be stronger. "Deeps" will look fabulous in dark chocolate brown put together with pewter and a dark sand or a deep rich red. As long as the colours are dark and not pastel, they will look stunning. "Clears" look their best in contrasting colours, so make sure the neutrals you choose are on opposite ends of the spectrum. For example dark chocolate brown, with pale sand or black/brown with cream. Zebra print could be an amazing look. Now you have the colours sorted, what about the designs? Which styles will suit your body shape? The safari theme is perfect for "Lean Columns" with all the pocket detail around the hips and bust. "Hourglasses" can show their lovely waists off, by belting in jackets, but beware of too many pockets if you have a "full hourglass" figure, they can add inches to your silhouette. "Triangles" can maximise their narrow shoulders with plenty of detail on the top half, but remember to avoid pockets around the hips on the trousers or skirt. "Rectangles" will look great in safari inspired trousers and skirts with pockets but need to avoid belted jackets. "Inverted Triangles" can have detail on their narrow hips but need to minimise bulk around their shoulders. When shopping, remember you don't have to wear the full safari kit. Just pick bits that suit you. For example mixing a safari inspired jacket with a floral dress could look very chic and individual.

Fashion Designers Boutique

Mary Quant was one of the first designers to open up to the world her ideas on a hanger in the fashion industry when she opened up her boutique Bazaar in 1955 on London Kings Road. The sixties symbolised liberalism and freedom of expression. Fashion designers were now experimenting and breaking the classical mould of the use of material now trying various textiles to achieve innovating shapes, patterns, colours and most of all the imagination to think outside the box. Below are a number of Fashion designers that helped to shaped and influence the fashion styles you see in the high street. There are so many not mentioned but the designers below give a broad spectrum of innovation that is still evolving through our present designers and new designers that are emerging worldwide. Fashion has reached too globally thanks to the media and TV portal, and with this we are privileged to know more designers that have been inspirational of the 21st century. With this insight we know have a global event of fashion shows from Europe, United States, Banana Republic to the United Kingdom. We have models that are now reaching epic proportions and all because of the power of the press. You now have the catwalk queen for best model; you have face of the year, movies, endorsements, advertisements, shopping mall shows and sponsorship deals. The life of the model is in healthy hands. But unfortunately life on the high street for the Boutique has almost lost its very meaning, the same boutiques that today's fashion shops have based themselves upon. The Boutique represented the specialization of elite and fashionable items such as the new emerging local designers clothing, occasion wear & evening dresses and Handcrafted Jewellery, one-off pieces that gives the customer a sense of individuality. Instead the majority of these elite shops have succumbed to the mass market selling of generic catwalk copies and unfortunately a victim of the high street decline due to the economic fall in the market. The high street boutique was once a place that you could measure yourself in a stylish sense of the word of the latest fashion trend. We have the talented designers the ideas, but not the high street portal to showcase the styles in fashion that everyone once benchmarked them too. The Boutique Designers want their own place of distinction back; they don't want to find their fashion pieces of art clustered in a store of mass market production on the high street in well-known high street stores that are selling them in the very same style of a boutique. Women's wear clothing were distinctly unique, proudly hanging off a fancy styled hanger, created, designed couture garment, proudly showing the skills of our local home grown talent. With the boutique fashion marketing was done by word of mouth, the differing fabrics and subtle colours within a design made proud an individual designers apparel clothing something to be proud of! But now designers due to the shortage of retail shops are reduced to the power of the likes of Debenhams to succumb to producing a fashion line of mass market fashion lines! These big stores power their way around and control designers as they just pepper pot designer's work of art all about the shop floor and make out as though they were produced by themselves. Designers are herded like sheep into the shop front arena of the big high street and Retail units! So the next time you browse around the shopping store (mall), notice how many fashion designer names there are, you will be pleasantly surprised! Counterculture Although distinct countercultural undercurrents have existed in many societies from time to time, here the term "counterculture" refers to a more significant, visible phenomenon that reaches critical mass, flowers and persists for a period of time. A countercultural movement expresses the ethos, aspirations, and dreams of a specific population during an era. As with any counter culture revolution, it normally flowers with the youth and eventually blossoms to the social mainstream with such innovative effect. The coming counter culture evolution is something in society that was simmering in the background detected but not given any credence. We are talking about a change that was once voluntary in the concept of thought amongst people but is now becoming more apparent with the media coverage around the world of events and scientific updates warning of the planets decline attributed by the worlds over use of consumerism and manufacturing. We have the atmosphere ozone damage, climate changes, mineral resources shortages, energy resources declining, textile materials diminishing. Alternate Clothes and textiles - Organic textiles Replacing cotton with organic textiles is slowly being marketed by the likes of UK Soil Association. Other Clothing items can be manufactured It's not just cotton - organic leather jackets and sheepskin rugs are available, and you can even knit your own jumpers using organic wool. The Soil Association has formed an organic directory that lists a category of textiles and companies certified by them. Report from the Soil Association July 2012 €The green products that can make you look and feel good too! The beauty and fashion industry is sometimes criticised for being vain and destructive, but shop smartly and you can find clothes and products that neither harm the natural world nor exploit the people that make them. Look for the Soil Association symbol, which certifies that garments meet Global Organic Textile Standards (GOTS), the international gold standard for organic textiles€.