French Connection Summer Collection

French Connection Spring Summer ’10 is now live and raring to be picked off the shelves, full of colour, shine and all things fine as a summer collection should truly be. The collection is splash of colour like newly opened box of crayons full of bright coloured hues. The mix of casual to formal pieces is even, ensuring that you’ve always got a choice whether casual or occasion wear and an individual style that works for you.

Wimbledon Knits Top £45	Romany Rose Skirt £60

There’s no hiding under a bushel for this years collection as FCUK match Bold electric blue blazers with neon Hawaiian floral dresses with exposed zips. The double–breast blazer dress for example is paired with bold gold buttons, catches on to a popular trend this summer of a 50′s take on an 80′s classic. Another major theme will Bold, colourful retro prints and fluorescents.

Wimbledon Tube Dress £75	Lilly Lace Dress £95

Sharp styled trousers for occassions are a big must this season and takes some of the pressure off wearing dresses for a change, trousers come embellished with gold zip detailing around the the waist and ankle, matched with an oversized shirt or more daring perhaps on a party night with bustier tops. And watch out for Pleated harem trousers which are going to be massive, they feature throughout the French Connection range in beige and blacks made from soft to touch fabrics and go great with contrasting striped or draped vests.

Belle Peg Trouser £75	Promenade Tee £30

We hope you enjoy this summers French Connection summer Collection, its stylish, contemporary and completely fantastic, we hope to have ignited a spark of inspiration and to tempt you further play the current French Connection TV advert below.

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Latest Summer Fashion, Nautical Inspired Clothing

Latest Summer Fashion Trend

One of the biggest summer fashion trends in the shop windows this season will be Nautical inspired women’s clothing.

The Spring Summer catwalk shows of all the top designers have all featured the red, blue and white hoops and stripes, the anchors, ships wheels and the bows, all the hall marks of the nautically inspired garments that are filling the shops, alluring, tempting, inspiring us all to get the look.

This summer’s trend is not only restricted to women’s dresses, trousers and tops, but to almost every thing else imaginable such as bracelets, necklaces, shoes, bags and scarves.

Women’s Clothing – Riviera Chic

For both men’s and women’s clothing, The nautical look is epitomised by the jet-set lifestyle of the yacht owning elite often glimpsed in exclusive holiday resorts such as the Meds millionaires haunt of Marbella, or the playboys play ground, St Tropez, and as such the look has been labelled as “Riviera Chic”.

With that in mind, House of Fraser have compiled a snazzy compendium of nautically fashionable peices on sale currently.

If you feel at all inspired to follow the jet set and adopt the nautical vibe this summer, you can start by popping over to the House of Fraser site now to see their Naucically inspired collection, we’re sure you’ll enjoy, just click on the button underneath:

Radley to give £40 Towards Your Next Handbag

Now it’s difficult to know quite how to deal with this, because it’s not only great news for those of you who are in the market for a Radley bag, but also you can feel good about yourself in supporting one of the countries leading charities, and if that’s not enough you’re also recycling. MMMhhhhhh, You just feel good reading it!

So Radley your friendly purveyor of handbags have teamed up with the British heart foundation to give you this unique offer.

To Take advantage of it all you need to do is follow these simple instructions:

Hunt out one of your old handbags, you know that one you don’t really use any more, yeah, the one with that stick of that experimental coloured, dried up lippy you never used and the congealed masscara lurking at the bottom

Go down to your nearest Radley shop, fall in love with one the Radley handbags in said shop, sniff the leather, smell the newness, imagine how good you’ll look with it in your possession, and the jealous glances you’ll get from those who’ll covet the hand-finished finely crafted handbag.

Go to the cash desk, hand in your old bag, and get £40 knocked off you new Radley Handbag as long as the valueis greater than £120. leave shop glowing in the knowledge that you’ve saved money, purchased a beautiful item and that you’ve also given to a worthwhile cause.

How good does that feel!

The promotion lasts between 12th March to 30th April 2009.

Radley wants to give the British Heart Foundation as much money as possible, so please tell your family and friends about this great and worthwhile promotion.

Once you bought your bag, please tell us about here at Women’s dresses, and we’ll feature it.

Wallis top 5 Spring Summer Dresses

Dots and Spots were huge on the Spring Summer fashion shows. This contemporary print is the perfect update for the classic shift silhouette. Wear with a belted cardigan and a cocktail ring.

Multispot Satin Shift Dress

Dorothy Perkins Black and White Shift Dress

Take a look at this cool dress from Dorothy Perkins from their Spring Summer 2009 collection.

It is ideal for work or an occasional dress, it is well cut and understated but super trendy.

The dress has a zipped back, short sleeves and is belted from the sames material as the dress.

As it is fitted it is naturally flattering to the figure, and goes so well with a pair of black heels, or pumps which ever takes you mood.

The material is 50% Polyester, 47% Viscose and 3% Elastane, and is machine washable, so easy to live with.

A practical workwear dress which is suited to a cardigan which can be worn if there’s a chill, but if the office is stuffy feel liberated and bare those arms.

take a peak at Dorothy Perkins here