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Autumn/Winter 2011/12

Sintillate's guide for the colder months of 2011 and 2012 will help to keep your wardrobe sorted, and your looks on the cutting edge.

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COLOUR

Red is the colour for winter 2012. Red coats, dresses, pants, skirts, accessories and shoes, red will be present in all types of items this season, also vivid primary colours are good to break up black and brighten warm autumnal shades, however monochrome will still make just as much of an impact.

PRINTS/PATTERNS

Bird cages, majestic peacocks, flowers, feathers, and digital skylines, prints will be digital and photographic. You will be combining diverse prints, graphics, dots, stripes and cubes. The idea is to impact. You just have to use your imagination, playing with different colours and patterns.

BELL BOTTOMS

With skinny pants and jeans now so common that they no longer make a statement it was inevitable that a different style would emerge as a trend. It didn't necessarily have to be this one, but with the come back of all things 1970s it was inevitable that fashion forward people would turn to bell bottoms and flared pants as a style of choice

DRESSES

This season we will be glaming it up with evening dresses rather mini-dresses. Hyper sexy designs that are attached to the body and feel great.

TEXTURES

Texture is all or nothing this season. Sumptuous silks, soft fur, lace and leather team together for a luxury look, tweeds and knits offer a smattering of the countryside, sequins and plastic add a fun edge, throw it all together for touch-me texture next season. Winter Fashion 2012 will be luxury. Fur, leather and velvet. Very elegant. This is a very luxurious look, using beautiful sumptuous and plush fabrics in the most stunning array of rich multi-tonal colours.

COATS

The coats will be detailed with epaulettes, military buttons, kimono sleeves, half-belts across the lower spine, gathered skirts, dropped waists and leather strap fastenings across the bust and almost all came with matching handbags and cute, fluffy 'flat caps'.

Wide Leg Pants

As it is with flares, so it is for the overall cut of women's pants : there's a lean away from the dominance of the slim cut. And that means not just a flared hem but that wide leg pants and jeans emerge as fashionable.

TOP TIPS

Oversized, big-collared jackets with loose, slightly-cropped trousers. Dropped-waist maxi-dresses with short sleeves and slouchy side-seam pockets. Rough and rugged hand-knits, featured fringe details, and topped with fur vests, dyed red. Roomy, 'teddy-bear' coats, and face-framing collars.

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