Pastel perfect

The pastel colour palette has been on every catwalk this is Spring/Summer; you could say it stormed the catwalk but something about the gentle colour tones just doesn’t sound right. The gorgeous colours of mint, rose, lemon and glacier blue will transform our wardrobes into a sweetshop of candy colours or if you prefer with the summer heat an ice-cream parlour of ice-cream sundae tones.

Pastels colours may fall back to the fifties but it has definitely been modernised. Whether it’s the coloured denim in the light tones or girly pieces expect nothing but sweetness.

With it seen on most of the catwalks for this Spring Summer from Louis Vuitton to Dior to Marc Jacobs is has trailed down to the high-street offering a sweet taste of summer. I think the trend of the pastels colour really fits into other trends for this summer: the white, minimalism one as being pastels it is light and the shapes are simplistic.

 Above: Deliciously sweet at the Louis Vuitton show for Spring/ Summer 2012.

The pastels have that bitter sweet feel to them they are not over-girly as they are more subtle and washed-out. Take inspiration from Louis Vuitton and Prada if you feel bold with pastels and layer the differing shades in a pastel form of last’s season bold colour blocking or give it an modern, cool and harder edge with a striking darker contrast such as navy or black.

Above: Phillip Lim.

 Above: DKNY.

Asos have followed the pastel fascination with swinging dresses full of netting and including crop tops in rose shades contrasting the girliness of the colour with the type of top. Topshop, Zara and Next have all got on board with the trend to with many shops updatingt he classic essential for the summer of the denim short in a light pastel colour of lemon, mint and peach.

 Above: An asymmetric, fine pleated skirt in rose by Zara £29.99.

Pastels are perfect for the summer; I adore the mint colour and cannot wait to update my summer style with a few pieces and I’m hoping to get a tan to bring the most out of the colours.

Images courtesy of vogue.com and zara.com.