The key to fashion lies in innovation. Perhaps with that thought in mind, Christian Dior somewhere in the 1940s reshaped the good ol’ skirt to create the stylish and leaner version, popular as the pencil skirt. A survivor in the trend tsunami, hardly a season goes without reserving an applause for the pencil skirt.

Looks like fashion is revelling in sheer delight! As sensuality takes a ‘dare to bare’ plunge, this summer marks the return of the sheer style like never before.

Flaunting your curves just became a little passé as the ‘no waist look’ is the haute new trend from the Spring/ Summer 2013 catalogue.

The seriousness of the issue makes it eligible for news headlines and national debates, and while that is awaited, a few creative minds have gone ahead and set the stage for its theatrical presentation.

The House of Louis Vuitton got busy with a game of chess for its Spring 2013 canvas. Only, the usual black and white palette expanded to yellow and browns. While the French fashion house kept it simple and straight, designer Vivienne Tam showed her skills with abstract graphic prints in the form of Chinese cosmology.

At the moment fashion is on a high of extreme contrasts and sincerely, no one’s complaining. In fact Oscar de la Renta, Gucci and Marc Jacob have gone on an exploration of the classic black and white contrast for their Spring 2013 creative quest.

Call it the biggest spring surprise on the fashion horizon. Florals have taken a backseat, instead stripes, squares, geometric patterns are stealing the show this spring season.

As Prada clad models strutted the runway at the Milan Fashion Week Spring Summer 2013, the tell tale signs clearly indicated a trendy wind blowing from the land of the rising sun.

While America’s hunt for it’s “most wanted man’ intensified exactly on September 11, 2001, almost six years ago, a certain filmmaker conceived the idea of giving a celluloid interpretation to the high

Say goodbye to winter blues and get ready for a colourful ride this spring. The big ticket to fashion hall of seasonal fame has been won by iridescent fabrics (it shows luminous colours that change when seen from different angles).