A fresh and heated season is on the temperate horizon! The warm weather allows greater freedom where outfit selection and accessorising is concerned. Brights, patterns and showing some skin is in! So without further ado – it is time to take a look at the top trends to keep you ahead of the summer fashion pack with true sizzling style and gorgeous glamour.

Flowers

Nothing screams summer louder than florals. While pretty petals have long since been a summery trend, expand your thinking past the usual flowery trousers, skirts and dresses. Think floral footwear as well as bags and belts in bloom. Broaden the blossoms to include stylish floral jewellery to max this trend.

Whites

Without a doubt, white and every shade thereof, is the colour of the season. A great go-to item of clothing for summer this year is a well-fitted pair of white jeans. White denim is ultra-versatile and can be matched with any colour of the spectrum. It is easy to dress from day to night by adding a gorgeous pair of heels and a few choice pieces of jewellery.

Pride London Festival was started to offer an annual opportunity to create cultural, artistic, commemorative and educational events to affirm the choices and lives of homo, bi, transsexual and transgender individuals. The purpose of it was to create support through activities which promote not only awareness, but endorse inclusion and unity of sexual and gender diversity.  

This festival has not only lived up to its objective, but has surpassed it by becoming one of London’s most colourful festivals. Grab your feather boas, flash and flutter your falsies – Pride London Festival 2013 is here and provides an excuse to celebrate in extravagant style.

The celebration is about equality, liberty and the right to wear as many rainbows as realistically possible. With over half a million people expected, you certainly will have an audience to you sartorial selections, so make them count.

The Pride London Parade is the highlight and grand finale of the two week festival seeing a myriad of stunningly colourful shimmering performers prancing their way around the streets of the capital in a colossal convoy. Use the 100m long rainbow pride flag as grand inspiration. If dressing like a polychromatic kaleidoscope is too much for you to handle, bring on the bling with some colourful accessories to add some glittering sparkle to your get-up.

This feisty festival allows for ultimate creativity and imagination to flourish. Use the opportunity not only to celebrate but to take your originality and clothing courage to a new level. Party with Pride.

It might be summertime, but micro-minis, flip flops and jeans are just not cricket – and they certainly aren’t tennis either! Sartorial standards around wonderful Wimbledon seem to have been slipping somewhat resulting in organisers at the All England Club issuing a dress code. That is good news as the opportunity to put on awesome apparel and take dressing up a notch is much welcomed. As if ladies ever need a reason…

The Members Enclosure is a non-negotiable ‘smarty pants’ area with men expected to wear nothing less than a lounge suit or tailored jacket, trousers, shirt, tie and dress shoes. Ladies are required to dress to a similar standard. Luckily for most, the General Admissions area is not quite so stringent when laying down the sartorial law. It does not mean, however, that you should arrive in sweats and trainers looking more like one of the tennis players. Take this high-profile opportunity to glam up a little.

The preppy look is an ideal explication linking tennis and fashion. Combine a shift dress, straight summer skirt or a fitted pair of trousers with dashing pumps or some stylish sandals as the base of the look. A collared shirt adds a touch of yuppie while a tailored blazer or a cardigan thrown over the shoulders finishes off the outfit perfectly. A flash of gilded trinkets is the cherry on the top of this classic look. Put on stunners like the Star Drop or Unique Pendulum earrings or a Divine Tennis Bracelet to add some glimmer to your get up.

Among your dazzling accessories, make sure you carry an umbrella! Although the tennis courts boast a retractable roof overhead, it takes nothing less than 10 minutes to close – meaning you might get caught in a little sprinkle.

Getting a personal invite to the Cannes Festival is like finding a Golden Ticket to the Wonka Factory in your favourite slab of choccie. Most only get to view the glitzy undertakings from the comfort of a couch. So while rambling down the red-carpet in Cannes is reserved for the selected few, the style and glamour of the event is available to a closet near you.

The evening dress code for this particular film festival is absolutely black tie fabulous. Stealing this style would mean busting out a long gown. Floor sweeping numbers need not be boring – opt for a fresh design to add some spice. Oversized ice and jewels are the order of accessories so splash out on pieces like the Grand Accolade or Sunset Boulevard rings or the Grand Premiere Bangle. If a short cocktail dress feels more your style, keep it on-trend with tones of pastels, sparkling colours and striking red – a firm and audacious choice of the stars.

Filch the fashion of the highly anticipated opening film of the festival, The Great Gatsby. The 1920’s mode is both desirable and classic and has been borrowed by plenty of celebs for previous red-carpet events. Add pearls and a striking glittering head piece to round the look off perfectly.

It does well to remember that when piecing an outfit together, vivid and even neon coloured hues such as fuchsia pink, tangerine orange and teal blue are all prevalent participants on the spring/summer 2013 runways. If you opt for a more classic style of dress, add a burst of colour with a bright accent from heels to handbags. Subtle jewellery like the Lace Trimmed Emerald Cut Earrings will add a Parisian chic style to the overall look.