Pastel trend on the catwalk, on the street and on the most stylish celebrities.

Pastels love white as this Chanel devotee chicly proves.

All the pastels for the LOUIS VUITTON show.

Another fan of the head-to-toe look, this show-goer teamed her woolly lemon coat with a coordinating dress and heels.

As with so many of the most enduring trends, this one was born on Miuccia Prada’s catwalk which was a sea of pretty pastels.

Kate Bosworth works the trend in a lemon lace Erdem dress.

Louis Vuitton as worn by Emma Watson

A pastel palette at the Christopher Kane spring/summer 2012 show.

Dakota Fanning lit up the Marc Jacobs

Anna Dello Russo teamed her pale blue lace Dolce & Gabbana dress with a furry lavender coat.

Don’t be afraid to go head-to-toe like this stylish fashion week attendee.

Teen actress Elle Fanning went for vintage pastel appeal in an embellished short pink shift dress.

Denim loves pastels as this model’s marabou feather jacket demonstrates.

A peppermint and pink pairing

At the  Phillip Lim show during New York Fashion Week, Lim blocked his pastels.

Alexa Chung – chose a CHANEL pastel blue mini-dress

Another hit for Prada, this time on French actress Lea Seydoux.

This stylish lady teamed her lemon lace top with a pastel pink hairband.

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PATTERN BLOCKING… Mary Katrantzou presented this new fun trend for SS//2012 [left]… and it has been adapted also for FW2012//13 by House of Holland during the last LFW  [right].

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Forget ditsy prints and dainty flowers, the new florals are bolder, brighter and bigger than ever.

Mary Katrantzou layered her digital prints resulting in a bright rainbow of colourful flowers.

Dries Van Noten ‘s print-blocking blouses were teamed with big floral pencil skirts for a feminine flourish.

Erdem ‘s pale but powerful blooms are a one-stop shop to English country garden chic.

Mixing prints is a big trend for spring/summer 2012. Topped with a simple black coat, this colourful floral clash is the last word in chic.

Stella McCartney Hawaiian-print separates have also been a huge style success, so snap one up quickly for a footstep into the trend.

Candy-coloured daisy prints from Marni ‘s spring/summer 2012 collection.

The Mulleavy sisters chose Van Gogh’s sunflowers to inspire their super-sized blooms at Rodarte .

This Parisian show-goer knows her complimentary colour wheel and adds a bright red gingham Miu Miu shoe to her head-to-toe greens.

Floor-length bloom were a hit at Ashish during London Fashion Week.

Electric yellow blooms add a powerful punch to this lady’s biker jacket.

Tuck in your shirt and keep everything looking slick when you’re wearing more than one floral: you you don’t look like a big old pile of prints.

Celine ‘s Resort 2012 floral print has been a huge hit with the fashion pack, from the skirt suit to the tote to the trousers, as seen here.

Christopher Kane ‘s cutout flowers were one of the style hits of London Fashion Week.

But you definitely don’t have to keep it to one item, head to toe florals are a huge look for the season as modelled here at DKNY .

Think it looks a bit much? Have a look at this chic show-goer at London Fashion Week and think again.

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The show was mind-blowing… the clothes, the flowers, the music, the colours, the knowledge that it was going to be Raf’s last show”

Raf Simons decided to compliment his 36-look collection with six flower arrangements, highlighting the palette of the collection and encased in plexiglass cubes created by Antwerp-based florist Mark Colle. The flowers – now wilting, possessing a different kind of beauty – have since been displayed at the Jil Sander showroom in Milan.

Having worked as a florist since the age of 15, Colle now owns a small shop called Baltimore, named after his favourite city. For this fashion floral exclusive, AnOther spoke exclusively with Colle about how the collaboration came about, the ideas behind the arrangements and his thoughts about being a part of Raf’s memorable show…

How did the collaboration between yourself and Raf Simons come about?
I’ve known Raf for a long time, he often comes into the shop. He phoned about three weeks before the show and asked me if I would be interested in creating flower arrangements for the show.

What were the key ideas behind the arrangements?
The most important thing was that they were all different and reflect the collection; highlighting the romance, femininity and fragility of the designs. He also wanted them to be slightly abstract so that’s why we used the plexiglass cubes; it was the first time I’d used these. I only saw a few pieces from the collection but I saw all of the fabrics and colours that were going to be used.

Can you describe the six arrangements – did you have a favourite?
There was one that was very colourful, very bright; one that was very pale; another which had almost entirely red, unusual species of orchids; another that looked like morning dew, the kind one would see walking through a jungle. I didn’t really have a favourite. When we first started making them, there were ones that I preferred but when I saw them all together they worked perfectly as a group.

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Louis Vuitton is about luggage. That much is made clear in the Louis Vuitton exhibition about to open at Les Arts Décoratifs in Paris. But Louis Vuitton today is also about Marc Jacobs – the might of Marc meeting Louis’ largess. It’s a marriage made in heaven. And it certainly gives birth to some fantastic fashion moments.

Today was undoubtedly one of them. As we huddled on a recreation of a train platform the clock struck ten. Then, in uncharacteristic fashion for this most punctual of fashion establishments, we waited a full three minutes before Vuitton’s steam engine chugged in. Even Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton can’t make European trains run on time.

What that train delivered was a true barrage of Vuitton baggage – and a mountain of fashion too. The models disembarked clad as elongated travellers from the past. The year was somewhere between 1896 and 1914 – the former being the year Georges Vuitton picked up on the European craze for Japonisme and invented the LV monogram, the latter the outbreak of the Great War. The women here were dressed for un Grand Voyage, clad in Jacobs’ re-imagination of Paul Poiret and Jacques Doucet’s greatest pre-war couture hits. Elongated like Erte sketches, slender trousers peeking from underneath A-line skirts and opera coats with oversized lapels, crusted with embroidery and topped with enormous cloche hats, these willowy femmes du monde appeared seven feet tall next to porters toting their individual mountains of Vuitton luggage. That’s was exactly the point, of course. What was also curious was how divided a picture it made: slice out those attenuated fashion plate outfits, and the porters could easily be carrying their logo-heavy Vuitton load in or out of the Ritz (before its closure this summer, that is). For some, that was an uncomfortable show of servitude. But for the well-heeled clients of Louis Vuitton – both the original nineteenth-century types sand their modern counterparts – its all par for the luxury course.

In the past, Jacobs often seemed to chafe against the brand’s focus on monogrammed bags (which was promoted in its shops at the expense of his clothes). But with a prestigious exhibition of Vuitton’s heritage just opened in Paris, and increasingly secure in his role at the house, Jacobs is increasingly embracing the financial locomotive of this mega-brand. While most other designers have kept bags off their catwalks this season, Jacobs showed scores of different styles, including a new, suitcase-inspired one called La Valise. “When all’s said and done Louis Vuitton was a luggage man,” he said. “He adored packing women’s clothes”.

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