I have not been on the ball here for a little while and I apologize to you all for not updating. I have another fashion blog which I have been secretly working on and will reveal to you all shortly. Stay tuned for that.

Anyway, here are a few of the latest female fashion trends with some tips on how to add these into your wardrobe.

Use these tips for latest female fashion trends and create new looks with the basics mentioned above. This will surely help to keep your wardrobe updated making you look stylish for any occasion!

For us women who follow fashion trends we need to be on the minute sometimes when it comes to the very latest trends; never knowing whether a trend will stand the test of time or be shelved after an initial flurry of interest. We constantly strive to ensure that we look our very best from season to season! You know it right?

If you have a keen eye and follow the latest female fashions as much as I do then you will notice that old ideas are always revamped over and over, meaning that we can go back to the closet and pull out some real vintage and yet be right there in the latest trend.

Latest Female Fashion Trend Ideas

Jodhpurs: In any shade of beige, or better still black….jodhpurs are always appealing. You know I love Jordan (Katie Price) and as a horse lover she is often seen sporting a pair. Now thats not to say you have to love animals to wear them, but due to the shape of jodhpurs I would recommend that you steer clear if you have wider hips.

Knee Length Skirts: or actually voluminous skirts to be precise. August is a great time to show some leg and experiment with your layers, tiers and gathers. I like nothing better than to put on one of my favorite voluminous knee length skirts and head out for coffee, pretending like I am in Paris or something. This look is hot right now!

Ruffles: I love the way that ruffles create such a nice look…offering that little ‘Je ne sais quoi!’ Just for frills I would wear soft ruffled necks for a nice romantic dinner and with the right shimmer in the fabric you will always get a compliment! Will they ever go out of fashion?

What are your top three things right now?

Is designer clothing actually better than standard unknown brand clothing?

Designer clothes can be better than standard unknown brand clothing. In some ways they are better. I know that if I buy a designer outfit people will stare. Maybe not because of how the clothes look on me, but more about how I look in the clothes. My self-esteem rockets when I am wearing designer clothes and I feel that I can achieve anything because I am suitable dressed. You could call it my body armour, if someone puts me down when I have my pricey clothes on it is much easier to put it down to jealousy rather than true. I feel capable of scaling any mountain (without even changing my Manolo’s).

I can achieve anything and more, because I have my designer clothes on.If my personal self-esteem is a reason that designer clothes are better, it is only a reason to me.Some people may not be so shallow or materialistic (or just get the boost from a fantastic haircut or lipstick). Some people may resent spending so much money on something that only provides a basic function (after all a beautiful evening dress cannot help with the housework – although it can make it that bit more glam). Others can’t afford to buy designer – so for them designer is definitely not better.How can it be when it doesn’t benefit their lives (and never will barring some lottery miracle)?

Removing personal tastes from the debate, and even the materials that clothes are made from, it can be argued that designer is better. Yes it costs many times more but for the cost you get a quality assurance. Designer items are more stringently checked for quality and workmanship. Loose threads are a cause for concern (rather than something to be snipped off). Seams are (and will remain) straight on tops. They will not stretch and twist in the washing machine (probably because they are dry clean only but if you spend money on a top you don’t want the machine to chew it up).On a serious note, designer clothes do not employ the services of sweatshops or deprived children.

Many other clothes designers do employ these services which morally cannot be justified. When teaching a class of ten year olds wearing such clothes I have to ask myself why children in deprived areas of the world should be considered to be less than our children. Why is their childhood not valued in the same way? These designers may pay a wage that is above the national average which although sounds good is not. This employment can cause economic instability in the host country and cause local and national businesses to try to keep up; artificially inflating salaries which will increase costs for local businesses and retailers therefore the cost of living will be inflated at a dangerously fast rate, thus creating more instability.

There are so many issues raised by the manufacture of clothes and the costs involved. I have to argue that designer clothes are better because they have an aspiration element to them.In order to wear designer clothing most people have to work hard to pay for them, they are not treated as disposable commodities by most of their wearers. All my friends treat cheaper clothes in this way, it doesn’t matter if you only wear it once – it was so cheap. Which doesn’t value the effort put in during the manufacturing process?

So to me designer is better, not only because of the ethical and moral arguments, but because they make me feel like a better person both inside and out. Shallow? Moi? Maybe but at least no children were harmed in the making of my clothes.

With the numerous fast food restaurant that are scattered across the country, people are getting bigger, and it is perhaps not difficult to see why when you look at the fat content in some of the meals!

Due to this people are now requiring plus size clothing. Now, when you looked at the state of this sort of market a decade ago then the choice would be non-existent. However, in recent years there has been a certain boom in this area of the market as clothing companies have seen that there are huge profits to be made. At the current moment of time, there are numerous different clothing stores that offer plus size clothing and the choice available is rapidly increasing.

If you were to undertake an internet search for ’size 28′ then you will find many different online clothing stores offering such size clothing. I believe that there has been a certain stigma regarding plus size clothing in recent times, many people tend to believe that the large sized clothing is not fashionable at all. Furthermore, there has been a trend to associate old styled clothing aimed at the older generations with plus size clothing but this is far from the truth. From my experience, larger size clothing is aimed at the younger generations of curvier women.

I would like to use an online clothing store that goes by the name of ‘Curvety’ as a prime example. This is an online clothing store that stocks plus size clothing in sizes 28-36 and is aimed at curvy women. The range that this store stocks is incredible and is most definitely fashionable in every way and the size 28 clothing here looks just as fashionable as all of the clothing that could be found in your normal high street shops, such as Topshop. Not only this but there is also a variety of different priced clothing in this store, you can still choose the value items or alternatively the items for special occasions, such as evening dresses.

I think that the major advantage of having such a boom in this area of the market is great for curvy women everywhere. This is because that there are now many stores that are solely dedicated to providing size 28 clothing and above and therefore are very knowledgeable about the different shapes of women. Therefore, the size 28 clothing will not look like a big table cloth; it will be cut so that it shapes your figure in all of the right places.

I really do hope that women do not get put off by wearing plus size clothing because of the belief that it is not fashionable and you can easily tell that that it has been designed for ‘bigger women’. This is as far from the truth as possible as you cannot tell the different between plus size clothing and your average high street clothing. The quality is excellent, the clothing is based around modern and cutting-edge fashion and it has been manufactured by designers who know how to design clothing to suite the curvier figure. Now if that is not fashionable then I will never know!

If you are willing to look through the numerous stores then you will find some excellently fashionable clothing that looks even more fashionable than your standard high street clothing. You can find any fashionable item from diamond encrusted evening dresses to some gorgeous silky jeans, the choice is incredible! It is great that this market has evolved rapidly recently because curvier women can now wear their size 28 clothing and not only looks fashionable, but sexy too!

Here is Katie Price with her daughter Princess wearing matching Little Miss shirts!

1. Trousers: loose fitting, think boyfriend cut

2. Dark: This fall has a bit of a Gothic edge to it. Chanel’s clothes pull it off beautifully. Have you seen their new fall ads?

3. Florals: MichaelKors

4.  Masculine suits and tailoring

5.  Jewel Tones: colors such as a deep read, purple, blue, copper.

Tommy Hilfiger

6. Clash: They are saying that it is ok to clash your colors. Oddly enough this was also a trend for this past spring/summer and it surprisingly looked good.

7. Sleeveless Jackets: I have one of these, it is grey and from five years ago!

Calvin Klein

8.  Bohemian floral: also another trend from last season just darker colors.

9. Plaid: Think Marc Jacobs and Ralph Lauren

10. Gradients of color: such as below from Costello Tagliapietra

And I don’t think it will ever be okay. How many of you would actually wear this? Yet some designers have brought the look back in their new collections.  The picture is from Karen Walkers A/W08-09 collection.

I just find it strange that some of the other fashion blogs I read are raving about this look? I think maybe they are raving about this look because the fashion industry has a brain washing element to it. If someone bought this outfit and wore it down the street, would they honestly think to themselves “Hey! I look really cool!” I don’t think so…

You know…you don’t have to listen to every catwalk review to be in style!

But unfortunately it is not mine, it’s Mariah Carey’s and she is Architectural Digest’s celebrity home of the week.

You can now buy those Little Miss & Mr T-shirts that are adorable at the gap for your little ones! I was at a mall the other day and happened to peek through the window of Baby Gap and saw the shirts. I was debating buying a few even though I am minus child, but for future use.

I have a Little Miss Lucky T-Shirt in light blue that I bought a few years ago at Urban Outfitters. I have a  bit of a history with Little Miss books. Every time I leave London to come back home Neal always buys me a Little Miss book at the airport (even though it entertains me for about 3 minutes) I am starting to have a little collection.

http://www.gap.com/browse/category.do?cid=12757

At Stella McCartney’s Fall 2004 collection. I think this picture is great, it was taken by Just Loomis for Vogue.

Scares Me!