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It's a wrap

Winter's pashmina craze gives way to a new season: A big and bright light-as-air gauze wrap can be the singular sensation that ushers today's trends into your wardrobe. Adorned with tiny mirrored disks surrounded by embroidery, it's got style to spare.

Prints Charming

Jeans are jazzing up their act in Pucci-inspired designs and exotic animal prints. Keep the look calm and cool by pairing them with simply styled solid-colour tops.

Ruffled Edges

If tailored-to-the-max jacket-and-skirt suits haven't been pushed to the back of your closet yet, now's the time: Work-worthy looks sport comfort, colour and pretty little flourishes like a ruffled hem. Look for styles in fluid matte jersey fabrics and mix shades like lemon, fuchsia and coral.

Fringe Elements

A lacy fringe of sparkly bugle beads trimming hems gives capri pants a funky update for spring. Add an embroidered white camp shirt for a casual look that's both bohemian and up-to-the-minute trendy.

In Stitches

Tiny embroidered flowers and black blanket-stitch edging pretty up a plain peasant tee, making it a match for attention-getting zebra-print jeans.

The Bead Goes On

From the skinny straps of a tank top to everything but the soles on sandals, beads are the embellishment of the moment, top to toe. Fabric linings and even technolook electrical tape give classic dark-blue denims hip new style off the cuff.