Lust label

After rifling through the archives of various style blogs and LFW's news letters, I settled on what is to become, no doubt, my label lust of the spring 10 season.

Last season it was undoubtedly Balmain with its defining, pointed shoulders, military style jackets and rockstar type ripped jeans. A looks so effortlessly cool and of the moment, and relatively easy to mimic with high street brands cheaply.

But now I feel I must move on to something new. And new is really the defining point of this label. Peter Pilotto is relatively new to the fashion stage, having only arrived three seasons ago. But by no means have the Austrian born designer and his libyan partner, Christopher De Vos, struggled to make a name for themselves amongst fashion followers. Best known for their elegant, flattering patterned tunic style dresses, they really have excelled themselves for s/s10 revealing a terrific display of lightweight, delicate and yet defining dresses that are perfect for all occasions.

I have fallen in love with the perfect mix of greys, black, deep navies and dappled silvers and golds that have somehow been transformed in to paintings with splashes of crimsons, turquoises and canary yellow. The styles are modern too, revealing just the right amount of skin and showing the female form off in exactly the right sort of shapes.

One of my favourites is a dappled silver shift dress with crimson, turquoise and yellow seeming to stain parts of the material. The elegant plume of the material gathered over one shoulder makes the dress look like an exotic flower bursting through the formal grey tones. I would also, if I had the money, opt for the speckled, two tone trousers that lift the formality out of their generic peg leg shape, and invest in a pair of those effortlessly chic and rather 80s looking high waisted shorts.

The swathing of the material in just such a way is a sexy, modern take on formal chic but it will remain to be seen if this is a style that can be carried off by the humble high street fashionista. Topshop and Asos, we await your samples.