A soft focus

It's fresh, it's good, it's sensual, it's blooming. Australian wool specialist Woolmark gives Ragtrader the lowdown on four main colour and fibre trends for spring/summer 2010.

Fresh
An avant-garde artistic spirit, spontaneous yet clever and witty. Striking contemporary designs reproducing hand-made drawings. Highly performing multiple blends for close and full structures matching dense and transparent. A confident use of bright tints in colour blocks within matches or on white backgrounds. Playing with chromatic contrasts and tailored basic pieces to create pert stylish looks.

Sensual
Using formal style to express our charisma and fascinate other people. Methodical and fierce rhythms, both visual and material. Elaborate vibrant motifs in dramatic contrasts between dark and light. All degrees of complex three-dimensional structures to obtain depth and movement. Light games derived from the fibre's own nature. Latin formality as a timeless emblem of intensity and seductiveness.

Good
A new and intellectualised sense of natural with a sweeter and kinder minimalism. Refinement and apparent simplicity in combinations of small regular patterns. Natural fibres with their typical aspects in fine weaves. High-tech eco-friendliness. Tranquil but interesting coordinations of warm and cold organic and pastel tones. Mostly menswear weaves for soft tailored garments in relaxed layered looks.

Bloom
Opulent all over ornamentation as a symbol of a deep and creative personality. Self-assured eccentric juxtapositions of rich patterns and colours. Collages of flamboyant floral designs and geometric patterns, in which lush accents gently blend in with basic neutrals. Luxury fibres in lightweight simple structures to enhance decoration. Eclectic mixes of high-tech city wear and exquisite one-off pieces.