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Over 500 brands, a total of 10,200 visitors and over 8,750 buyers at the last winter edition: these figures confirm Pitti Bimbo’s role as the only trade fair in the world that presents a complete overview of children’s fashions combining

. Another recurring theme are ice-cream and sorbet colours, particularly on the girls’ range. Highlights include a cute striped summer dress with balloon-style pockets and frills layered over a sorbet green T-shirt.Replay also adapted the latest womenswear

.T-shirts sport slogans stating Life Begins Now and Change Your Look, perhaps as a nod to Katharine Hamnett – although Miss Hamnett would never decorate her slogans in diamanté crystals.Last summer’s trend for ice-cream colours also crept in on a multitude

shades of ice-creams pastels, punctuating loose fitting blouses and prairie-style dresses. The introduction of a shocking pink leopard print fashioned on tunics and day bags is quirky and fun. The stand-out look is a beautiful jersey t-shirt covered

The White Company presented one of the more refreshing Christmas Press shows. Gone were the glitzy sequined party dresses and over-the-top decorations in favour of a modern yet classical Christmas. Clothes had a natural palette of ice white, oatmeal

by waiters holding trayfuls of lemon ices, the perfect cooling refreshments in the still sweltering heat.The Fendi catwalk show is always a highlight and this season's collection didn't disappoint. Shades of new demin were in evidence with soft faded Chambray

Marks & Spencer held their winter wonderland in an impressively grand building in Temple, the former home of Viscount Astor in 1895. Set in beautiful oak-panelled rooms with stained glass windows and a grand staircase, guests could sample the finest

Welcome to a very hot and sunny Florence for the numero 73 edition of Pitti Bimbo, which opened this morning with the SS12 Simonetta catwalk presentation. The two prominent themes for this morning's show were the ballet and prints.Ballet introduced

Maid Millie wakes me up at the ungodly hour of 3.30am – the only sweetener being that she arrived with breakfast: iced chocolate milk and an exotic fruit salad. Today we are off to lovely Kleine Fabriek, the international children's fair