Fashion Trends

BONDS babywear designer Rebecca Melic travels the world throughout the year looking at key baby trends in Asia, North America, South America and Europe. In this section Rebecca, shares with us her hot trend predictions for summer 2008, which are in-store now.

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Themes

  • print blocking
  • super layering
  • bold scratchy cookie cutter shapes teamed with fun stripes

Prints

  • micro stripe
  • multi stripe
  • block stripe
  • colour blocking
  • play on scale

Colours

  • colour pallette for girls shows a return to soft pinks and strong purples
  • pink shades take on a natural, powdery complexion tone on tone, or back with jewelled purples and emeralds
  • boys showing with a superhero palette and nautical elements
  • tomato reds and nautical blues from the palest misty tones through to deep indigo
  • bold colour direction with stripes and prints