Bloomingdale's Spring Fashion 2008 "In Full Bloom"

The vibrant brights and bold prints that dominated the runways for Spring 2008 signaled a major shift in direction in fashion. Eye-popping colors, striking florals and painterly patterns make fashion look fresh and new. The contagious freshness of fashion for Spring 2008 creates a season that is "In Full Bloom."

Bold Florals are impossible to ignore this season. Vibrant and blossoming, these prints breathe life into any garment. Flowers of all shapes, colors and sizes decorate this season's Spring 2008 collection and will become the superb example from which future designers will look to for inspiration.

Painterly Prints jump out and scream "fabulous." Spring 2008's collection of painterly prints is not one to be overlooked, with its utilization of an array of different colors, styles and fabrics.
From long, flowing gowns to short mod dresses, painterly prints make a name for themselves this spring. Painterly prints are the exotic and daring pick this season.

Break Out Brights intensify and enhance the spring collections. Beautifully bold both in nature and in fashion, these break out brights illuminate throughout, setting one of the spring?s most favorable trends. Worn as a dress, jacket, skirt-suit or tunic, hues of sunflower yellow, violet purple, tiger lily orange, peony pink and poppy reds construct a garden of magnificence from which the seeds of spring's trends blossom and grow.

Full Short Skirts are the thing to see this season. As the canvas designers use to convey for the season's brightest colors and boldest prints, full short skirts are the breakout trend of the spring collections. This trend is one to elongate any pair of legs and to breakup the monotony of the previously pigeonholed garment shape.

Full Long Skirts are one of Bloomingdale's freshest picks for Spring. As diverse as mother nature herself, full long skirts can be dressed up or down for any occasion while maintaining a devastating fierceness that all designers require of their pieces. Printed as a bold solid, striped, floral, painterly or safari, the season's selection of full long skirts ranges far and wide.

Maxi Dresses, day to night, belted or full and flowing, are Spring's most unstoppable force. A plethora of colors and prints decorate the designs of all your favorite designers. Perfect for spring, maxi dresses are soft to the touch and unforgettably piercing to the eye.

Mini Dresses or Tunics with jeans, shorts or on their own are perfect for both work and play.
Seeking out inspiration from both the subtle yet fierce and vibrant yet simple aspects of spring?s blossoming nature, designers touch on the delicate details of spring in order to construct the mini dress or tunic trend.

The Return of the Blazer is here and back with a vengeance. Worn with shorts, skirts or over dresses, the blazer is Spring's biggest return hit story. Expanding on the already beloved trend, designers elongate and shrink the garment to demonstrate their own personal interpretation. Spring's assortment of blazers provides everyone with a choice that will suit one's personal style.

Shorts ensure the coming of the spring and summer seasons as they force our legs to come out of winter hiding and this season?s newest rolled or in color styles have never given us a better reason to do so.

Cardigans: Bold & Bright, Striped or Printed are no longer to be called "grandpa sweaters." These designs are fresh, young and blossoming into one of fashion?s most comfortable and accessible trends. Spring?s cardigans range from long to short in size and solid to stripped in print.

Out of Africa, from Safari Details to Tribal Prints Safari details on jackets, shorts and dresses add qualities of adventure and the wild to the Spring 2008 collections. The fresh and sleek designs of the safari jackets are must-haves. This season try a safari inspired dresses or tunic.

Into the Boudoir Translucent, diaphanous fabrics, voluminous soft shapes, ethereal chemises and camisoles are the unforgettable unmentionables of spring. As soft and luscious as a bed of roses, lingerie influenced collections of the season bloom before your yes.

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