The new trends for spring/summer 2006 are totally dominated by a wild desire for exuberance, expressed by a sun drenched explosion of colors. All designers are using liquid turquoise, sunny orange and orientalist color combinations to exploit color in its rich range and create luminous themes.

The colors are used in monochrome or in gradation to different nuances. This dilution creates an optical illusion of vivacity, of fluid continuity and becomes even a little flashy with the addition of gold.

As for men, the color range includes lagoon greens, sunny orange, cocktail grenadine red and also white to add a dash of luminous freshness for the bases.

The preferred fabrics are the extra-fluid, ultra-lightweight ones, as chiffon, voile, pongee and also cotton veils, cotton poplin, linen. Lightened technical materials make a comeback to match the color trends. There are present very smooth satins, lacquered fabrics but also fine, crackly fabrics such as taffeta.

Women must be ready to wear surf Capri pants and skirts, long "bohemian" fluid printed skirts held in place by drawstrings, long fluid dresses and transparent printed or embroidered tunics over swimsuits.

Menswear is highly influenced by beach sports with a hippie ethnic touch. Colored stripes for tops, cropped trousers, surf shorts with screen printed side, Indonesian sarong style for an ethnic relaxed look; arabesque screen print on tee-shirts, roomy printed skirts, ethnic tunic-shirt - these are the trends set for men clothing.