CHILD'S PLAY

Raid the dressing up box with our next SS12 trend CHILD'S PLAY - a sugar coated mish-mash of texture and colour, where teen dream animal motifs and saccharine shades are subverted with freakish silhouettes and hemlines that would make your parents wince. With this look anything goes, as long as its carried off with tongue firmly in cheek, so reference 90s style icons like Gimme Gimme Gimme's Linda La Hughes (!), The Spice Girls and bindi-era Gwen Stefani in riotous printed blouses and skirts, voluminous petticoats, babydolls, platform shoes and bikini tops.