Spring-summer 2006 promises to be diverse and rich in lingerie choice. Designers and manufacturers have created versatile collections to satisfy the most refined tastes.

Spring-summer 2006 promises to be diverse and rich in lingerie choice. Designers and manufacturers have created versatile collections to satisfy the most refined tastes.

1. Passion for lace. This year lingerie collections exude femininity and lavishness as never before. Sheer fabrics, delicate lace, rich embroidery and fascinating ornaments are absolute hits in the coming spring-summer. Lace of all kinds is in vogue. Bold, exotic and Brazilian lace doesn’t look less stylish or feminine than light and dainty one.
2. Prints Charming. Designers offer to put a little spring in your underwear. Animal prints, sprays of flowers and fruits are in trend this year. The new style will impart a flamboyant touch and brighten the mood.
3. Abundance of embellishments. You can’t have too much adornment this year. The coming season lingerie features embellishments of all kinds. Sultry underwear in fine mesh generously embroidered with beads, crystals and fur creates an alluring image and makes the most of the female form.
4. Even more sexy. Revealing fabrics and provocative slits combined with mouthwatering colors create a new sultry style. New ingenious cuts help to avoid VPL or bra straps, so modern sleek underwear adds a finishing touch to a “night-out” outfit.
5. Innerwear as HOT outwear. Nothing beats a corset or a slip dress as street wear this year. A slip is making its drastic comeback and is going to be a favorite of the season, while a corset takes in 2-3 inches in the waist and looks even more enticing.
6. Suggestive colours. Colour remains vital in Spring and Summer 2006. The coming season offer warmer, clearer and brighter tones:
• The ‘new black’. Undeniably sexy black underwear sets are elegant for 2006. New style creates a tempting image of a black lace ‘femme fatale’. Darker tones are still in with chocolate, brown and khaki on top.
• White as a base color. White is still in vogue both on its own and as an offset of bright or pastel tones. A classic contrast of black and white looks screamingly elegant as well.
• Mouthwatering colors. Radiant hues and sugary pastels are on top in spring-summer 2006. Spring dazzles in a rainbow palette of fruity colours and offers bright tones such as clashing turquoise, burnt orange, fuchsia, ochre, amethyst, cobalt and crimson.
  

Fashion experts predict a boom in slip sales in spring-summer 2006.

Originally, a slip is worn by women under a dress to prevent translucency and to protect fine fabrics from perspiration. Besides, it provides warmth and a better look of an outfit. Men may also wear slips under kilts and man skirts. Some lingerie manufacturers offer men slips, which are basically the same garments as women’s with only slightly different body cut.

During the last decades, the garment has seemed to take its course, but this year it is forecast to be back in vogue with some innovations according to the latest lingerie trends.

The slip allegedly began to catch on after the release of the movie King Kong starring Naomi Watts, where Naomi’s heroine Ann Darrow emerges in the refined apparel. Apart from Naomi, it seems that almost all pop divas (Madonna, Catherine Zeta Jones, Kylie Minogue and many others) had appeared in films and on covers of fashion magazines in delicate slips before.  

Fashion pundits mention a tendency to proliferation of slips offerings. Today leading lingerie retail stores such as Victoria’s Secret, Frederick’s, Trashy and others are pumping up their stocks with new slip styles in anticipation of increasing demands. The boost is expected this summer, when the slip reportedly will turn screamingly popular among underwear consumers.

Lingerie manufacturers are designing new slip styles to satisfy the requirements of the trends of the coming season. New ingenious slip designs are generously trimmed with dainty or bold lace and embroidered with beads, crystals and fur. They come in classic black, in soft pastels and even in rich radiant colors, which are favorites this summer.