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. 

St. Valentine’s Day is over, but underwear collections specially designed for the occasion are still available at lingerie stores.

Milavitsa presented ladies with a new collection of pink underwear, which includes a smooth push up bra and lace bustier with panties.

As pink is a popular color choice of lingerie consumers (it goes third after classic white and black), it’s a favorite with apparel designers. There hardly is such an underwear manufacturer that doesn’t offer any pink garments. Indeed, “You can never have too much pink”, as the motto of Victoria’s Secret PINK® goes.

Pink collections of well-known lingerie brands include everything from matching sets and sleepwear to loungewear and bedding. Apart from traditional garments, some lingerie stores also offer heart and graphic pillows, flip flops, knee socks and even some dog sweatshirts and dog collars to pink-lovers.

So why is pink so popular? Here go some curious facts about the color:

• Pink is a color made by mixing red and white. The word for the pink color hasn’t been invented till the 17th century, when it appeared to describe the light red flowers of pinks, flowering plants in the Dianthus.
• Pink traditionally is a color of universal love, friendship, affection, harmony and inner peace. It combines both elements of fire and air.
• Baby pink represents innocence and childlikeness. In pop culture delicate pink has become associated with sexuality and womanhood. So, the Legal Blonde Resse Witherspoon (Elle Woods from Legally Blonde) and sex expert Sarah Jessica Parker (Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City) favor this color.
• Pink is also associated with homosexuals and bisexuals. This connotation comes from a pink triangle, which now is a known symbol of the gay community.
• Besides, the word pink is sometimes used to describe people with slightly left-wing political views.