Marks and Spencer launches its Spring Summer Collection'2011
New Delhi, 24th February, 2011 Marks & Spencer has unveiled its new Spring/Summer collection which highlights the new styles for the season ahead. Catering to the global Indian, the collection includes womenswear, menswear, lingerie using fabrics that are synonymous with style and comfort.
Womenswear
"The Marks & Spencer Spring/Summer 2011 Womenswear collection sees an emphasis on a softer, feminine shape with a sophisticated play on proportion and elegance that embraces the 70’s and 80’s working alongside Navajo fringing, leather and a fluid minimal silhouette. Colour plays a huge role with the return of vibrant bright hues competing with the freshness of white tones. Floral prints of all scales dominate and sit alongside sumptuous fabrics from lace, silk, butter soft suede and leather to edgier snakeskin effect embellishment." Kate Bostock, Executive Director of clothing, Home & Beauty
Seventies is a key trend in the womenswear collection for both day and evening wear spanning the romantic and floral, to the sleek and sexy. For Seventies day choose from maxi dresses in ditsy florals or larger garden prints and for Seventies evening wear choose from vibrant jewel colour palettes, fluid jumpsuits with obi belts, and colour blocking.
Navajo Chic offers luxurious grown-up fabrics from butter soft suede to laser cut leather in a natural palette of pale pink, ochre and buttermilk.
Limited Collection Dress,Rs 3495
The Fluid look offers a minimal cut with a predominant colour palette of white with accents of black and grey. With references to Japanese styling, the silhouettes are fluid with the emphasis on drape.
Coney Island embraces the nostalgic feel of 50’s and 60’s Americana. Playful stripes sit alongside feminine, flirty prom and shift dresses.
Carnival evokes the vibrance of summer. Maxi dresses and cut away swimwears in colourful, exotic prints and floral embellishment dominate the look.
Lingerie
The Lingerie collection has several key trends including Garden Party, Modern Romance and Bombshell.
Garden Party is a fresh range with beautiful lace detailing and broderie trims on feminine sets that are ideal under any outfit, to stripes in fresh zesty shades or exotic blooms with a retro beachside appeal.
Modern Romance reinvents sophisticated silks and fragile cut-out lace inserts in frosty pale and water-pearl with hints of aqua and cream.
Bra Rs 1395 Pack of two
Bombshell will emphasize your curves with the glamorous retro-inspired shapewear. Its contoured, curved and paneled elements in iconic black lace ensure you stay comfortably in shape.
Striped Bra Set (Bra Rs.1595, Knicker Rs. 595)
Menswear
"This season, menswear sees a move towards optimistic, confident dressing with a nod to classic retro and nautical influences. Colours feel fresh and new with a palette of mint green, soft blue, white and pink tones, sitting alongside classic monochrome and camel. Silhouettes are sharp and slim-fitting and even casual looks are smart and considered with clean polos, tailored cotton flat-front trousers and smart Harrington jackets." Tony O'Connor, Head of Design, Menswear
Denim is a key wardrobe staple this season and features heavily across the collection with a variety of precision fit jeans, casual Bermuda shorts, slim fit shirts and a range of denim accessories. Whether dark indigo, washed and worn, or simply classic blue, denim stands the test of time as the ultimate, easy-to-wear wardrobe staple.
With an injection of confident colour and a range of new modern cuts, Formalwear moves into this season with an optimistic and stylish new range of suits, jackets, trousers, shirts and ties with coordinated footwear and accessories. Grey, midnight blue and classic black suiting in sleek, sharp cuts, immaculately tailored shirts and stylish, bold-stripe ties are key formalwear basics this season. For a more deconstructed look with a nod to high summer, lightweight linen jackets and trousers in slim fitting cuts are key, styled with casual T-shirts or crisp polos for a contemporary formal look.
Autograph Formal Shirt Rs 2195
Footwear & Accessories
Footwear and accessories continue to grow this season with trend-led statement pieces that finish chic new season looks. For women, this season’s key pieces include summery lightweight scarves and wedge flip-flops – just perfect for summer. Team with stylish holiday hats, chic head-dresses and must-have kitten heel footwear to complete the look
Chain Drape Collar Wedge Flip-Flopsls Check Weave Hat
Rs 1295 Rs 995 Rs 1495
For men, safari style backpacks, sleek white watches and distressed tan belts make for effortlessly stylish finishing touches. For bolder style statements, block-coloured boat shoes, elegantly structured loafers and textured leather weekend bags are must-haves for pared-down urban style.
The new Spring Collection is available at all Marks and Spencer outlets in Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Amritsar.
Notes to Editors
Marks & Spencer Reliance India Pvt. Ltd. is the joint venture formed in April 2008 between Marks & Spencer and Reliance Retail. Marks & Spencer Reliance India operates 19 stores in India.
Marks & Spencer (M&S) is one of the UK’s leading retailers, offering high quality, great value clothing, as well as home products and outstanding quality food. M&S employs over 75,000 people and has 696 UK stores and 358 international stores in 42 territories.
Reliance Retail Limited (RRL), a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited opened its first retail store in November 2006 and today operates more than 1,000 stores in over 86 cities, spanning 14 states with over 4.2 million sq ft of trading space.
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is India's largest private sector company on all major financial parameters with a turnover of Rs. 2,00,400 crore (US$ 44.6 billion), cash profit of Rs. 27,933 crore (US$ 6.2 billion), net profit of Rs. 16,236 crore (US$ 3.6 billion) and net worth of Rs. 1,37,171 crore (US$ 30.6 billion) as of March 31, 2010.
