I have professed my love for Stella McCartney and her gorgeous floral and fruit prints that grace so much of her Spring /  Summer 2011 clothing line. I truly can not get enough of all of these gorgeous prints on all of her clothing. My favorite floral prints are on all of her tops.  The shirts can be worn with so much and the dresses are all so perfect for the spring and summer weather.

The Silk Dress with Floral Print is a beautifully illustrated dress with flowers all over the front and back. I love that the pattern carries onto the sleeves and neck of the dress. The cropped sleeves make this dress perfect for nights that have a bit a breeze yet are not too hot for those Indian Summer nights.

SILK DRESS WITH FLORAL PRINT

The sleeveless Floral Print Top is a great shirt with ruched shoulders.The print on this shirt is bright large tulip flowers at various stages of bloom. The background scenery carries to the back of the shirt.

FLORAL PRINT TOP

Similar to the silk dress, the Silk Top With Floral Print has the same overall pattern but is a shirt, not a dress. The shirt has ruffle trim detail on the sleeves and a cream trim detail at the neckline. Unlike the dress though, the back of the shirt does not have the flower pattern carry over.

SILK TOP WITH FLORAL PRINT

The Stella McCartney Floral Print Tank Top is a basic white tank top with a vivid tulip floral print on the front. The colors are so bright and cheerful and it is easy to wear with so many colors. This shirt would look great with a paid of denim jeans or shorts.

FLORAL PRINT TANK TOP

All of the Stella McCartney Floral Print clothing are breathtaking with the attention to detail. The floral prints look like they were hand painted onto the clothing. You can not go wrong with any of these florals.

Stella McCartney must have been thinking of the outdoors when she designed her Spring 2011 clothing collection.  The reason I say this is that there are so many items, including, tops, jackets, skirts, shorts, and dresses that have a floral motif on them. The floral prints that she uses are not typical to what most other designers use because her flowers  look like garden scenes from a painting, and that is very unusual when it comes to most designers. Most other designers who design floral prints tend to go in a direction of cartoon like, non realistic flowers. I really love that McCartney’s flowers make you think that somewhere in the world there is a garden identical to her patterns.

Ever since I saw it on the runway I have been in love with the Coat with Floral Illustrations. This is the perfect spring time coat to wear. The colors are so vivid and it is easy to match so many other pieces of clothing. You can wear this coat over a number of different color dresses , pants and shirts, or shorts.  This  is a very attractive double-breasted button closure coat. I love the tabs on the sleeves and the oversized vent detail at the back which allows this coat to have so much movement.

COAT WITH FLORAL ILLUSTRATION

I also love the Stella McCartney Jacket with Floral Print. This is very similar in pattern to the coat and the main difference is the cut and length. While the coat ends at the upper thigh, the jacket is waist length making your choice in bottoms more important since it will show more. You can wear this jacket with shorts,a skirt, or a dress. The cut out detail at the bottom center makes this a very unique coat since it allows whatever is underneath to show through even when the jacket is closed. This jacket can be worn over a shirt with the intent to remove the jacket at some point. You can also treat this as suit jacket and use a shirt underneath simply as an accent that pops through at the cut out or peeks through the sleeves or neckline.

JACKET WITH FLORAL PRINT

While you can wear the Stella McCartney Jacket or Coat with whatever you would like, the pictures above are styled with other Stella McCartney floral print bottoms. The Coat is paired with the Stella McCartney Floral Print Shorts and the Jacket is paired with the Floral Print Mini Skirt. While not a necessity to wear the pairings together, I really do like them that way.

FLORAL PRINT SHORTS

FLORAL PRINT MINI SKIRT

There are so many other great Stella McCartney floral print articles of clothing including dresses, shirts, and tank tops. Make sure to check back often to find out more about the other Stella McCartney items. For more information about the above jacket, coat, shorts, and skirt just click on the links or the pictures.

For the Spring 2011 Stella McCartney featured a theme of fruit and now these fruit print frocks have moved from the runway to the stores and hopefully to your closet. I love these dresses and jumpsuits because to me one of the biggest associations I have with this time of year is fresh fruit off the trees or picked from the garden and just seeing these great outfits makes me think of how great fresh picked fruit tastes.  All of the fruit print clothing from Stella McCartney is of citrus though some is more colorful and vivid than others so you have the choice of being subtle or drawing attention to yourself.

My favorite of the fruit print clothes are the ones that are with bright fruit images. There is a halterneck dress that is long and daring. This dress has two waist high slits in the front of the dress that expose your entire leg and thigh when walking or with a strong breeze. If so much leg exposure is not your thing, there is a above the knee dress that has small side slits. Both of these dresses have oranges, grapefruits, lemons, and limes on it.

HALTERNECK DRESS WITH CITRUS FRUIT PRINT

ILLUSTRATED DRESS

If you would rather wear something more delicate in material and do not want the citrus to “scream” there are a few Stella McCartney pieces that fit this criteria. There is a blue silk jumpsuit with slits thigh high on the front of the leg, a key hole cutout at the top front of the jumpsuit and a cutout at the back. There is also a dress in the same blue citrus print that is silk as well, long sleeve and pleated. If you like silk and perhaps want something white there is a great sleeveless silk dress that is long, has slits and pleats at the skirt areas as well as cut outs on the sides and back of the dress.

DETAILED SILK JUMPSUIT

CITRUS FRUIT PRINT SILK DRESS

PLEAT SILK DRESS WITH CITRUS PRINT

I hope that these Stella McCartney dresses give you some inspiration and you find so fruit clothing to wear this spring and summer.