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...season in which femininity, floral prints and a softer silhouette rule the runways, TIME salutes the female voice in fashion. --By Kate Betts
...Back in Bloom Floral prints are back, and so is Gisele Bundchen...
...fragrance and children's lines and sexy ad campaigns featuring chic Brits Kate Moss and Stella Tennant. The iconic trench coat, first designed in 1901 by Thomas Burberry as an army officer's raincoat, today comes in a panoply of styles, colors and prints, including this season's floral...
...inspiration she dove into the company's archives. "I took all the elements that you would normally find on a denim jacket or a pair of corduroys--the buttons, the zipper, the grommets--and used them to make a bag." The spring line of bags, in bright pastels and floral prints, is based on belted trench coats, with adjustable straps. She also plans a line of enameled flower pins that can be sprinkled on the bags "like fridge magnets. I think it's important to be able to personalize things," she says, gesturing toward the fabric flowers and Hello Kittys...
Seventy percent of the flowers sold in floral shops and supermarkets throughout the United States and the developed world are produced on plantations in Colombia, Ecuador and Kenya. The companies that own these plantations or outsource work to them often deprive workers of rights and proper wages. According to the Center for Research and Advisory Health, a non-profit social medicine organization that has worked in Latin America since 1979, the average floral worker in Colombia makes 58 cents per hour—far below the national poverty line. Job security is also often nonexistent: workers are hired...