LamanBlu Releases its Spring / Summer 2010 Photo Album

“ LamanBlu releases its Spring / Summer 2010 Collection. This eco-conscious designer clothing line for children is showing an expanded collection for spring, including bamboo knits, washable linen and stretch cotton sateens. ”

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(eFashionWire.Org) – LamanBlu today released its Spring / Summer 2010 Collection. There are three stories for the season, Aruba, Eco-Couture, and Viva la Couleur. LamanBlu continued with its mix and match philosophy, even across stories, enabling the stores to customize their sales floor presentations and enabling the customer to pull together their own unique look for their child. Their signature attention to detail makes each piece in the collection a stand alone “must-have item” for the season.

The Aruba story focuses on tonal color washable linens with ladder lace detailing, natural shell buttons and freshwater pearl beading. An environmentally friendly custom seahorse print rounds out the story. It provides nice crossover options with the Eco-Couture story, which focuses on tropical brights and white in LamanBlu’s signature bamboo/lycra knit. This story also features their signature embroidery on many of the pieces. A yarn dye stripe in bright colors provides accent. Eco-Couture also works closely with the Viva la Couleur story, which features cotton stretch sateens in bright citrus and other tropical colors. A cotton voile couture print rounds out this story as well as contrast color piping and topstitching. Organic cotton t’s with embroidery work across the entire spring/summer collection.

“I’m always inspired by the ocean and wanted to bring finds from the beach for our Aruba story. The seahorse print was actually designed from a photo I took of a seahorse on one adventure.” says Holli Gibson, designer for LamanBlu. Cotton rope ties on sundresses and waistbands continue the beachy feel. Styles include sundresses, suntops and skirts with high “twirl” quality, as well as cuffed clamdiggers and shorts. A reversible bucket hat tops everything.

The Eco-Couture story in bamboo knit shows a ruffled ballerina dress, a short sleeve poet jacket and a ruffled bustle skirt on the dressier side, as well as embroidered tank tops, swing T’s, clamdiggers, ¾ leggings and a full circle skort on the sportier side of the spectrum. Lettuce hemming is a major detail in the story. “We’ve selected a heavier weight bamboo with a touch of lycra which is a true designer quality fabric and is unique in the children’s wear market. It really has a luxurious hand and wears fabulously,” says Gibson.

“Isla Mujeres inspired the citrus brights of the Viva la Couleur story,” says Gibson. “The spirit of Mexico, the bright color combinations, even a bit of the flamenco played into the design.” The backs are as important as the fronts in this story. The short sleeve jacket is beautiful for spring, from its low yoke and flared back to its shell buttons and portrait collar to its Juliette sleeve and front pockets. Also in this story are a voile skort, cuffed clamdigger and fishtail skirt. Tops include a button back tank which is made special by the front topstitching and back detailing as well as a peter pan blouse with piping. On the casual side, organic embroidered t’s top flared shorts with piping and a board short made just for girls. A reversible bucket hat tops it all.

To see the Spring / Summer 2010 Collection photo album, visit www.LamanBlu.com/Gallery.htm