Stylish must-haves

Dionna's Fashion Trend Report

New Year, new beginnings, and newer, bigger, slicker hairstyles and more ruffles, luscious sky-high heels and deeper frills to satisfy those glitzy diva shopping needs and beauty treats this year. You can expect to see designers paying homage and having fun with traditional, cultural cuts and shapes as well as introducing alpha-male edgier garments and futuristic outfits to the fashion and accessories catwalk for 2013. Want to be one step ahead of the fashion trend game? Then read on as I predict 2013's must-haves stylish and oh-so breathtaking trends.

- Dionna Young is a fashion and lifestyle writer

Make-up

Emphasis on deep, vampy and glossy reds

The
beautiful thing about lipstick is it's temporary - take risks. I'm
loving the emphasis on deep, vampy and glossy reds this year and it
seems I'm not the only one in love with this particular colour. With the
likes of designers such as Victoria Beckham, Thakoon, Lela Rose,
Sportmax and Jil Sander, to name a few, you can be positive that 2013
will be welcoming the colour red in all its palatable options this year.
The three hottest red lipsticks to note are Classic matte (Perfect
Rouge in Valentine (shiseido.com), Dark and Vampy (Cover Girl Lip
Perfection lipcolour in Euphoria at your local pharmacies), and Bright
and glossy (MAC lipstick in Brave Red (maccosmetics.com).

Hairstyles

Keep them simple with side partings and neatly scooped up buns or scooped down

Hairstyles will be slicker than slick this year: Keep it simple with side partings and neatly scooped up buns or scooped down. But if slicked buns and straighter than straight partings is not your thing, then nothing to worry because this year will be all about messy, ruffled high buns and messy, loose side plaits and fish plaits as well. 2013 is all about the contrasts, so do the messy hair and team the hairstyles with streamlined, sharp cut garments.

Accessories

This will be a year of accents and courageous, volume-focused accessories. Expect to see louder, bigger and extremely colourful traits in the accessories department. To start light, I am living and loving the transparent movement - Furla's colossal hit, overlooked and forgotten since the brand's 2007 bandage Perspex bangles - is this year's most unruffled genre. Shoes will be high and gravity defying this year and when it comes to colour, think neon pinks, yellows and orange. And follow in the footsteps of Prada with their awaited embellished flats and slippers collection that will certainly take the fashion shoe industry by storm!

Outfits

After fall's more opulent and royal embellishments, the fashion industry has taken a spin on things and adopted the ideal statement less is more attitude, with designers such as Roberto Cavalli, Haider Ackermann and Reed Krakoff using light-weight, floaty textures and sheer, veil-like featherweight materials such as silk, chiffon, organza, and mousseline. But it doesn't stop there, it's back to basics for some designers such as Narciso Rodriguez, Jil Sander and Celine playing it safe with the black and white dress code, which is quickly emerging as one of this season's big themes and dubbed to see us through until October where colours will become more so vampy and deeper fused. Get ready to bring out those frills and ruffles you may have thrown away in your wardrobe along with all of your other '90s outfits.

The bigger the ruffles, and the cuter the frills, the more on-trend you'll be. Designers to note this year: Balenciaga and Gucci will definitely lead you down the ruffle-catwalk, prepare to feel girly. And from the boardroom to the fashion powerhouse's stage. Le Bain, the 'Power Suit' is this year's power player. Olivier Rousteing went the bold-shouldered route and Victoria Beckham kept it simple and sexy, upping the sex appeal of the traditional tuxedo worn with skimpy bras. Remember sex and power and you'll get one of this year's biggest superwoman trend.
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