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Another New York Fashion Week is over, and again we’re lusting over clothes we can’t wear for another six or seven months.

Thank goodness fall threads are in stores to help us get back on real time.

Keeping up with eight days of runway shows from afar often felt like stalking — continuously checking for photos, reviews and live streams, and then trying to remember which designer showed that great yellow spring coat. It was Michael Kors.

Today we look at some of Fashion Week spring 2015’s biggest trends, along with some of the moments that are still being talked about a week after the lights dimmed on the last show of the last day.

Hello yellow … and ice blue, fire engine red and bright white. Yellow seems to be the color of the season, and the sunny hue graced everything from an off-the-shoulder jumpsuit by Tracy Reese to Carolina Herrera’s boxy and pretty suit to tent dresses at Nanette Lepore. But yellow gladly shared the runway with shades of blue, bright red and spring’s perennial go-to, white.

Gingham, polka dots and florals check in. Gingham may bring to mind red picnic tablecloths, but it looked comfortable on the runway, often sporting a sophisticated edge and fresh feel with high slits, deep V necklines, cutouts and splashes of unexpected color. Red gingham bowed to the more appealing blue, black and taupe. Polka dots and florals aren’t novel, but these aren’t your usual dots and blooms. These are huge. And they look really good. Sometimes big is better.

Mad about sheer, mesh and mixing it up. Who wants heavy fabrics when temperatures start to climb? All the sheer fabrics appeared more wearable than you might think, maybe because many of the styles were full, layered or flowing. Mesh made the rounds, too, continuing the trend toward active wear. And while prints mixed it up more than long-lost cousins at a family reunion, the playfulness also included combining different textures and fabrics.Read more here:purple prom dresses uk