HOW TO WEAR: THE GLOBAL TRAVELLER TREND

ITCHY feet? Take your fashion inspiration far and wide this season. Native American embroidery, African tribal prints, Indian saris ... designers took their style cue from first-class global travel.

Image - River Island

COULD it be time to cast off our urban apparel for something, well, a little more all-encompassing? While Aztec prints and hand-crafted fabrics have always been a popular choice for beach holidays and festivals, this season's designers have embraced the polished, global traveller look with everything from coats to cocktail dresses.

Now while exotic locations and the jet-set lifestyle are nothing new to the world of fashion, the difference this time is that - while many of the clothes may well still be from the fashion houses of London, New York, Paris and Milan - the look and accessories can be picked up inexpensively on the highstreet.

So what will you need to go global? Well it's very much a non- prescriptive state of mind, but for starters try clashing colours, an array of textures, as many hand-crafted details as you can muster and throw in North African influences with any other cultural references you choose to mention - remember: too much of one influence and it ceases to be global.

At its best, the global trend tells the world what a truly urbane and well-travelled sophisticate you are - equally at home in the world's four corners as sauntering down Grafton Street. At its worst, you will look like you are going to Glastonbury (best avoided unless, of course, you happen to be going to Glastonbury). Not that the trend necessitates actually going anywhere.

 The real point of global traveller, is to look like you've been there, done that and avoided buying the T-shirt. Think citizen of the world and you'll be half-way there...