It's Elements, My Dear: Bright Leather, Fringe and Prints Prevail

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Elements is a Park Cities-area must when it comes to shopping. But it is the boutique's keen interest in trendy pieces from fashionably forward designers such as Mara Hoffman, Pamela Love, Issa London and Emma Cook that has us ringing their prognosticating bell, as it were. In our final edition of Spring Forward, head below for a gallery of the store's top three trends, or click the Polyvore set above to shop some more looks.

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• At Elements, we have always been fans of print. What we are really loving in a print right now is anything whimsical. Often times, this is a print with an animal or landscape scene, but it could be anything that is just fun and different. We have seen a l
• Leather is huge for us. Leather is season-less, evergreen now. But it's different than it is in the fall and Winter. For spring, we are seeing leather in bright colors and metallics, we are seeing it laser-cut and perforated, and we are seeing it in the f
• Fringe is everywhere for spring. It's metallic leather and fringe on necklaces, earrings, bracelets and handbags of course, but also on kimonos, blouses, skirts, dresses and shorts. Fringe always adds just a touch of bohemian spirit to whatever you're wea