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My head is literally spinning from the number of designer x high street/sportswear collaborations that are out and about.... Luella for O'Neills, Giles for New Look (new collection), Jonathan Saunders for Gola, Pierre Hardy for Gap (new collection), Christian Lacroix for La Redoute... I could go on listing them and the thing is, it's getting to the point where these collaborations are neither exciting or interesting.  However, a designer like Osman Yousefzada whose collections I've been following in an avid fan-girl style, doing a 10 piece, super edited, LBD collection for Mango means that at least we can expect something quite more focused and with more of a design-concentrate (I'm thinking some collections are getting to be quite watered down in manner of very weak Robinson's squash...). 

The ad images are now up online and I think we have a winner... a simple addition of a peplum (left £45) and a zip and a curved cape structure (right £50) luxes up the LBD...   

Then we get the cleverly placed yet sparing used of metallic additions.  A flash of metallic blue (a shade that Osman favours a lot in his collections) at the bottom of this dress (the most expensive of the lot at £80) which also works the 'double skirted' shape of flouncy over pencil.   

The electric blue is repeated here and is quite literally a 'flash' of blue that would swing around quite nicely.   

Another signature colour of bronze is incorporated through this Cleopatra collar...

...and onto the bottom of this dress which I first saw during LFW and will definitely snap up at Selfridges when the collection goes on sale on 10th March, (nationwide from 17th March)...

(The last three dresses are all £50....  by jove, a designer collaboration that has got the pricing spot on...)