Fashion experts recommend bold, sexy colour for Valentine’s Day

It’s the one day a year style experts recommend a bold colour choice. Here’s what to wear on your Valentine’s Day date.

Roses are red, violets are blue, Valentine’s Day is about celebrating passionate love, and experts recommend wearing red while you do.

Stylist Hayley Burton said donning the colour red on the biggest annual day of love was a stylish and sexy way of expressing affection to your better half.

She said red possesses the power to have a lingering effect on both young and established lovers, creating energy and pleasure between them.

“Red is the sign of love. It’s always sexy and you think of passion when you think of red,” Ms Burton said.

Romantic in red: models Mads Rafferty and Kieran Benson wearing SHEIN for Valentine’s Day. Picture: Sam Ruttyn

“Valentine’s Day is the one day you can get away with wearing red. It’s a bold colour.

“You can wear it in a print, even a hair accessory or a belt. For men, depending on where they’re going, it could be a red tie they’re putting on or a shirt they wear.”

As bright red hues have become synonymous with Valentine’s Day across the world, Ms Burton said couples should embrace the colour to celebrate love while also making a statement with their clothing.

“Everyone is always in black, so it’s nice to be in red. It’s a special day, make an effort. It’s the one day you can wear it. Express your personality,” she said.

Ready for a glamorous night out in SHEIN fashions. Picture: Sam Ruttyn

“There’s so many dark and neutral colours, so it’s nice to see someone wearing colour (and) I think red look good on everyone.”

“I’ve noticed red more often (in fashion), and not necessarily in just sexy styles. It can be a dress with big sleeves. At the moment, there’s an orange-red colour like watermelon (which is popular).”

Model and personal trainer Kieran Benson took part in a shoot for the Daily Telegraph, wearing Valentine’s Day inspired fashion from SHEIN ahead of the annual day of love.

Benson said wearing red wasn’t his usual style, but he is more inclined to dress in the colour for his upcoming Valentine’s Day training classes.

“It’s a fun, passionate colour. That shiny red jacket made me feel sexy,” Mr Benson said.

“If I have the right outfit, I’m never against wearing red. Maybe I’d wear it more if I took up salsa lessons.”

MIND YOUR LANGUAGE: RELATIONSHIP EXPERT’S ADVICE

Go easy on yourselves this Valentine’s Day is the advice of relationship expert Nicole Colantoni.

The dating and relationship coach believes Christmas and Valentine’s Day to be the two biggest days of the year for couples to fall apart due to high expectations.

Relationship expert Nicole Colantoni advises couples to set reasonable expectations.

“It puts a lot of pressure on people and the relationship and it makes them think about their future together,” Colantoni told The Daily Telegraph. “It can make them question their expectations regarding what they want from their partner and for their future.”

The origins of Valentine’s Day remain ambiguous, many date it back to the times of Roman Empire Claudius II with the execution of a number of men named Valentine, who were later recognised as martyr’s of the Christian faith. The modern take on February 14 though dates back to the 1840s in the UK and US.

Colantoni noted that people have different “love languages’, meaning the way in which they express their love.

Sydney couple Ben Lanciano and Chelsea Scutts at Mark The Florist in Darlinghurst.

“The way somebody celebrates the day and the relationship on that day could also make them question whether they are aligned because if someone is expecting to be made to feel special on that day and their partner doesn’t do that, it can be an issue,” she said, continuing: “If somebody’s love language is gifts and their partner does not gift them anything on Valentine’s Day, that could seem deeply upsetting to that person. Likewise, if somebody’s love language is acts of service and their partner doesn’t arrange something for them, whether it is a home cooked meal or a thoughtful booking at a restaurant, that could also be really disappointing to their partner.”

The answer, explained Colantoni, is to be conscious of each other’s love language.

“It is important to be mindful that it is just another day on the calendar,” noted Colantoni, who hosts successful podcast, Single at Thirty. “And it is not entirely representative of your relationship as a whole. Open communication is key. Do not put so much pressure on the relationship in terms of expectations and perhaps just use it as an opportunity to communicate what is important to you and how you want to celebrate the relationship.”