If there's one new brand that stood out to me this year, it's Sarah Baadarani. Despite launching her brand only a year ago, her collections are executed with the confidence of someone who has been in the business for years.

At the heart of the brand is an on going experimentation with dichotomies like hard and soft, feminine and assertively powerful that translates itself of dresses with sharp clean lines softened with by a graphic print or a the inclusion of a sexy black underskirt on an otherwise feminine dress. Despite being only two seasons in, she's already becoming a favourite amongst editors and if 2011 is anything to go by, 2012 is going to a big year for Baadarani.