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Designing a Personal Brand With Your Personality: What’s The First Thing You Need To Look At?

How to you add interest to your personal brand design so its reflective of your true personality.. I’m often asked about where to start when designing the look and feel of a personal brand with personality. It’s the same as your home... it’s the same as your wardrobe... Your business... your brand design is an extension of who you are. It reflects what you gravitate to ... what puts a smile on your face... what’s relevant to you. It doesn’t always need to be exact as we are multifaceted. Our loft in Manhattan is a series of city vignettes.... our place in Jackson Hole, WY is very western. Yet each reflect the combined style of Hubbs and me. Actually the

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Luxe Western Home Decoration Ideas on a Bargain Budget. Trust Me, You Will Want to Go West!

This chair was only the bones when I found it at the Brimfield Flea Market, I left the back exposed and used a deep blue Chanel Velvet. The mirror was found in my mother attic. The vintage sign came from the 25th street Flea Market in New York City
Living large on a small budget. It's not about money. It's about home style! Cowboy Chic: Interior designer tips to add some rustic Western Home Decoration to your home style with luxury Flea Market Finds for a 'Rustic Big Chill'  I'm always up for a challenge when it comes to home style. Many of you know that I was at my vacation place out West recently. When it came to redecorating my Wyoming home, I wanted something that was very different from how we live in New York City. Something that was both very cozy, rustic, and Western. The launch point for my design inspiration came from vintage Roy Rogers and Dale Evans memorabilia, and then I took it from there.

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Home Style Week! Color Chic- How To Add Color To Your Life- Home, Fashion, and Beauty Tips

Make this a double header! This week's summer spotlight is all about home style, and let's take a look at this episode of FocusOnStyle Talk Radio to celebrate FoS's 15th Anniversary online. Enjoy! Sharon & Brad open up their homes and share style tips to make color work in your life in a very chic way From runway to your home... adding bold moves of color can be the perfect dramatic change to take you from drab to fab! Before you paint your home, listen to this show... The right colors are beautiful but so many of us are color challenged and fear color so much that they live a drab existence or overload on the wrong color that cheapens

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Vintage Home Style Collaboration at the Paris Flea Market- L’Eclaireur and Habitat 1964 at Les Puces St.Ouen

L’Eclaireur and Habitat 1964 at Les Puces St.Ouen
I don't know about you but I LOVE a good flea market. Introduce a vintage home style collaboration and magic! Oh, wait, AND Paris too… yowza… let's let Richard take us there for some divine  interior design inspiration… L’Eclaireur, one of the top fashion retail boutiques in Paris, and Habitat, the furniture and home shop chain, have recently opened new spaces at the St. Ouen flea market. In an abandoned, graffiti covered courtyard on the rue de Rosiers, the main street of the flea market, a new, more modern and conceptual area has arrived. L’Eclaireur and Habitat 1964 at Les Puces St.Ouen >>MORE: Home Style Inspiration In the last few years, L’Eclaireur has subtly added furniture and home accessories to its cutting edge fashion boutiques and has now

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Home Design Style Inspiration- Easily Add Bursts of Color and Art to an Otherwise Neutral Palette like this Paris Flat

We love to ogle home design style inspiration around here! Nothing like fanciful and fabulous home style pictures to get our creative juices going and the urge to rearrange furniture and art. Now, if Sharon could simply relocate the pool table... It's 2012, are you still surrounded by life in the doldrums of beige box living? If so, take a cue from a grand French restoration recently energized with bold works of art and color galore to make sure your home or workspace isn't just any old bore for an instant home makeover. You may not be able to get the details, but you certainly can be inspired to get the look! >> Listen: Need some color chic? This is how Sharon

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Take the Catwalk Home- What you can expect in Home Trends next fall

The BCBG runway and some home inspiration by way of the Ampersand Color Block Duvet set.
Use fashion show inspiration to style your home!  New York Fashion Week just ended but don't be surprised if what you saw on the Fall 2012 / Winter 2013 fashion runways ends up as inspiration in your home style. READ: Color Chic, How To Add Color To Your Home Or consider looking at the future fashion trends to think about how YOU can get the look in your home right now. The BCBG runway and some home inspiration by way of the Ampersand Color Block Duvet set. Colorblock Adds PunchBCBG Max Azria's color block rollover from their spring collection will definitely make its way into the more trend minded home decor options such as table top accessories, China, vases, linens, and even wall paint

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Fashion Your Home Style- Lanvin’s Collectible Figurines Are on Our Most Wanted List

For the woman who has everything come these highly covetable hand painted figurines from Lanvin that feature the house's playful take on French glamour and are certain to add an achingly chic, decadent sense of flair to any room. MORE: Home Style posts and shop for pretty home accents Who needs Lladro when you can score such a distinctive, cool and decadent piece for your curio, desk or boudoir? -Naveed Hussain Want something a bit more simple & colored  glass is your thing? Consider these alternatives: Kosta Boda has a fab collection of beauty & fashion conscious tabletop collectibles, like this Catwalk Madam at Bloomies. Kosta Boda Catwalk Madame Tight For lovers of art for arts sake, of pure beauty, of sophisticated

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Beyonce bought this lucite crib and it’s pretty darn fab!

Vetro Crib
I can see clearly now, the baby's here... First time moms always lament over the right crib to buy... I know I drove myself crazy. Cribs, for the most part, are not particularly decor friendly when you live in a modern home. Then there are the cribs that look like prisons with their  safety rails blocking view of the precious one. US magazine reports that Beyonce purchased a lucite Nurseyworks Vetro crib back in November for baby Blue Ivy. The crib has a hefty price tag, but if you can afford it, it offers a full-on view of baby so concerned parents can have an uninterrupted view of their little one. It's gorgeous and super sleek too. Available at Amazon.com

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Beat Winter Blahs With the Colors of Summer in Provence

Handmade espadrilles in the Market in Eygalieres
Summer in Provence: Dreams are made of this. At the hump of the new year and with the let down of holiday hoopla and the start of winter dreariness, we are all ready for the next vacation, although most of us cannot break away.  Let us take you to a place of calm and sunniness by way of Richard Nahem's  photo gallery of the Market in Eygalieres, Provence, France. This isn't just an exercise in gorgeous escapism, I WANT YOU TO THINK LIKE A DESIGNER. Look at the magnificent play of these natural colors and consider how you can incorporate them into your wardrobe, home, your life. Who needs manufactured color experts, when the greatest "expert"of can be found in nature?   >>READ: Authentic

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EMERIL’S TABLE- HOLIDAY COOKING FOR A CROWD, Watch our episode, get the recipes

On the set of Emeril's Table
Don't Miss: "Emeril’s Table" Holiday Cooking for a Crowd episode airing December 9th at 11:00am ET/10:00am C on the Hallmark Channel. Why: I'm on it along with my family and friends. I've always felt that style is a lot like cooking. If you don't start out with the right ingredients (wardrobe), no matter how you try to doctor it up (accessories too) , the results can be less than tasty.  Less is more when it is well-planned and of fantastic quality. The Holiday Cooking for a Crowd gang: (left to right) My husband, Emeril Lagasse, my son, me (front row l to r), my friend Liz, her niece Kelsey. My husband and I entertain quite a bit in New York, particularly around the

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Fashion Meets Interiors- Martin Margiela designs La Maison des Champs Elysees Hotel in Paris

La Maison des Champs Elysees Hotel by Martin Margiela
There's no secret around here at FoS that I'm a huge Martin Margiela fan. There's a minimalistic, yet futuristic simplicity of perfectly pared down, yet well-designed pieces that are always timeless, yet still maintain an avant-garde edge. So when a favorite label fashion expands it's aesthetic to interiors, like Rick Owens or Jean Paul Gaultier, I'm sold... well, more so if that winged back chair was perched in my living room. Let Richard Nahem take you on a tour of the super stylish hotel in Paris. -- S.H. I have always loved designer Martin Margiela's obsession with the color white. And while Margiela retired as chief designer from his eponymous label a few seasons ago, the brand continues to flourish with his design signatures. Maison

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Once a Pop Up Pavilion for Chanel, Architect Zaha Hadid’s Work Is Displayed in Paris

Cutting-edge woman architect's is work on display at Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris In the courtyard of the Institut du Monde Arabe, in the Latin Quarter at the start of Blvd. St. Germain, is a shiny, curvaceous white structure resembling a spaceship. It's the mobile art pavilion designed by Zaha Hadid and features a retrospective of the last 30 years of her cutting-edge architecture. Hadid originally designed the structure for Chanel in 2008 as a traveling art exhibition showcasing artists designing special edition handbags for Chanel and toured Hong Kong,Tokyo, and New York before arriving in Paris. Recognized as one of the most respected architects in the world right now, Hadid was the first woman to win the Pritzker

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Style Wizz-Philippe Starck and Duravit Create a Museum-Worthy Urinal

On view at WaterDream: the Art of Bathroom Design, at the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) Who knew that a loo could be so cool? Well, I do as I have a Phillipe Starck toilet in two of the bathrooms of our New York loft. But a urinal, and one that's museum worthy too? A Philippe Starck and Duravit toilet in my powder room in New York. Isn't that painting wild? Through September 17, Duravit and Starck will be on display as part of a popular exhibit entitled WaterDream: the Art of Bathroom Design, mounted at the newly relocated Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA). What caught my eye are the three sleek Architec High Efficiency Urinals (HEUs) in the public

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