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Milla Jovovich Knows How to Wear Beige With a Pop of Color and Major Bling

I'll Have What She's Having: Vibrant red & some Jacob & Co. bling Beige, nude, taupe, and all those "new neutrals" are hotter than hot this season, but let's face it, they can wash you out. Runway after runway, model after model-- particularly at New York Fashion Week- all worked the Spring / Summer beige trend. But to be honest, after the third day of shows, it all morphed into one big beige blob for me. Close-up of Mila's bling from the Jacob & Co. Red Carpet Collection While beiges can be very soft and pretty, sometimes a few major accents that play off its neutrality are what it takes to turn a blah to wow. I love Milla Jovovich

The Flatform Shoe is Fashion’s Newest Buzzword, Just Think Flat Platform Wedges

Goodbye jegging, sayonara, shootie, it's hola flatform! Say hello to fashion's newest hybrid buzzword. It's "flatform" floogie with a floy floy. Floy doy, floy doy, floy doy JAVA CORAL SUEDE PEEP TOE PLATFORM WEDGES at Topshop.com The Flatform Shoe. One part flats. One part platform. Looking best when on a wedge. What's made an impact on the Spring 2011 runways, and a staple in my personal closet, is a very wearable, flat platform that's been dubbed a flatform and causing a bit of emails around here today as the buzzword du jour. While the buzziness of the shoe trend that was seen on the runways of Chanel, Prada, Vena Cava, Derek Lam, Fendi, Marnie and more may be big news,

Runway Review Snippets: Our top 5 from Paris are Balenciaga, Chloe, Miu Miu, Rick Owens, CarvenParis Fashion Week, as always is the most directional of cities when it comes to silhouettes and attitudes.This season, without exception, the Parisian runways offered a dramatic shift in form to a more oversized, almost cocoon shape and many with strong exaggerated shoulders. A shape that is strikingly visual on the runway and may need some modifying for the everyday woman not to appear bulky.>> MORE: Fashion Shows and Runway ReviewsThere's a very distinct shift in shapes that you should note, both for next fall, and what you can scout on on the racks now. Did you notice that Chloe made it on our list again?

Runway Review Snippets: Prada, Jil Sander, Missoni are my top 3 shows A quick little baci from Milan Fashion Week... Leave it to Milan to amp up Fall 2011 with a series of forward thinking outings that were as full of nuanced personality as they were of wearable ideas. Here's a quick look some of my favorites, destined to inspire wardrobe additions and style inspirations. --Naveed Hussain >> MORE: Fashion Shows and Runway Reviews Prada An intoxicating mix of nostalgia from Yves Saint Laurent in the 80's to sci-fi mermaids with an achingly hip 60's undercurrent to the demure dolly-girl dresses, Muiccia Prada's Fall outing was hedonistically other worldly pastiched with the most charming display of femininity. Jil

Winter Weather Dress Tips to Look Chic in the Cold- Impromptu Madness with Sharon Haver and Brad Boles, Episode 26

Snow Day Chic- Yeah, baby it's cold outside! Everyday cold weather dress tips... Sharon & Brad are schvitzing inside to show you how to dress to stay warm outside! There's more snow and some major winter chic still to come, but we've got you fashionably covered in this episode of Impromptu Madness. The shoptastical twosome help you how to dress (reasonably?) chic in horrible winter weather. It starts with some well-cut pieces that are made for the chill and then with a few essential tips, you will be good to go outside in the nasty cold and still look hot. Brad promises NOT to say something off color this time and it's making him a bit, how should we say?

How to Turn Your Closet Into Cash-Impromptu Madness with Sharon Haver and Brad Boles, Episode 24

It's Fash Cash! Make money from what you own. Let's begin the year with some money-saving tips to start earning back... with barely having to leave your house! We all love money and we all love expensive clothes but how to make your wardrobe into a money maker? In this video episode, co-hosts Sharon Haver & Brad Boles share tips to turn your closet into a virtual gold mine! Gucci, Prada, Dolce & Gabbana, sure those are the names that draw re-sales online, but you don't have to have top designer goods to make some money from what you already own. Listen to their Closet Busters tips on what sells and what does not sell when it comes to earning

Fashion Week Roundup- Best of Milan, Spring 2011

Runway Review: Milan goes for bold & bright statements with collections from Prada, Jil Sander, BottegaVeneta and Antonio Marras Naveed Hussain is taking Milan into consideration and here are some of his thoughts on the brightest and boldest in Italian fashion for spring 2011. --S.H. From Milan, don't expect studies on conservative minimalism, yet relish in the talent of some of the city's major talents & their bravado when it comes to going for the bold. >> MORE: Fashion Shows and Runway Reviews For Spring/Summer 2011, striking colorways & prints, intellectual takes on femininity and superior craftsmanship made for an alluring mix of modernity that played on mundane ideas of the past for statements that are achingly modern. Here's a

Back to Old School- Backpacks, Rucksacks, Knapsacks, call it what you want, but they are super stylish now

Back at YOU-- no longer reserved for students & tourists, the backpack is making it's fashion statement again. Not since we all became stylishly exhausted from the ubiquitous 90's nylon Prada backpack, have they made such a strong fashion statement- not to mention, impossible to keep again in stock these days. Alexander Wang - Sydney Velvet Backpack at ShopBop Maybe it's the return of 90's minimalism that's trending now. Maybe it's that a backpack makes absolute sense when navigating the urban jungle on a bike. But from Euro street style to hot off the runways (see the Alexander Wang knapsack that we love, right), the backback is looking so right these days. Erogonomics aside, the right backpack needs to look

Best of Resort Fashion- A Season Ahead, Just In Time

Resort runways are often a precursor to what's in store for Spring. Let's consider... A girl could lose her head. Or at least spin it around so many times that it will catapult her neck and land in a frisson of colliding fashion seasons that all ineditably fall into one: What looks right on YOU now! Spring is shown in late summer (at least by the scroching temps merely a week before NYFW). Fall in early winter. Then, there's resort... resort? You have yet to think about autumn leaves! In this insane goggle-muggle where fashion is shown in the time frame of when retailers need to place their orders for the following season and magazines need to pull for their

Spring Fashion Week Preview- Edition by Georges Chakra

The Paris Couturier returns to New York for ready-to-wear Design Sketch #4: LOVE! Inspiration: "“While studying in Toronto I was always captivated by the curvature of the Absolute Tower…I have used the towers coiled arches as inspiration for my spring 2011 collection by creating a series of bands and straps to lay alluringly against a woman's figure…” -- Georges Chakra Some may know of the collection from the Devil Wears Prada. Others may have spotted it on celebrities like Emily Blunt, Jennifer Lopez, Beyoncé, Carrie Underwood, Marcia Cross, Helen Mirren and Tyra Banks. Then there are those of us who have wished that they had the luxury of owning one of his haute couture pieces that are shown during Paris

All Hamptons… All Gossip… A Socialite and A Pink Birkin Bag

A lady's way to luxuty Brad Boles remains on the lose in The Hamptons spilling the bean$... and, yes, the overuse of the color pink can make me cringe, expect on Brad, of course. -- S.H. Action, Lights, No Camera... Polo in The Hamptons proved to be very interesting for me with the pink Birkin... ostrich of course. I know Sharon is probably upchucking the the thought of pink, but we both agree that the color can be chic on a MAN! I bumped into Tinsley Mortimer whom I haven't seen in a few months so I was very surprised to hear that she is not shooting any more for her reality shows We had a good laugh about what

Wear Socks With Heels, YES You Can Pull It Off

No, You will not look like the tourist in the hiking sandals, promise! You can thank Prada for pushing the heels worn with socks trend, but you can more thank the stylistic street set for making this look right! There is always the intrinsic fear that if you don't have the knack, you can end of looking like an out of place tourist in a big city wearing a pair of comfort sandals and tube socks... the fashionless and don't give a damn on vacation set. However if you pull this trend off, you can look very chic, comfy, and even a bit cheeky. The key is to pair an otherwise fabulous pair of shoes with socks that are just

Indrani to Jill Zarin to the possible NEW Real Housewife, some Millionaire Matchmaker scoop, there’s gossip and glamour in the Hamptons this week

The Bravo cameras are rolling like mad in the Hamptons and I got caught up in them. Shhhh... they may be picking up a new Bravo family member for next season! Oh my, breathless Brad Boles is still roaming about the Hamptons and finds himself slammed in the middle of more Bravo family dish. The man has a nose for dish, and some fashion and beauty tips too --S.H. The East End was crawling with Bravo camera crews this past weekend. Oh, what goes on under this beautiful Hamptons sunset! On Saturday alone, I was involved in two shoots one starting at 11AM involving a potential NEW Housewife for “The Real Housewives of New York City!” This was NOT a

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