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Humor Chic

Witty, cheeky, brilliant, and VERY fashionable It's funny how the fashion flock can sometimes take themselves so seriously. Add some tongue-in-cheek insider observations and it's Humor Chic! Karl Lagerfeld and Vivienne Westwood aleXsandro Palombo (yes, the a is small, the X is a capital as is the P to represent the Latin symbols for Pax Christi) likes to think of himself as the father of fashion satire. He has just the right amount of wit and whimsy to poke a very manicured finger right back at the fashion industry and have them smile all the better for it with Humor Chic, the world's first Daily Society Portrait blog. Palombo is a global foot soldier (Prada or Dior Homme, I wonder)

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OSCAR Fashion- Red Carpet Photos – 2010

Penelope Cruz, Vera Farmiga, and Anna Kendrick --> Sandra Bullock --> Zoe Kravitz and Lenny Kravitz --> Cameron Diaz in Oscar De La Renta --> George Clooney with Elisabetta Canalis in a Roberto Cavalli custom made red strapless silk satin gown --> Helen Mirren --> Kate Winslet in YSL --> Meryl Streep --> Miley Cyrus in Jenny Packham --> Livia Giuggioli and Colin Firth --> Luciana Barroso and Matt Damon --> Sandra Bullock --> Sandra Bullock --> Maggie Gyllenhaal in Dries Van Notten --> Ally Sheedy wearing Loree Rodkin earrings --> Rachel McAdams --> Charlize Theron in Dior Haute Couture --> Kathryn Bigelow wearing the Yves Saint Laurent Edition Soir gown by Stefano Pilati --> Penelope Cruz in Donna Karan

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Best of 2009, a Focus on Style Flashback

A look back at our favorites stories in fashion beauty, style, wellness, travel, and more 5,4,3,2,1, H-A-P-P-P-Y N-E-W Y-E-A-R!!! And, what a fantastic year it was... I wanted to honestly bring you the best of 2009 from FocusOnStyle- it's our 10th year online and our best yet. Selecting content to highlight became the dilemma of a mother choosing her favorite child. How could I possibly make exception? What about the others? It's more karmic damage than I'm willing to tinker with. Instead, I've culled some of the more timeless and sage pieces that will have you looking in check from now until the time you feel the mood to modify your look-- something you really need to renew, at most,

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Fifty Dresses That Changed the World

Yes, really. These 50 dresses are the best of what we wear today There is no doubt that certain iconic dresses form a lasting visual memory. The dress and its wearer become our personal muse in helping to define our own individual style, or its unique design represents a breakthrough in fashion from that point forward. Then again, we may have simply fallen in love with the style. And love can have no explanation. >> Visit our Best Dress Shopping Guide Topless Dresses- Rudy Gernreich 1970 Consider The Goddess Dress by Madeline Vionnet in 1931. Derivatives of its floaty draping are still grazing the red carpet today. A new era of defiance, resilience, and hope was seen in the full

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How to Be a Chic Parisianista Tip #2: Wear Nice Underwear

“I don’t always wear underwear. When I’m in the heat, especially, I can’t wear it. Like, if I’m wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?” --Naomi Campbell, supermodel. The How To Be A Chic Parisianista Series | 7 Steps to French Chic Maybe not wearing underwear with flower dresses in the heat is an English thing, but the French seem to have the opposite approach: wear it come rain or shine, hot or cold – no questions asked. Definitely wear it appreciatively, discreetly (not on the outside displayed for everyone!), beautifully, and above all - confidently. After all, you never know when you’re going to flash a French dad at the school fair like La Mom

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Photo of the Day: Contrast in French Chic

Contrasting fashions in Boulevard St-Germain, Paris… Love this photo! Required Reading for Instant French Chic: Join my FREE newsletter and download "Passport to French Chic," now! The French Chic at a Certain Age Series French Chic Fashion Tips How to Dress French When You Are Not The French Chic Formula for Everyday Style a la Emmanuelle Alt French Chic Style Paris Street Style- How to wear IT! Cannes Do Chic Series French Chic Shoe Lesson 101: Red shoes pops a simple LBD, a la Berenice Bejo More French Chic posts Photo: Who Needs Dior? by Malias/Flickr (Used under Creative commons license)                                

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Milliner Extraordinaire Stephen Jones on Exhibit in the Hat Capitol of the World…

A bonnet by any other name never looked so chic… Get your hat inspiration here: Easter is the season of the hat, which makes it the perfect time to pay a visit to legendary London milliner, Stephen Jones' ~Hats: An Anthology' exhibition showing at the Victoria & Albert Museum. As a celebration of the life cycle of the hat, the exhibition is categorised into areas of inspiration, creation, the client and the salon, exploring the process of how a hat is realised from it's point of inception to the wearer's head. Exhibiting a vast collection of elegant, experimental and whimsical hats ranging from those designed by Stephen Jones' for designers such as John Galliano, Marc Jacobs, Vivienne Westwood and Jean

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Barbie’s 50th Birthday: Photos galore for the doll who doesn’t age

Retail Remedy: Bloomingdale’s largest public display of Barbie dolls in North America ever, and we have the photos!!! You know, we have a thing for our favorite doll Barbie. We were thrilled when we heard Fashion Week Barbie mania was coming. We brought you the Barbie fashion show photos asap. Now, on the day of Barbie’s 50th birthday, we bring over 100 photos in our Barbie photo gallery below of the Barbie 50th Birthday Celebration at Bloomingdale’s New York– the LARGEST public display of Barbie dolls in North America!!!         Barbie Exhibit at Bloomingdale's It’s the sickest Barbie bonanza– over 100 Barbie dolls on display. You will go bananas looking down the memory lane of Barbie dressed

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Retail Remedy: NY Christmas Windows, Stylish and Artful Elegance

Bergdorf Goodman and Louis Vuitton New York holiday windows… In what are probably one of the most visually stunning New York Christmas windows, Bergdorf Goodman creates artful displays that recreate the feel of the dioramas of the Natural History Museum.   The store’s Fifth Avenue windows are an opulent white on white homage to the four seasons, plus holiday all combining the unique mix of natural wonders and Bergdorf Goodman luxury fashion. While the East 58th Street and Bergdorf Goodman Men’s Store windows create a more allegorical display of animals and fashion. East 57th Street windows are a whimsical play on black, white, plus red. All are absolutely amazing and quite a scene to get your turn to photograph. In

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NY Style: East 57 Street…

Posh fashion designer windows, spring preview Y Style - East 57 Street Posh Designer Windows. Spring preview fashion video. Burberry, Christian Dior, Chanel, Coach, Prada, Christian LaCroix. Get a leg up on spring fashion and take a gorgeous window shopping tour with us along New York's posh East 57 Street for some major fashion inspiration for Spring.We can do major shopping damage at Burberry, but with Dior, Chanel, Coach, Prada and Christian LaCroix in the fantastic mix, what can a girl do but buy, buy, buy!?! Or, at least get motivated to think about what to wear this spring, with a bit of high styling nuances to spark our very fashionable imaginations. Fabulous, simply fabulous! February 12, 2008

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  My old (in an ageless, where does time fly kinda way) colleague from my SHNS newswire days, Lee Woodruff, one the brightest and funniest pr babes to ever pitch a lipstick, wants to share something on far more serious note than the right shade of gloss for the holiday season, “Support Our Troops" is no longer a slogan. It's an action.” Helping someone is indeed bigger than a lipstick, but you can kill two birds with one very amazing stone– get an early start on holiday shopping and do some good for someone who has sacrificed so much! Look at the gorgeous goodies up for grab that benefit Remind.org, the Bob Woodruff Foundation dedicated to helping to heal the

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Oscar fashion…

Tasteful and elegant style Oscar Fashion 2008- Celebrity red carpet fashion - style inspirations. Good things come in threes and it was definitely the year of the red dress, bare shoulder, and baby bump. Although everyone looked tastefully fantastic and thankfully there was a whisper of personal style, there really weren't many obvious standouts when it came to Oscar fashion at the 80th Academy Awards. Anne Hathaway, stunning in a rich red Marchesa gown with a dramatic rosette sash which she described as a "diaphanous sheath" that spotlighted her luminous pale skin. Jessica Alba in a Marchesa grape strapless baby bump covering chiffon sheath with a spray of feathers across the bodice. Heidi Klum in a very dramatic, portrait collar,

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