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Carven & Celine Wear It Now! Cropped Printed Pants- Resort 2013 Highlights

Resort 2013 Highlights that you can wear now! Take note ladies, no need to wait until December to get your hands for top inspiring trends to hits stores... First up, cropped printed pants. >>More: On Mastering Printed Pants The 2013 Resort collections may not be hitting shops until months from now, but we take that as even more reason to take a cue and get ahead of the game by paying attention on how to wear the latest future looks now, especially come the transitional weather many of us are currently facing. >>MORE: FASHION SHOWS AND RUNWAY REVIEWS Our first look at key notes that caught our attention at the Resort shows that everyone can instantly adapt into their summer repertoire were a smart

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MDNA: Madonna’s Cone Bra 2.0, The Costumes, The Show…The Material Girl Still Has It Going On!

Feeling sorry for yourself? Need a little boost? What the heck is age-appropriate anyway?  We've got the elixir to charge you up! Over 700 costume elements. Six costume changes for the Material Girl  herself.  A costume change for the dancers with each song. Yup, Madonna is back! And, along with comes the iconic cone bra 2.0.  Madonna's MDNA World Tour opened in Tel Aviv last week and it's pointing up. First making waves in 1992 with Madonna's Blonde Ambition Tour, Jean Paul Gaultier have updated their longtime gender-bending provocation with a specially designed MDNA Madonna cone bra cage corset. >>MORE: Madonna  "I see Madonna as one of the greatest performing artists and entertainers of our generation," says longtime stylist Arianne Phillips

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Can A Midi Dress Look Chic & Not Matronly? Yes, Look At Gwyneth Paltrow

I'll Have What She's Having: An elegant midi dress that doesn't scream old lady frumpy AND you can wear it to work! Here's some stylist advice on how to make a forever-chic statement like actress Gwyneth Paltrow in a knee-length number and not look matronly. Gwyneth Paltrow wearing AW12 Burberry Prorsum Pre-Collection look 10 and carrying a Victoria Beckham Fall 2012 Two Tone Shoulder Bag in Moonstone / Black with her Turning head's for over a decade with her innate sense of style that remains forever-chic, actress Gwyneth Paltrow's recent appearance in a minimal Burberry textured dress should work for you as a source of inspiration when considering alternative skirt lengths. >>Need help figuring out how to wear it? Discover

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French Chic at a Certain Age: A well-cut trench coat a la Patricia Kaas

Patricia Kaas
Let's be frank: There comes a time when fussy becomes unfashionably fatiguing and plain is boringly aging. >> Day Two of the three-part FoS series Age-Approriate French Chic At A Certain Age But, pairing a well-cut trench coat and sultry smokey lined eyes, is a time-tested fashion recipe that never spoils! Take, for instance, French actress and chanteuse Patricia Kaas who understands the understated elegance of a lightweight, well-cut trench coat- a hallmark in dressing with French chic style. It's not any ordinary trench, but one that wraps in a way that always creates a sexy silhouette without being vulgar or tricked up. It's flow is more dressed up than the basic double-breasted trench coat, yet it's not overwhelming on her frame. The

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French Chic at a Certain Age: The power of black a la Juliette Binoche… not so basic!

Basic black becomes beautiful black when it's worn in the right French Chic way... It's funny how there are photos of us that almost instantly look dated and others that have timeless perfection. What we are wearing plays a huge part in what sustains looking chic and vital rather than overdone and garish. Take for instance, the style power and endurance of perennially black clad Juliette Binoche and Malgorzarta Szumowska pictured here. >> Day One of the three-part FoS series Ageless & Age-Appropriate French Chic At A Certain Age Let's think about this: every season there is a trend color; something eye-catching to refuel your need to buy something new. You wear that color. Like this season's trendy shade of coralish-roseish-tangerine formerly rightly reserved

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Senior Style: 65 Things to Do When You Retire, My Essay On How To Master Your Look (book excerpt)

When editor Mark Evan Chimsky asked me to write a 'Master Your Look' essay for the anthology 65 Things to Do When You Retire, 65 Notable Achievers on How to Make the Most of the Rest of Your Life (Sellers Publishing), I couldn't refuse. Besides having the opportunity to share my senior style tips for a time in your life when coveting the latest it thing is not as relevant as revitalizing your most age-appropriate personal best, my essay would be in the book along such esteemed notables as my feminist idol Gloria Steinem, former President Jimmy Carter, Jane Fonda, John E. Nelson, (What Color Is Your Parachute?), and a host of other experts and achievers on how to make the most of the rest of

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Celebrity Personal Style Watch- Charlotte Ronson Gets Eyelet Right, Here’s how you can too

How to Wear Eyelet And Look Like A Grown-Up Like Fashion Designer Charlotte Ronson With signs of an early spring blissfully taking hold over much of the states, designer Charlotte Ronson's recent appearance at an NYC Ferragamo event in an on-trend white eyelet dress had us looking forward to the sartorial season ahead while taking note of her well styled look. While eyelet often tends to bring little children's dresses and oversized beach caftans to mind, Ronson's take on the fabrication raises its level to an unthought of level of cool. >>More: Charlotte Ronson  >> Shop the Charlotte Ronson collection at Shopbop By pairing her frock with a boyish nautical fitted blazer, chunky gold bracelets and a pulled back hairstyle, she gives an entirely

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Red Carpet Oscar Dresses and Their Cheap Chic Celebrity Inspired Looks for Less

Rose Byrne, Cameron Diaz, Penelope Cruz and Missi Pyle on the Oscar Red Carpet in thier original designer dresses
First Look at the 2012 Oscars Fashion Look for Less It's that time again.... we've done the highs, snarked at the lows, recapped the beauty, made a few pre-Oscar predictions, and have been inside out and up and down with Oscars 2012. Faviana look for less gowns inspird from the Oscar red carpet. But there is one last thing that we haven't put our red carpet finger on... SHOP: Hollywood inspired dresses at edressme And that is to bring you the hot-out-of-the-design-room-sketches of the, drumroll please, celebrity inspired red carpet Oscar dresses for less. Yes, those celebrity inspired red carpet dresses come in with an affordable price tag for everyone, all expertly tweaked and designed by Faviana once again. Get ready for your

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Kate Middleton Looks Dowdy, Samantha Cameron Goes Glam

As we're focusing on the close of London Fashion Week, we can't help but take a look at what the royals and pols are wearing, specifically yesterday. There's no doubt that Kate Middleton can make almost anything work with her gorgeous smile and slim figure. But even pretty clothes-horses can look dowdy. Case in point: The brown princess-cut coat dress with the fuddy-duddy print that even a Princess like the Duchess of Cambridge can't pull off. Yes, Catherine looks like an old lady. There, I've said it, the pretty youthful Princess looks decades older than her years and rather stodgy to boot. While Samantha Cameron, wife of the Prime Minister, hosted a reception to celebrate London Fashion Week at 10 Downing Street for members

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Celebrity Watch- Style inspiration from Thandie Newton on how to make a one-shouldered dress look modern and sleek

I'll Have What She's Having: Clean, timeless figure-flattering lines One-shoulder dresses are not so easy to wear and after having a huge fashion "moment" a few seasons back, can look dated if not styled correctly. But when worn, right, a one-shoulder dress is a total WOW. Thandie Newton made a chic red carpet statement in an elegant, minimal one-shouldered column dress from Osman that made for a perfect starting point for her classically chic hair and accessories. Try this T by Alexander Wang One Shoulder Dress for your off the red carpet moments. At Shopbop. For starters, her maxi dress' print and detail free composition works as an uber-chic foundation while highlighting her svelte figure as her sleek gold belt

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About FocusOnStyle.com: Can- Do Chic
FOCUS ON STYLE. CAN-DO CHIC. in a nutshell. FocusOnStyle.com, the all expert fashion, beauty & style guide for women savvy enough to know what they're talking about! Cut the hype. Get inspired to make the most of what you’ve got with can-do chic stylist advice to look age-appropriate, gorgeous and modern on any budget. Takeaway tips & inspiration galore. history. Online since 1999, FocusOnStyle.com continues to be your fashion, beauty, and style guide to can-do chic. Everything needs some tweaking with time, so take peek at our new web look- same pro tips, best buzz, and shopping picks all packaged in a shiny new design. credentials. With a dynamic history as a fashion stylist and syndicated newspaper fashion advice columnist with over 20 years of professional experience, founder and

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Wacky Fantasy Nail Art Has Its Own Olympics

Odd but True: Nailympics 2010, the global ‘Olympic Games of fake nails... in Britain, of course! Gotta love these talons... The British love bizarre contests but they've all scrathed the surface until this one that digs deep! I've seem some crazy, freaky long nails in my time, mostly on my old bank teller. Come to think of it, on many bank tellers. They're the kind of nails that curl to no end and create all sorts of strange hygienic visions that I'd rather skip. Nailympics 2010 at the Olympia Beauty Show in London However, every once in a while there are some ultra fantastc, super exotic works of nail art and now they have their own "Olympics" of sorts. The

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Iris Apfel, Personal Style Inspiration on Exhibition

Rare Bird of Fashion: The Irreverent Iris Apfel There are times when we all get stuck in a style rut. Times when some of us even drop the ball on fashion altogether and settle for the humdrum, ill-fitting, and perfectly blah daily uniform simply because we don't have to think about it. Well, start thinking! Everyone needs a little inspiration here and there. A style muse to get your creative juices flowing, to rethink what you have at hand and what you really must add to your wardrobe for a little zing. Not necessarily something to copy, merely something to get you thinking about you, about the chances you take, and the image you set forth. Something, someone to make

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