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This is how you Belt your coat à la Paris Fashion Week Street Style Trend

I'll Have What She's Having:  A fresh, late season update by way of you belt your coat, just so Let's face it, we are all getting a bit sick of winter. We probably already bought what we could from the sales yet still may be craving a late season picker-upper. Rethink! Yup, rethink what we wear a different way. Get creative and get more style fast. >>MORE:  Fashion Week Street Style Take a look at our lovely lady above snapped at Paris Fashion Week and notice how she added a simple ruff hewn luggage tan color belt to cinch in the waist of her otherwise unbuttoned coat. It looks fantastic and changed the line, in a great way, to her straight, slim coat.  >>

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Paris Fashion Week Street Style Trend Report: It’s chilly, wear a fun + chic knit hat, like a turban or a big pom-pom!

Leave it to the French to take it up a notch. We saw those carefree and adorable boyfriend beanies on the street style ladies of London Fashion Week. And, now for Paris Fashion Week, we have the super chic knit hats by way of a turban and an oversized pom-pom looking so right with dressed up city fun colors.  >> MORE:  RUNWAY & STREET STYLE TRENDS  I have to admit that I've always been a bit shizzled about wearing turbans. There was a black leather Hermés turban that I snagged at a sample sale and felt a bit overwhelmed wearing. I gave it out for consignment, and like a side street fortune-teller, it vanished without a trace, along with my

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Afraid to wear an animal print skirt to work? Think again, just add Paris Fashion Week Street Style for age-appropriate business chic

I'll Have What She's Having:  Paris Fashion Week street style proves to have zippy classic age-appropriate inspiration with business chic takes on animal print skirts. Animal prints can have a fabulously downtown cool edge, like our street style ladies and their leopard pants from London Fashion Week, yet too much fierceness may get out of hand for work. But not always, especially if you follow the super chic cues from these two sophisticated ladies, above, snapped at Paris Fashion Week. Either like the red Balenciaga print, left, or the more classic, big cheetah, pictured right, choose your style weapons and  work it!  >> MORE: I'll Have What She's Having and Fashion Week Street Style  When you want to wear a business chic & age-appropriate animal print skirt,

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This is how you wear Camel + Red + Volume à la Paris Fashion Week Street Style Trend

I'll Have What She's Having: Classic styling in yet difficult-to-wear pieces in this first in a series of Paris Fashion Week Street Style Trends Beautiful, volume-packed pieces that look oh so gorgeous on the hanger. Yet, when you put them, you may look like you were the last one sitting at the ribfest. But, when worn RIGHT, the result is MAGIC, like our lovely lady above snapped at Paris Fashion Week.  >> MORE: I'll Have What She's Having and Fashion Week Street Style The key to pulling off volume is to balance fuller pieces against slimmer fitting pieces, and show a little skin, like this cute crop top, doesn't hurt either. (Rewind: we highlighted camel crop top sweaters in our Milan Fashion Week

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Paris Shopping- Printemps Props the Chloé Edition Anniversaire Boutique

Retail Remedy: Just in time for Fashion Week, Printemps salutes Paris shopping with a special homage to Chloe. >> MORE: Paris Printemps is blowing out the candles on the 60th birthday celebration of Chloé big time. Gaby Aghion, the founder of Chloé, started the label in 1953 with a modest show at the Café de Flore. Since then it has grown into one of the most beloved and respected French fashion brands and is sold internationally. Aghion’s original theory was to do casual, free spirited clothing and accessories but with a couture backbone. Chloé has had an outstanding succession of designers over the years and the alumni incudes Karl Lagerfeld, Martine Sitbon, Stella McCartney, Phoebe Philo, and Hannah McGibbon. The current designer is

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Revealed! Celebrity Spanx moments- We’re spilling the sucking in beans on what stars wear what shapewear

Celebrity Spanx- what shapewears do the stars wear on the red carpet
And, the shapewear Oscar goes to… Celebrity Spanx Moments… Who sucks what in…. Shapewear, baby, it's THE way to go!  Red carpet fashion can be a bit awe-inspiring and unreachable.  And, what about those killer bods underneath those gorgeous dresses? Well, many of the bodies that are worked out to an inch of their lives get a little extra "help" too. Celebrity Spanx! There should be a red carpet for what is surely NOT your mama's girdle.   Thanks to a not so secret weapon against lumps and bumps, shapewear comes to the rescue-- it's something that we all can emulate, and maybe make our personal dressing look that much better for it. We got the peeps at Spanx to dish on

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WATCH: THE Oscars Red Carpet Fashion LIVE Stream

WATCH- Oscars Red Carpet Fashion LIVE Stream on FocusOnStyle.com
You're gonna to want to bookmark this! Watch the Oscars Red Carpet Fashion Live Stream right here, in real time, on FocusOnStyle.com LIVE! Mark your calendar: Red Carpet Live Stream from the 85th Annual Academy Awards taking place on Sunday, February 24th, 5:30pm - 7:30pm EST >> MORE: Red Carpet Fashion   Oscars Red Carpet Fashion LIVE Stream Photo: AP

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Happy Valentine’s Day… A big French Kiss from Paris with love!

Valentine's Day Paris
Valentine's Day Paris: What could be a more romantic way to cover Valentine's Day than Valentine hearts from the City of Love? Let Richard Nahem virtually whisk you away for some Valentine's wishes, Parisian style. --xoxoS Valentine's Day Paris Valentine's Day in France isn’t as big a phenomenon as it is in the U.S., where people go all out to express their love. France does it on a much smaller and subtler scale. The chocolate shops don’t have massive displays of chocolates in their windows, just a small selection with Valentine’s motifs on them and flower shops hardly have any fanfare about Valentines Day. >> RELATED: Need more than a French Kiss? Check out our Sexpert Chic Tips and Valentine's Day

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What’s good at the Barney’s Warehouse Sale online

Barney's warehouse sale online
I have to admit that I did a bit of damage (in a very good way) at the summer Barney's Warehouse Sale online. Bet, I you can do equally well at the warehouse sale going on right now. The sale is open for international sales and the perfect pastime to add to your snowmageddon to-do list for those New Yorker's not wanting to get their footsies cold. >>RELATED: My discount designer style tips The designer deals are up to 75% off which translates as g0 get 'em. Especially, since there are fab finds for women, men, home, and kids. Oh yeah, and SHOES, lot's of shoes. Popular sizes sell out fast, so take a look now… 3.1 PHILLIP LIM Ava $450

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Can you say cheese chic? A chain camera strap as cool as your best handbag, sans the quilting

Sarah Frances Kuhn Super Deluxe Silver Lining Camera Chain
Shopping Find Alert: Fashion bloggers, fashionistas, and the stylish set will love this one… You've got the fancy-pants camera but those old school camera straps are just plain fugly. Say ta-ta to looking like you hopped off the tourist bus and say hello to chic. SFK by Sarah Frances Kuhn has you covered in style. Sarah Frances Kuhn Super Deluxe Brass Tax Camera Chain Imagine a chain camera strap spinning a riff on a classic chain strap bag, with the added nuance of Indie cool. Thank Sarah for the minxy meld when she came up with the idea while still a Teen Vogue accessories editor. >>MORE: Shopping "I used my camera all the time for market appointments and one day when

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The First Lady of Style: Michelle Obama WOWS in (Jason) Wu Again for Inaugural Gown, and then some

Truth be told, red is my favorite color for everything except party affiliation. The First Lady broke tide in a STUNNING Jason Wu red halter gown for the Inaugural gown first dance, and maybe, just maybe, that can be a sign of getting us all together. Far from the more girly white Jason Wu frock from 2009, this red draped chiffon and velvet number was sexy in the most powerful and in control nuance that a grown woman should master. Add The First Lady's new bangs, and Mrs. Obama stunned in a fresh and vibrant way that made you not only proud to be an American looking forward but proud that a woman of substance is in a place which she belongs.

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Looks like showgirl costumes to me- Musée des Arts Forains, Paris fantasy costume museum

Ohh la la, the French really have a reason to stay too long at the fair! Forget Las Vegas, when there are fantastic and feathery costumes in Paris at the Musée des Arts Forains (the Museum of Fairground Art). Richard Nahem takes us there, cancan costumes included. --S.H. The Musée des Arts Forains, the Museum of Fairground Art, is only open to the public once a year for a two-week period between Christmas and New Years.  Luckily, this year I had to opportunity to visit. >>MORE: Costumes As I have mentioned before, I spent my summers as a child and adolescent on the boardwalk in Wildwood, New Jersey and have vivid memories of carnivals, rides, fairgrounds, amusement parks, cotton candy, custard,

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5 Trends to Trash or Switch to Update Your Look for 2013

Lose This, Redo That in 2013... Truth be told, I HATE telling anyone to ditch something trendy. Something that is such a quick fad should not be in a chic wardrobe to begin with. There IS a sophisticated difference from looking on trend and  being trendy... particularly, after 25ish. Trendy is a blip on the style meter that spoils faster than a gallon of milk and dates itself in one of those "what was I thinking" old photos. On trend is staying modern, looking fresh and never dated. >>RELATED: How to clean out your closet & the top 20 items to let go It is OK to add a few throwaway trendy pieces here and there just fun of it. But

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