Tag Archives: American Beauty

The color PINK- a trend shade that even the most ardent pink hater (like me) will love

Full disclosure: Pale pinks excessively worn on a grown-up woman makes my skin crawl.

There, I’ve said it.

There has always been something about a woman of a certain age (post student years in this case) drowning in otherwise wimpy goo-goo-gaga colors that just sucks the va-va-voom out of her style and her presence.

But take that same hue and amp up the volume and you have

Tags: American Beauty , baby pink , color , color trend , Fuchsia , hot pink , how to wear pink , neon , neon pink , pastel , pastels , pink , poppy , rose , Tiger Lilly

Clothing Construction, the Beauty Behind the Seams

It's so easy to get the look, but what is the mastery behind its seams?"Knowing the sewing construction is what makes one a designer not a stylist," Charles Kleibacker, at the FIT American Style Symposium. There's no doubt that I'm a seam queen! I can spot a well-made garment in an instant and appreciate the craft that went into its construction. It comes from

Tags: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion , American Beauty , Charles James , Charles Kleibacker , Claire McCardell , construction , dressmaking , F.I.T. Fashion Institute of Technology , fashion , Halston , Isabel Toledo , Jean Yu , Maria Cornejo , Museum , Norman Norell , NY , Pauline Trigere , Ralph Rucci , Rodarte , The Museum at FIT , Yeohlee