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Designing a Personal Brand With Your Personality: What’s The First Thing You Need To Look At?

How to you add interest to your personal brand design so its reflective of your true personality.. I’m often asked about where to start when designing the look and feel of a personal brand with personality. It’s the same as your home... it’s the same as your wardrobe... Your business... your brand design is an extension of who you are. It reflects what you gravitate to ... what puts a smile on your face... what’s relevant to you. It doesn’t always need to be exact as we are multifaceted. Our loft in Manhattan is a series of city vignettes.... our place in Jackson Hole, WY is very western. Yet each reflect the combined style of Hubbs and me. Actually the

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Home Style Week! Color Chic- How To Add Color To Your Life- Home, Fashion, and Beauty Tips

Make this a double header! This week's summer spotlight is all about home style, and let's take a look at this episode of FocusOnStyle Talk Radio to celebrate FoS's 15th Anniversary online. Enjoy! Sharon & Brad open up their homes and share style tips to make color work in your life in a very chic way From runway to your home... adding bold moves of color can be the perfect dramatic change to take you from drab to fab! Before you paint your home, listen to this show... The right colors are beautiful but so many of us are color challenged and fear color so much that they live a drab existence or overload on the wrong color that cheapens

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Custom Design Your Own Shoes- Shoes of Prey Let’s You Be A Shoe Designer

My Shoes of Prey Design
Imagine how fun it would be if you could custom design your own shoes or update an old favorite pair in a different color or heel height? Shoes of Prey lets you do that. The Australian company allows you to become your own shoe designer within the bounds of their own samples of heel styles and heights, toe styles, embellishments, and a large variety of fabrications and colors to guide you to custom design your own shoes. >> YOU WILL LOVE THIS: Don't forget to entire to win a $250 gift certificate giveaway to design your own jewelry! You get to "digitally craft"  your combinations until you find a style that is unique to you and that you love. The digital mock-up for my shoe,

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Fashion Meets Interiors- Martin Margiela designs La Maison des Champs Elysees Hotel in Paris

La Maison des Champs Elysees Hotel by Martin Margiela
There's no secret around here at FoS that I'm a huge Martin Margiela fan. There's a minimalistic, yet futuristic simplicity of perfectly pared down, yet well-designed pieces that are always timeless, yet still maintain an avant-garde edge. So when a favorite label fashion expands it's aesthetic to interiors, like Rick Owens or Jean Paul Gaultier, I'm sold... well, more so if that winged back chair was perched in my living room. Let Richard Nahem take you on a tour of the super stylish hotel in Paris. -- S.H. I have always loved designer Martin Margiela's obsession with the color white. And while Margiela retired as chief designer from his eponymous label a few seasons ago, the brand continues to flourish with his design signatures. Maison

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Style Wizz-Philippe Starck and Duravit Create a Museum-Worthy Urinal

On view at WaterDream: the Art of Bathroom Design, at the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) Who knew that a loo could be so cool? Well, I do as I have a Phillipe Starck toilet in two of the bathrooms of our New York loft. But a urinal, and one that's museum worthy too? A Philippe Starck and Duravit toilet in my powder room in New York. Isn't that painting wild? Through September 17, Duravit and Starck will be on display as part of a popular exhibit entitled WaterDream: the Art of Bathroom Design, mounted at the newly relocated Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA). What caught my eye are the three sleek Architec High Efficiency Urinals (HEUs) in the public

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Prettypretty Chairs are pretty wiggy

Hair chairs for your kookiest indulgences If you have more wigs than Dolly Parton has gone through in a lifetime, you might just start to want to look at them as potential art rather than pile of beauty roadkill. I love to look at the obvious and see it in so many different and unique ways that nothing is ever expected, whether it be art or the way are inspired by the ordinary to make to extraordinary. PRETTYPRETTY Anna Pouf Furniture designer Dejana Kabiljo of the Viennese design brand, Kabiljo Inc. sees and designs “objects for all of us with little fetishes, bad habits and compulsive actions.” The materials are carefully researched and subdued to a series of experimental processes

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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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Hey Vicky, sweet and sexy loungwear is getting busy

Kelly Nishimoto Launches Cute Booty… Victoria’s Secret move over, there's another cute homebody around with a to-die-for tush! Los Angeles designer Kelly Nishimoto launched her Cute Booty lougewear collection at a winter wonderland party for the fashion savvy. There were models walking around dressed in her fabulous bootylicious clothes and sporting the most adorable and soft knit caps and scarves also from the collection. I have to say, these accessories made me wish I lived near the snow because they were the most utterly soft and plush way to bundle up while still looking totally winter cute. The lovely ladies were also handing out cute knick-knacks such as I heart Kelly Nishimoto buttons and pink and white stunner shades made

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