Eyola

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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In Their Words: Fashion Designer Eyola opens her heart about her new collection

My fascination with the Victorian era continues with the new Octette in the Eyola family 'Tarcotsira Octette' inspired by Victorian Aristocrats' dress and lifestyle. I've written about the new octette from my heart! My fascination with the Victorian era continues with the new Octette in the Eyola family 'Tarcotsira Octette' inspired by Victorian Aristocrats' dress and lifestyle. Aristocratic women of this period were big on details especially when it came to accessorizing and one item that saw no boundaries was the bonnet. Bonnets were lavishly trimmed decorated with feather trimmings and flowers both of which feature in this Octette in the form of floral embroidery and a pheasant feather belt. Other influences of aristocrats fashion of the time includes the

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We Spot ‘Em: Eyola Awarded ‘Most Promising Designer of the Year’

We knew that we can spot fantastic talent! A note from Sharon to our readers… Yes, yes, yes, from the first second we saw Eyola’s amazing designs are we wanted to share them with you. And, we did as Eyola has contributed her “Simple 5-Step DIY Plan to Personal Style“ with our lovely FocusOnStyle readers– if you haven’t read it yest, what’s stopping you? Her style tips should be part of your fashion gospal! And now, at Eyola’s first catwalk show at Arise Africa Fashion Week in Johannesburg, South Africa she was nominated for two awards: ‘Emerging Designer of the Year’ and ‘ Most Promising Designer of the Year’. Eyola was awarded ‘Most Promising Designer of the Year‘at the Arise

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In Their Words: Fashion Designer Eyola Shares Personal Style Secrets

Simple 5-Step DIY Plan to Personal Style… The success of fashion lies in differentiation and paving a new way forward. Becoming fashion forward involves an individual vision, continuously transforming yourself and transforming people's stereotypical perceptions of fashion. This recipe has proven successful with the likes of early fashion protagonists Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel and Paul Poiret. Coco Chanel strived to incorporate the power of personality to her designs by inventing her own way of personal expression. Paul Poiret freed women from the corset and opened the twentieth century with the emancipation of women through fashion. My womenswear brand ~Eyola' is my way of exploring fashion and taking it to new heights by striving to transform the fashion industry (much like Chanel

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