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Vivid Color Trends: If It’s Bright, It’s Right for Resort

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Vivid Colors Add Punch & Spunk To An Otherwise Neutral Palette Ok, here's some shopping advice, it's time to brighten up TV producers are surely rejoicing. The one-two color punch for resort is a bold mash-up of TV-friendly colors, so vivid and brilliant, that you may just want to adjust your settings... on your everyday wardrobe, that is. These clear and crisp colors are NOT unfriendly on your skin tone as last season's neons, but rich, intense, and crisp in a sophisticated and grown-up way. >> RELATED: Color Chic. How To Add Color To Your Life- Home, Fashion, and Beauty Tips The BEST part of this color trend is that it's not reserved to a specific shade that dates itself (think of

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NY Fashion Week: David Elfin Spring / Summer 2010

Smart with a somber, soothing palette and totally wearable separates with a crisp minimal core. Veteran Spanish designer David Elfin showed his second collection in the U.S this season after being in the business for the past ten years, and compared to the overload of cocktail dresses seen everywhere else, this was a pleasant effort. >> See runway images from the David Elfin collection While there may have been some audacious propositions like a male model exiting in a tube top, he kept it smart with a somber, soothing palette and some totally wearable separates that had a crisp minimal core. >> See our complete runway coverage and fashion show photos His gray romper was a smart take on the

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Colorful Shoes Belong in Every Fall Wardrobe…

Punch of bright color adds instant zest to basics Get one pair of brilliant and bright shoes this fall. You just may become addicted to color! If you have to buy just one thing this fall, a bright, bold and very colorful shoe should be it! The more vivid the color the better, but we are loving electric blue, lipstick red, royal purple, shocking punk, emerald green, marigold, teal blue, and fuchsia. You can love whatever shade suits you. >> SHOPPING GUIDES: Shoes High heels, cute flats, buttery leather, the suede that we are partial, sexy stilettos or powerful platforms, sandals or booties are all secondary to a very brilliant punch of color that instantly updates any neutral wardrobe. The

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Fashion’s renewable resource pops its cork…

Top trend is good for the earth too! Cork Sandals and Shoes | Fashion's renewable resource pops its cork. Top eco chic trend is good for the earth too! We just love the texture of cork and it's back in a big way for spring and summer. Best off, cork is thought of as environmentally friendly as it is a renewable resourcebecause its harvesting does not harm the tree and a new layer of cork regrows on its bark*. Let Earth Day awareness open your mind to crave some some fabu cork sandals and shoes. Favorite cork shoes and sandals: >>More eco chic shopping --April 22, 2009 *source: http:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cork_Oak

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Born-Again Vintage, eco chic budget fashion re-do…

How-to recycle your wardrobe with style Born-Again Vintage, book review - eco chic budget fashion re-do. How-to recycle your wardrobe with style. How many times have you looked at something and thought to yourself, "Humm, if that collar was a bit smaller, the waist nipped in more, maybe as a vest and not a dress, or it doesn't really look like it did in its eBay photo?" Well, put a twist where it outta be! Born-Again Vintage: 25 Ways to Deconstruct, Reinvent, and Recycle Your Wardrobe by Bridgett Artise and Jen Karetnick helps you transform your wardrobe and vintage finds into your own unique and timeless look. It's the ultimate eco chic book to rethink fashion on a budget with

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Portland Fashion Week – Eco Fashion Shows – sp 09

It’s Chic to be Green… When it comes to eco chic, sustainable clothing, eco responsibility, and green fashion designers their catwalk of choice is bamboo at Portland Fashion Week. Eco-friendly designers and labels from abroad and across the country come to the green building in Portland, Oregon for their fashion shows. Without further adieu, view our multi designer photo gallery from Portland Fashion Week - Spring/Summer 2009 Collections: photos courtesy, Portland Fashion week, this page only For more info: www.portlandfashionweek.net   More Fashion Show Photos from around the globe   Eco Chic Shopping Guide Postscript: The latest winner of Project Runway, designer Leanne Marshall, launched her runway career atPortland Fashion Week in 2006, and again in 2007.

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Envy This!

The Return of Green Eye Shadow Get your face out of that scrunch! Yes, it's the return of green eyeshadow and you will love it. Get your face out of that scrunch! Yes, it's the return of green eyeshadow and you will love it. Why? Because it's not the polly wanna cracker green that makeover experts have been dissing for years - even though we recently saw Björk strolling through SoHo with a big streak of parrot shadow under her eyes and it looked sooo cool. But that's because it's Björk and she's exceptionally the exception to most things classic. The green of-the-moment is slightly glimmery and more a gentle wash of sage than a sharp hit of astro turf…

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