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[7 Days to Amazing Podcast] The New French Couture: Icons of Paris Fashion with Elyssa Dimant

Did you ever dream of having French couture in your life? Well, I have the closest way most of us can make that specific kind of luxury accessible in our daily life, and it's amazing! Elyssa Dimant, author of The New French Couture: Icons of Paris Fashion, is the 7 Days to Amazing podcast guest this week to share the dazzling history and journey of Paris fashion throughout the 20th century and today. Her new book provides gorgeous insight to the visual and historical details around high fashion in Paris and  how it effects what we wear today. As a matter of fact, if you ever feel like you're in the style doldrums, simply poke around The New French Couture

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Inspiration overload: Fantasy pieces from Paris Couture Fashion Week … don’t mind that it takes place in Rome

I have a special treat for you. It's total indulgence. And for me, a super sweet spot.  I've always had a thing for Rome. As a little girl in Brooklyn, I imagined myself living in Italy back in the 50s and 60s during the time of black and white movies, anything Fellini, red sports cars, chic black dresses worn with merry widows underneath, sharp eyeliner, Marcello Mastroianni, elegant yet wild parties, and everything Rome in all its decadent, gorgeous, crazy glory. Truth be told, decades later I did have a lot of fun in the Eternal City once I was old enough to visit time and time again. But I digress. So anything that combines the breathtaking backdrop of Rome with fantasy and fashion just

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Paris Couture Fashion Week Spring 2016- How To Incorporate The Top Five Trends Into Your Wardrobe Now

The Top Five Trends from Paris Couture Fashion Week to give a go and refresh your look while staying easily on trend. Ok, admittedly, I doubt that you or I will have the opportunity to get to a real haute couture fitting. Or even borrow a couture dress to wear on the red carpet. The prices are insane (think a year of private school tuition and above). The workmanship is unbelievable. And the scarcity is just so. So why should you care about haute couture? Because as the ladies in the C'est Chic Crash Course come to know, inspiration is all around you. You just need to let it in. THIS is where the very few designers privileged to be part of the Chambre de

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Sit back and watch the Paris Haute Couture Fashion Shows- Spring / Summer 2015 Videos

  I thought it would be nice to have bump of inspiration today so that you can think about beyond what's in your closet. Sit back and watch the Paris Haute Couture Fashion Shows videos. Take note of color, textures, silhouettes, combinations and luxury at its finest. Dream a little dream of possibility and how inspiration filters into your world. What's your favorite collection? Viewing Hint: I think it's kinda fun to hit play on all of them at once, get past the commercial, and slim the details. MORE: Runway Valentino Haute Couture Fashion Show [raw][/raw] More Valentino Chanel Haute Couture Fashion Show [raw][/raw] More Chanel Giorgio Armani Prive Fashion Show [raw][/raw] More Armani Christian Dior Haute Couture Fashion Show [raw][/raw] More Dior Atelier Versace

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Haute Couture Inspiration- Schiaparelli Paris Spring/Summer 2015

On this snowy New York day, nothing could be more uplifting that the divine wit and whimsy from the Schiaparelli Paris Haute Couture Spring 2015 Collection shown during Paris Couture Fashion Week. The collection called “Reflections of Elsa” is described as "an ode to self-confidence" with surrealist touches in homage to Elsa Schiaparelli like trompe l’oeil hands that close a crystal star necklace. Notice the flats worn with the very fabulously flamboyant pieces. There really is something magical about this collection, don't you think? MORE: Runway and Schiaparelli In In their words... Schiaparelli Paris Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2015  “Reflections of Elsa” Elsa Schiaparelli introduced her “Stop, Look & Listen” collection in January 1935 when she moved into her new couture house located 21 place Vendôme. Schiaparelli

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Here’s a hint: Let’s guess which celebrities will be wearing Armani Prive on the red carpet

Paris Couture Fashion Week: Nothing like the tell-tale sign of gorgeousness as to which celebrities turned up clad in Armani at the Armani Prive Haute couture show in Paris as a subtle barometer of red carpets to come. And, that's a very good thing. The "red, white, black from a lacquer box" inspired looks are breathtaking. Armani Privé Fall / Winter 2014-2015   Sophia Loren, Juliette Binoche, Chloe Grace Moretz, Kate Hudson, and Jared Leto Juliette Binoche, Chloe Grace Moretz, Jared Leto, Sophia Loren, Pink, Kate Hudson, Elsa Pataky were front row and center Giorgio at the Prive show earlier this evening. Let's expect to see architecturally perfect gowns in red and black on red carpets to come... MORE: Runway

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It’s time for a modern fashion history lesson! Dior Haute Couture 2014-15

Go ahead, dream a little with Raf Simons' latest Dior Haute Couture collection... Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week is a great time to gather ideas & inspiration for the next big event in you and yours friends lives. And with Raf Simons trip through fashion history's most glamorous moments for Fall/Winter 2014-15 highlighting 8 substantial shapes updated with future thinking craftsmanship, consider these some of the most advanced in looks for seasons to come. MORE: Runway Sure, we're talking six-figure price tags (ouch!), but that's not the point. Like any runway show, think of how you can keep on trend and stand out while referencing whats on the catwalk. That said, each of the 8 passages boasted seriously cool and

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Shocking in Paris! Schiaparelli Haute Couture, why not?

I don't know about you, but my day certainly could use some fantasy, frivolousness, whimsy, and eccentric charm. Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week is generally a gorgeous snooze fest since Christian Lacroix no longer shows. But Marco Zanini in his second Schiaparelli Haute Couture foray for Fall/Winter 2014-15 embraces the flamboyant legacy of the designer who put shocking pink on the map. MORE: Runway We've got all the Schiaparelli couture photos here for you to drool over. Don't worry, none of us can probably ever afford these couture pieces, but we can't afford to not consider to add a little zing to our outfit. I'm loving the fashion flashback of the shocking pink palazzo pants, above, that remind me of a Norma Kamali

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A sneak peek into Charles James: Beyond Fashion at the Met

I popped uptown yesterday to the Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute’s new Anna Wintour Costume Center for the press preview of its first exhibition, Charles James: Beyond Fashion spotlighting the career of  the legendary 20th-century Anglo-American couturier  (1906–1978). Through the years, I've seen pieces of James work  and many of the gowns on display seemed like beautiful old friends that I was delighted to reaquaint with. But it wasn't a gown that made me smile. The first down jacket, and it was couture. It was seeing his white celenese satin jacket with eiderdown filling, 1937, a textile based sculpture in response to the boxy fur jackets that designer Elsa Schiaparelli was showing and what many women wore at the time. Love it or leave it, this

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Valentino Haute Couture Spring 2014

Thought you would like some ethereal & lyrical inspiration by way of the Valentino Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2014 Collection. In their words... Fragile, graceful creatures, ethereal and primordial, inhabit a dreamlike world. Sublime creations that define characters in a fairytale-like study of pure individuality. Lyrical and uninhibited, Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli have created an opus of pure imagination for Valentino’s Spring/Summer 2014 Haute Couture Collection: a harmonious and unexpected work, it is interpreted by a kaleidoscope of figures all seeking a stylistic and psychological unicum. Interpreting Couture from a narrative perspective, they leave it to the spectator to imagine the story while offering ideas and fragments of a fantastic voyage. The collection appears on a set, that is

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Dior Haute Couture Spring 2014: A case for the classics in the audience

Marie Josée Croze, Allison Williams and Isabelle Huppert all in Dior
Marie Josée Croze, Allison Williams and Isabelle Huppert all in Dior Ok, you may not be able to afford this (nor I), but you can certainly afford to understand the power of elegantly tailored pieces... haute couture or mass market, there's some fab styling inspiration there! I'll Have What She's Having: Dior Haute Couture Spring 2014 attendees had us mesmerized on How to make a case for classics with celebrities Kate Bosworth and more in ultra glam, daytime friendly Dior We love to people watch almost more than see what's on the runway at Paris Couture Fashion Week... And Raf Simons' latest collection for Dior saw a slew of celebs decked out some very of the moment and modern yet

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Summer Business Attire Chic: What to wear to work when it’s hot as hell + still look polished

Summer Business Attire Chic: What to wear to work when it’s hot as hell + still look polished- Milla Jovovich at Paris Fashion Week Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2013/2014 - Chanel Show
How to stay cool yet maintain polished summer business attire élan can be a toughy  during a heat wave. Let's dive in, at least the metaphor is cooling & solve the what to wear to work when it's hot fashion dilemma… My gosh, it's a scorcher out! I just got back from a meeting in sweltering midtown Manhattan, aka Schvitz City today,  and thought I would hurry up and push this post up as long as the temperature was doing a fine job rising on its own.  Commuting to and from the office in a heat wave is a no fun zone that I'm lucky enough to avoid  most of the time. But, when that summer meeting gets me to

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Looking for some special occasion inspiration? Drool over Haute Couture Fall 2013 Runway highlights

Valentino Haute Couture Fall 2013 Dream a little with Haute Couture Fall 2013 runway highlights for wedding, bridal, formal and special occasion inspiration. Take note now from Bouchra Jarrar, Christian Dior, Martin Margiela and Valentino Listen, I can almost bet that not one of us can ever afford a true haute couture gown. That's ok. There's a rare madame somewhere who can and  a celebrity who will borrow it. Why pay attention to haute couture? Why bother worrying over the latest designs for the jet-set? Especially when most of us will never even see let alone own such a decadent budget buster? >> WHY DON'T YOU… Check out the rest of our Fall / Winter 2013 Highlights from the runway and fashion week street style

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