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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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Take the Catwalk Home- What you can expect in Home Trends next fall

The BCBG runway and some home inspiration by way of the Ampersand Color Block Duvet set.
Use fashion show inspiration to style your home!  New York Fashion Week just ended but don't be surprised if what you saw on the Fall 2012 / Winter 2013 fashion runways ends up as inspiration in your home style. READ: Color Chic, How To Add Color To Your Home Or consider looking at the future fashion trends to think about how YOU can get the look in your home right now. The BCBG runway and some home inspiration by way of the Ampersand Color Block Duvet set. Colorblock Adds PunchBCBG Max Azria's color block rollover from their spring collection will definitely make its way into the more trend minded home decor options such as table top accessories, China, vases, linens, and even wall paint

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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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Home Style- Trussardi Design Relaunches at the Salone del Mobile in Milan

The furniture collaboration designed by Michael Young in celebration of the fashion brand's 100th anniversary Furniture meets 100 years of Italian leather-working fashion expertise with the relaunch of Trussardi's 100 Collection designed by Michael Young. The British designer who resides in Hong Kong focuses on creating links between contemporary design and the technical abilities of the local Chinese industry in an amalgamation of high quality, style, and technological innovation between the East and West. 100 Bench from Trussardi MY Design >> MORE: Home Style During the the eighties and nineties the brand was known for enhancing a luxury lifestyle , with products ranging from the the Trussardi telephone to lifestyle design partnerships with Alitalia, Alfa Romeo, Vespa, Mini, Busnelli, and

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Home Style- French Furniture House Taillardat Adds a Fashion Touch to Marie Antoinette, Louis XV, Louis XVI, Empire and Directoire pieces

Style Where You Sit: A modern spin on high-end 18th century furniture reproductions You all must know that I cannot possibly imagine living in a home without the benefit of having something beautiful to look at and inspire by way of its furniture. For me, in particular, the chair can take so many artistic and creative forms that I wish I could collect as many as my other obsession- shoes and boots! >>MORE: Home Style I've almost run out of any possible space to add another "interesting" chair in our loft, so I've come to admire from afar, particularly ones that have a different design aesthetic from my home. Richard Nahem, who has a pretty fab pad in Paris, came

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Stylish Table Setting Inspiration from DIFFA's Dining By Design NY

Home Style: Inventive table settings to make any dinner party a special event! Okay, you've got the fancy tablewear, have a menu planned but need something extra special to make your dinner party unforgettable. Look no further than DIFFA's Dining By Design 2011, held this past weekend in New York held in conjunction with the Architectural Digest Home Design Show-- another treat for the home design senses. The DIFFA (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS) annual spring event brings together some the most creative minds in fashion, interior design, art, and architecture, along with next generation designers from the Student Design Initiative, to envision the Pier 49 venue as a blank canvas and then let themselves go to create wildly imaginative

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Rick Owens Furniture As Art Still On View at Salon 94 with Pavane for a Dead Princess

Designer Rick Owens transforms the Studio 94 gallery into Pavane for a Dead Princess, a contemporary sleeping quarter based in part on his own Parisian home. Pavane for a Dead Princess, is Rick Owens' first presentation of furniture design in the United StatesRick Owens' design vision melds archaism with modernism, brutal beauty with uncompromising luxury, whether in his collectible cool chic clothes or sterling foray into home design. Inspiration not to be missed: In an Inspired by French composer Maurice Ravel’s composition for solo piano written in 1899 and presented by Salon 94 and Rudy Weissenberg, the centerpiece of the bedroom interior by Rick Owens is a towering Spanish alabaster headboard above a low-lying bed, a monumental composition that dominates

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Fashion as Furniture: Dressed Chairs make your room as pretty as you

Found art finds fashion pretty enough to sit upon We all know that we've done this at least once! You can't believe how much you are madly in love with your new purchase. You purposely leave it strewn across a chair, just to kvel over like a doting grandmother. There are those of us who have a cherished pair or two of gorgeous, yet impractical, shoes put blatantly on display to ogle, like an artful vignette under our nightstand. Others have a nightly ritual of laying out the next day's outfit, complete with accessories to be both prepared and admired in the process. So why not take that same fashion inspiration and lavish it upon our furniture? Rooms.ge chair dressed

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H and M introduces home style collection

Hey Ikea, you may not be the only cheapie home design Swede in town, for long…   No published date is set for the U.S. just yet, but this is something worth waiting for. H&M is launching a gorgeous cheap on the chic home design collection for interiors savvy consumers.   "Simplicity and how easy it is to shop is key," says Evelina Kravaev SA¶derberg, H&M Home's head of design. "We want to show people that it doesn't have to be expensive or dramatic to change your home"   The Good News: The opportunity to transform every room in the house into a stylish, budget-friendly domain with on-trend home textiles and accessories will be exclusively available online and through a

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