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The Top Five Trends To Incorporate Now from Paris Fashion Week Spring 2016

The Top Five Trends from Paris are sure to have you thinking about tweaking your closet this season for an added sense of savor faire. And that right there is the takeaway of paying attention to runway trends. How can you update your look to present the best you? By paying attention, not too much, but just enough to know what's current. Fashion Week: Why Should You Care About The Runway? Here's a look at the Top Five Trends from Paris Fashion Week Spring 2016 to update your look with right now. Consider it your cheat sheet & take note! Shine Bright- Seen at: Lanvin(left), Rochas(right), Dries Van Noten, Sonia Rykiel Make it yours: Leave it to Paris to produce everyday

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Welcome to the FocusOnStyle NEW web design!

Can you smell the fresh paint? Drumroll please... pop on over to the home page of FocusOnStyle and you will see a VERY new web design. It may look simple to many of you but it has been months in the making. There has been a massive amount of behind-the-scenes, "under the hood" tech action going on and I'm proud to say that the new look is live. You'll notice the "blog" section of the site is still there, simply under the Blog link rather than greeting you right off the bat on the home page. All the archived posts are still there... 1,000's of them. YES, I've been running FocusOnStyle since 1999 and to say that it is content

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The Top Five Trends To Incorporate Now from Milan Fashion Week Spring 2016

Take the Top Five Trends from Milan to heart right now and what will you have? A wardrobe that's on the mark & ready to go a season ahead of the rest! No need to think about trends too much when you have them all sorted out right here, right now. With expert style tips to boot. Fashion Week: Why Should You Care About The Runway? Here's a look at the Top Five Trends from Milan Fashion Week Spring 2016 to update your look with right now. Strapped In- Seen at: Jil Sander, Ferragamo, Gabriele Colangelo, Ports 1961 Make it yours: Not quite bondage, and maybe not quite necessary, straps whether tied or trailing, lent a sporty rush to grown up dressing.

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The Top Five Trends To Incorporate Now from London Fashion Week Spring 2016

As fashion week moves on to London, a city known for the brilliantly eclectic, we're happy to report that an easy on the eye sense of grown up sophistication also made its mark. And just like we did after New York, we've considered the top five trends you should try now, straight from the runway. Maybe there's something in your closet with a similar feel, or maybe all you need is a fresh file of inspiration to finesse things together in a way you might not have thought about. Fashion Week: Why Should You Care About The Runway? Here's a look at the Top Five Trends from London Fashion Week Spring 2016. Consider this a cheat sheet for an instant,

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The Top Five Trends To Incorporate Now from New York Fashion Week Spring 2016

When looking at fashion shows and the endless show cycles, remember that the most important information you can gleam from them is how to dress for today: Right now... And that's exactly what you should be doing. After all, how many clothes does one need? Especially when the same sartorial ideas come back every few seasons. Your style can always benefit from essential tweaks here & there - all of ours could. Trust me, the little effort it takes to refresh will pay off big. Fashion Week: Why Should You Care About The Runway? Here's a look at the Top Five Trends from New York Fashion Week Spring 2016 to get fresh ideas to focus on your own style. Go

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I hope you didn’t, but if you did: 5 ways to not fall off the New Year’s style resolutions wagon

Let's reflect to timeless advice on starting the New Year in YOUR best style. Liar, liar… my big, empty promise to myself and why New Year's style resolutions hardly ever work… It's the start of the new year, and where are you? In my over 20 years in the style business, I have never once thought that truly being stylish came from a check list at the start of the year. I don't bother with resolutions of any kind anymore. If I was really going to commit to a resolution, and meant to do it, I would without having the stress of "the" list. Simple as that. I've gotten a bunch of reader emails asking about making New Year's style resolutions to amp up your look. I say phooey

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Home Style Week! Turn Any Room Into A Glorious Guest Room In No Time…

This week's summer spotlight is Home Style... Let's review  The Pack Rat's Guide To Create a Guest Room on the fly In this life, most of us manage to pack every room within an inch of it's wainscoting. So please don't dwell in the dust bunnies of red carpet despair, use this opportunity as your jolt of java to wake up your inner accommodating host. With just a few of-the-manner-born prompts, any room can be turned into a pleasing, glorious guest room at a moments notice. What time is better than the present to sit down and sort through all that countertop/closet/dresser drawer/behind the couch build-up that clutters up your decorating domain? If only the room that your guest will

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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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How To Find Your Style…

The timeless man-tailored elegance from Ralph Lauren
For this week's 15th Anniversary online post, let's look back at this double-header style motivation post on FocusOnStyle from 1999 on how to find your style. If chic style is what you're after, I can help you redifine what chic is for you in my C'est Chic Crash Course. I hope you'll join me. How to find your style can be perplexing. But not if you simplify what you need to know to look great… Two-Up For Something New: Stymied For Style and Fashion Puzzle [dropcap]D[/dropcap]ear Sharon: I've just switched careers and aside from the obvious more casual dress code, I am having some daily doldrums regarding my appearance. Everything from makeup (or the lack thereof) to the horrific amount

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My Matcha Green Tea Chia Pudding Recipe

Food! Yup, we're talking about yumminess today.  Ok, so what does this have to do with style? A lot. Style is where you find inspiration. Even if it's what you eat the first thing in the morning. Or, think about serving as a treat-- a topping of chocolate shavings and mint leaves anyone? It's the little goodies that make the big picture that much easier. I have so many exciting and focus driven things on my plate (yes, the pun was intended) in the coming weeks with my One on One Stylist Style Mentoring ladies and producing the C'est Chic Crash Course (you're going to love how fashionably delicious that is) so I can't afford to be low on energy. I've been picking up a

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American Cool: What is cool to you?

What is American Cool? One of the highlights from our family trip to Washington, D.C. this weekend was taking in the "American Cool" exhibition of 100 People Who Define Cool in Arresting Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery. It's a collection of 100 photos that go deep into the soul of those who posess that certain edge. In this selfie world of "duck lips" and "signature poses" we often lose the spontainaity that comes with honestly capturing oneself as these photos of icons Laureen Bacall, Patti Smith, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Depp, Michael Jordan, Deborah Harry, Susan Sarandon and the spontenaity of those images work to showcase each subject's individual style. Honestly, cool is probably the most overused word in my personal vocabulary.

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Four stylish lightweight jackets you should own and never get tired of

Take four stylish spring jackets and what do you have? A closet ready for the season ahead, and the season after that, and after... Lighten up, it's time for spring jackets (finally!). Try these 4 classic styles that you may even already have in your closet - we know we do. The Trench- Michael Michael Kors Trench A classic trench for an easy anecdote to mastering French Chic in a minute will instantly refresh your look in the most polished way, no matter what you are wearing - well almost. This Michael Kors number delivers a modern take worth considering. What to wear this season? Get ready for spring & on trend now! The Blazer- Diane Von Furstenberg Blazer Over

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Cheap Chic: How to look stylish on a budget

How to look stylish on a budget in minutes with expert style advice... Take from black belt shoppers who NEVER pay full price for almost anything when it comes to looking chic while being frugal. Let's be clear, Sharon & I both love something fabulous, at an equally fabulous price when we can. We're here keep you looking more put together and confident, with ease that rings true to your personal style. After all, we get dressed ourselves and no matter how much attention we pay to the runways and gain experience in the fashion industry, we still learn something new for ourselves every week. >> READ Sharon's Secret's:  Discount Designer Style Tips Kate Spade Saturday And as we start to

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