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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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RHONYC Gossip-Behind the Scenes Video of Brad’s Birthday Party In Morocco of Those Housewives

The Real Housewives of New York City in Morocco and the meaning of GRACE, and a snake charmer too! The Majorelle Gardens were the subject of my last piece here on Focus on Style. Now, I bring to you this week with the ladies and my birthday in Morocco. When I was planning my birthday party, I had no idea The Real Housewives Of New York City were coming to Morocco at the same time! When Jill Zarin called me to tell me their plans, I was delighted. I thought it would be fun to included traditional Moroccan delights, such as snake charmers and fortune tellers. Jill had never been to Morocco, and I wanted her to see the magic and the splendor of

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Exclusive Video of Yves Saint Laurent's Majorelle Gardens in Marrakech, Morocco for RHONYC Fans

Brad Boles shares a sneak peek inside the world of YSL & The Real Housewives of New York City go exotic! Come watch my video of my exclusive look inside the private world of Pierre Berge and Yves Saint Laurent's Majorelle Gardens in Marrakech, Morocco... It's all about THE BLUE: Watch Brad Boles and his friend Daniele Pollitz explain You may have spotted me on the teaser at the end of last week's episode of The Real Housewives of New York City. Well, I guess you can figure out the rest! When I think of great style, one of the icons would have to be Yves Saint Laurent and his love of all things beautiful. The first time I step

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Gossip Recap- The Real Housewives of New York City, Season 4, Episode 4

Brad Boles isn't pulling any punches on what went on with those Housewives last night From the class of the Royal wedding fashion, to the crass of some of those RHONYC, we've got our favorite Queen, Brad Boles, aka Jill Zarin's gay husband dishing the dirt. --S.H. Does anybody really need to see a pathetic middle-aged women pull her broken laments out of a Hermes box?! Cindy Barshop didn't win any favors by asking Sonja Morgan downtown for lunch at Ciprinani's only to let vanity get in the way! What was Sonja's comment about her driver boy taking her downtown where she won't go even for her best friend, "Nose Bleed”! She made it clear she won't go to Quogue,

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The Real Housewives of New York City- Season 4, Episode 1 Review

Brad Boles shares his opinion on what happened last night with those attention-seeking Housewives Well, it seems the girls haven't changed much since that last time we saw them! Ramona Singer was so rude and downright mean when interviewing people for an assistant's position. Of course, I would not expect anything less from her. The only thing that's changed with Ramona is that she finally got someone to do her makeup, but that hair.... come on, Ramona this is not an episode of Ally McBeal. Next up, Jill and Kelly hanging out on Jill's bed that I designed! It seems Bethany issues still hit a deep nerve in Jill. Now, I do know from an insider's point that the sword

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The Real Housewives of New York City- Season 4 Inside Track

A message from Brad Boles: RHONYC gossip IS about to start again! Set your TV to fun, it could be a bumpy night with tonight's season premiere... I love all the hats that I wear. Of course you've come to know me as being the contributing editor at large here at FocusOnStyle, my home away from home that brings you all the hot trends as well as practical day-to-day style, beauty, and fashion advice. There's the how-to tips and Impromptu Madness style videos Sharon Haver and I post weekly are so much fun because you get to put a face to our work . But then so many of you know me as Jill Zarin's gay husband on "The Real

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Fashion Flashback to Stylist & Makeup Artist: The VOGUE Mexico Cover Days- Big Jewels, Major Dresses, and Even Bigger Hair

Fashion Archeology: We thought you'd like to dig deep into our careers and share some fab magazine covers that Brad & I worked on together! Brad Boles and I met a million years ago when I was just starting out as a stylist- fresh from a month on location in Saint Marteen for a sportswear campaign. A model had told me that Brad was looking for a stylist to work with on some covers he was doing for VOGUE Mexico and I should meet him. Brad and I hit it off like mad-- maybe too mad at times-- and started a styling team that went on for years to come with a variety of different clients and jobs. Besides, our

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Fashion Week Gossip- Michael Kors is channeling Faye Dunaway, Nanette Lapore is into a raunchy 1970’s porn inspired look…

... the ever posh Victoria Beckman talks baby bumps and fashion humps, trapeze dresses and structured shoulders. Plus, those Fashion Freaks hoping to be discovered by Heidi Klum... so many things! Brad Boles is out and about, and he still has his Blackberry to take notes and share those opinions of his... Michael Kors dresses his client with a city chic, no frills power strut! And believe me, he did not disappoint in the the Michael Kors fall 2011 collection in a melange of simple chic cropped pants, straight shoulders, crisp suitings in a melange of camels, black & blue stripes, and bright whites. >> MORE: Fashion Shows and Runway Reviews One huge stand-out look was the black leather shirtdress...

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Fashion Week Gossip- My Favorite Real Housewife Rocks The Runway, and more never say nevers at NY Fashion Week

Jill Zarin walks the walk as Zang Toi receives a standing ovation, Custo Barcelona rocks the house with sharp silhouette's reminiscent of Stephen Sprouse! A Gender Bending Freak wrapped in Tissue Paper... Think Lady Gaga Meets Isabella Blow! We let Brad Boles out with the fashion week dish... runway reviews to come... Who said a Sunday night was just about the Grammy Awards! Or Lady Gaga with flesh-like pointed shoulders in last night's performance of her Madonna "inspired???" song, Born This Way? Here in New York, we have Fashion Week and at the Custo Barcelona show, the Gaga would have been all over the collection with its bold retro prints in shades of pinks, purples and turquoise and lots of

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Fashion Week Gossip- BCBG, Luca Luca, a Real NYC Housewife, 22 Birkin bags, a runway legend and a mess of a crowd

Brad Boles is back with the dish... because someone has gotta dish! Let me say that fabulous clothes aside, it's the fashionista freak show that wrecks my nerves! Now, you know who YOU are so listen up: No matter how fabulous you think you are, please stop wearing sunglasses indoors! It is beyond NOT FABULOUS and bordering on idiotic pretentiousness. Crowd-a-tude aside, ladies, get ready for the fall collections to have a fluid theme. If the rest of the fall 2011 collections prove to be anything like the New York Fashion Week upstart shows that I saw yesterday. >> MORE: Fashion Shows and Runway Reviews Fashion week crib notes from my first day at Lincoln Center... BCBG MAX AZRA had

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Reality Check 2010- The Worst, Most Annoying and What We Wish Would Just Go Away

Talk Radio: Sharon & Brad let their hair down on the sludge of 2010 With all the focus on so-called reality this year, people are getting faker and faker, and even more bizarre. Co-Hosts Sharon Haver and Brad Boles review some of the ridiculous and stupid fads in fashion, beauty, and style. Brad's on a political tangent and Sharon can't stand clones. Somewhere in between there's behind the scenes reality show dish, insights about performance ski clothes in Jackson Hole vs Aspen, beauty and fashion tips, and some good laughs. You may not agree with them, but you sure want to listen to this episode of FocusOnStyle- talk radio:   Justin Bieber's stupid hairdo. Kim Kardashian's over endorsements... let's hope

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How to Dress for Your Body Type, Maternity Style, Commuting Shoes, Big Girl Style and the crazed world of Brad Boles

Commuting shoes, bus lanes, legendary ladies, and the anything goes but you... UN Lane! The domino traffic effect... Forget New York City when the UN is in session like it was last week! That and the fact that we New Yorkers become subjected to traffic backup for miles in the kind of grid lock not even found on a Cartier bracelet. Think about my friend, the time-challenged Lauren Arpel. Crazy traffic makes Lauren dizzy, therefore she showed up in the WRONG Italian restaurant for a dinner I organized with my very own editor in chief Sharon Haver and the gorgeous Julie Anne Rhodes from The Roving Stove who was in from Los Angeles. Imagine the wrong Italian restuatant-- oh sure,

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Reality TV Stars and A List Celebrities Fancy Weekend Festivities With Brad Boles

Gossip, Gossip, Gossip in The Hamptons: New Jersey and New York Housewives, Rolls-Royce, Polo, A-List Celebrities, and even more reality stars! The Hamptons were crawling with Real Housewives from New York and New Jersey (together!), tons of major A-List stars, and more reality show stars than you could fill the parking lot that was presently full of a Rolls-Royce or two or three. Brad Boles was there and is breathless to share his Hamptons high times and celebrity gossip with us. –S.H. Housewife Extravaganza! The weekend out East started with a fabulous party hosted by my girl Jill Zarin at Lilly Pond in East Hampton. The Real Housewife form New York City's equally wonderful houseguest Caroline Manzo and her daughter

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