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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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Stylist Advice: Your Classic Uniform, My Way!

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Wardrobe Reprise- I don't know about you but this sudden cold snap has me relying more and more on my favorite classic pieces before I even think about turning my closet over (yes, I'm layering).  Take take a look back at some of my favorite tips to make getting dressed easier. And chic. --S.H. No-brainer fall into winter dressing starts with a great coat...  Dear Sharon: I get confused at what to wear when I have appointments all over town and getting ready for work gets complicated. I wish for the days of a classic uniform, like school but a stylish one of course! Do you have any ideas on how streamline my wardrobe to a few good, solid pieces to

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Cannes Do Chic: The one item every woman should own

I'll Have What She's Having: Take it from the chic set at Cannes, a classic white blouse will easily anchor your bold pieces or create an instant shirt dress Today's installment of our series of the best of Cannes Do Chic has a wardrobe stable making a stellar appearance at the photocalls and red carpets of the Cannes Film Festival, the celebrity event where we see things that WE can actually wear! Hooray! How can something so simple look so great? Well, isn't that really what chic is about? I've said it before at Cannes in our French Chic Shirt Lesson 101, nothing beats a crisp white shirt as a go-to piece in your wardrobe. Wear it to counterbalance something that's totally out of

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Le Classic White Shirt: C’est French chic street style that you can wear from Paris Fashion Week

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French Chic white shirts I'll Have What She's Having:  A classic French Chic white shirt that's just a touch special I'd like to think of this as a palette cleanse from all the too-too of Fashion Week. Something so simple, so easy, that you may even have in your closet. I just love the simplicity of her look. The rolled sleeves, crimson lips, undone hair, and THOSE pants! So effortlessly chic. You can dress IT up, wear it to tone down something very bold, make it girly yet chic, or wear it with tuxedo flourish to a modern pantsuit. But, don't think that this kind of off-handed style is NOT strategic. The effortlessness of this very laid back classic style

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Cannes Do Chic! How to Wear a White Top and Black Bottom for Elegant Accessible Style

You know how I love Cannes for high fashion inspiration that makes luscious, elegant, and real sense in all of our wardrobes. Join FocusOnStyle as we continue to explore the best of Cannes Do Chic to help you get it together with ease. I'll Have What She's Having: A crisp + chic white button down shirt on the red carpet? Absolument, mon cherie. And for real life too, learning how to wear a white top and black bottom is one of the easiest, most flattering style tricks you can master! Discover the possibilities: Simple. Easy. Unfettered & accessible style. And long before today's starlets went mad for Louis Vuitton's mod homage to graphic inspired black & white optical combos for spring 2013, the simple sophistication

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Stylist Advice: You can do this! Audrey Tautou’s easy fitting pants and a girly blouse for French chic élan

Loooove the mix of an otherwise girly ruffled blouse with man-tailored pants. It's the unexpected hit of French chic that you can add to your wardrobe.
I'll Have What She's Having: A lively masculine/feminine French chic mix that hits smart notes by way of a soft blouse and tailored, easy fitting pants We should really call this post, "mix this DON'T match that" as  it's the unexpected combination that works so well. Love the mix of an otherwise girly ruffled blouse with man-tailored pants spotted on French actress Audrey Tautou. It's the unexpected hit of French chic élan that you can add to your wardrobe. Pairing something frilly with something sweet can get a bit too saccharine, while mixing too many man tailored pieces together can get a bit butch. French actress Audrey Tautou poses during the photocall of "Therese Desqueyroux" presented out of competition at the 65th Cannes film

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FRENCH CHIC SHIRT LESSON 101: A classic white shirt balances a vivid print a la Leïla Bekhti

I’ll Have What She’s Having:  What to wear with a bold print skirt? A white shirt, of course, is oh soooo French Chic! Leïla Bekhti, the French actress, knows that the best compliment to something bold and bright is palette cleansing clean, classic, and crisp starkness by way of a perfect shirt. >> MORE from the French Riviera: Cannes Do Chic Let's review the styling finesse of the bold "Renaissance painting" print Carven skater skirt  from last fall that she wore  at Cannes the other day. French actress Leïla Bekhti poses during a photocall of the Un Certain Regard jury at the 65th Cannes film festival Take a vivid print-- whether it be  as bright as a Lilly Pulitzer or as fashion statement-making as this Carven--

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A White Shirt Dress Is So Chic and You Won’t Look Like A Nurse, See LeeLee Sobieski

LeeLee Sobieski in a long Jil Sander white shirtdress
I'll Have What She's Having: The white clothing fashion trend continues with a dose of celebrity style as Leelee Sobieski wears a fantastic white shirt dress by Jil Sander to The Tribeca Film Festival Raf Simons last few seasons at Jil Sander saw the designer taking cues from Yves Saint Laurent met with Isaac Mizrahi & Bill Blass' iconic American subversions of classic YSL shapes much like the dramatic, all-white Jil Sander dress actress Leelee Sobieski wore at the Tribeca Film Festival recently. >> How to clean that baby?  Check out, White Clothing Care Tips A more daytime shirt & skirt version of this Jil Sander shirtdress is available at Saks. Paired with a similar Babe Paley-like hairstyle from the Spring 2012 runway show and virtually nothing else, the

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Fashion No Brainer…

One Plus One Equals Smart Style White shirt- check. Black sweater- check. Result: Two easy pieces that you have. Okay, work that look… The runway to real way trend that morphs into anyone's wardrobe, anytime. What can be more chic that a classic shirt maker's white shirt? Only the way you layer it! Take one black short sleeve (yup, that's short sleeve) crew, place over WS. One black sleeveless chunky turtleneck, place over WS. One polo shirt, one sleeveless shift dress, a real vest… You got it, all pieces to layer over the same WS. For more spunk, add a tie. Hey guys, don't want to pull this look over? Then, layer a lightweight black turtleneck under your WS! Who

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