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Jean Paul Gaultier Furniture Sweetens Up Paris Elle Decor Suite

Love the crazy way Jean Paul Gaultier put his signature nautical stripes on wacky, cool furniture For the last two years Elle Decor has selected a fashion designer to decorate the former apartment of Jacques Carlu at the Cité de Architecture. This year the chosen is Jean Paul Gaultier, proceeding Christian Lacroix and Martin Margiela. Jean Paul Gaultier has brought his usual whimsical and sometimes kitschy style to the 2,400 sq. ft. space atop the museum. >> Home Style SHOPPING Guide Sort of an optical illusion Enter the vestibule and you find his signature marine blue and white stripes covering the walls and furniture but the stripes are askew in certain spots making it an optical illusion. Lushness abounds In

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Home Staging Tips For Picture Perfect Interiors

Tzuj up your environment with these home staging / home styling tips and tricks from Brad Boles and Sharon Haver! In this week’s episode of Focus on Style- Talk on Blog Talk Radio, Sharon and Brad share tips about how to stage your home. Both agree that your home should reflect your personal style and be particularly in order when you plan to sell, have it photographed for a magazine, share with your Facebook friends, or simply be a beautiful environment for your guests and yourself. Of course, Brad has his gazillionaire take on style as he just staged the Bridgehampton, Long Island home of Todd Rome the president of Blue Star Jets for a photoshoot; a home that he

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Printemps Paris Alice in Wonderland store windows salute fashion and whimsy

Printemps Paris Alice in Wonderland store windows Alice in Wonderland mania has taken Paris by storm! Printemps is lighting up the dreary, gray winter with their delightfully whimsical and chic Alice in Wonderland windows. The department store is celebrating the release of the new Tim Burton version of "Alice in Wonderland," starring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter and Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, with a very French fashion touch. Free rein was given to a group of top international designers to use their imagination to create their own Alice dress. Alice in Wonderland theme in the Printemps Paris windows Haider Ackermann, Manish Arora, Chloé, Ann Demeulemeester, Christopher Kane, Nicholas Kirkwood, Maison Martin Margiela, Bernhard Willhelm, and the late

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Fashion: Best of the Decade & Its Defining Style Moments

Fashion designers of the decade and their standout looks that will become the hallmark of 00's fashion Our fashion savants, and vintage experts, Andrea Perini and Naveed Hussain of VagabondNYC are like walking encyclopedias of iconic fashion moments from mid-century to today. The fashion industry kids are a go-to source for what's relevant from the past to wear today. Andrea and Naveed have culled some of their thoughts from the past 10 years and let us be a fly on the wall with this quick-study crib sheet of what influences in fashion they feel are worth your remembering and collecting from the decade and why. Is it fair to call this a decade of heavy revivals? Why so? AP: Absolutely.

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The Boyfriend Shirt: SEW many ways to wear the look

Strut your personal style with The Boyfriend Shirt… I thought this was a fun experiment with style that I didn’t want to pass up. And, why not play model for a day?! The plan: Take one menswear shirt and have a group of fashion writers rock The Boyfriend Shirt with their own personal style! One simple shirt, so many different ways. Well, make that S.E.W., as this shirt is very special… The Boyfriend Shirt is reminiscent of your father, boyfriend's or husband’s work shirt, but it fits your curves! Created by celebrity style expert, Jess Zaino and Scott Evan Wasserberger of the downtown New York menswear boutique S.E.W. (yes, those are Scott’s initials), The Boyfriend Shirt for SEW has all

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For the Love of All that is timeless, edgy…

Commes des Garcons collection debuts at H&M When dissected from their imaginative styling, the quirky, yet very wearable pieces designed by Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons for H&M are coming to a price point for you! Once upon a time, there was a certain fashion shorthand to show that you were in the ‘club': A Helmut Lang (the man, not the brand) jacket, a Martin Margiela sweater, some Prada shoes, and a Commes de Garcons shirt or two. Sprinkle in some Hermes accessories, a Cartier piece of jewelry, a pair of well-worn jeans, and there you have it, the iconic wardrobe of the fashion insider albeit photographer, art director, gallery owner, interior designer, talent agent, or stylist. But here's

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Moose of the Moment and Musings from the West

Who said you can’t find chic in the highest mountains? Ok, we know that Jackson Hole is relatively fashion-free. It’s where Patagonia is my Prada and Marmot is my Margiela, and our Western is Marlboro Man iconic. After awhile you really want to go gaga for shoes not for their traction, but for their style appeal… what you wear in Jackson Hole, stays in Jackson Hole! Yeah, the Grand Tetons are amazing, the air is crystal clear but I am jonesing big time for a “real” fashion fix… I may have an escape in Wyoming, but I AM a New Yorker true and true. >> Wanna try some western shopping out west, maybe not so much Moose of the Moment:

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VPL by Victoria Bartlett

Share | VPL by Victoria Bartlett - Fashion Show Photos | Fall - Winter 2007 Designer Collection VPL by Victoria Bartlett VPL by Victoria Bartlettfashion show - runway photos Fall - Winter 2007 - women's clothing collectiondesigner site: www.vplnyc.comNew York Fashion Week Dear Gorgeous Darlings,Designer Victoria Bartlet's VPL collection has that certain air of off-handed quirkiness, mixed with extremely wearable, well-cut classics that only a former stylist could pull off. This fall's collection is a homage to "Modern Suffragettes," pioneering women through time. But what I are see is a collection that evokes that downtown sensibility of the real Helmut Lang, Martin Margiela, Costume National, and all those great designers who can make effortless so edgy and timeless. The boots

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French Chic Fashion Tips – What to wear in Paris

What to wear in Paris can be a challenge. Follow my timeless French chic fashion tips and you can master Parisian style, where ever you are… French chic… What to wear in Paris (our Paris inspiration shopping guide is at the end of the page) Dear Sharon: I'm going to Paris for vacation and don't want to look like a tourist. I'm not familiar with what is acceptable to wear in such a chic city for touring around. I'm thinking the usual American customs of wearing shorts, T-shirts, sweats, tennis shoes, UGG's, or flip-flops probably won't go over well in Paris. What should I wear to a dinner cruise on the Seine or trolling about Paris to visit museums, shop,

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