Photo courtesy of Style.com December 7, 2010. That was when the runway photos hit the Internet and the first time I laid my eyes on the Chanel 2011 Pre-fall Paris Byzance collection. I wanted to sell my house and buy every piece shown. But after shaking off the sweats I made a short list and the above Look 66 was …
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Skirt #1
My daily outfits consist of pants about 90% of the time. It’s rare that you’ll see me in a skirt or dress unless I have a meeting or event that requires it. And yet every season, for quite some time now, I collect Chanel skirts. They don’t always come as a matching item to my jackets, but there’s something so …
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Couture Counsel: A Difficult Neutral
So last summer’s sale was about the creepy crawlies, Prada style, and I was all over it like a cheap suit: And a few weeks ago I completed my trifecta with this recent online find, a swirly beige watersnake platform peeptoe slingback (I dare you to say that three times fast) with a sweet little bow, no less… Gorgeous shoes …
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Chanel Overdrive?
All right, so I’ve read all your comments and held the skirt then shoes up against all my shirts and sweaters and think I can either do something funky with the color or the pattern, but not both at the same time. Professional stylists are very clever with mixing both colors and patterns but I still have to stay true …
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FIMTSO: The Black Tshirt
Many people fall off the new year’s resolutions wagon by this second week in January, so along that spirit, in today’s FIMTSO episode, I’m cheating a little bit by featuring an item that’s new to my closet. Today’s test item is the something-something I alluded to at the end of the last blog’s entry. But I know that if you …