Image of the Day: Prince William and Kate Middleton’s Official Wedding Program Portrait by Mario Testino – Fashionista: Fashion Industry News, Designers, Runway Shows, Style Advice

Image of the Day: Prince William and Kate Middleton’s Official Wedding Program Portrait by Mario Testino – Fashionista: Fashion Industry News, Designers, Runway Shows, Style Advice

It is the official wedding portrait: classy and gorgeous!

My Super Chic Look for a Holy Affair

That's me in the Blue Dress and Lace Tights

I love dressing up for things. No matter what it is. Even a catholic baptism. Here I am with the in-laws (my sister in-law and her boyfriend were the ones with the baby). 

 

My dress is from Forever 21 ($30), bolero Charlotte Russe ($24), tights K-mart (pkg of 3 $5), earrings and bracelets Charlotte Russe ($4 each). 

My hair was super longer there, and I am glad to say I had it chopped off. 

What do you all think?

Lauren Conrad: Style Icon

Lauren Conrad at her debut runway show for Kohls

I have been a fan of LC's since her arrival and departure of The Hills. She not only has great style, but has used that impeccable style to build a business empire. She has come out with three novels (L.A. Candy Series), a style guide, and designs her own line of clothes for Kohls. I am dying for her new reality series to hit the tube about her professional fashion life (which is supposedly to be directed like The September Issue). Let's take cue from Conrad's swooning, polished style and get ready for some fabulous holiday parties!

Lauren Conrad is about mixing tough with chic. Her current line showed a motorcycle jacket ($72, Kohls) to light flowing minimalist pieces. Conrad was all about keeping the same head-to-toe color for fall. Why not try the minimalist trend seen at Celine or Stella McCartney which inspired Conrad, with a slim one shouldered dress (make sure it has feminine details; i.e. a bow, a flower, etc.) in a soft shade of cream, gray, or nude. Top the dress with a motorcycle jacket in a similar monochromatic hue and finish off the look with a suede platform pump or ankle booties in a similar color as well.  To make it your own, find a chain link quilted purse in a bright color, some liquid eyeliner, red lips, and cat-eye sunglasses in a tortoise shell framing.

LC's version of the tough meets chic trend

If you need the look to go from day to night, lose the leather jacket and add a brown leather waist belt instead. Make sure to cover up with a similar hued bolero or shrug.

This look would be perfect for an office party (just make sure to keep count of those cosmo's, you are wearing a dress and your BOSS is there!) or a more uptight family affair, i.e. meeting someone other than his parents (could you imagine his mother's face when she sees the leather jacket! Unless she is super cool and wears leather too, I do not advise wearing the jacket...). Have fun darlings, you will be the best dressed in the room (as always). So go out and crush a cup of wine!

Fashion Mannerisms

Style is a personal language, a morse code of colors, a communication in couture.

Style is living later than those five minutes of fashionable, being boss beyond a tiny time and place, revealing your personality when covering up.

Style is how Audrey Hepburn twisted a men’s buttondown into a blouse, how you make your littlest black dress your own... 

Stylist: Interpreters of Fashion

What Does A Stylist Actually Do?

Fashionista is my favorite fashion website. Lately, I have not really been up to par on my fashion reading. I know, I know shame on me. Distractions come as they easily go and are always replaced again. 

Sally Lyndley is a stylist that writes for Fashionista. She has come up with this amazing on-going running piece called "Sally's Styling Seminary" for all of us whom are aspiring to be in her shoes. With the Fall 2011 fashion shows just around the corner (yes, the fashion shows do not actually go with the seasons), I thought it would be nice to share this knowledge with all of you. Check it out and you will see why its one of the major aspects that I love about fashion. 

Setting up a styling business 

A stylist's role on the runway 

The most important tool... 

The secret weapon 

Style Lineage 

A Baroque Christmas

I hope all of my followers and readers had an amazing November and enjoyed all the holidays in between.

It has been much too long since my last post, however I have sparked this new found interest and inspiration to endure my ever slow RAM and trudge through and get my fashion posts out there.

Enough about me and more about fashion! We are deep within the holiday season so dressing the part is absolutely crucial. When I think of dressing for a holiday party, get-together, or event I imagine glitz and glamour, rich fabrics and textures, and metallics.

Nothing fits the bill better than the Baroque and Roll trend from the Fall 2010 shows. The look straight from the runway includes brocade, jacquard, and velvet. The key not not looking like Louis the XIV, is to balance such opulence with a slim pencil skirt, skinny trouser or jean while adding a touch of tough with biker boots or serious strappy heels. Dark colors work the best against such luxurious fabrics. Try a baroque coat, blazer, dress, or pants. Each piece will not just feel festive but will also have a bit of joie de vivre.

Charlotte Russe has a fabulous blazer for 39.50.

So get a little baroque and rock around that Christmas tree.

Sweater up Chicago

I have a new article up on Examiner.com be sure to check it out. (Click article)