Style

This is how you striptease. Everyday tip #42

February 11, 2012

First, forget all the nonsense floating around about specific “moves” or costumes or stripper poles. You are not a hooker (probably, or you wouldn’t even bother reading this) — so forget all about tacky sequined crap and painful-looking acrobatics and for the love of Love, do not let anyone stuff a dollar bill down your pants. [...]

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Inessentials matter. Everyday tip #28

January 28, 2012

My favorite sentence [fragment] from Jean-Claude Ellena’s Perfume: …between their hands, perfume becomes a fashion accessory, an imponderable and indispensable flourish, the most essential of inessentials… I love that description of perfume; I don’t need it, but I love it. Of all the frivolous things to pamper myself with, it’s the one that is most personal [...]

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Things don’t make you stylish. Everyday Tip #17

January 17, 2012

“I’m not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.” – Marilyn Monroe So you all know how much I love Simon Doonan, right? (I got to call him at home this one time for an article I was working on – he didn’t pick up, but he did email me back and was very charming.) [...]

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Have a signature gift wrap. Everyday Tips #12

January 12, 2012

Stop driving yourself crazy every time you have to wrap a gift. Figure out a signature giftwrap technique now, and make your life easier. Pick a color. Stock up on paper in that color. (I like orange, but you may like white and red stripes, or blue, silver, plain kraft paper.) Buy a lot of [...]

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We are frozen in time

December 8, 2011

I just read one of those articles that puts into words something that I’ve been thinking about for a while. Don’t you love it when that happens? It saves me the trouble of writing it. The article I read was in Vanity Fair, “You Say You Want a Devolution?“. It’s about how until the 90s [...]

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A girl should be two things…

August 25, 2011

Didn’t expect to find this quote in my tiny New England town center. I agree! A girl should be two things: Classy and Fabulous — Coco Chanel

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Style Rules: Why I like them, and why I break them

June 29, 2011

Last week, Design Mom asked a question about personal style, “Do you like style rules? Or do they stress you out?” My answer? I don’t mind rules. They let you know which ones to break when you want to stand out. Gabrielle’s question was in response to Ines de la Fressange’s edict on earrings and necklaces — [...]

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Pinterested!

June 23, 2011

I have an obsession, and it is called Pinterest. I’d love your pinterest account name if you have one. Mine is Roxanna. Let’s pin together! We can be pinning buddies, like Pam and I are. (Let me know if you need an invite. I’ll see if I can hook you up.) Here is a sampling [...]

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How to define your personal style: Making it work

May 26, 2011

(I found this image on pinterest.com linked from here — I hate not having the original source, if you know who made it let me know.) So we’ve created our inspiration board and faced the best and worst in our closets. What next? You’ve done all the work. Now, my friends comes the easy part. Now [...]

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How to define your personal style: The ugly

May 25, 2011

This is an ongoing series on how to define your personal style. Part 1: “Shopper, know thyself” is here and part 2: “The good” is here OK. So now that you’ve thought about what your perfect world would look like and have picked your favorites from your real wardrobe it’s time to take everything out from [...]