Category: trends
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Red: How To Wear the Runway’s Favorite Color
Barbie pink’s edgy older sister, Scarlet red did not just become on-trend: She never went out of style! Pierpaolo Piccioli fashioned a viral moment, choosing to send models down the runway head-to-toe in fuschia at Valentino’s Fall/Winter 2022-2023 show. Pink took the form of trench coats, sequined sweater and short sets, and dresses with matching…
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How Music Can Inspire Your Style
One of the reasons I have fallen in love with fashion the way I have music: both are a language of their own. You don’t need to be fluent in a specific tongue to appreciate the story that can be told through style or song. But beyond that, I love how musicians have their own…
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Spring/Summer 2023 Trends Become One With Nature
It seems that the fashion set has taken a page from David William Thoreau and become one with nature. In January, Daniel Rosenberry’s latest couture collection for Schiaparelli took literal inspiration from the animal kingdom with embroidered animal heads, hand sculpted in foam, wool and silk faux fur. They were “hand-painted to look as lifelike…
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Making “Indie Sleaze” work for your 2023 wardrobe
If you tend to have a sleeker style, it doesn’t mean you can’t let out your inner “indie sleaze.” This fashion era that followed Y2K, is one that can be borderline cringe for people like me that were in middle school at its peak: heavy smudged under eyeliner, choppy bangs, skinny jeans with combat boots…but…
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Top Trend on the SS23 Runways: The Denim Bustier
American fashion is having a moment—and it’s living in the form of a denim bustier. Let us be real for a second: jeans are so associated with Americana that I sometimes picture the navy corner of our star-spangled banner, as being made of denim. I can practically hear a young Bruce Springsteen singing “Born in…
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“Back to School” Fashion | Trend Alert
I’m a graduate but a lifelong learner. And I must say, I am so well-schooled in the subject of style, that this test straight from the fall fashion runways, is one I’ll pass with flying colors. It’s all about: back to school. Whether class is about to be in session for you, you’ve already graduated,…
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Dior x ERL & Fendace make fashion-forward mark in LA
The past week was an exercise in keeping up with the [Kim] Jones’–collaborations, that is. From Venice Beach to Beverly Hills the creative director of both Dior Men and Fendi took over the Los Angeles County fashion scene by style storm: A tale of two cities and brand identities: The Dior Men and ERL Resort…
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Y2K Meets Spring/Summer 2022’s Trending Color: Yellow
Perhaps I wear yellow to hold sunshine. We can never touch the sun, yet in the summer we yearn to be sun kissed. To wear the hues of marigold, of mustard, or a daffodil, is to manifest summer. And once the dog days do roll around, I’ll be clothed in those shades. Pantone confirms that…
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If Carrie Bradshaw lived in Bakersfield, here is what she would do
As I walked down the ‘Streets of Bakersfield,’ I couldn’t help but wonder…could I actualize an ‘Empire State of Mind’ in the ‘Golden Empire?’ And just like that…I realized I could. Perhaps it was the ensemble I dawned inspired by Carrie Bradshaw herself (a fellow journalist and fashion aficionado). The Carrie-confidence, in every curl. It…
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THE ’90S SUIT WITH A TWIST | ON-CAMERA STYLE
It was the best of times, it was the simplest of times: The ‘90s. The finale to the 20th century was also the era I was born. The prologue to the new millennia was full of minimalist fashion. But it wasn’t this concept of doing “without” something. The neutral pinstripe suits with high-waist trousers, that…
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