Category: Weekly Style Tips

PRETTY IN PINK!!

Yaaaay! Designers have decided we need to be rosy again, and I am thrilled!!

The one overarching color at NY Fashion Week and at the awards shows the season is PINK! Woohoooo!

Cast off your tones of cement and wheat, rethink that black, and put on your rose-colored dresses! Pink is en vogue!

This happy, playful color makes you look young and vibrant. Everyone looks more attractive in rosy tones, so don’t be afraid. The next time you are shopping, push yourself into the pink. It will make you happy and pretty!

Yaaaay color is back!!

The IT item of 2017 is the shirt dress!!

Both masculine and feminine, casual, classic and elegant, the shirt dress has been reworked by every designer for 2017.

Whether you wear your boyfriend’s oversized dress shirt, opt to rework a thrift store shirt or save up for a designer creation, the crisp, starched, buttoned-up shirt dress or shirt-as-a-dress is the one super-simple essential you’ll want this year.

We all have versions of this in our closet or our significant other’s closet, so how can you not love this reinvented trend? Add a belt, over-the-knee boots, booties or slides, and you’re comfortable, chic and totally fabulous.

You can do this!

XO~A

The ultimate fashion show, the Oscars give designers an opportunity to showcase the best of NY Fashion Week on an even bigger stage.

The one trend that was most obvious and lovely was the rise of necklines! Yes, there were some plungers in the bunch, but many many beautiful actresses wore high neckline dresses with interesting choker details.

This is a beautiful trend that brings a lot of focus to the face and eyes!

Shorter hairstyles and updos look best with higher necklines. As we move into the spring, we can all start to practice our makeup techniques once more, as our mug is sure to get more attention with this designer trend.

So, good news, you’ll be more covered in the coming fashion seasons – bad news, your hair and makeup will certainly become more important.

Back from Paris for only a few hours now, after visiting the world’s premiere TREND trade show for fashion and accessories. The trade show is called WHAT’S NEXT and it certainly didn’t disappoint, introducing new trends, innovations and improvements.

My big report is that 3D-printed clothes are destined to be something that everyone will have in their wardrobe for everything from special occasion dresses to lingerie and accessories.

3D printers are an amazing wave of the future, and patterns are now being created to print corsets, dresses, straps, fasteners, accessories and even fabric that can then be sewn.

Just as many homes today have sewing machines and creative people who can whip up a dress in an afternoon, eventually more and more homes will have 3D printers that can be programmed in minutes to create a new original design or work from an established pattern. The imagination and convenience of this is astonishing to think about.

The 3D “material” is currently mostly based in plastics, but innovation and advancements are changing this as well. The printed materials are promising that the comfort, flexibility, stretch, breathability and beauty of your 3D creations will also make them wearable.

It’s an amazing time y’all!!

Clothing and accessories as your canvas!

With the development of swift and inexpensive textile printing, designers have hit the paints and are creating amazing garments and accessories that are true works of art. Hand-painted clothing and accessories are a major trend for 2017, as unique, personalized, artisan pieces take precedence over mass-produced common clothing.

My favorite aspect of this trend is that YOU CAN CREATE YOUR OWN WEARABLE ART!

Just like any big-name designer, each of us has the ability to paint on our own clothes to create a one-of-a-kind look that is eye-catching and special.

You can find washable fabric paint at any craft store and lots of tutorials for applications on YouTube. What a fabulous way to level-up anything and put your unique stamp on your fashions. Think of how many things can be your canvas!

You can do this.

XO~A

Happy New Year!

It’s a new beginning and a time for resolutions. We all know that if resolutions are too hard and drastic, they will be broken within just a few days, so let’s talk about a few changes that we can make that will stick!

All my years working on the NBC show STARTING OVER taught me that we all want more love, money, beauty/body-care and family. This is a simple universal truth.

These desires can be interpreted differently for everyone – like finding a partner, excelling at work, stronger family ties or a better body and health…but basically we want to make strides in the L.M.B.F. arena.

So if we know that improvements in these areas can make a major difference in our lives, we should dedicate at least 30 minutes a week, 2 hours a month, 24 hours a year – One full day of 2017 – to improving each of the L.M.B.F. categories.

Maybe this week, you give yourself an at-home facial, work on your dating profile, take the lead at work and call an old cousin you haven’t spoken with in years? Next week, plan a hike, update your resume, shop for a new dress and send some thank-you notes. Week three, schedule brunch with an old friend, open a savings account, take a Zumba class and get a haircut.

The point is to realize that LOVE, MONEY, BEAUTY & FAMILY are at the core of all of our needs and desires, so we need to keep taking the baby steps each week of the year that will surely add up to big improvements by the end of 2017.

Bring on the happiness, 30 minutes at a time!

You can do this! And you are worth it.

XO~A