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Timeless Style: Fall/Winter Collection 2015 - Andrew Gn

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Timeless Style: Fall/Winter Collection 2015 - Andrew Gn

Fall/Winter Collection 2015 - Andrew Gn

It's mid-August and high time for me to start thinking about Fall/Winter clothing as most collections are now in stores.  After taking a quick whip through Style.com to see whose collections I'm interested in, my first port-of-call is Bergdorf's.  It's my favorite store in New York because it carries just about all the designers I'm interested in and although edited from what's shown on the runway, there's always a broad enough selection for me to understand the collection and choose from.  In recent seasons I've been focusing on finding a special piece or two that adds to my closet and keeps my look current.

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Timeless Style: 70s Style for Spring/Summer 2015

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Timeless Style: 70s Style for Spring/Summer 2015

70's fashion is back and for some of us there's a sense of "been there done that!"  However, the silhouettes have been refined and updated - I'm loving the cropped jackets, billowy dresses, woven wedged sandals and fringed bags. Etro's collection is pitch perfect in capturing that era's carefree bohemian spirit. Fabrics have customized dyeing, braiding and intricate embroidery giving the clothes an engaging mix of Native American-style details and Zandra Rhodes' gossamer, floaty handkerchief hems.  

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Timeless Style: Everyday Dressing

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Timeless Style: Everyday Dressing

Everyday Dressing

Although I love high fashion, I appreciate a certain elegant simplicity in my everyday dressing.  Beautiful fabrics, unusual patterns, interesting color and texture combinations and an overall great fit are the signature elements in my wardrobe.  So, for me Tory Burch often fits the bill for everyday dressing as the clothes are not fussy and as her collections have evolved, her aesthetic has become less preppy and more sophisticated.  I love navy and this year I'm in luck as a lot of designers seem to be loving navy too.  Louis Vuitton has a gorgeous navy blazer, tapered at the waist, small shoulders and gold button detail paired with tailored jeans, which if there's an outfit I'm lusting after, this is it.  It's that quintessential casual elegance that always appeals to me.

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Timeless Style: Givenchy & Dior Fall/Winter 2015

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Timeless Style: Givenchy & Dior Fall/Winter 2015

Although on the East Coast it's still arctic, I'm daydreaming about this spring's fashions and the look that's resonating for me is the tailored coat and gilet.  Designed to be worn as part of the overall outfit, at Givenchy it's downright rocker-chick sexy.  The workmanship is practically haute couture with highly detailed black and white latticed jackets and elaborate embroidery of whipstitching and filigree.  Dior's court coats and gilets were shown with silk quilted Bermuda shorts for a somewhat  informal effect, but with no less attention to beautiful embroidery details. Dior referenced an 18th-century court coat, as Style.com eloquently expressed, "evoked the historicism of Christian Dior's original Bar silhouette.

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Timeless Style: Living In Denim

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Timeless Style: Living In Denim

It's a little too early for me to talk about Spring especially as there's a winter snow advisory, predicting 3-5 inches this weekend.  However, it's always the right time to discuss denim.  One trend that's gathering speed is high-waisted jeans, and in my opinion not a moment too soon.  The low-rise jean was one of the most uncomfortable and often unflattering looks I can remember in a long time.  That style also gave us the "muffin-top" and no-one was happy about that.  So, now the high waist is back, but not in a mumsy way - it's very stylish, accentuating a wasp waist and if you like your sweater or blouse tucked in to show off that wasp waist and belt buckle, they will now stay in place.  I couldn't be happier...

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Timeless Style: Making a Holiday Statement

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Timeless Style: Making a Holiday Statement

It's the holiday season with invitations to all manner of events, some formal, some not so much.    What to wear that looks sufficiently festive and can the outfit(s) be worn to more than one event?  These are the questions I ponder as I look through my closet. The very good news is that the sales have begun and most things from the Fall/Winter season are now on sale.  Looking through the clothing lines of some of the designers, one that I feel strikes just the right note is from Diane Von Furstenberg.  

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