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Oscar Dresses from the Red Carpet and Cheap Chic Celebrity Inspired Looks

First Look on the Oscars Fashion Look for Less Oscar Week is not even over and the Red Carpet fashion look alikes are out! FocusOnStyle has the hot out of the sample room photos of the celebrity inspired fashion from the 82nd Academy Awards! Did you love the Oscar dresses of Kristen Stewart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Queen Latifah, or Miley Cyrus (her poor posture not included) and wish you can have a version of your own? Faviana has you covered with a celebrity-inspired lookalike gown. Kristen Stewart in her original red carpet gown and the Faviana celebrity-inspired version Were the gorgeous gowns of Sandra Bullock, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, or Kate Winslet more of your style thing? Don't worry, A.B.S. BY

Get the Clean Chic Look from the Paris Fall 2010 Runways

WHERE IT NOW: Streamlined, timeless, and elegant style that works so well in this economy Look ahead to your future shopping and back in your closet for the pared down and simple classic looks that paraded the Paris fall runways. Clean chic and minimalistic stylings that are unfussy, easy to wear, and most important timeless yet modern. If that's not recession-proof fashion, we don't know what is. Celine Fall / Winter 2010 There is a seasonless aesthetic to palette-cleansing Clean Chic simplicity that works so well in this economy. The luxury of the pureness of the designs is what always looks right and never dated. It's all about perfectly stripped down and high style silhouettes that endure time and make

First Lady Gowns at the Smithsonian Behind the Scenes Video

Christian Siriano for Payless Platform Shoes Big Trend at a Cheap Price

Talon Heels are the of-the-moment crazy fashion trend, why not make it cheap chic? . Let's face it, the trendier something is, the cheaper it should cost. You probably won't be living in these shoes but they will make your day (or night) on the few times that you die for them. Then, like any another sugary sweet craving, you'll be over them faster than you can say, "return on investment." Christian Siriano for Payless To the Point Printed Platform Pump The crazy talon heels are so terribly on trend at this very moment that there is nothing better than some super cheap chic thrill to satisfy your craving for these uber trendy platform shoes. We say buy up a

Milan Fashion Week Look Back Move Ahead Fall 2010

Fashion inspiration from the Milan runways... As with London inspiration last, our friends at VagabondNYC look back at last week's Milan Fashion Week to tell you what future fashion influences their vintage shopping hunts. Think like a stylist, and you too can get next year's look right now by finding inspiration in the details of what's in store for next season. >> Look at our complete Milan Fashion Week coverage and all Fashion Shows Jill Sander

Michelle Obama Donates Jason Wu Inaugural Gown to Smithsonian and wears Prabal Gurung

Michelle Obama and Jason Wu with her Inaugural Gown

Alexander McQueen Final Collection Presented in Paris

Alexander McQueen Fall 2010

Martha Stewart’s recipe for style from Vogue’s Andre Leon Talley

Martha Stewart and Andre Leon Talley

The iconic New Wave wardrobe of Aimee Mann is a vintage fashion score

80's New Wave cool is decidedly timeless in its avante-garde fashion way I'll try not to count how many times that I got dressed to go out to a club with MTV playing in the background. 1985 YOHJI YAMAMOTO Asym Sarong Skirt w Suspender Str But I will tell you that one of my favorite 80's groups was 'Til Tuesday. What I really loved was how real and downtown the the lead singer Aimee Mann looked in in the videos in comparison to some other pop stars at the time who looked like they were styled and ready to go to spring break in Daytona. As a just-hatched stylist and seasoned downtown club goer during the New Wave era, I

London Fashion Week Look Back Move Ahead Fall 2010

Fashion inspiration from the London catwalks... Putting on their vintage shopping brain, our friends at VagabondNYC look back at last week's London Fashion Week to tell you what future fashion influences their vintage shopping hunts. Think like a stylist, and you too can get next year's look right now by finding inspiration in the details of what's in store for next season. >> Look at our complete London Fashion Week coverage and all Fashion Shows

Oscar Hair Amanda Seyfried pulled-back chic chignon

Red Carpet Hairstyle How-To: To balance all the full dresses, a simple and elegant pulled-back chignon bun is order Harry Josh, John Frieda International Creative Consultant, worked his hairstyling magic to create a chic and modern Oscar hairstyle for Amanda Seyfried Here's an Oscar hairstyle tip that you steal from the red carpet into your everyday Spring hair repertoire. What with all the full skirt silhouettes and retro-feminine silhouettes hair worn long and down or piled on top in a high updo just won't work. You need a simple chic pulled back do that still has a shape to be in balance with a full skirt. That's what Amanda Seyfried needed to compliment her Giorgio Armani Privé soft green silk

Oscar Dress Red Carpet Review

Fashion's Best, Worst, and Plenty in the Middle on the Academy Awards Red Carpet It's the morning after and which star wore the most memorable Oscar Dress? Truth be told, less is more when it comes to the perfect Oscar dress unless you aim to make a big bold statement on the red carpet. It's unfortunate that so many stylists got the memo on frothy dresses with full skirts and plenty of trains because by the end of the evening it was almost impossible to tell each ‘top of the wedding cake' dress from the next. But I do know that their celebrity inspired knock-offs will be coming to a prom near you. Sandra Bullock >> Don't miss OSCAR Fashion

Armani Red Carpet Fashion Retrospective from Lady Gaga to Beyonce

Lady Gaga fashion firsts lead the must-see Armani Red Carpet Retrospective I highly suggest that you make time on your calendars to see the breathtaking Giorgio Armani Red Carpet Retrospective exhibition. I was delighted to attend it's opening reception last night at the Armani store on 5th Avenue in New York. >> See Oscar fashion red carpet photos 2010. Where else can you see a cavalcade of iconic red carpet fashion up close and very personal? So close that you can even tell which star is a bit on the busty side or which one is ever so tiny. I'm not snitching 'cause you better go see for yourself! Inside the Armani Red Carpet Retrospective For the past 20 years,

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