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Paris Couture Fashion Week Spring 2016- How To Incorporate The Top Five Trends Into Your Wardrobe Now

The Top Five Trends from Paris Couture Fashion Week to give a go and refresh your look while staying easily on trend. Ok, admittedly, I doubt that you or I will have the opportunity to get to a real haute couture fitting. Or even borrow a couture dress to wear on the red carpet. The prices are insane (think a year of private school tuition and above). The workmanship is unbelievable. And the scarcity is just so. So why should you care about haute couture? Because as the ladies in the C'est Chic Crash Course come to know, inspiration is all around you. You just need to let it in. THIS is where the very few designers privileged to be part of the Chambre de

The Top Five Trends from Paris are sure to have you thinking about tweaking your closet this season for an added sense of savor faire. And that right there is the takeaway of paying attention to runway trends. How can you update your look to present the best you? By paying attention, not too much, but just enough to know what's current. Fashion Week: Why Should You Care About The Runway? Here's a look at the Top Five Trends from Paris Fashion Week Spring 2016 to update your look with right now. Consider it your cheat sheet & take note! Shine Bright- Seen at: Lanvin(left), Rochas(right), Dries Van Noten, Sonia Rykiel Make it yours: Leave it to Paris to produce everyday

Ever since I spotted this chic poncho, that's more sweater than poncho, I've been obsessing about adding one to my fall wardrobe. Haven't quite made a decision yet. So, will it be the Sandro Paris Pull Sample Sweater, pictured above, or a more classic poncho, like one of the styles below. What do you think? RELATED READING: The French Chic Poncho

Take the Top Five Trends from Milan to heart right now and what will you have? A wardrobe that's on the mark & ready to go a season ahead of the rest! No need to think about trends too much when you have them all sorted out right here, right now. With expert style tips to boot. Fashion Week: Why Should You Care About The Runway? Here's a look at the Top Five Trends from Milan Fashion Week Spring 2016 to update your look with right now. Strapped In- Seen at: Jil Sander, Ferragamo, Gabriele Colangelo, Ports 1961 Make it yours: Not quite bondage, and maybe not quite necessary, straps whether tied or trailing, lent a sporty rush to grown up dressing.

As fashion week moves on to London, a city known for the brilliantly eclectic, we're happy to report that an easy on the eye sense of grown up sophistication also made its mark. And just like we did after New York, we've considered the top five trends you should try now, straight from the runway. Maybe there's something in your closet with a similar feel, or maybe all you need is a fresh file of inspiration to finesse things together in a way you might not have thought about. Fashion Week: Why Should You Care About The Runway? Here's a look at the Top Five Trends from London Fashion Week Spring 2016. Consider this a cheat sheet for an instant,

When looking at fashion shows and the endless show cycles, remember that the most important information you can gleam from them is how to dress for today: Right now... And that's exactly what you should be doing. After all, how many clothes does one need? Especially when the same sartorial ideas come back every few seasons. Your style can always benefit from essential tweaks here & there - all of ours could. Trust me, the little effort it takes to refresh will pay off big. Fashion Week: Why Should You Care About The Runway? Here's a look at the Top Five Trends from New York Fashion Week Spring 2016 to get fresh ideas to focus on your own style. Go

Are you dreaming of a Paris getaway? I've got a great quick read for you. Bright Lights Paris: Shop, Dine & Live . . . Parisian Style by Angie Niles is a chic Francophile travel guide that's as indispensable as a what to do in Paris guide as it is a how to dress like a Parisian tip sheet. The delightful book is so granular in its Parisian style observations that it even breaks down what the French girls wear arrondissement by arrondissement, that's neighborhood by chic neighborhood. After all, you wouldn't want to look too Trocadéro (Paris's 16th arrondissement) when you're tooling around Le Marais (the 3rd arrondissement) now would you? Not planning a trip to Paris anytime soon? Don't worry, there are plenty of French

I'll Have What She's Having: A very simple and forever French Chic poncho A trip to Paris was supposed to be on my docket for next week. But we have far too many other quick jaunts on the schedule for that trip to work out now. Still yearning for a getaway to Paris, I found this Crimson cashmere video that I shared with the ladies in the C'est Chic Crash Course earlier. Then I got to thinking, why don't I share it with you too? It's full of great styling ideas on how to wear the very French chic poncho. Plus, enough of a Parisian lifestyle dose to put you in the mood for a virtual getaway, altho brief that it may be. Not

I thought it would be nice to have bump of inspiration today so that you can think about beyond what's in your closet. Sit back and watch the Paris Haute Couture Fashion Shows videos. Take note of color, textures, silhouettes, combinations and luxury at its finest. Dream a little dream of possibility and how inspiration filters into your world. What's your favorite collection? Viewing Hint: I think it's kinda fun to hit play on all of them at once, get past the commercial, and slim the details. MORE: Runway Valentino Haute Couture Fashion Show [raw][/raw] More Valentino Chanel Haute Couture Fashion Show [raw][/raw] More Chanel Giorgio Armani Prive Fashion Show [raw][/raw] More Armani Christian Dior Haute Couture Fashion Show [raw][/raw] More Dior Atelier Versace

On this snowy New York day, nothing could be more uplifting that the divine wit and whimsy from the Schiaparelli Paris Haute Couture Spring 2015 Collection shown during Paris Couture Fashion Week. The collection called “Reflections of Elsa” is described as "an ode to self-confidence" with surrealist touches in homage to Elsa Schiaparelli like trompe l’oeil hands that close a crystal star necklace. Notice the flats worn with the very fabulously flamboyant pieces. There really is something magical about this collection, don't you think? MORE: Runway and Schiaparelli In In their words... Schiaparelli Paris Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2015 “Reflections of Elsa” Elsa Schiaparelli introduced her “Stop, Look & Listen” collection in January 1935 when she moved into her new couture house located 21 place Vendôme. Schiaparelli

John Galliano For Maison Margilea, "Artisinal" 2015

John Galliano for Maison Margiela I have mixed feelings about this. To start, I'm a Margiela fan and probably wear a piece in some form or another, from one of the collections, almost every day, starting with the 14 pairs of shoes & boots that are in the front rotation of my closet. John Galliano for Maison Margiela 'Artisanal' Show 2015 I love the understated and edgy appeal. I love the non-showiness of pieces that withstand time and always look current. I love the deconstructed "secret" white threads that have the same appeal to me as a red sole or giant gold monogram have for others. John Galliano for Maison Margiela 'Artisanal' Show 2015 Then there's John Galliano, a showman

Retail Remedy: Christmas in Paris by way of Galeries Lafayette, Printemps, Le Bon Marche Paris Holiday windows.. You know how I believe that Paris is where you find it is and that special chic lies inside of us all. Richard Nahem is an expat New Yorker who has been making Paris his home for the past nine years as a Paris insider blogger and personal concierge tour guide. Richard brings his take on Parisian Chic Anywhere! as one of the featured Bonus Experts in my C’est Chic Crash Course where you conjoin us discussing how to look like a Parisian as one of the 40+ videos in my premiere 8-week style mentoring program that teaches you all you need to know to look pulled together and chic. Let's look at

Walk don't run (in those shoes) to Killer Heels, shoe lust for your soul I'm a confirmed shoe addict. Don't believe me, here's a tidbit conversation with my husband while we were on the way to see The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe at the Brooklyn Museum. Scene One: Sunday drive to the museum Husband: Which exhibition are we going to? Me: Shoes Husband: Can't you just look in your closet? Well, err, he was sort of right. One of my favorite pair of shoes were on display at the exhibition; you can see why I got them here. Ok, so it's a version of my Nicholas Kirkwood wedges with the kooky architectural heel but a slightly different upper. And, they

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