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Cleopatra As Fashion Muse from the fall catwalks to Sex and the City 2

Beauty & Jewelry Trend Report: Miss Cleo the Modern “It” Girl The Miss Cleo trend in beauty at L.A.M.B. for Fall 2010 Why wait for fall? Everyone wants a jump on a fashion trend, especially when it's something that you can glom onto, run with, and make personal... before it is even “in season,” the proposed season, that is. Look no further than some blunt bangs, heavily lined cat eyes, and very royal and sensual jewelry in a BC kind of way. Hold your cobra, Cleopatra is our favorite muse of the moment! There certainly was no shortage of models with a ‘Walk Like An Egyptian' vibe on the fall catwalks, or even some not so subtle nuances to Elizabeth

Cate Blanchett Leads the Chic Mid-Age Ladies of the Cannes Fashion Pack dressed in Giorgio Armani Prive

Cate Blanchett wore an ice-pink triple organza lamé Giorgio Armani Privé cocktail dress for the 'Robin Hood' press conference.

RuPaul is America’s Sweetest Drag Queen and Still Prettier Than You

"Workin' It! RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style," honey, SHE has got it going on! Read it, turn to the left Read it, now turn to the right Read it, sashay shante I have one thing to say... you better read it, bitch! RuPaul is on my mind quite a bit. Not because of his television show, “RuPaul's Drag Race, “ or because I seem to always have the ending lyrics to Supermodel (You Better Work) stuck in my head every time deadlines get heavy. RuPaul is on my mind for another reason—it's because I cannot believe how many female reality TV stars look like a family of drag queens! It's impossible to count how many

Prettypretty Chairs are pretty wiggy

Hair chairs for your kookiest indulgences If you have more wigs than Dolly Parton has gone through in a lifetime, you might just start to want to look at them as potential art rather than pile of beauty roadkill. I love to look at the obvious and see it in so many different and unique ways that nothing is ever expected, whether it be art or the way are inspired by the ordinary to make to extraordinary. PRETTYPRETTY Anna Pouf Furniture designer Dejana Kabiljo of the Viennese design brand, Kabiljo Inc. sees and designs “objects for all of us with little fetishes, bad habits and compulsive actions.” The materials are carefully researched and subdued to a series of experimental processes

Hermes sale of sorts on Birkin bags and luxury goodies

Savings is relative but you will never tire of these classic bags

Best Shopping Site Finalist for FocusOnStyle at juli b Style Awards

We are the Reader's Choice Award Finalist for Best Shopping Site, you know we rock big time! FocusOnStyle has been nominated in fashion as "Best Shopping Site" at the juli b Style Awards. Bravo, bravo to us! Not to sound perplexed, but WE really consider ourselves an online fashion magazine for can-do chic with a some fabulous fashion finds in our editor curated shopping guides as well! Seems like the Style Awards aficionados over at the luxury juli b newsletter agree with our forward-thinking, inspirational and aspirational, high/low mix of shopping online and nominated FocusOnStyle as a Reader's Choice Award Finalist under the Best Shopping Site category. Our Focus On: SHOPPING Guides For those us you not familiar with our

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

Humor Chic

Witty, cheeky, brilliant, and VERY fashionable It's funny how the fashion flock can sometimes take themselves so seriously. Add some tongue-in-cheek insider observations and it's Humor Chic! Karl Lagerfeld and Vivienne Westwood aleXsandro Palombo (yes, the a is small, the X is a capital as is the P to represent the Latin symbols for Pax Christi) likes to think of himself as the father of fashion satire. He has just the right amount of wit and whimsy to poke a very manicured finger right back at the fashion industry and have them smile all the better for it with Humor Chic, the world's first Daily Society Portrait blog. Palombo is a global foot soldier (Prada or Dior Homme, I wonder)

Michelle Obama jewelry is quite covetable so you’ll want to know how to get the look

I'll Have What She's Having: Multi-strand beaded bracelets by Loree Rodkin Michele Obama knows that more is better than one when it comes to delicate jewelry. Nothing looks more right than a collection of beaded bracelets rather than one single strand. The First Lady is no stranger to fine jeweler Loree Rodkin-- known for her modern and distinctive take on artisan-inspired pieces pieces-- as her Loree Rodkin custom-designed inaugural jewelry will be included in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institute. Michelle Obama wearing Loree Rodkin Multiple Stretch Bracelets with Various Accents Here, Mrs Obama wears a lighter take on fine jewels with Loree Rodkin Multiple Stretch Bracelets with Various Accents at an interview for the "Let's Move" initiative to

Glass Couture Shoes are fantasy footwear to wear and behold

Introducing Q by Pasquale: Wearable Designer Glass Footwear This is the absolute shoe fantasy! Five years in the making, this collection is composed of the finest Murano Italian glass, 24-carat gold beads and gold leaf detailing, and fine Italian leather. Take what you knew about Cinderella's glass slippers and throw it out the window. Designer and “cobbler to the stars” Pasquale Fabrizio has created an incredibly posh, decadent, and most importantly durable glass shoe that puts fairy tale imagery in a whole new light. What is also amazingly clever, is that Pasquale designed the sole of the shoe to be completely clear. When you look at the profile of the shoe, you can see right through it. Every angle of

Yes, I think I’m Parisian Chic. Maybe!

Some things in Parisare almost a given, a rite of passage if you will. There's that tentative yet boldy self-confident attitude. Polar opposites that when they come together, with a cute accent thrown in, are oh soooo French. Then's there's the love for simple, yet classic pieces, with something bold thrown in to pop. The attitude and the style are almost the same, no? Yes, of course they are! H&M is beginning a style video series and the 'Parisian Chic' street style is the 2nd to roll out today. We think it's very worthwhile to watch and captures the je ne sais quoi of young French style that is a simple, yet timeless recipe for easy chic. Take a look:

Fashion as Furniture: Dressed Chairs make your room as pretty as you

Found art finds fashion pretty enough to sit upon We all know that we've done this at least once! You can't believe how much you are madly in love with your new purchase. You purposely leave it strewn across a chair, just to kvel over like a doting grandmother. There are those of us who have a cherished pair or two of gorgeous, yet impractical, shoes put blatantly on display to ogle, like an artful vignette under our nightstand. Others have a nightly ritual of laying out the next day's outfit, complete with accessories to be both prepared and admired in the process. So why not take that same fashion inspiration and lavish it upon our furniture? Rooms.ge chair dressed

Giuseppe Zanotti x Colette Paris Ammo Ballerinas!

Saturday morning coffee with a side of style... I have to admit that I'm still trying the process the calamine pink rifle that we saw in a pawn shop cum convenience store out west. However, when it comes to these Giuseppe Zanotti canvas ballerina flats with a Swarovski strass bullet exclusive to Colette, I'm all fired up! No matter how French chic ballerina shoes are, I'm probably the rare bird who is uncomfortable in super flats. Give me a good heel any day. I'm not much of crystal queen either. But, sniff sniff, I do love the way cute flats look on everyone else! But the genius of the combination is making me want to fly off to Paris and

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