Color Combo to Try: Peach + Gray
If you ever discover your self stuck in a style rut, playing with enjoyable new color combinations is a great way to liven up your wardrobe. In this series, we feature unique and unexpected color combinations, then give you fashionable outfit tips so you can attempt out these color combos your self. For far more color-centric outfit ideas, be positive to verify out our prior posts on combining Red + Pink and Mint + Mustard.
This time around, we’re going to be combining two colors that appear like total opposites — peach and gray. The pastel-hued peach offers off a soft and feminine vibe and when combined with the neutral, however sturdy gray, produces outfits that are both super chic and perfectly balanced.
Runway Looks for Less: 3.1 Phillip Lim Spring 2012 RTW
3.1 Phillip Lim Spring 2012 RTW | ELLE
A couple of weeks ago, we wrote about this season’s trend of stylish sportswear-inspired pieces, which was popularized by designers like Phillip Lim. For his Spring 2012 collection, Lim produced chic, streamlined and updated versions of classic athletic wear (like track pants, racerback tanks and sweatshirts), which he then expertly mixed with spring-suitable pastels and crisp white pieces.
If you like Phillip Lim’s Spring 2012 collection, but aren’t a fan of the sky-high designer price tags, you’ve come to the right place. Just scroll on down to examine out 3 budget-friendly interpretations of looks from three.1 Phillip Lim Spring 2012:
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Celebrity Street Style of the Week: Jessica Alba, Carrie Underwood, & Christa B. Allen
Every week, I scour the web to find inspiring outfits on your preferred celebs and support you recreate their looks! This week, I was inspired by Jessica Alba, Carrie Underwood, and Christa B. Allen. Read on to see how you can get their looks for oneself.
Look 1: Jessica Alba’s Floral Bottoms
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Real-Life Style Challenge: Revisiting the Graphic Tee
Back in high school, I stuck to a pretty regular uniform of graphic tees and jeans. It was an effortless way to get dressed these early mornings and nonetheless appear cute. But as trends changed and I got older, I wore graphic tees much less and much less. They stayed in my closet, though, since they were nevertheless in fantastic shape and still cute!
The Challenge:
So this week’s real-life style challenge had me revisiting a trend from my past. This week I aimed to style a week’s worth of interesting and trendy outfits, all about my collection of graphic tees.
Steven Charles & Akikazu Iwamoto’s Dual Exhibition Hits NYC
Untitled #9, Akikazu Iwamoto. Photo: Stux Gallery
Akikazu Iwamoto is only 38 years old. However developing up in Hiroshima, even decades immediately after Globe War II, the artist was profoundly affected by the atomic bomb. “It was everywhere,” he says by way of an interpreter at the opening of his Stux Gallery show in New York City. “You would see men and women walking about with melted flesh. My pediatrician had lost his hand.” His grandmother, who raised the young Iwamoto immediately after his parents died, lived two miles from the bomb web site and witnessed it initial-hand.
These images of human suffering and devastation continue to haunt Iwamoto, and they seep into his art—candy-colored, garish illustrations featuring hybrid animals gleefully, occasionally unknowingly, destroying 1 yet another. One colored-pencil drawing at the Stux show, which runs via June 30, attributes an young girl in a blue dress, a halo more than her head, with an massive bunch of dynamite strapped to her back, its fuse sprouting brilliant red sparks. (Underlining the duality of this self-destructive angel, the fuse looks like a devil’s tail.) In yet another, a man—or is he a slug?—washes dishes in a derelict rat-infested kitchen, his skin melting into a train behind him. What’s most disturbing about Iwamoto’s drawings and paintings, nonetheless, is that there’s a sort of manic joy to them: a rebellious, anarchic freedom that is as enticing as it is repugnant. “It is heavy and sad, but there’s hope too,” says Iwamoto. Chalk that up to the birth of his daughter, who just turned three years old. “She gave me a lot of hope for the future.”
If Iwamoto’s operate is inextricably tied to his relationships—to his hometown, to his family, to his heritage—Steven Charles’s is about the freedom from those ties. “I’m a quite selfish person,” says the 45-year-old artist, whose abstract paintings are also at Stux. “I’m not married, I do not have youngsters, and I in no way will. I just want to paint!”
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Beauty at the Ball: Emma Stone
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When it comes to beauty and fashion, Emma Stone is fearless. From winged eyeliner and blunt bangs to pink lipstick and abstract prints, The Wonderful Spider-Man actress has pretty amazing—and diverse—tastes (click right here for our favorite looks). Even even though we’re aware of Stone’s chameleon-esque ways, however, her look at last night’s Met Ball nevertheless threw us for a loop!
We’ve observed Stone rock a textured bun, heightened crown, and hair accessories—but never ever all at the moment. And while she’s worn textured gowns and full skirts in the past, her flower-adorned Lanvin and brief hemline had been unexpected. But somehow, these surprise elements worked nicely together. “Her dress was truly the inspiration for the hairstyle—it’s a very feminine and young doll-like look,” says Stone’s longtime hairstylist, Mara Roszak. “To add to the girly style, we also employed Lanvin-designed barrettes.”
Don’t see your self going to a ball anytime soon? How about a wedding? Roszak notes that Stone’s updo is versatile and operates for any elegant event, not just red-carpet ones. “I love that it’s effortless with height on best, like how Brigitte Bardot utilized to wear her hair,” says the Matrix hair guru. To produce the style at home, she recommends employing Matrix Design Pulse Mega Dust at the roots for further texture and volume. Next, “gently tease the crown of the hair and pull back into a mid-height pony right after securing with an elastic, wrap the hair into a bun shape and pin in place let pieces fall around the face for a soft appear and mist with a strong-hold hairspray and Biolage ColorCareThérapie Color Shine Shake for a high-gloss finish.”
The Met Gala 2012: Catwalk Queen’s unofficial style awards
With so many wonderful attendees and gorgeous gowns, it was impossible to select one greatest dressed winner for 2012′s remarkable Met Costume Institute Gala. Instead, we’ve pulled together a list of the most memorable looks for all kinds of factors. From our fave new face to the best use of colour, plus the most bonkers outfits of the night, here are some of our style picks this year…
Best Newcomer
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How does your body affect where you shop for clothes?
Gemma Cartwright writes…
Reading Amy’s ‘Tall Report’ earlier this week produced me believe about how our height, body proportions, bust size and so on can impact our buying habits. No matter whether we really like our bodies or strive to modify them, we are, however, slaves to what fits when we step into a fitting area.
I don’t feel I know a single lady who considers herself to be a ‘standard’ size, but when we go shopping, we are forced to conform to one particular. Unless we’re able to afford a bespoke or couture wardrobe, or have a sewing machine and the time to make frequent alterations, chances are we’re forced to compromise on fit far more often than not.
Personally, although I can typically step into a shop, pick up a size 14 and have a fairly excellent opportunity it will ‘do’, I still struggle to uncover the best fit thanks to my brief torso, long legs, small waist and big boobs. At 5’7″, I also continue to be amazed at how frequently trousers are a bit short and minis are indecently brief, but maxi dresses are nearly always also lengthy.
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