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Embracing Fall Colors While They Are Still Here
November is wrapping itself up, leaves are changing and winter is fast approaching. What a better time than now to embrace your favorite fall colors and start dressing head to toe in the color of the changing leaves? One of my favorite things to do each fall is to wear monochromatic or tonal looks that match the way Seattle looks in the Fall. It always feels so fresh and appropriate and with the lingering 70’s trends lending us warm mustard, rust colors and every shade of brown one can imagine it’s easy to create this kind of look out of what you currently have in your wardrobe. You will notice…
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Trend Report: Opulence is IN
It all started with the 70’s trend: designers wanted this go-round to be different than our mothers’s version so they recreated trends only this time they strived to make them better. Fabrics were more luxurious, no detail was left behind; embroidery and embellishment became the norm while fur took a prominent position in so many collections and patchwork combinations became commonplace. Welcome to the new normal where the over-the-top has become the base line and normcore is nowhere to be found.
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Gucci-fy Your Winter Look
First there was the 70’s trend, everywhere in every collection with different interpretations throughout retailers everywhere. Then a designer takes the trend, flips it on its head and makes it more relevant, wearable and something entirely unique. Gucci is this disruptive force redifining what the 70’s trend should be and consequently how we should dress for the upcoming year. Instead of simply breaking out a button up suede skirt and a whole lot of fringe and peasant blouses, Gucci is promoting an opulent librarian meets band groupie meets hippie protester look in an ulta-luxe way that only this new Gucci house could pull off. The result is a relevant yet completely…
