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Update Your Wardrobe - Painlessly
I think that I understand [the idea of] being a bit "with it," without being a slave to fashion.

I also identify with [the need for] change [in one's style]. I used to be very resistant to change. Until recently, I used to wear my hair in the same way that I did in 1992.
14-Sep-2006 - Details

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Signs of spring: Fashion Week trends to watch
Buyers and fashion editors are wrapping up Olympus Fashion Week here, gleaning runway insight into next spring’s breezy yet sophisticated styles. Rodriguez, a designer known for his body-conscious cuts, tackled the season’s extra volume on a smaller scale than most. Tuesday night he showed a beautifully innovative collection - plastic and Fiberglas details gave dresses an armorlike quality - and challenged the industry to look to the future of fashion.
15-Sep-2006 - Details

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Emerging Trends Taking Some New Shapes This Spring
With only two days left of New York Fashion Week here are the emerging trends that you can expect to see for Spring 2007:
15-Sep-2006 - Details

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Wardrobe Basics
A capsule is a group of clothes that mix and match and can be bought together to save time and money. Season, color, style and fabric should be considered when grouping clothes together in a capsule. For optimum results, capsules should be built around one or two ‘anchor’ jackets that can be worn with various pieces in your wardrobe to form suits and other outfits. Versatility is the key to creating a successful capsule.
19-Sep-2006 - Details

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Layers, dresses, coats top picks for spring fashion
Thousands of outfits were paraded on the runways of New York Fashion Week as top designers previewed their collections for spring. But what - if any - look will take off?
19-Sep-2006 - Details

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Menswear for women with style
"Avant garde" is a commonly cited term when trying to describe the clothes shown in London fashion week. "Edgy" is another popular one, followed shortly by "experimental". And all of the above are probably pretty fair: only in London would one of the most keenly awaited shows of the week be by a young designer, Gareth Pugh, who last season sent models down the catwalk in latex body suits affixed with what appeared to be rubber balloons.
20-Sep-2006 - Details

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Fashion report: Tighter than tight
If you were hoping that skinny jeans were going back into the fashion vault, we've got bad news: Pencil fit, cigarette legs, bane of your existence – whatever you want to call it – the trend is clinging onto fashionable legs everywhere.
21-Sep-2006 - Details

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From belts to boots, what to buy and how to wear it
Shopping for fall fashions this year can be downright decadent.

Just consider all the opulent colors (deep plum, ruby red, forest green), the lush fabrics (cashmere, leather) and the abundance of accessories (gold jewelry; chunky platform shoes and slouchy boots; stylish, voluminous bags).
21-Sep-2006 - Details

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The Meaning of Color
Understanding the meaning of color as well as the cultural use of color and how colors interact is important in print and electronic design in order to convey the right tone, message, and evoke the desired response to the brochure, newsletter, ad, Web site, or other publication. Colors are non-verbal communication. They create a physical and emotional reaction.
22-Sep-2006 - Details

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Color Psychology
In 1666, English scientist Sir Isaac Newton discovered that when pure white light is passed through a prism, it separates into all of the visible colors. Newton also found that each color is comprised of a single wavelength and cannot be separated any further into other colors.
22-Sep-2006 - Details

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Top 10 Easy Ways to Update Your Fall Wardrobe
No need to buy complete, head-to-toe ensembles to look like you have a fashion clue. Any one of these 10 easy pieces will make you look instantly updated.
25-Sep-2006 - Details

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Summer fashion promises to be hot
Fashion followers got a wet welcome to Milan, as chilly temperatures and persistent rainfall marked the opening day for Spring-Summer 2007 preview shows.

But on the catwalk, dampened spirits were uplifted by the promise of hot and happy styles for next year's warm weather seasons.
28-Sep-2006 - Details

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Trend Report - Fall 2006
This fall, the look is all about long and lean. Fill your closet with long tunics, shirts, and sweaters, plus skinny jeans and fitted pant suits. You really can’t do without this style.
28-Sep-2006 - Details

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The fur factor
Kate Moss flaunts her designer furs: former best friend Sadie Frost strips naked to campaign against it. Hadley Freeman reports on the fightback against fashion's passion for fur.

In a self-consciously retro ice-cream parlour in north London, designer Sadie Frost, clad in a simple chiffon dress and cardigan, ponders her new role as nude anti-fur warrior.
02-Oct-2006 - Details

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Fashion trends for Autumn/Winter 2006/2007
To get started for Autumn/Winter 2006/2007 fashion trends think volume, casual retro look, masculine look and everything in grey. Clothes for this season are very feminine and sexy.
02-Oct-2006 - Details

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Fashion rules still important
Since 1939, Glamour magazine has been showing readers the dos and don’ts of fashion. Most of us instantly recognize the pictures with the black bars across the faces and keep our fingers crossed that they’re not us — even though we’ve probably cringed a few times when we admit that, yes, we too have worn a dress that fit like Saran Wrap, a blouse that gaps or pants that buckle (and smile).
02-Oct-2006 - Details

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Five Top Fashion Trends for Fall
It's a brand new season -- so much to buy but so little time! No need to panic... we've made shopping easy with this "cheat sheet" - a guide to the top five fall trends. So update your wardrobe with something plaid, a few new layers, some modern menswear, a great sweater dress and maybe even one of this season's new shapely dresses or capes.
09-Oct-2006 - Details

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Regression in fashion: A child or a woman
In the passionate debate about too- thin models, no one has really reached the nub of the matter: Why would grown women yearn to resemble pre-pubescent girls? Yet one of the Olsen twins boasted from her front- row perch at the Dior show this week that she was wearing a child's jacket; and the streets of Western capitals are filled with women well past middle age squeezed into drain-pipe jeans.
09-Oct-2006 - Details

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Twenty-something women spend big on fashion
Women ages 20-29 spend almost half (48.2 percent) of their disposable income on accessories, fashion and beauty, according to a new study from Jane magazine.

Of that, about 16 percent goes toward purchasing jewelry and watches, the study finds.
23-Oct-2006 - Details

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Next springs fashions get big, even bulky
Designers are telling us to start living in a bubble.
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Associated Press
Marc Jacobs designed this spring-summer 2007 look for the French fashion house Vuitton.
At the spring runway shows in New York City last month, a loose silhouette that de-emphasizes curves was a common theme.
Celebrity-favorite Max Azria presented sacky sundresses that billowed from shoulder straps. Marc Jacobs showed light layers with barely a waist in sight. Vera Wang's moody collection seemed miles from her white, form-fitting bridal gowns — layers of dark silks that billowed far away from the body. Even the body-conscious woman behind the wrap dress, Diane von Furstenberg, loosened up.
23-Oct-2006 - Details