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Authors: Karen Robinovitz
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old Levi’s. Having a personal sense of style and injecting your personality into something is key.
Mix high and low—ultraexpensive items along with cheap finds in order to project a careless, unsnobby image.
Always have one ultraluxe item, like a handbag, a wallet, or a belt, or major jewelry to elevate your outfit. You can wear rags, but if you’re carrying a Birkin, no one will ever know. One New York Times fashion critic likes to wear Wal-Mart with her five-hundred-dollar Celine platforms.
Save supertrendy and easily identifiable items for five years after wearing them during their “it” season.
Never wear more than one trend at once. Pick a focal point of your ensemble (a poncho!) and build your whole look around it (don’t wear the poncho with high-heeled sneakers!).
Own a trench coat. It’s the one classic thing that will always look chic and fresh.
Don’t wear mid-calf-length skirts if you’re short. It cuts the leg off.
When in doubt, a white button-down shirt will always do. Just add great earrings, high heels, and anything from strands of pearls of different lengths to a groovy scarf, tied on the side or in the back so that the tails hang low in a seductive, exotic way.
Walk with a purpose. If you look confident, people will think you are.
Never look like you’re trying too hard. Elegance should be effortless.
Mix and match your clothes. Throw on suit jackets with jeans and tank tops with the pants—sans jacket.
Wear a great bra at all times. Go to a lingerie store to find your right size, and before going out of the house lift your breasts in the bra to make sure that the nipples are centered and the “girls” look high and supported. Maidenform’s One Fabulous Fit bra always does good things to the bust.
Don’t fear color. Embrace it. Just not too much of it!
Avoid panty lines at all costs. They are wrong, wrong, wrong.
Wear your clothes. Don’t let them wear you. Know what works on your body and what doesn’t and only buy something you love. Just because it’s trendy doesn’t always mean it’s good.
CHAPTER 2
Building the Fashionista Closet:
The Eighth Wonder of the World—
in Your Bedroom!
Fashionistas, contrary to popular belief, do not come in one size (size two). In fact, the shape of your body and size of your waist have nothing to do with the status of your fashionistadom. It’s all about the closet, baby. And the beauty within. Whether your closet is a cavernous three-story walk-in or the size of a carry-on suitcase, what sets the fashionista closet apart from an ordinary closet is depth, versatility, and eclecticism. In the first chapter you discovered what kind of fashionista you are, but paradoxically, the fashionista is not limited to one “look,” and she likes to experiment and play with tons of clothes, which she often considers costumes. The fashionista is a chameleon: ladylike in driving gloves and a sharp tweed suit one moment, a punk-rock chick in a dog collar and studded belt the next. She is a cross between a gypsy, a princess, and a diva. She’s androgynous in the fall and hyperfeminine by the spring. She wears bohemian peasant blouses as well as conservative three-strand pearls. She’s ready (and more than willing) to meet every direction of the trend weather vane.
More often than not, she’s a pack rat, a collector, an obsessive-compulsive who can’t let go of, say, a Hawaiian-tropic sarong in psychedelic colors even if she lives in New England (because who knows—she might jet off to Maui on a moment’s notice, even if the nearest she usually gets to the beach is down by the Jersey shore to visit her cousin during Memorial Day weekend), or maybe she’s still holding on to the polka-dot pleated halter dress she wore on her very first date with her husband (even if she doesn’t fit into it anymore, she still remembers the look he gave her when he first saw her).
No matter what your style niche is, fashionistas the world over own
Mix high and low—ultraexpensive items along with cheap finds in order to project a careless, unsnobby image.
Always have one ultraluxe item, like a handbag, a wallet, or a belt, or major jewelry to elevate your outfit. You can wear rags, but if you’re carrying a Birkin, no one will ever know. One New York Times fashion critic likes to wear Wal-Mart with her five-hundred-dollar Celine platforms.
Save supertrendy and easily identifiable items for five years after wearing them during their “it” season.
Never wear more than one trend at once. Pick a focal point of your ensemble (a poncho!) and build your whole look around it (don’t wear the poncho with high-heeled sneakers!).
Own a trench coat. It’s the one classic thing that will always look chic and fresh.
Don’t wear mid-calf-length skirts if you’re short. It cuts the leg off.
When in doubt, a white button-down shirt will always do. Just add great earrings, high heels, and anything from strands of pearls of different lengths to a groovy scarf, tied on the side or in the back so that the tails hang low in a seductive, exotic way.
Walk with a purpose. If you look confident, people will think you are.
Never look like you’re trying too hard. Elegance should be effortless.
Mix and match your clothes. Throw on suit jackets with jeans and tank tops with the pants—sans jacket.
Wear a great bra at all times. Go to a lingerie store to find your right size, and before going out of the house lift your breasts in the bra to make sure that the nipples are centered and the “girls” look high and supported. Maidenform’s One Fabulous Fit bra always does good things to the bust.
Don’t fear color. Embrace it. Just not too much of it!
Avoid panty lines at all costs. They are wrong, wrong, wrong.
Wear your clothes. Don’t let them wear you. Know what works on your body and what doesn’t and only buy something you love. Just because it’s trendy doesn’t always mean it’s good.
CHAPTER 2
Building the Fashionista Closet:
The Eighth Wonder of the World—
in Your Bedroom!
Fashionistas, contrary to popular belief, do not come in one size (size two). In fact, the shape of your body and size of your waist have nothing to do with the status of your fashionistadom. It’s all about the closet, baby. And the beauty within. Whether your closet is a cavernous three-story walk-in or the size of a carry-on suitcase, what sets the fashionista closet apart from an ordinary closet is depth, versatility, and eclecticism. In the first chapter you discovered what kind of fashionista you are, but paradoxically, the fashionista is not limited to one “look,” and she likes to experiment and play with tons of clothes, which she often considers costumes. The fashionista is a chameleon: ladylike in driving gloves and a sharp tweed suit one moment, a punk-rock chick in a dog collar and studded belt the next. She is a cross between a gypsy, a princess, and a diva. She’s androgynous in the fall and hyperfeminine by the spring. She wears bohemian peasant blouses as well as conservative three-strand pearls. She’s ready (and more than willing) to meet every direction of the trend weather vane.
More often than not, she’s a pack rat, a collector, an obsessive-compulsive who can’t let go of, say, a Hawaiian-tropic sarong in psychedelic colors even if she lives in New England (because who knows—she might jet off to Maui on a moment’s notice, even if the nearest she usually gets to the beach is down by the Jersey shore to visit her cousin during Memorial Day weekend), or maybe she’s still holding on to the polka-dot pleated halter dress she wore on her very first date with her husband (even if she doesn’t fit into it anymore, she still remembers the look he gave her when he first saw her).
No matter what your style niche is, fashionistas the world over own
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