With everything on the news talking about lay-offs, down-sizing, and a recession it is refreshing to see that designers are still keeping up the glamour for their Fall 2009 collections. “The beat goes on..” says Mark Badgley of Badgley & Miscka. It’s important that with the world crumbling around us that we still remain confident, poised, and polished. That can all start with us on outside, even if inside we are falling apart.Designers this season are bringing looks that are smart, versatile, classic, and strong. This is what the women of today is and needs - the women of today are the core of the family, a rock for someone to lean on, they are leaders in the community. This is why
it is important to translate what we do, and where you want to go in life in our appearance. They say you never have a second chance to make a good first impression. And its true. You never know who you are going to run into on the way to your caterer, or who may come to your party, you may run into someone that could beneficial to someone you know that may need a job, or may meet someone who could possibly change your life. How can this all happen with what you wear? Its simple, a study once followed a well dress women and a homeless man in the city, and we all know that jay-walking is illegal, but when the well dress women crossed the street more people would follow than when the homeless man would jay-walk. So you don’t have a lot of money, and you cant do a whole wardrobe make-over and you may say, well I can’t afford a Carolina Herrera gown. No, but we can take inspiration using the colors, textures, and feeling from a runway collection and translate that to our daily life. When I look at these new collections or skim through magazines, I don’t just see a pretty dress. I imagine what if this was real, what is that person thinking, who is that women they are trying to portray, how can I take that an make it my own?
For example, this Carolina Herrera bronze bustier with collared shirt over, and textured gold and black lame high-waist skirt, paired with leather cinched gloves is a smart look. The look for a high waist skirt can go with a plain tank, while you can pair the top with classic wide legged slacks or dark jeans, the whole outfit together is perfect for work or a dinner date.How can you take the looks from the runway and implement them into your daily routine? Take in the colors, bright 
vibrant colors, it’s so easy to just wear black especially with the weather we’ve been having the past few days….if you don’t know where to start, match a bright colored shirt with jeans at first, or go for a pair of fun bright shoes, pair it with an all black outfit if you aren’t comfortable in a bright top just yet. Point is – start somewhere…whether it is cinched waists, asymmetrical necklines, jeweled hues, embroidered necklines or belts, whatever! Its fashion! Try it once, if it doesn’t work out move on. Think outside the box, look at history, it always repeats itself, and add a piece of you in it, and own it! As long as you have the confidence in what you wear, that will never go out of style…
vibrant colors, it’s so easy to just wear black especially with the weather we’ve been having the past few days….if you don’t know where to start, match a bright colored shirt with jeans at first, or go for a pair of fun bright shoes, pair it with an all black outfit if you aren’t comfortable in a bright top just yet. Point is – start somewhere…whether it is cinched waists, asymmetrical necklines, jeweled hues, embroidered necklines or belts, whatever! Its fashion! Try it once, if it doesn’t work out move on. Think outside the box, look at history, it always repeats itself, and add a piece of you in it, and own it! As long as you have the confidence in what you wear, that will never go out of style…
Picutres taken from style.com
