From the runway to ready-to-wear

Now that fashion week for the Fall 2009 collections has ended, it is a timely opportunity to review the trends and look towards what will be hot in the coming months. After all, runway looks are meant to inspire retail trends. Once other designers and retail buyers see these looks, they take elements from them – one-shoulder, metallics, tapered-leg pants -- these are all ideas that stem from runway looks -- and transform them into prêt-a-porter or ready-to-wear (RTW) pieces that then emerge in department stores.

Read on to see how you can incorporate these trends into your wardrobe.

Free Counter

First Lady Fabulous

Your daily does of fabulousness

View more photos of Fisrt Lady Michelle O. honoring her favorite musical icon, Stevie Wonder, at the Huffington Post

Free Counter

UK Spring Color Palette

I am a huge fan of discovering what the de riguer styles are in other countries. London, Paris, Milan, Rome, Dubai, Tokyo - all of these are global fashion meccas - and have their own sense of style and certainly a market that follows these fashions.

Flipping through French Vogue or Brazilian Elle is one of my favorite acts in a bookstore. And with that, I love finding new fashion publications or media outlets geared towards fashion in other countries.

One of my new favorites is TimesOnline from London, which promotes fashion news, runway trends and street style in the UK.

And since the Spring Fashion Weeks are wrapping up, everyone is talking about the trends we can expect to see this season going forward.

One undeniable trend we'll see is bold color and big jewels. The TimesOnline is highlighting this Pons Quitana flat which embraces this trend.

Free Counter

Spring trend alert: The new tweed jacket

And this ain’t your mama’s tweed!

Ok, so there’s nothing new about the tweed jacket and it’s a staple that, unlike the multi-colored Louis Vuitton Murkami bag, has never gone out of style. But the tweed jacket did disappear from the runways for some years. Now it’s making a strong come back this spring – and this tweed is not the stuffy, itchy tweed some our mother’s generation suffered from. Read more...

Free Counter

New Edition in Chinatown on President's Day!

Bobby Brown, Johnny Gill and the rest of New Edition showing me their District Couture :-)

Free Counter

If I were going to Paris in the Spring, I'd wear this

Tres Jolie, no?

Miu Miu, stripe drape dress, $1,270 Free Counter

Things I lust for...

DROOL-WORTHY

Alexander McGreen Legend Bag

Free Counter

Spring trend alert: Bijoux jewelry and baroque accessories

While spring is not yet officially here, a couple of 60+ degree days sure has us jonesing for a color palette synonymous with the season. And of course as soon as the New Year rang in, area boutiques and stores began dressing their windows in frocks that make us yearn for our sun dresses and bright colors. But even though it’s not quite time to bare arms, we can still show our spring pride with a few bold pieces that will quell our spring fever...Read More

(Photo: Alexis Bittar)

Free Counter

DC Style Examiner: Best of DC from A to Z*: The best shopping, fashion and style finds of Washington, D.C.

DC Style Examiner: Best of DC from A to Z*: The best shopping, fashion and style finds of Washington, D.C.

Posted using ShareThis

"Michelle Style" coming to a bookstore near you: A manual for achieving the First Lady's style

As the interest about the Obama’s grows with every passing day, it should be no surprise that a surplus of books about their lives should come out in droves. But biographies about the first couple are not enough for their adoring public. Finally, Michelle-style-watchers will have a guide to the First Lady’s style they can call their own. Read more... Posted using ShareThis