FUR COLLAR JACKET - Derek Lam inspired

 

OH MY GOSH we were freaking out when we saw the Pre-Fall line of Derek Lam. It's amazing. We won't show you the line now since all of us are more excited about the end of winter, but we'll give you a sneak peak for this next season. We shot these pictures after we saw the line and had to recreate it in our own way. One thing you'll be hearing a lot more of come fall is the "fur snood" (click and you'll see what it exactly is it). Crazy word..."snood". Although the fur collar is a tiny bit different than the "snood" I think we'll start to see them used interchangeably. A secret from our end is that you've seen our "snood" used twice now (you might have noticed it on this jacket). So why not take your favorite blazer and add a bit of fur? Ours is taken off of a vintage coat, but we think faux can be just as nice. Be on the look out for one this fall....

(Zara blazer, Aldo bag, Nine West heels, BCBG cigarette pants.)

MODEST LOOKBOOK: MICHELLE WILLIAMS TOKYO PREMIERE

At the Tokyo premiere of "My Week with Marilyn," Michelle Williams looked amazing in this pink Valentino dress. Valentino seems to be her go-to designer these days and we're definitely happy she's chosen them. Soon we'll have to take you through some of the Valentino collections for 2012. As usual they have created some of the most beautiful lines this year. What we've been loving is how so many of their dresses cover quite a bit. So much so, that we're wondering when our luck is going to run out with fashion these days. The most current hemlines are long and sleeves are the thing. We feel like there are so many things to show you!

SLIP DRESS

We saw plenty of beautiful and slinky dresses from the Calvin Klein Spring 2012 collection that when it came to my own closet, I started looking for something I never knew I had - slips. Thank you Mr. Klein...I never would've thought the slip to my Bloomingdale's Tibi dress would have made a workable outfit. You too might be surprised at what you have in your closet....

VOGUE: 10 BEST DRESSED

We were more than a little surprised when we saw Vogue's 10 best dressed for this past week. Seven out of the ten we would consider to be pretty modest (we've seen the girl at the end before, and as was noted before, she could use a slip, but otherwise we were pretty satisfied). Obviously some we like better than others, but we figured we'd let you view the 7 images. We both saw Vogue's list separately; when one of us brought it up for a post, the other had already written it down to use. So we were definitely on the same wave length. But ultimately, what we really enjoyed was Vogue's synopsis for the week...
"While the current street-style trends may lead one to believe that, in fashion, the bigger and more outrageous, the better, what we found this week was quite the opposite. When it comes to modern dressing, to be truly groundbreaking, the forward-thinking woman knows it's all about two very important things: keeping it simple and being yourself."

We couldn't have said it better.

JULIANNE MOORE IN TOM FORD - Happy St. Patrick's!

We figured in honor of the day, we'd give you some green and gold! Tom Ford definitely knows how to keep us on our toes regarding his women's wear line that he just started a year and a half ago. We can view the Spring and Summer collections online but no one has been able to glimpse the Fall collection that he showed privately this past month. Some are wondering if he's using celebrities to gradually show the collection since we saw Gwyneth at the Academy Awards wear his favorite of the collection and now we've seen Jenniffer Lawrence in a black dress from the same line at the Hunger Games premiere in Paris. Although his green dress here is rather low cut, we couldn't resist putting it up here for you guys today. Happy St. Patrick's!

ALL IN A DAY - The Duchess

We know the days where you're due in the morning for some specific event, the afternoon for a completely different affair and the evening for something more formal. How in the world do you make it all work? Well we thought Kate did a pretty good job in her transition from playing field hockey with the Olympic team, to giving interviews afterward, to looking completely polished later in the afternoon for a gallery event. For the gallery stroll, she put her coral skinnies away and donned a more proper dress (by the designer Orla Kiely which is probably sold out by now) and surprisingly went without her nude stockings. Many people have commented lately about the role of pantyhose in politics (mentioning Kate along the way), so it's definitely made mention when she goes without them. All in all, we loved her coral skinnies which went from dressed down to more dressed up pretty easily. And since one of us owns a similar military jacket to the one she threw over her t-shirt, we can tell you how it makes a casual outfit into something more dressy pretty easily. And there you have it...a day in the life of Kate.