This week’s Style Icon is Michelle Williams. While Williams has been gaining accolades and Oscar nods for her portrayal of one of the most famous icons of all time (Marilyn Monroe, in case you live under a rock), she’s also been gaining praise and approval for her sartorial choices, topping best dressed lists and becoming quite the icon herself.
We love her cute day dresses and skirts paired with casual t-shirts and her tousled, I-just-got-out-of-bed hair. Her look is always simple and sweet, a little boho, eclectic but always chic. And her red carpet choices seriously up the glam factor with bold, unexpected and sophisticated colour choices. She’s perfected that retro-inspired but still modern look, always elegant, with clean lines and practical femininity. We can’t wait to see more looks from this Brooklyn-based beauty.
admin | Uncategorized | Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
This week’s look is from Cupcakes and Cashmere. We love it for the way it mixes completely different materials, one sweet and dainty and the other dark and edgy. It’s such a great contrast and a little bit unexpected too! We love that it’s just a touch of leather on a super comfy sweater, making it cozy without looking lazy. The silver metallic clutch is the perfect finishing touch.
YSG Tip: This look can work year-round with the simple addition of a pair of tights and ankle boots for winter, bare legs and peep toe heels for summer, as above.
We’re back! And we couldn’t be more jazzed for spring so our first Look of the Week for 2012 is all about exactly that. We love this look from Shopbop because of the colours (purple, cream, beige, reminds us of an Easter egg!), the fun ikat print (one of this spring’s key trends is print, print and more print) and because we love to wear cute dresses to welcome the warmer weather (no, it’s not going to be warm for awhile yet, so see our tips below for appropriating this look for winter).
Our love doesn’t just extend to the dress, however. We’re also loving the messy topknot this model’s rocking; such a refreshing update from the boring ponytail! A simple chain necklace completes the look for an easy, polished and pretty step into spring.
YSG Tip: To winterize the look, add a pair of tights and some chunky heeled ankle booties for maneuvering the snowy streets in style.
This week’s Style Icon is none other than the woman whose name has been on everyone’s lips since the beginning of this year: Her Royal Highness, Kate Middleton. We thought it was a fitting way to end our year of Style Icons, as she is one of the most-talked about women on the planet and girls everywhere attempt to emulate her look.
Kate Middleton’s style has definitely blossomed over the years and, with every sartorial choice she makes, she consistently looks impeccable in outfits that are fresh, youthful and ladylike.
Her long, slim figure allows her to experiment with a variety of styles; long, short, strapless, long-sleeved, flouncy skirts or skinny pants, Middleton can never and doesn’t ever go wrong. Whether it’s an inexpensive off-the-rack dress from Zara or a custom-made gown, Kate’s style is always up to date, flattering and timeless.
The perfect person to complete or Style Icons for 2011. We can’t wait to see what kind of sartorial success 2012 brings.
This week’s look comes from musings in femininity. We love it because it’s a great way to break out of a wardrobe rut. It may feel scary and tricky at first, but trust us, it looks great and really fresh. How cute does the girl in the above picture look? She’s thinking outside the box when it comes to getting dressed and it looks completely original, gutsy and not at all boring. It’s so simple too! Here are some suggestions on how to do it right:
Make sure that at least one colour is repeated in every piece of the outfit. A navy and white lace skirt with a navy and white polka dot shirt, for example. Or, two different colours of leopard print. Fun and daring! Once you get more comfortable you can graduate to full on contrasting colours like this girl has.
Combine loose prints with structured prints, like swirls with stripes, and large prints with small ones.
Pull the mix together by matching it with a solid-coloured purse and pair of shoes.
YSG Tip: For cautious beginners, try mixing a black and white striped skirt with a black and white polka dot top, to start. The colours are basic and the prints are a popular choice to mix. Pair it with a raspberry red shoulder bag for a hit of colour and a great accent.
This week’s Style Icon is Sarah Jessica Parker. Obviously she is best known for playing super stylish New York writer Carrie Bradshaw, but SJP has definitely got her own polished signature style, that which routinely has her on many a Best Dressed list and magazine page.
It’s so simple yet so chic. Parker can usually be seen stepping out to run errands or pick up her son from school in a variation of the same outfit: a pair of jeans, a t-shirt, boots or heels, a coat, cardigan or blazer and a scarf to finish it off. Yet it’s never boring. It’s actually totally wearable, comfortable and always put-together. And, though SJP may be fashion royalty, her outfits are completely accessible to commoners like us (maybe that’s one of the reasons we love her so much). It’s so easy. It’s a matter of putting together a handful of basics, completing the look with a statement scarf like the pink one on Parker above or the leopard print one below, and boom! She’s ready to go. And she looks flawless every time.
The look we’re coveting this week is Taylor Swift’s fire-engine red frock for the Country Music Awards, as seen on fashionfame.com. We love it because ’tis the season for myriad holiday parties and this dress is perfect for making an entrance at your next event. Not only does the colour make it incredibly festive but it dramatically stands out from the sea of LBD’s so prevalent at parties (not that we don’t love a good LBD; we definitely do, but this is great for when you want to make a statement).
It’s also extremely flattering. The definition around the bust makes small boobs look bigger; the cinched waistline slims your midsection; and the above-the-knee cascading hemline lengthens legs. It’s stylish, very feminine and brings a heck of a lot of glam.
YSG Tip: Pair it with matching red lips like Taylor, to really turn heads. Then finish it off with nude pumps to even out the look (and make your legs look miles long!).
Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen are the subjects of this week’s Style Icon post. These stylish sisters surprised everyone when they went from cute toddlers on tv and tweens on film to having serious cred in the fashion industry seemingly overnight. With two clothing labels to their name, downtown cool Elizabeth and James and super-luxe, high-end The Row, the Olsen twins have not only grown up to become mini business moguls but also highly-respected heavy hitters when it comes to their original, iconic style.
Constantly unique and evolving but consistently chic and just plain cool, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen always do it their way, wearing whatever they want, whenever they want to. From their oversized outfits with oversized sunglasses matched with an oversized bag to their sharp, minimalist and sleekly-dressed business style of late, the sisters seem to have a knack for putting together impeccably-stylish outfits according to their own tastes, others’ opinions or current trends be damned. And what is fashion for, if not to express who you are and how you feel?
And they’ve received tremendous accolades for doing just that. The fashion industry adores them, magazines everywhere feature photo after photo of them at parties, award shows and running errands on the street, and Vogue Magazine even put them on the cover of its Best Dressed issue this year.
Eccentric, creative and each with their own individual taste, when it comes to getting dressed, this dynamic duo is truly one of a kind.
This week’s look is from Zara’s December lookbook. We love it for its androgynous chic, the way it blends masculine simplicity with feminine elegance. It’s also a fresh look for an evening cocktail party. It’s so unexpected and done with the right pieces, you’ll be the hit of the night. The key is in the fit. The tapered dress pants paired with high heels slim the legs and make the look feminine and the fitted button down shirt and blazer ensure that your frame doesn’t look bulky. It’s the perfect way to do menswear with a woman’s touch. Plus, it’s comfortable and you look effortlessly chic and understated in an instant! Who says beauty has to mean pain?
YSG Tip: We love that the jacket is a colour and not black. Even the palest pink can make a look seem fresh and pull the eye to the wearer of the outfit. The look already stands out because it’s so different from the usual LBD or sparkly party number, but adding a third hue takes it even further. It doesn’t have to be pale either – go bold in a bright colour like royal blue or fire engine red. Or, if that’s too much, just add some chunky costume jewelry for a little dash of extra glam. Voilà – absolute statement-making style.
admin | Style Icons | Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
This week’s Style Icon is (Br)It-girl, Alexa Chung. Another fashionable femme who’s taken the entire world by storm, this MTV-presenter-turned-sartorial-heavy-hitter raises serious style envy in us with outfit she wears. Quirky, tomboyishly-cute, grungey-meets-girly, Chung always keeps it interesting, resulting in a truly personal style that’s downright refreshing.
Whether it’s with short and sweet dresses, streamlined tuxedos or a vintage t-shirt paired with denim cutoffs and boots, Chung consistently looks cute and chic, and it’s for this reason she’s made an uber-stylish name for herself. Mulberry named a bag after her (The Alexa Bag, seen bottom right in the first pic below), she designed her own clothing line for Madewell, which flies off the shelves every time a new collection debuts, and, just last week, Chung won the British Fashion Award for Best Style. The girl has original style absolutely nailed and we absolutely love her for it. Also, we’d really like to live in her closet. Please.
