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Head To Toe Tips From The Best of The Oscar Red Carpet

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Gwyneth Paltrow | Tom Ford

This week, I present you with head to toe tips from the best of the Oscar red carpet.  I’m not going to sugarcoat this: much of what was worn on the red carpet bored me to tears.  Outside of the Fashion Week runway shows in New York, Paris, and Milan, the Oscars are like the Super Bowl of fashion. This is the moment when the stars show up in their [borrowed!] finest, and turn it out.  This year, it seemed like the stars and their stylists, who not so discreetly help direct the stars’ looks, weren’t too into the spirit of the season.  Has it all become too blasé for them?

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Takeaways From The Red Carpet

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There are great takeaways from the red carpet of this year’s Golden Globes awards.  Fashion worn by the stars can teach us so much about the current times. Most often, fashion designers provide stars, through stylists, design options that are reflections of current and forward thinking design concepts.  With so many stars, and so many trends and styles to wrap your head around, I curated a detailed selection to help illustrate the takeaways from the red carpet. [Photo images by Getty. Click an image to see an enlarged version.]

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Understanding The Color Red: A Shade for Every Season and Every Person

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The key to understanding the color red is to feel it.  Red comes with a range of emotions and sensations that I think are beyond other colors.  Even if you were blind, red is a color you’d be able to experience like no other.

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Saint Laurent Rive Gauche – Style For the People

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One of the things I love most about Paris is seeing and experiencing things unique to Paris.  Sure, the Eiffel Tower is a matchless Paris site.  But the City of Light is filled with countless nooks to tuck into that may not see as much light, but are as bright as the discovery of a sparkly gem.

One of these bright gems is tucked into a nook so close to the highly popular Golden Triangle; it’s often overlooked.  But if you should find yourself in Paris, and you have an interest in fashion and style, be sure to look up the Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent.  It has a wonderful jewel box of an exhibition space that hosts some highly specialized and unique presentations.
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Summertime And The Living Is Easy

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Summing up the spring fashion story, as it appears through the windows of Paris’ very high fashion street, rue Faubourg-St. Honoré, ease is the word.  A late night wander down the street reviewing French and Italian designers, camera in hand and a lot of Bordeaux consumed during dinner, I came to the realization that “ease” may be the word, but it’s done in a much more sophisticated way than how people in Silicon Valley tend to think about it.

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Balenciaga: Creator of Couture and Character

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Last December, Vogue European Editor-at-Large Hamish Bowles spoke about Christobal Balenciaga, one of the last century’s most noted couturiers, at the 12th Annual New York Fashion Conference, organized by Initiatives in Art and Culture.  Since hearing him share his experiences about curating the exhibit, Balenciaga and Spain, I knew it would be a superb visual treat.

The exhibit, now at the De Young Museum in San Francisco, does not disappoint.
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Don’t You Get Excited When Entering Your Closet? We have to talk!

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Honoring spring and the tradition of sprucing things up, I treated my closet to a bit of an organizational update.  Mind you, if you’ve seen my closet, you know it’s immaculate to begin with.  But I had a dirty little secret in there.  It was my sock drawer.  Long story short, I tossed out thirty-two pairs of socks that had lost their elasticity, or that the colors were no longer in alignment with my personal style.  While curating my socks, I wondered why the sock drawer fell into such a state of chaos.  The answer was simple:  my clothes and accessories [the socks, too, now] are so well chosen and organized that I don’t spend much time in the closet.
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2011 Oscar Gowns: Teachable Moments

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Now that the 83rd Annual Academy Awards have been handed out, it would be easy to give a sharp-tongued critique of whose stars came crashing down on the red carpet.  But this is going to be different than other reviews.  Instead, this is a constructive commentary about the red carpet fashions, which will attempt to explain why people are poor at self-assessing themselves, and why it’s possible everyone else sees what is so obviously wrong or out of place.

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Socks: Dressing from the Bottom Up

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I love socks.  In fact, I confess that I’m so inspired by the socks in my collection that choosing an outfit for the day is sometimes built around which socks I have selected.  Anyone who always wears plain socks will not see any inspiration from this idea.  But anyone daring enough to wear colorful socks will see the brilliance of it.

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