How Do I Wear the Menswear Trend?

There are a lot of menswear pieces out there, but it's an art pulling the look off. Here are some tips to pull it all together without sacrificing your personal style.

Incorporating menswear into your look should always have a clean, polished effect. You never want to look like you actually stole your father's or boyfriend's pieces and threw them on. While the boyfriend blazer, as shown in Alexander Wang's Spring/Summer 09 collection, above, is a more relaxed fit, it does skim the body rather than be enormously oversized. And the shorts, businesslike in every way except their diminuative size, are the perfect companion to the oversized jacket. 

Many designers showed menswear in their spring 2009 collections aside from Wang, including Calvin Klein, Giorgio Armani, Max Mara, Ralph Lauren and Escada. Taking direct cues or only slightly gleaning from the silhouttes, menswear added a decidedly fall feel to ...read more

Fashion advice for every body type is tough advice to give and get but sometimes a few little suggestions can go a long way.  There are generally five different body types for women and sometimes we're a combination so dressing can be tricky at times.

Women with Round body types are blessed with a generous bust and legs that Pear and Diamon shape women would die for.  They're a little fuller in the middle section with narrow hips.  The best styles of tops for a round body shape are v-neck lines which help elongate the neck, but avoid tight-fitting tops.  The trick is to be comfortable when standing and sitting and tight tops can make that chellenging.  For bottoms, choose pencil skirts and bootcut b...read more

Celebrities Wearing Braided Hair Trend

Celebrities wearing braided hair trend is one that I'm always happy to see weave itself back into the scene.  Some celebs have opted for the super easy braided pigtail/milkmaid look this fall.  The style may remind people of their childhood or Pippy Longstocking, but if you throw a winter hat on, this trend becomes more sophisticated and hip.

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Some celebrities wearing braided hair trend: Venessa Hudgens' loose pigtail braids look effortless and the hat adds an urban vibe.  Lindsay Lohan's style is easy-going and her milkmaid braids showcase her funkiness.  I love her ...read more

Santogold is solid in my eyes.  I'm utterly shocked when people haven't heard of her and I'm equally elated when I can hear someone listening to her on their ipod.  Her first album dropped this year and it's sensational.  She's easily comparable to M.I.A (best known for her Airplanes song) because they do have similar sounds and work together on occasion.

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Jean-Charles de Castelbajac caught my eye when I saw his Barak Obama dress on the New York Magazine website.  I just thought, "Wow, even French designers are all about Obama...which is awesome."  But I put that thought away until I was searching through 2Threads and saw the profile: CyanaTrendland and followed a link on his page.  

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There I saw the de Castelbajac's Rubik's cube bag and fell in love!  Then I almost died when I saw that there was a knock off available for $18 from ...read more