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A Round-Up of This Year’s Oscar Fashions

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The Academy Awards ceremony, widely known as the Oscars, is one of the most highly visible fashion events of the year. Only the most fashion-conscious scour the online photo galleries from every runway show during Fashion Week.

Most people don’t get to see these top-of-the-line gowns until actresses wear them on the red carpet. If this year’s red carpet is indicative of the direction the coming year’s trends will take us, it would appear that fashion is hewing closely to subtle femininity.

We saw very little in the way of risk-taking this year. [Read more…]

Respect, Organization — Keys to a Stress-Free Wedding Party

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Being asked to be in a friend’s wedding is a tremendous honor, but it’s not without its potential downfalls, sometimes literally. Recently a couple in Michigan took the plunge, along with their entire wedding party. When Eric and Maegan Walber were posing for a picture with their wedding party on a dock on Gun Lake near Grand Rapids, the dock collapsed, sending the entire wedding party into the water. No one was hurt, and it certainly made for a memory that will be remembered long after the cake and bouquet toss.

This story shows how much the wedding party sacrifices for the bride and groom. While most will not end up in the lake, they will end up spending quite a bit of time and money helping you with your wedding, so make sure you treat them right. [Read more…]

Australian Fashion Show Opens with a Pop

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The Australian Fashion Week has officially started and all we can say is that the first show sure opened with a huge bang, or pop to be more accurate.

The show that designers Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales put together for Romance Was Born had Marvel stamped all over it, opening with the coolest pop-up backdrop that set the entire tone of the show. This is not surprising since the show was done in partnership with Marvel, which might be confusing as the company has nothing to do with fashion, except perhaps for the great looking costumes their superheroes and villains wear.

The Romance Was Born collection features a lot of clashing prints reminiscent of novel graphics’ stylistic art. The prints came both in black and white and huge color pops, with the genius of the print choices being in that the clashing prints somehow came together.

Aside from Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales, the first day of the Fashion Week also featured shows from Kirrily Johnston
Gail Sorronda. Gail Sorronda seeked to set her show apart by opting not to go with a runway show and doing an installation instead with guests able to cozy up close to her models standing on small white platforms with a short movie playing at the background. It’s safe to say that this change got more attention than her actual collection.

Kirrily Johnston, on the other hand, did a really nice runway show with no prints in sight but showcasing lots of simple dresses that were cut to perfection. Of course, the nun-themed dresses drew the eyes.

We can be sure that there’ll be more stellar shows as the week goes on. Whose show will be the showstopper this Fashion Week is something we’ll just have to wait for.

Image via NewsWhip

SAG Awards Worst and Best Dressed Pick

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The Screen Actor’s Guild have come and gone, and we couldn’t care less about who won what award. Here, the only thing we noticed at the SAG Awards was what people were wearing and how well they pulled it off. As you can expect, I’ve been looking obsessively over the pictures before passing verdict, and here’s mine.

Those who pulled it off…

Emily Blunt – She sure did Oscar dela Renta proud the way she carried this piece of bright green dress. It’s not the craziest outfit out there, but on Emily Blunt it is perfect and sure did turn a lot of heads.

Kelly Osbourne – This girl cleans up really well. No stranger to fashion boo boos, this year at the SAG Awards she proves that she can make the seemingly simplest white outfit look stunning.

Stacey Keibler – There’s no doubt that she looked absolutely gorgeous in her black ensemble. Not only was her dress and hair perfect, but she also had the perfect accessory to boot – George Clooney.

Those who should have pulled off their clothes and changed before heading out…

Amber Riley – I love your voice. I love your confidence. I love your outfit in last year’s SAG, but this year is a step back for you. What were you thinking with that bow?! I know some people loved the look, and it would have worked too if not for the bow.

Rose Byrne – At least you couldn’t accuse her of being boring. Still, not all risks are worth taking and this sure was one that’ll be haunting her in fashion history.

 

 

Images via MillionLooks, PopSugar, Divas&Dorks, CollegeFashion

Be Fashionable and Support Breast Cancer Awareness with Honeysuckle

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Kyle Unfug in Fashionably Pink Charity ShowOctober is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and what color would be more fitting to wear than the color of the year – honeysuckle?

Honeysuckle is just the right color to show support for breast cancer awareness, being just a few shades darker than the pink ribbon used as the breast cancer awareness symbol.

The fact that designers all over the world are also holding benefits for cancer awareness one after another, or at least featuring one or two creations in pink or honeysuckle as part of their Spring line in this year’s fashion week is heartening; not only because a significant amount of money will be raised to help in the fight against breast cancer, but also because we know that we’ll have even more fashion-forward choices as we don this lively color.

Just a few months ago, we gave some tips on how you can incorporate honeysuckle in your wardrobe, from honeysuckle dresses to accent pieces, and even ties for men. And if our suggestions then isn’t enough to inspire you to start wearing honeysuckle, maybe the latest from the runway will.

Here’s a short list of some of the fashion shows that celebrated / is set to celebrate the color pink in time for the Breast Cancer Awareness Month:

Phoenix Fashion Week – Fashionably Pink Charity Fashion Show (October 5)
LA Fashion Week – Project Ethos Goes Pink (October 14)
Pink Rocks the Runway (October 21)