Tag Archives: winter fashion

zara cropped ribbed jumper

Ribbed Knitwear: Another Thing You Need

As I head off to Michigan tonight for some family time, I can’t help but smile as I look at the weather forecast, which predicts cooler temperatures just for this weekend.  It’s 93 degrees in southeast Michigan as I write this, but they know I’m coming, and they know I’m packing my rolling bag with […]

coral fashion trend fall winter

I’m Loving: Orange Details (And Neon Lips!)

The coral trend of seasons past has gone one step further, entering orangey-red (OK, sometimes all-out orange) territory.  This was evident in the neon lips that were all over the runways at New York Fashion Week. And I love it.  I have pale skin, and bright colors can sometimes wash me out.  But the orange-red […]

pale pink fashion trend 2013

Pale Pink is the New Mint

I know everyone keeps talking up white (and judging from New York Fashion Week, that isn’t likely to change for Spring), but I’m more interested in the powder puff pink that’s stepping out this season. As predicted on the runways in January, pale pink coats, sweaters, trousers, and loafers are evidence that this Fall everyone’s […]

ny mag navy and black

On Color: Are there any rules anymore?

  There was apparently a time when black and brown couldn’t be worn together, but that’s ancient history.  The past two years, red and pink were everywhere together, longtime feuding members of the same color family that were blissfully united.  And people have been breaking the “no white after labor day” rule for a while, […]