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Fashion: Prints and One Solid

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I can’t get over the possibilities for when on vacation of the most comfortable, sensual, and yet playful dresses – something we can’t wear in San Francisco during our summers (cold and foggy) But sure can in September and October when we get our Indian Summer. Here’s my pick for this week:

Fashion: Met Gala 2016 -Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology

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Ah the sense of fashion, and the theme of the Met Gala, each year, either raising the bar or lowering their standards. Either way, I have added a few of my favorite looks from this year’s style presentation by some of the well-known and not so well-known celebrity to some from around the globe.  For the rest of the Manus X Machina regard, click here:

Lifestyle: Taking Lessons From Italian Women

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Over a decade ago the hubs and I took our first trip to Italy, starting in Venice.  Someone at the train station suggested we hop on a water bus to get  us to our hotel since we had no idea what we were doing-fresh out of college. We took the bus, and on it was a woman dressed so perfect-sensual that we found ourselves staring at her in awe. In Rome the same thing happened, women here and there  in cafes and restaurants  dressed very Sophia Loren chic, with the perfect tan, and hair, and fitted skirts and scarfs and red lipstick. I was fascinated, but very certain I  would never be able to duplicate any of it back then, and not even now. When I found  this article, it reminded me of my trip decades ago, when I first discovered the sensuality of Italian women and their fashion. The article helping me pinpoint what made up that perfect look. Here are my favorites:  

Fashion: New Year, New Office Look

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My picks  from here – which  I’d like to incorporate in my usually casual work-wear. By that I mean, jeans mostly and some sort of layers. Except lately more  sweaters. It’s been cold and rainy in San Francisco this year, and I’m loving every minute of it. But sometimes I wish my job required me to dress up, in this fashion that is:

Fashion: Taylor Tomasi Hill

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If there is a modern-day woman I admire in fashion, it is Taylor Tomasi Hill. Her street style or look is impeccably on-point, perfectly blending preppy, sometimes vintage, masculine and yet feminine look to create her own style. One I find myself drawn to, and inspired to duplicate, even down to the reddish-auburn hair, and wish to be able to wear red lipstick against my skin tone.  I have yet to see her go wrong  – check out some of my favorite styles found by simply searching online for Taylor Tomasi Hill: