How Celine Dion showed us the life-enhancing power of fashion in 2017

How Celine Dion showed us the life-enhancing power of fashion in 2017
f the role of a stylist is to simply hunt and gather outfits for a money-rich, time-poor client, then Law Roach has gone above and beyond his duty this year. Under his watch, Céline Dion, the stadium-filling singer who had stuck to an often unexciting, occasionally cheesy sense of style since she wore that backwards white tuxedo and tilted hat to the Grammys in 1998, has become Vogue’s unlikely new darling - at the age of 49.
The phenomenon was crystallised at July’s Paris Couture Week, where Dion sat front row next to US Vogue’s editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and was photographed for the brand wearing outfits by Gucci, Dior and Giambattista Valli - a first for the Québécois artist, who released her first single 22 years ago.
While it may have looked like a sudden introduction to the fashion world, Dion and Roach have actually been planning the ascent for a year, testing the water in acid...
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Meghan Markle joins royal family

Meghan Markle joins royal family for Christmas lunch and her outfit of choice sells out
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been photographed on their way to a royal family Christmas Lunch at Buckingham Palace, joining the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge as well as other members of the family at the Queen’s request.
While the only images of Markle in her Self-Portrait nightshade midi dress were from the car, meaning we only got a glimpse of her well-coiffed hair and lace neckline, the dress is now sold out online.
With guipure lace detailing on the bodice and a grosgrain waistband leading into a solid crepe A-line skirt in black, the look is simply perfect for lunching with the Queen and Christmas festivities.
Markle will spend Christmas Day with the royal family, having reportedly been invited to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s Anmer Hall home in Norfolk for the season and a spokesman for Kensington Palace confirming we “can expect to see the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry and Ms Markle on Christmas Day.”
The royal family traditionally spends Christmas in Norfolk celebrating at Sandringham House with the Queen and Prince Phillip before taking on royal duties on the 25th.
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Baby, It’s Cold Outside!

Baby, It’s Cold Outside! Wrap Yourself in One of These Straight-Off-the-Runway Blankets
More than anything this holiday break, we’re looking forward to sinking into the couch and staying there. Too bad, then, that we have to get up from our hibernation burrow to 1) attend family dinners, 2) help cook said dinners, 3) visit a relative who lives an hour away in the middle of nowhere, and 4) wait in line to buy Star Wars tickets with a nerdy cousin.
Just in time, fashion has bestowed upon us a true Christmas miracle. The soft, warm house blankets on the Fall runways are finally available to buy and wear. Yes, wrapping a blanket normally reserved for the couch or bed around your shoulders is an acceptable—no, chic—style choice at the moment.
Take Phoebe Philo’s Céline blanket as a prime example. The brightly colored wool throw can be draped over one shoulder, or both, to add a bit of hygge (a Danish word that translates to “cozy”) to a sleek suit or dress. The American flag quilt from Calvin Klein will give a patriotic pop to a simple sweater and jeans, while the Louis Vuitton version is perfect for a lazy logo-maniac. Whatever your off-the-couch and out-of-bed style may be, the point is that it’s time to embrace the idea of taking your security blanket with you. Nobody wants to venture out into the cold, but at least now we can look good while doing so.
Here are 12 of the most wearable blankets to throw on and go.
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Inside Julie Macklowe’s 40th Birthday Bash at La Goulue

Inside Julie Macklowe’s 40th Birthday Bash at La Goulue
New Yorkers are all about two things: food and real estate. And last night, those worlds converged as luxury skin care entrepreneur Julie Macklowe hosted her 40th birthday bash in grand fashion at a revived Upper East Side dining staple, La Goulue. Inside the reopened space, guests including Coralie and Dennis Paul, Aby and Samantha Rosen, and David and Libby Mugrabi sipped on cocktails, watched festively clad dancers, and nibbled on delectable bites from the French boîte. Afterward, everyone let their hair down and boogied late into the night to tracks spun by Questlove while a Flour Shop cake was a sweet punctuation to the evening.
If we’ve learned anything from 2017’s wild and wacky fashion, it’s to expect the unexpected. Austere minimalism went out the window in favor of a magpie-like love of glitz, glamour, and granny-chic style. Artists outpaced musicians as the coolest collaborators. And a new crop of models brought their outsize personalities to the catwalks in New York, London, Milan, and Paris.
Even in this time of change, we’re putting our money on nine trends that will dominate fashion in 2018. And if they don’t, well, don’t worry—we’ll be the first to tell you.
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How a fashion buyer nails personal style

How a fashion buyer nails personal style
Candice Fragis is the 37-year-old buying and merchandising director for online fashion retailer Farfetch, which means her job is, effectively, to shop for a living. As she's perfected the art of buying pieces we'll all want to buy too, Fragis has also picked up plenty of pointers for curating a personal look which is as bold as it is is bespoke.
Here, she offers her tips...
Avoid trends when buying staples
''I look to designers to buy my investment pieces like outerwear, knitwear and evening wear and I avoid anything too trend-focussed, because these are the pieces with which you build your wardrobe,'' Fragis explains. ''Where as if I'm looking for something that's trend-led, I think the high street does a great job with that.''
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Adriana Lima posts cryptic

Adriana Lima posts cryptic message about body positivity and unfollows the VS Angels on Instagram
As far as Victoria’s Secret Angels come, Adriana Lima is officially the queen. Since walking her first Victoria’s Secret show in 1999 at age 18 and going on to walk every year since (that’s a whopping 18 shows to date), Lima is officially the longest serving Angel in VS history.
So it comes as no surprise that her latest Instagram post has got fans talking due to its out-of-character admission from the supermodel.
Posting to her 11.5 million followers, the mother-of-two shared a cryptic message discussing everything from body positivity to the pressures of being a woman, going on to detail a “sexy video” she was meant to appear in, but pulled out of after “something had changed in me”.
“Even though I have done many of this type, something had changed in me, when a friend approached me to share that she was unhappy with her body, then it made me think.... that everyday in my life, I wake up thinking, how do I look? Was I going to be accepted in my job? And in that moment I realized that majority of woman probably wake up every morning trying to fit in a stereotype that society/socialmedia/fashion etc imposed.... i thought that’s not a way of living and beyond that.... that’s not physically and mentally healthy, so I decided to make that change..... I will not take of my clothes anymore for a empty cause…..” she wrote.
In the photo post above the text, a message (presumably penned also by Lima) talks of the “unfair” and “superficial” values imposed on women, promising for the change to start with her. “I will start with me. I refuse to embrace that. I am next to you. And I will stand by you. Let’s fucking change the world,” she wrote.
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THE SPRING SUMMER 2018 TRENDS YOU SHOULD WEAR THIS PARTY SEASON

THE SPRING SUMMER 2018 TRENDS YOU SHOULD WEAR THIS PARTY SEASON
Head-to-toe sequins, the return of the '80s LBD and ruffles upon ruffles-this year, fashion became decidedly fun again and the SS18 runways were chock-full of looks destined for party season.
In a year where optimism, femininity and an interacting multiplicity of colours converged, designers appeared to be making the case for really getting dressed up again.
Statement earrings, embellished shoes and evening-wear appropriate pantsuits-it only takes a cursory glance at the runways to see that, en masse, tastemakers have embraced glamour again.
With all things maximalist in full swing, there has never been a better time to embrace sartorial extravagance.
Here are the spring summer '18 trends you'll be wearing this party season.
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The fashion word of 2017 has been revealed & it'll make you want to fist pump

The fashion word of 2017 has been revealed & it'll make you want to fist pump
When you think of fashion in 2017 what word springs to mind? 'Comme des Garçon' in honour of the Met Gala perhaps? '80s' in honour of the era's influence, maybe? 'Rihanna' possibly, because of well, Rihanna?
Well thanks to the whizz kids at global fashion search platform Lyst, the fashion word of 2017 has been announced. Can you guess it?
Power. Yes, 'power' is the fashion word of 2017.
We're guessing it has something to do with the rise of power dressing; power suits, power shoulders and power proportions are all fashion phrases that we've been using a lot this year.
Lyst analysed thousands of online editorial articles from 2017 to find the most used fashion words of the year. They analysed text from over 30,000 articles written over the course of 2017, across 100 different online fashion and lifestyle publications. The articles were broken down into their 8,610,630 component words to scale of the most important words of the year.
Following 'power' in second is 'woke' (LOL), in third is statement (we get it), and fourth is floral (hardly groundbreaking).
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Kanye West proves you don't need fashion week if you have Kim Kardashian West

Kanye West proves you don't need fashion week if you have Kim Kardashian West
Unfortunately for Yeezy fans Kanye West decided to opt out of fashion week in September but that’s not to say the brand hasn’t been working on a marketing plan.
Tapping his wife, the world’s most famous reality TV star, Kim Kardashian West has been busy walking about Los Angeles in her Yeezy finest. According to E! News Kardashian West wore nine Yeezy season 6 outfits in one day – that’s got to be some kind of record – and was snapped every time by the ever-present paparazzi.
It seems Kardashian West gave herself the ultimate challenge - wear nine Yeezy outfits in the space of 24-hours and see if the world notices, which obviously we did. Considering Kardashian West is one of the most-photographed women in the world, it makes sense to debut a clothing line on her and let the world shop the look via the images.
The range includes taupe, brown, grey and washed-out black shades, with Kardashian West showing off crop tops, leggings, bike shorts, caps and sports bras from the collection.
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