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Category: Designer

This Week the Spotlight is on Classic Modern Style & Beauty

Welcome to this weekly blog roundup of The Beauty Spotlight Team where we share our favorite blog posts of the moment! In this edition, you’ll get information on classic modern style and beauty such as:

  • new designer eyewear,
  • a natural, organic nighttime moisturizer for winter,
  • over 50 black outfit ideas for Fall & Winter evenings,
  • smart beauty tips for the new year.

So click on the highlighted subjects below to hop on over to our blogs and read these helpful articles in full. No matter how busy it is, take time for yourself to enjoy the season! Age doesn’t matter.

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How to Combine the New Fall/Winter Fashion Colors Now

Nowadays, it seems that the end-of-summer weather is still too warm even after Labor Day to wear the Fall clothes that our society expects. During this time, I like to explore seasonal colors to get in the mood. And then when we’re in the swing of Autumn with crisp, cool temperatures followed by the cold Winter, our clothing colors automatically change to match the natural world around us. (See my Style Tip on How to Dress With the Changing Seasons HERE.) No matter what the weather, I’m here today to help you find out how to combine the new Fall/Winter fashion colors now and later in bold and creative ways. Age doesn’t matter.

This is my annual update on the Fall/Winter trending colors. There are traditional Autumn wardrobe colors and then there are those that the Pantone Color Institute has noted as trends on the Fashion Week runways.  To find out about timeless classics, see my post “How to Use Colors That Will Get You in the Fall Spirit” HERE.

In this post, you will find out about the top ten New York Fashion Week (NYFW) Autumn/Winter 2024-2025 (A/W 2024/2025) trending colors identified by Pantone, as well as the five new core classic neutrals. Then I have a style tip for you. And finally, I will give you ways to combine these hues in your outfits.

You will be able to find variations of the colors from the New York collection in American stores easily as they stock up for Fall and Winter sales.

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It’s Time to Start Wearing the Spring/Summer 2024 Colors

At the beginning of spring, it’s still cold so we can’t just run outside in our shorts all of a sudden…although some people do anyways. That’s okay if they like to dive right in like that. But I like to stay cozy. It’s much warmer and easier to just start in on wearing spring colors. You can find my style tip on how to use the classic spring colors now right HERE. I’m writing this on the first day of spring. So I consider this the ideal time to start wearing the Spring/Summer 2024 colors.

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In the World of Fashion: Death of an Icon

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Karl Lagerfeld with Virginie Viard – Vogue

I was saddened by the news that Karl Lagerfeld died in Paris earlier this week at the age of 85.  I’m glad he was with us for so long, but his talent will be missed in the world of fashion.

He designed for Fendi for 54 years, and is known particularly for his career as creative director for the house of Chanel for 36 years.  Shortly after his death, his successor was confirmed as Virginie Viard.  She was his longstanding right-hand helper in his work for decades.

Lagerfeld worked straight through to the end, although he was unable to attend the Chanel Haute Couture spring/summer 2019 show in January because he was “too tired.”  Viard stood in his place at that show.  It has been reported that Lagerfeld was working hard on the women’s autumn/winter 2019 Fendi collection up until his death, giving notes from his bed.  Three days after his death, that final collection was shown in Milan.

Besides his designs, another thing I enjoyed about Lagerfeld was his witty and wacky thoughts as evidenced in his quotes…some thoughtful, some humorous, and some that implied the eccentricity that drove his unique creative career.  Looking through his quotes for this post, I had a lot of good laughs.  Lagerfeld held strong opinions and stated them boldly.  Some are outrageous, controversial and not put politely.  Those I skipped.

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At a Chanel Ready-to-Wear Runway Show, Lagerfeld makes a statement with creative humor – from “The Evolution of Chanel’s Ready-to-Wear Runway Shows” at Harper’s Bazaar

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