Tag: The Style Guru

The Style Guru: What to Wear to a Wedding?

Dressing for a wedding is always confusing. With all the rules on what not to wear, it’s difficult to express personal style in a wedding outfit. You can’t wear something too short and can’t wear white, cream, or anything that resembles the brides outfit.  Then there’s the worry of the weather. 

The Style Guru: Always Be Ready

Fed up of never having anything to wear?  It’s the same story every weekend- You didn’t have plans to go out Saturday night, until boredom kicked in and due to fear of missing out, you cave in.  Then it dawns on you, you’ve outworn all 

The Style Guru: Fashionista in Five Minutes

It’s Fashion Week Season and photo bloggers are out to make me jealous.  How all these fashion lovers look so effortlessly stylish? I’ll just never know.  Assuming these Fashion Week attendees are busy stylists, journalists, PA’s and what not, you’d never think they had just 

The Style Guru: Team Player

Fashion favorites Marc Jacobs and Stella McCartney have begun a race to show off as many Olympic-inspired designs on the runway as possible. With last summer’s trends being busy and loaded with color, this sports silhouette makes for a fresh change. This trend includes racer-front 

The Style Guru: Animal Instinct

Whether it’s leopard print shoes or a zebra striped dress, animal print is something worth investing in.  It never really goes out of style and is very much in again this spring. How do you wear it properly? For instance, if your top is a 

The Style Guru: Warm Your Spring Clothes Up

The temperatures are still dropping but that hasn’t stopped skimpy spring clothes from making their way to the stores.  If you are anything like me, you’re eager to leave your tights behind and wear your new flowery dress from Topshop.   With a few clever layering 

The Style Guru: Get your head around hats!

  The rise of androgynous dressing has welcomed back the humble hat.  It’s having a gigantic comeback this season in every shape, size and colour.  Hats flooded the catwalks with flying hats at Prada and teddy- boy trilbies at Dolce & Gabbana, to name a 

The Style Guru: How To Sport The Ocean Trend

A key trend for Spring/Summer 2012 is inspired by the mesmerizing beauty of the aquatic.  Designers based their creations on sea creatures and mythological stories from the ocean.  Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen even stitched coral into her ethereal designs.  This spring’s catwalks were a 

The Style Guru: How to Wear 7 Items in 7 Ways

You don’t have to empty out your savings for fresh new looks this spring.  Invest in a few key pieces that either go with items you already have or with something you intend to buy. There’s no logic in buying twenty orange tops when you 

The Style Guru: Midriff Exposed

I hope completing one hundred stomach crunches a day made it to your New Year’s resolutions list. Why? 2012 is the year to expose the midriff.  Designers such as Dolce & Gabbana and Emilio Pucci’s runways sported the flashing of the midriff as if they