#Trending styles for women

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Stay ahead in the style game with our comprehensive guide on the latest fashion trends for women. From bold prints to sustainable fashion, discover what's hot this season and how to incorporate these trends into your wardrobe. Perfect for fashion-forward women looking to update their style.

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Total red by Courreges

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Iris Barrel Apfel, Decorator and Fashion Stylist

(August 29, 1921 – March 1, 2024) 

Ms. Apfel was one of the most vivacious personalities in the worlds of fashion, textiles, and interior design, she has cultivated a personal style that is both witty and exuberantly idiosyncratic.

Her originality was typically revealed in her mixing of high and low fashions—Dior haute couture with flea market finds, nineteenth-century ecclesiastical vestments with Dolce & Gabbana lizard trousers.

With remarkable panache and discernment, she combines colors, textures, and patterns without regard to period, provenance, and, ultimately, aesthetic conventions. Paradoxically, her richly layered combinations—even at their most extreme and baroque—project a boldly graphic modernity.

Iris Barrel was born on Aug. 29, 1921, in Astoria, Queens, the only child of Samuel Barrel, who owned a glass and mirror business, and his Russian-born wife, Sadye, who owned a fashion boutique.

She studied art history at New York University, then qualified to teach and did so briefly in Wisconsin before fleeing back to New York to work on Women's Wear Daily, and for interior designer Elinor Johnson, decorating apartments for resale and honing her talent for sourcing rare items before opening her own design firm. She was also an assistant to illustrator Robert Goodman.

As a distinguished collector and authority on antique fabrics, Iris Apfel has consulted on numerous restoration projects that include work at the White House that spanned nine presidencies from Harry Truman to Bill Clinton.

Along with her husband, Carl, she founded Old World Weavers, an international textile manufacturing company and ran it until they retired in 1992. The Apfels specialized in the reproduction of fabrics from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, and traveled to Europe twice a year in search of textiles they could not source in the United States.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute assembled 82 ensembles and 300 accessories from her personal collection in 2005 in a show about her called “Rara Avis”.

Almost overnight, Ms. Apfel became an international celebrity of pop fashion.

Ms. Apfel was seen in a television commercial for the French car DS 3, became the face of the Australian fashion brand Blue Illusion, and began a collaboration with the start-up WiseWear. A year later, Mattel created a one-of-a-kind Barbie doll in her image. Last year, she appeared in a beauty campaign for makeup with Ciaté London.

Six years after the Met show she started her fashion line "Rara Avis" with the Home Shopping Network.

She was cover girl of Dazed and Confused, among many other publications, window display artist at Bergdorf Goodman, designer and design consultant, then signed to IMG in 2019 as a model at age 97.

Ms. Iris Apfel became a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin in its Division of Textiles and Apparel, teaching about imagination, craft and tangible pleasures in a world of images.

 In 2018, she published “Iris Apfel: Accidental Icon,” an autobiographical collection of musings, anecdotes and observations on life and style. 

Ms. Apfel’s apartments in New York and Palm Beach were full of furnishings and tchotchkes that might have come from a Luis Buñuel film: porcelain cats, plush toys, statuary, ornate vases, gilt mirrors, fake fruit, stuffed parrots, paintings by Velázquez and Jean-Baptiste Greuze, a mannequin on an ostrich.

The Museum of Lifestyle & Fashion History in Boynton Beach, Florida, is designing a building that will house a dedicated gallery of Ms. Apfel's clothes, accessories, and furnishings.

Ms. Apfel’s work had a universal quality, It’s was a trend.

Rest in Power !

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Solange (2021)

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Zimmermann AW2024

Key trend for AW2024: Wide Stripes

Read my trend report featuring over 40 womenswear and menswear looks here, and see shopping ideas for both women and men if you'd like to get a head start on this key trend.

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CHICGUIDES

Wow! She Has So Much Confidence!

01. Skincare

Skincare is a ritual that should be performed daily. Perfecting your routine may take a while, but patience is time well spent. Simple toners, serums, and moisturizers unlocks radiance in the skin.

02. Bodily Health

Bodily health doesn’t just start with appearance. Starting within yourself, will make the health shine onto the outside. It is common to prioritize your outer being without taking care of your insides. This includes, gut health, eating well, and taking your supplements, vitamins, and most importantly getting your sleep! What you don’t take up for on the inside will show on the outside.

03. Keeping a Healthy Mind

It’s easier said then done, but, finding somewhere to start is the best way to kick it off. Journaling. Cliché, I know. But, jot down your thoughts instead of turning those thoughts into negative emotions and habits. Reading. Stop clouding your mind with the overconsumption of media. Picking a good self help book or a fiction book is the best way to clear the mind. Self- preservation. Get to know yourself, learn what makes you unique, learn what makes people want to surround themselves with you. Privatize your life.

04. Find Your Personal Style

Your style is your story and shows to your individuality. Finding a style that feels like you, can make you and others see you from a whole new perspective.

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I'm a woman. Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman. That's me.

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Schiaparelli ss20 headpiece

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road running — still thinking of you.

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Fine, I'll admit it. With long hair...

He's very attractive. He really is.

But, he's a harebrained trend chaser, who will butcher his good looks for fickle fashion.

He also looks like he should be wearing a kilt, not a cloak. Because of the long red hair, not David's nationality.

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Parking garage aesthetic