Steal her Look: Reese Witherspoon

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Reese Witherspoon was spotted leaving the Neil George Salon looking very summery in this blue tank with ruffle skirt and a fedora. Here's where you can steal her look for less:

Where to Buy:
Blue Tank, AE, $15.50
Ruffle Skirt, Express, $19
Grey Suede Sandals, Endless, $34
Tweed Fedora, Urban Outfitters, $28
SR Squared Tote, Endless, $59

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Fashion Style

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Where'd She Get It: Rhianna's Skirt

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Katie asks: "I love this skirt that Rhianna was wearing...do you know where I can find it?"


VFB: Sure, Rhianna is seen here wearing a floral print skirt fromTop Shop. It retails for $65.
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Autumn Kiss Pendant Necklace

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Look closely. Just like Grandma’s favorite pendant necklace, only a bit more romantic.
$50 at Etsy




by Tamara
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How to Wear This Summer’s Corsets & Bralettes

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Corsets have been all over the summer runways. Similar to the crop top, the corset shows a lot of skin. And likely it seems the resurgence of this style is due to the intense heat we’re all facing this summer. The corsets and bralettes and other such similar styles are often cut in a more relaxed way to separate them from their lingerie counterparts.Bralette
But despite all this, these summer corsets are still a fairly body-conscious look. Yet I’ve been seeing them everywhere. Whether it’s a cheap $12 version from Forever 21 or a corset that costs a few hundred dollars, stores are rolling out these corsets, bralettes, or whatever they should be called.
But would you actually wear this trend? I do not think I would. Though I think it is kind of a cute look and fun alternative this summer, I’m not really sure how successful they are. I don’t have a problem with a bared midriff on the right girl, which is why I have no problem with crop tops, but for some reason to me these fashion corsets are taking it too far.
To pull of this look, you have to be very confident in what you are wearing. And thus far I’ve only seen two basic ways of wearing a corset that should allow you to be confident. Please don’t wear a bralette with low-rise jeans, as there will be way too much stomach exposed and people will think you forgot your top!
But seriously, my favorite way I’ve seen a corset styled is over a ribbed tank top. Though in a way this look greatly reminds me of Mischa Barton’s style ten years ago, I think there’s something more fresh about it now. Perhaps it is because tucking in a tank top and a corset into a high-waist skirt seems so much cooler. Either way, I think this look is really successful because it shows off the shape the corset provides while not revealing too much.
The second look I like is the basic corset again tucked into high-waist anything. Whether it’s high pants, a skirt, or shorts, I think the corset shines the most when it’s not fully obvious it’s a corset. So if you were shopping at Frederick’s of Hollywood right now for a summer corset, I urge you to leave the store and avoid tacky looking corsets at all costs.
But what do you think? Would you wear a corset?
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by Liz
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The Cotton Dress: the Go-to Wardrobe Staple

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Recently I’ve really given a lot of thought to some of my most essential wardrobe items and one in particular: the basic cotton dress. This past weekend I was so busy that I needed my outfit to take me from one thing to another, to transition seamlessly from activities including lunch with a friend, to a Toby Keith concert, and then out for drinks.  And my basic light gray dress, though slightly styled differently for each event, took me from place to place.

My personal go-to cotton dress is a sleeveless pocket dress from American Apparel that, I will admit, I own in three different colors. Cotton dresses don’t typically have heavy seaming, obnoxious zippers, or anything that makes them uncomfortable. Which is why they are perfect to be styled both up and down. Their comfort quality makes them as easy to wear as sweatpants and a t-shirt but 1000 times more attractive. And a cotton dress’ simplicity allows it to be worn with a plethora of different accessories.


Another aspect of the comfort factor is that cotton dresses are unbelievably easy to care for. If you spill on it, doesn’t matter; no need to take it to the dry cleaner, you can just throw it in the wash. And no fuss cleaning and wearing is what this wardrobe essential is all about.


Really, perfect cotton dresses are everywhere! The first one, above left, is the Double Layer Racerback Knit dress by Stem for $33.90. The second, is the Cotton Jersey Dress by Three Dots, for $55.90. And finally, the Sleeveless Tunic Dress with Side Ties by Pure and Simple, for $54.00. All of these dresses are so great and easy to wear.


Part of what makes a cotton dress so great is because of the many ways it can be styled. I think for any time of day it looks cool to add a belt around your waist. Most of these casual dresses are not very fitted, so by adding a belt you can show off your frame. Depending on the dress you might prefer a thicker or a thinner belt, but I tend to find a thinner belt is more appropriate for daytime.


Similarly, you can always throw on a cardigan on longer sweater over the dress if it’s cold outside. And I think it’s a fun twist to put on the dress, leave the sweater open, and then belt the sweater over the dress (or if you’re going to a country concert like I did, feel free to substitute the sweater for a plaid shirt!). This layered belting creates an interesting shape and again helps you to avoid looking bulky.


by Liz
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Maybe With Stefano Tonchi’s Makeover, You’ll Read W for the Articles

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Maybe With Stefano Tonchi’s Makeover, You’ll Read W for the Articles
Stefano Tonchi confessed that he never really read W before his appointment to editor-in-chief of the title earlier this year. At a lunch today at Condé Nast's headquarters at 4 Times Square held to unveil Tonchi's W makeover launching with the September issue, the editor said that he always flipped through the magazine, which he repeatedly called "image-driven," but never spent time with the articles. That's because there was never much to read in W, with much of the editorial content consisting of newsy bits derived from the magazine's parent publication WWD. But the pictures were always fantastic, and Tonchi aims to maintain that, while adding a lot more words — hopefully of substance — to make W a well-rounded magazine in itself.

The September articles include ones we actually want to read, such as the piece on women getting plastic surgery too soon in life that compares Lindsay Lohan's lips to "soggy hamburger buns"; an in-depth profile of Givenchy creative director Riccardo Tisci; and Caroline Weber's first-person essay that notes that the curvy movement happening in fashion right now is really just an embrace of big breasts, not necessarily fat on other parts of the figure. So W finally feels like a magazine you want to take home and read, rather than something that will occupy too much real estate in your trash can moments after a quick flip-through.

Tonchi noted W's unique position in the fashion-magazine marketplace. It must compete with other fashion titles, including sister publications at Condé Nast like Vogue, but isn't a newsstand-driven publication like its competitors. The magazine is physically too big to fit well on newsstands, and therefore measures success in terms of subscribers. (The magazine's size is not something Tonchi wanted to tamper with, in the interest of maintaining W's stunning visuals.) But not feeling pressured to engage in the cutthroat newsstand-sale game allows Tonchi more freedom with his covers: He doesn't need an instantly recognizable face to move issues and can give that slot to relative unknowns.

The September issue has three different covers and eight cover stars, young actresses Yaya DaCosta, Jennifer Lawrence, Greta Gerwig, Kat Dennings, Jessica Chastain, Emma Roberts, Zoë Kravitz, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. The cover-story author, Lynn Hirschberg, W's new editor-at-large after following Tonchi over from the Times, reiterated Tonchi's view that magazine covers look too similar these days, adding that they want theirs to "feel alive in a different way." And what better way than with two hot, young girls almost kissing each other?
Creative director Jody Quon, formerly photo director of New York, said they wanted to have one image of the girls in a kiss situation, and knew it would work best with the pair rather than the groups of three. Tonchi was pleased to point out that while this shot is provocative, none of the ladies are dressed provocatively. And indeed, you'll find nary a puckered breast on the cover or the spread of the ladies inside the magazine.

The website relaunches next month and will begin hosting the screen-test videos Hirschberg used to do for the Times. Same content, different channel, as Tonchi described it. He hopes to turn W's site into fashion's YouTube — a (hopefully) groundbreaking online archive of fashion films, from things W produces itself to Dior's latest commercial with Marion Cotillard. He's not interested in a news-driven website, and made it sound like the magazine will remain light on web staffing for a little while.

So while the magazine feels plenty new, and plenty made-over, if not drastically, it's not revolutionary. It feels like a girlier version of Vanity Fair, which is not a bad thing. It's beautiful, it's glossy, it's fun to read and gaze at, but it's still full of super-skinny, super-tall models, and gobs of clothes, shoes, bags, and vacations that most people can't afford but land in fashion magazines everywhere. Tonchi and his team may have changed a magazine, but the system remains the same.

By: Amy Odell
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