Style A To Zoe by Rachel Zoe with Rose Apodaca

Style A To Zoe: The Art Of Fashion, Beauty, & Everything Glamour by Rachel Zoe (with fashion and cultural writer, Rose Apodaca) is part autobiography of a celebrity fashion stylist, part style manual. Unlike most celebrity stylists, Rachel Zoe is not a shadowy figure pulling the sartorial strings from beyond the red carpet. She is watched and photographed in much the same way as her famous clients are and has even been the star of

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Veldskoene – Prince Harry’s New Favourite Footwear

Prince Harry’s dancing shoes may appear to resemble the legendary blue suede shoes that Elvis sang about in the song of the same name but they are actually ‘veldskoene’…

Not that this is any deterrent to Harry; he likes his veldskoene so much he even wears them on the red carpet!

What’s Bjork Wearing These Days?

In case you were wondering if Icelandic songstress Bjork has become any less of a kooky dresser since her 2001 appearance in the now-famous ‘swan dress’, she hasn’t…

The dress, which was designed by Marjan Pejoski, was highly memorable in its own right but Bjork made it doubly so by pretending to lay an egg on Oscar’s very own red carpet:

Top 5 Oscars Gowns for 2012

Here are my top 5 gown choices for the 2012 Oscars, in no particular order because they’ll all great…

Scratch that, there is an order!

Octavia Spencer comes first because her ‘statement accessory’ is an Oscar…


Octavia Spencer in Tadashi Shoji

Penelope Cruz is a close ‘second’ for evoking the glamour of 50s Hollywood in her dreamy blue confection…

High-Waisted Stonewashed Jeans Anyone?

Here we have Miley Cyrus (right) attempting to revive an 80s denim trend that, to all intents and purposes, should never be revisited…

Apart from the “mumsy” style and dated stonewashed effect, the high waist of jeans like this make them uncomfortable to sit down in, as Miley has discovered judging by her unbuttoned pants in the photo below:


About

I hate to sound cliched and say my passion is fashion but it really is. I love beautiful gowns, particularly in the style of the Hollywood icons of the ’40s and ’50s, because of the glamour factor.

There’s also a critical streak in me and I can’t resist pointing out celebrity faux pas but I try to be constructive, if I can, because I know how easy it is to make a sartorial mistake (mea culpa)…

Anyhoo, this is my take on the age-old technique of looking good!