Dancing with the Stars Finale Tonight on ABC

My fave to win

Kirstie and Maksim

Be careful with the Lip Liner

It is a wonderful tool for enhancing the lips and making them appear fuller but you musn't bring too much attention. It has to be done with care.  Nope (below) Too dark!

 

Better!  Only one shade darker than lipstick or natural lip color

Make Up

Less is more with regards to foundation. Like I said Pamela Anderson is gorgeous and she does the more thing on purpose. Even she goes a bit too far and looks too trashy sometimes

A little trash goes a long way!
The biggest culprit is foundation. Most of it is way too thick and unless you are on tv or in front of cameras, it is "masky" in real life. It is extremely aging and compounds the aging process. Less is more when it comes to foundation and one that is a tinted moisturizer and not just cover is best. I love @bobbybrown myself

I Love Kirstie Alley so much and I Love "Dancing with the Stars"

I predict she and Maksim win it all!! I am in love with Maksim anyway!

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I know, get blogging! Coming up! Too much makeup. How to know.

I LOVE Pamela Anderson and she wears too much make and gets away with it. Good example though of what to watch for. She does it on purpose so it's O.K.

 

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The biggest culprit is foundation. Most of it is way too thick and unless you are on tv or in front of cameras, it is "masky" in real life. It is extremely aging and compounds the aging process. Less is more when it comes to foundation and one that is a tinted moisturizer and not just cover is best. I love @bobbybrown myself

"Buy or Die' original artwork

Just thought you might like! One of my best, I think! Published on Tumblr by South and lillylab!

One of my all time favorite looks!

"Rocker Style"

ASK ME ANYTHING ABOUT STYLE

As a treat, I am offering all my readers, answers to their style questions. Maybe you are getting a hair cut and would like some advice on cut, color or shape. No problem. Just ask me and I will give you the best advice ever. If you are going to a special event and don't know what to wear. Ask me and you will be the best dressed there, I promise. All I ask is that you to post a comment on one of my posts. It does not have to be your question.  I would love the comment to be your question. You decide!  If it isn't then send me an e-mail with photos or not and I will get back to you. E-mail me:  godlynne@gmail.com.

My 30 years of Style in Sportswear

From Aspen Skiwear in 1976 through  Stephen Sprouse in 1984, Jet Set in 2008. and now Korean snowboard gear in 2011. Quite a ride!

Ya gotta love it! Nighty Night!
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Rocky Mountain Featherbed and the history of my style

You would not believe what I did to get this line in 1978. It was then owned by a great guy named Cub Schaefer from Jackson Hole, Wyoming. One of his staff, visiting, was in my shop and was wearing one of the vests. I told him if he would help me get the line into the shop, I would give him the hiking boots that he wanted, free. He accepted and the rest was history. It was, along with North Face and Patagonia(Great Pacific Ironworks, in those days) one of my most popular tech lines. It also crossed over into the fashion side which was where I was headed with my buying. It was perfect! It was quintessential cowboy, no?
It is now owned by a  Japanese company. Wonder what Cub is up to these days? 

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Stephen Sprouse

I was there at  "Area" club and bought the line at his New York studio. It was completely silver, the walls, the ceiling, the floor, the desk, everything on the desk the pictures on the walls. It was wild and so cool. I was the only store in Canada to sell the line at the time.

The Punk Glamour God

OMG! I love the lipstick on the men!!

Vivienne Westwood   Fall 2011.   I  LUV HER!

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South,my daughter and I

Don't we look alike? South up top and me below at the same approximate age

Wonder why I love fashion ? part 2

Can you believe these adorable clothes. I am just amazed myself. O.K. I know, enough with the baby pictures. I think though, it is important to my history of fashion to see how early the love affair with fashion began

 Can you believe the swimming costume with the swim cap and all? This was in the back yard playing!

I won this doll carriage parade. Lilly went nuts on these competitions. The beauty pageants of the 50's, hee hee!
One more I promise. I am just fascinated is all. Ho Hum, just out in the yard playing in my blazer, tartan skirt and patent leather shoes. Dear God in heaven.  It's hard to believe it's me. Seems like a different life.

nighty night!

Wonder why I love fashion?

This is how Lilly dressed me for the exhibtion to go on the rides heehee!!

What an education I had in style!

Stephen Sprouse 1984

going to David Bowie concert, in I think 1984. That was a big year. I think that's the year of Stevie Wonder and Much Music as well

Nighty Night!

A heady time! My history in fashion

This article is about another of my all time favorites, Vivienne Westwood, but talks about "Parachute", the clothing I was wearing in my last post. It was the IT thing in 1984 and I had it. It was a heady time. I went to the New York showrooms of both to do the buying. Parachute had a huge store on Wooster St in Soho. It was so amazing and so exciting to have an appointment with Nicola to do my buying either in New York or Montreal. The nightclub Limelight  that Vivienne frequented was the one I could tell amazing stories about. I had never seen anything like the going's on in that club. It was WILD beyond belief.

This is Vivienne Westwood speaking
 "When I moved to New York City in 1984, I’d just missed the heyday of the Mudd Club and, although CBGB’s was still going strong, we FIT students were strident devotees of Danceteria and Limelight. Music and fashion were transitioning from aggressive punk and New Wave into the more commercial and poppy MTV-ruled era of Prince, Madonna and Boy George. Harry Parnass and Nicola Pelly’s voluminous Parachute line and Stephen Sprouse’s Day-Glo graffiti-inspired looks ruled the day, but the ’80s wouldn’t have been the same without Vivienne Westwood. Westwood and Malcolm McLaren built their reputation with wild punk-inspired styles in the mid-1970s, but she didn’t gain wider recognition until 1985 when the couple and design duo split up."

 This is Vivienne Westwood today.
I think I have a picture of me in Stephen Sprouse. I am going to find it and will post it.
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Moi, a few years back, in Parachute!

These clothes were amazing, designed by Nicola Pelly and Harry Parness. I wonder where they are today?  I must do some research on that. There were only a few shops in North America that sold these clothes and I am proud to have been one of them. I wish I had been more like my mum and saved everything. I am thankful I took photos, at least. A hoarder I am not!!

These are are "Parachute" clothes from designers I mentioned. Architectural!

Me in Neto Leather, another great line I carried

"O.K. that's enough about me. Let's talk about you. What do you think of me?" Bette Midler in "Beaches". That's one of my favorite lines of all time. Another is  and I paraphrase"the only thing that
allows evil to flourish, is good men doing nothing" I'll tackle Palin tomorrow O.K. Nighty Night! 

Does Sarah Palin have good Style

In one word NO. I will talk about why in next post

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Gala at the "Met"

Metropolitan Museum of Art Gala best dressed. I have looked at most and will post my top 5 best and worst but Stella McCartney was the best for sure

I adored this

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Second, would have to be this fab "get up". You can see I love the "curve up in the front down in the back" silhouette. Uber great!!

Designer Jean Paul Gaultier            image:styleite.tumblr.com

"Parachute" around 1980

At work in" Parachute", early 80's.What great clothes these really were. The pair of designers who owned Parachute were unique. Nicole Pelly was a visionary and fearless designer. Her partner and (I think husband) Harry Parness had been an architect and brought that structural knowledge to the designs  creating  extraordinary pieces

The face of the future

My daughter now has stepped up to the plate and will become the face of our fashion future. I am very proud of her.

I designed my first ski suit and had it made! 1977

This is more or less what it looked like. It was skin tight, full stretch with a stand up collar and zipper down the front. It was canary yellow with a turquoise stripe down the sleeves and legs. It went inside your boots, which was cool then. I had it made in Vancouver by a tailor who's co was named Alpine Joe's. I went out there for fittings and everything. He made a black and red one for me too but the yellow was the talk of Banff I am sure. I think from the get go all the locals thought I was from Mars. No one wore things like that. I guess I just thought it was  new ski fashion and it was O.K. I was a little nuts! Did I say "was". Sorry! Am.

Worst dressed at Royal Wedding

Here are my choices for worst dressed. I will explain how they could have been better
#5. Don't like the jewelry. Gloves and a simple hat with hair pulled back would have been good. I like the dress and the bight scarf as accessory.

#4. She needed more coverage, especially with the slit in short skirt. Just a bit higher v and slit in back and a bit longer skirt would have been lovely.

 #3. Just way too much of this blue. Shows daring but little imagination and style. Ditch the gloves,clutch and shawl and there might have been some magic

 #2. Princess Anne.  It's such a structured ,difficult outfit anyway. I don't like the cuffs on sleeves, otherwise the coat dress might have worked. The real problem is the hair. It is so old fashioned in style and makes everything dowdy. I don't like the way the hat is perched on top like that.  Don't like the hat at all, the shape and big flower are old fashioned. Not Good.

#1.
Tie, The two daughters of Fergie take the worst dressed. They were both off in every way

In my opinion the beige outfit could have been saved if she had made the "over the top" hat the only focus and wore a plain dress from similar fabric (structured) but, simple neck,long sleeves,gloves and clutch,which were fine. Her shoes are good. Her hair should have been out of the way and a none issue. It could have worked.
The blue outfit also could have looked great. Leave the beige feathers off the top of hat. There is enough going on. The pony tail hair is good except control the bangs. Ditch the three bows for one at the waist and lenghthen the dress to the knee and have a simple stuctured staight bottom. The shoes,clutch and gloves are fine but could have been dark like the top embellishment on the hat.

There, that's my take on the Royal Wedding. Whew! Would love your comments. See ya with my history of ski fashion,next

One that almost made the mark and why I think she missed

Chelsy, Harry's girlfriend, is very sweet. Her suit is great and I love the color. Just needed to be a couple inches longer to make it dressier. It is too casual this length. Her clutch and shoes are good and I I like the color. She could have had short gloves in the champagne as well to add to dressy feeling. Love the no jewelry again. The big problem is the hat. It needed to be a bit more dramatic to set her apart. It is just too tiny. I love the color and the idea. Just needs to be more of a beehive hat I think and she could have made my list.
The other is

Top Five at the Royal Wedding (not including wedding party)

Drum roll please!
#5. tie-Frances Osborne-simple elegance, Camilla-great job (just needed those platforms)

 #4. Sophie- Just right. She looks great!

#3.Princess Letzia- simply charming

#2. Victoria Beckham-I thought she hit all the right notes for the fashion forward person she is with the ahead of things, dark color, the sky high platforms, the best of the pill box hats, and this loose very forward dress.  Loved the pony tail. Good job!

#1. Of course Joss Stone. Perfect in every way!

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Enjoy! Comments please.
Get ready for the 5 worst and 2 almost made the best list hee hee!! Tonight!