NYFW: Tory Burch Spring 2011

One of the most fun shows I attended during fashion week was Tory Burch.  It was another presentation where the models stand on the raised platform and like Chris Benz, it got a little crazy after the celebrities arrived. (Yes, I was standing behind Kayne West!) As you all know, orange is my favorite color and there was a lot for Spring 2011 mixed with khaki and neutrals.  The colors of the clothing transitioned down the line to pink, navy and white with pops of yellow and green.  Tory called the collection "elegant sportif" and said, " "it's all about making a woman feel and look beautiful."  Like a lot of what we saw during fashion week, it has a light 1970's feeling and the Baja sweaters will bring back a lot of great memories for those who actually wore them in the 1970's! Tory's friend Marjorie Gubelmann tweeted that that is was "chic, wearable and affordable" and I think that sums it up perfectly! 

Photos by Heather Clawson for Habitually Chic, www.toryburch.com and the Cut.

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NYFW: Tory Burch Spring 2011

One of the most fun shows I attended during fashion week was Tory Burch.  It was another presentation where the models stand on the raised platform and like Chris Benz, it got a little crazy after the celebrities arrived. (Yes, I was standing behind Kayne West!) As you all know, orange is my favorite color and there was a lot for Spring 2011 mixed with khaki and neutrals.  The colors of the clothing transitioned down the line to pink, navy and white with pops of yellow and green.  Tory called the collection "elegant sportif" and said, " "it's all about making a woman feel and look beautiful."  Like a lot of what we saw during fashion week, it has a light 1970's feeling and the Baja sweaters will bring back a lot of great memories for those who actually wore them in the 1970's! Tory's friend Marjorie Gubelmann tweeted that that is was "chic, wearable and affordable" and I think that sums it up perfectly! 

Photos by Heather Clawson for Habitually Chic, www.toryburch.com and the Cut.

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Vote Early and Often!

I was honored to be one of the bloggers and editors asked to style a model in Tory Burch denim last night at the designers chic Meatpacking District store. My look along with the others are now up for view on the Tory Burch Facebook page where you can vote for your favorite look. Needless to say, I hope you will vote for mine above! I love myself a tie neck blouse and this exactly the same kind of look I would wear with dark jeans.  (I would just swap out the booties for flats.)  I was beyond excited when the model actually said she liked it!  Of course, I wish could look as tall and skinny as her but what can you do?! Don't forget to vote!  Winning would definitely make me feel better!

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Vote Early and Often!

I was honored to be one of the bloggers and editors asked to style a model in Tory Burch denim last night at the designers chic Meatpacking District store. My look along with the others are now up for view on the Tory Burch Facebook page where you can vote for your favorite look. Needless to say, I hope you will vote for mine above! I love myself a tie neck blouse and this exactly the same kind of look I would wear with dark jeans.  (I would just swap out the booties for flats.)  I was beyond excited when the model actually said she liked it!  Of course, I wish could look as tall and skinny as her but what can you do?! Don't forget to vote!  Winning would definitely make me feel better!

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Chic Reads

I have been trying to ignore the feeling that I might be coming down with something in the hope that it would go away but no such luck.  Since I am a little under the weather, I thought I would ask you to do more of the work today. 

Tory Burch recently posted a fun feature on her blog entitled Tastemaker's Summer Reading List which I loved. Each tastemaker gave an example of the "Book I'm Reading Now", "Book that Changed My Life", and "Book I Give as a Gift." I loved reading their responses and I hope she doesn't mind if I borrow her idea today! I'll start it off and then I want to hear your answers!  Those of you who only read my posts in an email or reader will have to come back to the blog and check out what everyone is reading and giving! 

Book I'm Reading Now: I always feel like I'm reading nine books at once but Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris is the one currently sitting on my nightstand.

Book that Changed My Life: Beverly Cleary and Judy Bloom changed my life growing up but the two books that really changed my life were The Catcher in The Rye and The Secret History by Donna Tart. 

Book I Give as a Gift: I Love Your Style by Amanda Brooks is what I'm giving to my fashion friends. 

Now it's your turn! 


N.B. I found the image of the bookshelves on I Suwannee but there was no designer credited.  If anyone knows who designed this room, please let me know!  Thanks!

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Chic Reads

I have been trying to ignore the feeling that I might be coming down with something in the hope that it would go away but no such luck.  Since I am a little under the weather, I thought I would ask you to do more of the work today. 

Tory Burch recently posted a fun feature on her blog entitled Tastemaker's Summer Reading List which I loved. Each tastemaker gave an example of the "Book I'm Reading Now", "Book that Changed My Life", and "Book I Give as a Gift." I loved reading their responses and I hope she doesn't mind if I borrow her idea today! I'll start it off and then I want to hear your answers!  Those of you who only read my posts in an email or reader will have to come back to the blog and check out what everyone is reading and giving! 

Book I'm Reading Now: I always feel like I'm reading nine books at once but Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris is the one currently sitting on my nightstand.

Book that Changed My Life: Beverly Cleary and Judy Bloom changed my life growing up but the two books that really changed my life were The Catcher in The Rye and The Secret History by Donna Tart. 

Book I Give as a Gift: I Love Your Style by Amanda Brooks is what I'm giving to my fashion friends. 

Now it's your turn! 


N.B. I found the image of the bookshelves on I Suwannee but there was no designer credited.  If anyone knows who designed this room, please let me know!  Thanks!

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Tory Burch at Home

You didn't think I'd write a post about Tory Burch's personal style without following it up with her chic apartment did you? The 9,000 square foot, not so humble, abode was created by combining apartments in The Pierre Hotel by architect and designer Daniel Romualdez. It was only featured in Vogue but recently, bits and pieces of the apartment have been popping up again including the kitchen, above, and breakfast nook that were seen in Elle magazine.

Tory also recently created a table setting for a casual lunch in her kitchen for the House Beautiful magazine.

Also featured in Elle was her breakfast room that was redecorated at some point in Arbre de Matisse from Quadrille.

As you can see in this older photo of the kitchen, the breakfast room in the background had yet to be upholstered in the Arbre de Matisse print. I am also loving that green kitchen floor. It looks so clean and cheerful!

Of course the pièce de résistance is the circular foyer lined in beautiful Gracie chinoiserie hand painted paper in pale green. In the distance is the library.

The library is larger than most New Yorker apartments!

The red lacquer bar of the foyer would have made a good addition to my bar post.

The drawing room walls are lined with green silk velvet fabric while the dining room beyond is lacquered in orange. Not sure if you can tell in this photo but the mouldings are painted to look like tortoise shell.

The blue and white porcelain looks pretty against the moss green velvet walls.

This is a badly scanned photo of the drawing room but it gives you a sense of the furniture including the sofa which was designed in homage to Givenchy. It also looks like the kids have fun touching the velvet walls!

The apartment was featured in Vogue in 2004 so not sure if Tory's sons still sleep in bunk beds but it's a great room to use for inspiration for little boy bedrooms.

The colors of the apartment flow through out the space and into this bedroom and Tory's closet below which I know we all covet! I know there is probably much more to this apartment than we've seen and I hope Tory will open it up to more magazines. Maybe ELLE DECOR can feature it in their next fashion issue. Hint hint!

Photos by Francois Halard for Vogue and from Elle and House Beautiful magazines

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Chic Style Icon: Tory Burch

The label style icon gets bandied about a lot but it's usually only reserved for stylish ladies who are no longer with us such as Jackie Kennedy, Babe Paley, Slim Keith and the Duchess of Windsor. I was thinking recently about who would be considered modern day style icons. I decided that all celebrities would be excluded since they only look good when they have a style SWAT team dressing them for the red carpet. I also feel that anyone who's ever slipped their feet into Uggs should automatically be excluded from the list. It seems that most of the women that I could think of lived in New York and would be considered socialites. Maybe they are so stylish because they grew up with stylish parents. One of the ladies who is the top of my style icon list is Tory Burch. She mentions all the time how her fashion label was inspired by the chic outfits her parents wore in the 1960's and it's clear that their style rubbed off on her.

She wears a wide variety of designers but she always looks like herself and never like she's wearing a costume. I don't think I've ever seen her wear the same thing twice but I'm sure she does but just changes it with different jewelry and accessories so no one notices. Ever since she started dating record label CEO Lyor Cohen, her style has become a little more downtown and less uptown ladies who lunch. It's been fun to watch her style evolve. And don't even get me started on her hair! If anyone knows what products she uses to achieve that shine, please let me know! She's inspiring from head to toe and definitely gets my vote for style icon status!

Photos from Style.com

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