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Highly Wearable Haute Couture

I'm seeing a lot of legit street items so far, like beanies and arm warmers, reinvented with luxurious and delicate materials to offset a traditional haute couture outfit. And if a look isn't infused with street, it's pretty much indexing all the way to whimsical, which is charming and fun. I think this kind of balance of "high" and "low" is great, especially since haute couture is the most pretentious of any collections and tends to highlight the incredible exclusivity in the business of fashion. I think these types of details help keep this type of runway show relevant to an audience that may never be able to purchase any item from it but can certainly dream and wax poetic about the combinations via a computer screen fixed intently on Style.com, and perhaps even imitate it with more reasonable retailers. In short, I'm digging these close ups from Chanel, Christian Dior, Giambattista Valli, Maison Martin Margiela.

Thigh High Boots, AKA Mount Everest

MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA boots (38), ZARA dress (M), EVERLANE silk top (S), ZARA bag

The nice thing about thigh-high boots is that they are a great solution to short shift dresses in the winter. They're more polished than stockings, and make an outfit instantly modern. The downside about thigh-high boots is that they are deeply associated with, you know, prostitutes, and if worn the wrong way you are definitely dismissed as that pretty quickly. Even still, as a fashion fan, I think they're so cool. Like they are an accessory you successfully style and master when you really nail your personal style. I think I can do that, I say to myself. After all, some women pull them off with such ease that it makes me enthusiastic and confident to try. Now, I'm not a stick-thin woman, especially when it comes to hips, so my constant worry is that thigh-high boots will just emphasize the curviness of my hips. That's cool and what not, it is what it is, but that would make me feel so uncomfortable, as if I was a walking sex person. So my goal was to find a pair of boots with more clunky proportions to help downplay the sleek silhouettes which seem to make me uncomfortable at this point. In other words, baby steps.

Enter these Margiela boots. I'd like to think the strange texture and casual boot shape of these Maison Martin Margiela boots — FYI, acquired at a crazy 70% discount on Matches Fashion's epic sale after months on my wish list — offset all that overly sexual innuendo stuff that is implied by their crazy lengths. At least, I hope it does. I've really got nothing else to say about this outfit other than that. This is a work in progress after all. What do you think?

And note to self: get a better lint roller.

The Modern Boho

RIB & HULL tote (c/o Rib & Hull), MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA boots (38 EU), ANTHROPOLOGIE dress (Small), KATHLEEN WHITAKER cuff, KAREN WALKER sunglasses

I've always liked the whole boho thing. Every time I get inspired by it I picture Sienna Miller in some adorable mini dress with booties or wild hair. So I decide to try it every now and then and like it, except for the fact that going full boho with an outfit wasn't ever truly natural to my personal style. "But it's all about balance!" I think. And even though I'm terrible at math (but amazing memorization) I know the logic should be this: if the dress is overtly boho, then you should balance the equation by wearing something on the opposite spectrum entirely. Like Maison Martin Margiela boots, for example. They're just the right mix of futuristic and manly to offset such a wild-child dress.

A Case For Women Wearing Track Pants Outside The House

Rainy days make you want to give up. It ruins your shoes, the sideways rain ruins your make up, and your hair is not going to be your friend all day. Luckily, there is this delightful trend for Spring 2012 called "athleticism" which makes it okay for fine grown ass women to wear track pants, you know, out of the house. Which is ideal because it's raining, and as we've already discussed, getting dressed and looking great is going to be a little more difficult with stormy weather.

When track pants are made out of silk and are more of a tuxedo inspired hybrid, like the ones shown by Elizabeth and James, it kind of makes you feel less like a bum, and more like you're Emmanuelle Alt. You think, "I can wear skinny pants and be oh-so- French looking with my classic pumps."
Pumps like Jimmy Choos patent Abel pumps. From there, it's easy, you've got a great base founded on comfort! Top it off with a super soft long sleeve Mulberry baseball tee in a super clean blush color, and accessorize with classic Ray Bans, a clean structured DVF clutch, and a bold Maison Martin Margiela rose gold cuff.

Now you're in business. Emmanuelle Alt style.

Valentine's Day Every Day

This is what love looks like. Just sayin'.

A real provocative Markus Lupfer sweater with a sequined mouth is the way to kickstart some romance, no? It plays to your sense of the graphic while sticking to the irresistible pastel covered spring 2012 palette. What better way to highlight such a cutsey palette than by using shades of gold. Rose gold to be exact. I'm thinking an amazing Maison Martin Margiela rose gold metal and fabric belt. Have you ever seen such a beautiful thing? No, right?! Plum colored 3.1 Phillip Lim pants in a silky fabric keep things, how you say, sensual.

Accessories time: Sticking with our optimistic theme that we saw here, here, and here) let's put on some Stella McCartney rose colored glasses. Punk and luxury meet in the middle with a Valentino studded clutch (love this so much), a rose gold Michael Kors watch, and topped of with super-on-sale DSquared2 Furia Heels.

This is love. Get used to it.