Colors play an important role in our life. Depending on the occasion we choose to wear a garment of dark serious hue or bright lively one.

With the help of colors we can create the most sophisticated or the worst ever look. Season after season color palette that is in vogue changes and to be on modern lines we need to know which hues are popular and which have lost its significance already.

Here I’ll tell you about the trendiest tints and patterns for spring 2009.

Yellow shadows

Many designers have chosen yellow and all yellow tints imaginable for their men’s collections. As for me I do not understand why men should give preference to yellowy hues in spring, the season when everything becomes bright and dynamic.

Though despite all this, many collections - including the ones by Prada, Burberry Prorsum, Alexander McQueen and others - are based on this color, some of them look nice, some dull.

Choose the one you like best.

Flesh tones

Alexander McQueen, Jill Sanders, Salvatore Ferragamo, Burberry Prorsum and others used plenty of flesh tones in their lines. The models look very elegant and office-like.

If you like restrained colors this trend is for you, no abundant décor or details, just pure sophistication.

White color

White is represented mostly in Calvin Klein’s collection. It’s nice and chic. The models in white are very different in style: from evening suits to ordinary T-shirts and shorts.

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Beyonce for InStyle magazine November 2008

US InStyle magazine presents issue with Beyonce on November 2008 cover. Beyonce talks about style and fashion.

Must-Have Accessory:

I’m not dressed unless I have earrings on, like big hoops. I’ve always worn big earrings. Off the red carpet, I don’t really feel comfortable with many rings and bracelets on. I love earrings though.”

Obsession with Chanel:

I am obsessed with vintage Chanel jewelry. I once bought all the Chanel pieces that were on display at an antiques store in New York.

Favorite Designers:

Alexander McQueen and Jean Paul Gaultier are two designers I love right now. Their clothes are feminine, sexy and modern. I just went to the Giuseppe Zanotti showroom, and he had the most spectacular shoes. It was like being in a candy store—I was obsessed with every shoe! Right now, I love anything with a high platform.”

Style Icons:

Charlize Theron is always beautiful and feminine. I love her couture looks and dramatic silhouette. Halle Berry is elegant and sophisticated. I love that in the seventies Cher and Diana Ross looked like superstars and never played it safe. When they were onstage, they gave you drama—and I love drama.”

Pre-Superstar Style:

Growing up, I was a tomboy. I refused to carry a purse and wouldn’t wear a dress. That was the eighties and it was all about the hip-hop influence—baggy jeans and big shirts. [Her mother, Tina Knowles] hated it! But then I started singing and ended up watching all of the footage of the Supremes and Tina Turner. And I thought to myself, ‘They’re so beautiful. I want to be like them.’”

Off-Camera Style:

I’m a lot more conservative in my personal life. But even when I’m dressed down, I wear a nice shirt, nice jeans and stilettos. Even when I go on vacation, where no one’s going to see me, I enjoy picking out new clothes, bathing suits and accessories. I do it for myself because I enjoy fashion. It makes me feel like me.”

Latest Look:

I was going to do the shorter hair [for her new album] that I had when I performed with Tina Turner at the Grammys earlier this year, which I loved. But I’ve decided to wear my hair straight instead. I’ve had so many different hairstyles, and I don’t want this project to be about my hair. With my makeup, I was doing a lot of liquid liner before. Now I’m into a gold smoky eye and natural-tone lip.”

Nicole Kidman for Australian InStyle November 2008

Nicole Kidman is a super cover girl in November 2008. She does US Elle magazine and now you can see the cover of Australian InStyle magazine with her interview and great photoshoot.

The cover picture is new but the pictures inside are from the Australian Harper’s Bazaar magazine from earlier this year.

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Now I want to make preview for French and American Vogue covers.

Vanessa Paradis for French Vogue magazine November 2008

Vanessa Paradis’s so beautiful on French Vogue November 2008 cover. The beautiful photoshoot of her is To Die!

The cap by Miu Miu, gap in the teeth, red nails and stuffy eye all are just screaming great.

Carine Roitfeld tapped the professional photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggot to capture the modern face of Miu Miu.

The wholeheartedly anticipated age issue features Cindy Crawford by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, Penelope Tree by Bruce Weber, Anna Selezneva and Eva Herzigova by Mario Sorrenti, and the long-awaited release of Ryan McGinley’s buzzed-about cooperationwith Raquel Zimmermann.

The most fascinating editorial? Hands down “De 10 a 60 ans.”

Also photographed by Inez & Vinoodh, this Roitfeld-styled spread features a successfuly and “gracefully aging” Eniko Mihalik.

While some argue that the “younger” photos are somewhat ominous, the photographs are so well-rendered and infallible conceived that while decidedly spooky, the general tenor is still beneficial nonetheless.

Reese Witherspoon for US Vogue November 2008

Reese Witherspoon with her deep blue eyes is on the November 2008 cover of US Vogue. Inside, her looks are stunningly pictured around Paris.

Reese Witherspoon tells the story of finding her Oscar outfit, becoming the quintessential Nina Ricci woman, and even about her family and her boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal.

The actress told she is in love with Gyllenhaal and feels “lucky” to have him in her life. Also  she denies rumors that she doesn’t like her Four Christmases co-star Vince Vaughn.

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The famous stylist and fashion mastermind behind Sex and the City, Patricia Field, has a new work on the set of Ugly Betty.

Since the show relocated produce from Los Angeles to New York this year, Field, who styled the pilot episode, has came back to the fashion-centric program for Ugly Betty third season.

Set in the offices of fictional fashion magazine Mode, Ugly Betty’s cast is characteristic dressed in understated colors and classic silouhettes, but America Ferrera’s Betty Suarez is another story.

Just like Carrie Bradshaw’s closet wardrobe, Betty’s wardrobe is a mash-up of high-end designer pieces. It includes Marc Jacobs, Viktor and Rolf, and Alexander McQueen and one of a kind vintage finds.

But that’s where the resemblance ends. Betty’s kookie style is all about traffic-stopping colors, clashing prototypes and questionable layering.

Patricia Field shows that it’s not the outfit or labels that give you style, but how you wear them.

Below the shabby, mismatched layers, Ugly Betty wears some great pieces, but they get lost in a jumble of color and pattern.

Perhaps she has the strange fashion sense of Carrie Bradshaw, taken a steps too far.

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What about a little piece of patriotic in your wardrobe for Halloween or Independence Day? Fashion designers presented some pairs of patriotic style footwear.

The Union Jack ankle boots are ultra-hip. This original footwear is offered by Alexander McQueen. The boots are both rock ‘n roll and patriotic. Can’t you just see Penelope Cruz or Heidi Klum wearing a pair of these with skinny jeans?

The construction of these nice boots are high quality. With 5” high heel and side zipper these booties are uber stylish. McQueen’s flag infused ankle boots are made of red and white leather and blue suede and accessoried with a gold-tone toe plate.  Team them with a full skirt for a fun and flirty evening look.

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Women’s patriotic red, white and blue platform knee boots lace up style with side zipper and 5 inch chunky heels.

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Costume Jewellery

Marni

• Multiple choice: pile on heaps of chains and armfuls (or even neckfuls) of bangles
• Chunky wooden beads, giant Deco cuffs, bold neck pieces… Jewellery comes super-sized
• From delicate chokers to gothic rosaries and moulded metalwork - as long as it makes an impact, anything goes

Accessories by Alexander MCqueen

Accessories by Givenchy and Louis Vuitton

Necklaces by Dior, Givenchy, Swarovski

Chanel flower brooch and Swarovski brooch

As you see the new fashion trend for Autumn/Winter 2008/09 is big and massive necklaces and brooch. Be ready!

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