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Holiday Fashion and Beauty Guide
Fall's Luxe Accessories
Hard times call for a little hardware: zipped, studded, and sequined evening shoes and bags in variations of shiny black and metallic. Show 'em you're a master of making every accessory count.
101 Holiday Dresses
101 beautiful AND affordable holiday party dresses.
MC Readers Try the Trend: LBD
This season's little black dress is anything but a straight-up cocktail frock; sassy shapes and sexy accessories provide the fizz
Beautiful Fall Floral Fashion
Nothing like a little camping in sunny California to ward off winter blahs. Have a field day with the rugged/refined look of filmy florals layered with earthy knits, denim, and bad-boy biker chains.
Style Lesson: 31 Ways to Update Your Party Look
Three experts on the perfect festive pieces - just in time for soiree season.
MC Readers Try the Trend: Skirts
Sharp in pencil or pretty in pleats, girls are always on their game in a sophisticated skirt. MarieClaire.com has the looks.
Find Your Signature Style
Each of these four working women is known for her just-right personal style. Nab their secrets and create a look that's totally you.
The Best and Worst Fashion Trends of 2008
From must-have styles to must-hate trends. Here is the year in fashion.
Wild About Yves Saint Laurent
It's a YSL moment as designers celebrate the late, great Yves Saint Laurent with their own take on his signature feathers, boho chic, and gender-bending tux!
The Price is Bright
Come on down! Our contestant hits the style jackpot on the set of TV's longest-running game show. With the new Technicolor chic - and prompting from Price Is Right host Drew Carey - how could she lose?
The Fool-Proof Guide to Holiday Style
Pull together a party perfect look for every plus-one bash this season. So c’mon, get shopping. The Evites - and bubbly - will be flowing!
Real Women, Real Fashion: Pants
Updated fall pants have assumed mythic proportions, with big sailor buttons, giant cuffs, and full-blown pleats.
Britannia Rules for The Country Girl
Let's get this tea party started with poetic, plaid-mad, proudly eccentric English style. Works like a charm for wanton country weekends.
1 Vest, 3 Ways
Wanna get more style mileage? Three MC editors show us how by taking the same piece and putting their own spin on it.
Business RISQUÉ: Fashion for the Office
Work attire is sneaking away from structured suits in basic black toward colorful, body-conscious shapes. Give the watercooler crowd something to talk about.
Eco-Chic: Super Cute Tees
FoodTee Market’s line of adorable 100 percent organic cotton t-shirts. They just might make it easier to remember our daily 5-8.
Eco Chic For Fall: Theory Ellissa Trench
Spruce tailoring meets functional yet form-flattering fit. The trench coat, or trenchcoat, is a true statement in sophisticated style. An enduring symbol of modern elegance, it has wrapped the famous frames of fashion icons from Audrey Hepburn to Gwy
The Lace Age
In the Southern gothic city of Charleston, lace works its black magic on intricately detailed dressing for after dark. Frilly, yet fearless . . .
Model Diaries Freshman Facebook
These catwalkers were the stars of the fashion shows last March, so expect to see them everywhere. Marie Claire shows you the new top models.
Fashion 401K: The Investment Pieces
Worth the investment: Traditional pieces (with trend cred!) that earn interest as you wear them and wear them and . . .
Cool Blue Accessories
Come fall, colors get richer; accessories get edgier.
Bright Fantastic
The ultimate turn-on: Bags and shoes in high-voltage shades. Wear just one color, or go for shocking contrast. Marie Claire has the slideshow.
Designer Dossier: Michael Kors
For the Project Runway judge and native New Yorker, the perfect muse is a Hitchcock ice queen with a twist of Amy Winehouse.
Designer Dossier: Vera Wang
While ruling her self-started $300 million Wang Dynasty, the empress wears leggings.
Designer Dossier: Anna Molinari
Italy's beloved "Queen of the Roses" is sugar and spice and some bitchin' tattoos.
Designer Dossier: Jean Paul Gaultier
Fashion's original enfant terrible is taking his school tactics and incredible talent on a world tour.
Designer Dossier: Derek Lam
"Since I've given up smoking, I'll indulge in French toast. During the shows, I need to be smiling, not dieting!"
Designer Dossier: Francisco Costa
"Keep it simple, sexy!" is the motto of minimalist master Francisco Costa. He's putting the wow back in easy-to-wear body dressing.
Gorgeous Jewels for Fall
No longer just a fashion "extra," jewelry's in a starring role this fall, giving a spectacular - and not always pricey - boost to basics.
Real Women Try the Trend: Business Chic
Dressing for the office now means putting oomph into structured classics with ladder-climbing accessories. Marie Claire shows you how.
12 Must-Have Fall Trends
Fall fashion's many frames of mind.
Perfect Jeans for Every Shape
Talk about wiggle room: There's a hot new pair of jeans for every body.
Fall Fashion Statements
So many trends, so little time! As fall clothes start hitting stores, we asked designers what to look for. Listen up!
Denimology: How to Shop for Jeans
How and what to buy now? We asked professional jean-iuses for a cheat sheet.
Find Your Signature Denim Style
Take four of today's freshest designers with very different signature styles and see how they run with the most ordinary fabric: denim.
8 Tips to Double Your Closet Space
Marie Claire has useful ideas to help you organize your closet space.
Black and White Accessories
Amp up your classics — denim, too! — with beaming black-and-white accessories.
Hot Summer Trend: Bows
Stay in the loop with the season's most ladylike embellishment.
Hot New Summer Color: Purple
Violet Femmes: Only purple has both royal roots and rock cred (ask Prince!)
MC Readers Try the Trend: Whites & Brights
Marie Claire shows the various styles of short, sweet, eye-catching summer frocks.
The Hottest Summer Bags and Shoes
SHOES $69.95, Bakers; bakersshoes.com. BAG $8195, Giorgio Armani; (212) 988-9191. NECKLACE $940, Iosselliani; barneys.com for stores. SHOES $89.95, N.Y.L.A. Shoes; nordstrom.com. BAG $2065, Versace; versace.com for stores.
The femme fatale is on the prowl as '40s style slinks into fashion. Power shoulders, sassy flourishes, a classy mix of sexy and sweet. Hello, Lauren Bacall.
Bright Summer Cocktail Dresses
Fluorescent, fluid, frozen-cocktail colors . . . that’s what summer fancy is all about.
Sexy Styles for Summer
There's a sweet nothingness to summer's see-through fabrics: superfeminine, fairylike, and feather-light enough to layer to the hilt. Marie Claire shows you the sexy summer fashions.
Swimsuits for a Petite Body Shape
Hothouse pinks and tiny prints make a big style statement for petite swimwear. Marie Claire shows you some great petite swimsuits.
Swimsuits for a Curvy Body Shape
Flaunt a full figure with retro prints and screen-queen silhouettes. Marie Claire shows you swimwear for curvy figures.
Swimsuits for an Athletic Body Shape
Toned figures score in attention-grabbing graphics and sporty cuts.
Real Women, Real Fashion: The Maxi Dress
Take it to the max this spring with long flowing dresses.
So, You Really Want to Walk in These Heels?
Sergio Rossi's creative director, Edmundo Castillo, talks to Marie Claire about heels, and swears you can walk in them -- comfortably -- if you follow his advice.
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