THE STYLE-LIST : LA STYLE

Hooray for Hollywood

My style path has led me to spending the entire 'Fall Season' at my home in LA. So this is the first of five letters from LA where we explore the style of The Angels. Over the next five weeks we will be looking at:

LA fashion

Hair and Nail Bars

Fab Eateries

Hip Hangouts

Whats Hot and Whats Not in LA right now.

So this week lets talk about hot LA Fashion in fact its not hot just lukewarm. It always surprises me how little style there is on the streets of Los Angeles. Even as I am sitting in the supremely stylish eateries of spagos and The Wilshire I casually glance around at the really poorly and dull dressed. Styles vary from eccentric to dress down preppy I wonder does this reflect the fact that there is really no 'high street' as in The UK , only high end boutiques or low end stores with the gap in between filled by J Crew or Banana Republic. Even the designer stores seem to stock a different collection to the vibrant stores of London. One that seems oddly dated. Of course two of the most  stylish designers I know are American, Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein ( although oddly the only two that spring to mind !) Michael Kors as my regulars will know is my hero but only since he returned from a stint with Lanvin before this he was staid and boring.

Klein and Lauren are the epitome of style simple clean lines plain vibrant colours taking no notice of 'fashion' but cutting beautiful clothes to suit all women. Colours to suit all complexions and hard t make a mistake just accessorise in context. But i think this is more New York woman and less LA woman.

EMMY FASHION UPDATE.............

I had been alarmed by the lack of style I was noticing on this trip and then it was all confirmed............. I watched The Emmys last night. An array of women paraded in the wrong dress for their complexions , the wrong dress for their body shapes and just the wrong dress for anyone !! A whole evening of the worst dressed women I have ever seen LA what has happened this is truly a style desert in this pocket of the world the worse I have seen on my travels. Stylists !! What are you thinking. The only 'celebrity' on the night who truly owned her dress and knew her body and the shape that flatters her and really knows her style was Sofia Vergara. She rocked that dress.

Sofia Vergara

There were soooo many bad frocks to choose from but the worst was Clare Danes someone who has no sense of her own personal style as is evident on previous occasions. But Clare darling, wrong colour for your very pale complexion wrong dress for your shape(read bust size) ill fitting . Nice dress(Armani Prive) but soooo wrong for you sack your stylist.  The irony is  Clare was voted best dressed by the LA fashion gurus !!!! I rest my case.  Clare give me a call .

Clare Danes

NEXT WEEK THE BEST HAIR AND NAIL BARS IN LA................................TUNE IN STYLISTAS.  MWAH MWAH AIR KISSES xx