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Winter Hair Care For a Glamorous Holiday

By 4chionlifestyle | November 14, 2017

There is always the sun, wind, cold, and wet weather to contend with in the winter months. This brings stress and damage to your hair.

The best hair care to protect your hair and scalp is keeping your hair covered. This will protect your hair. This protection does create a sweat issue that can irritate your scalp. This gentle laundry soap for your hats will help with the irritation. Changing from a wool hat assists with irritation of the scalp’s sensitive skin.

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Preventing drying of your hair and scalp is a challenge during winter. Hydration is key in the dry winter months. Keeping hydrated will prevent drying hair, skin (even the scalp). Maily O’Neil, the owner of Mai Salon, states, “Hairstyles that do not require any hot tools are:

Embracing your natural curl
For styling, use a larger comb to comb or with fingers, and damp set with bobby pins.

Limiting your use of drying hair styling products (hair dryer, flat or curling iron) can help with preventing damage to your hair.

Continue keeping your hair trimmed during the winter months to keep hair healthy looking. This keeps the dry and damaged ends from splitting.

Deep condition weekly and limiting hair washing will keep hair healthy and easier to manage. Using a shampoo specifically for the season or your hair type is key to success. We enjoy products from Maple Holistic. They have a fabulous winter shampoo and conditioner for your winter hair. O’Neil says, “using the right shampoo, conditioner and moisturizer product to enhance and set the curls naturally.” It is important to remember to not leave the house with your hair wet. This will risk breaking, further damage, brittle, and drying to your hair.

O’Neil recommends, “Controlling frizzy hair needs humidifying products which attract moisture to control frizz.” Invest in a humidifier to control this frizz. This will add moisture back to your office or home atmosphere. When running the heater it does dry the air. This will prevent frizzy hair often found in the winter months. It also keeps your skin moist and less dry feeling.

Keeping your hair healthy during the winter months will make you the talk of the town through the holidays, Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve. Send your winter hair selfies here using #4ChionStyle.

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Wherever You Go, Shine ~ Malan Breton

By 4chionlifestyle | September 28, 2017

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Malan Breton, fashion designer, brings a story in three chapters for fall winter 2017. The chapters create a story that flows from New York Fashion Week, to London Fashion Week, and concludes in Los Angeles at Style Fashion Week. The collection brings a complete story from the chapters: Everywhere at the End of Time (New York), Living in the Moment in Fear (London), and Seven Deadly Sins (Los Angels).

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The New York chapter is Everywhere at the End of Time. This chapter takes us to the current times in the world now and brings about empowerment. The empowerment of women and those being poorly treated. The entire show from the dancers, to the opening model, Nykhor Paul bring the story to life.

The runway included celebrities models: Kiera Chaplin (Charlie Chaplin’s granddaughter), Frankie Grande, Consuelo Vanderbilt Costin, Dylan Grieco, Mason Grammer, and Janine Tugonon. Each is a part of the weaving of the story about acceptance and hope.

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London’s show at Freemasons Hall continues the collections’ story. This chapter is living in the moment of fear and darkness. Taking the color away from you. The loss of color a strong presence on the runway. The opening fabric for this chapter looks similar to a second skin. The music for the runway is Sleepwalk by Santo & Johnny.

Los Angeles story chapter, the Seven Deadly Sins. This runwaybrings the story back to hope, light, and empowerment with the presence of color. The Phoenix in the triplet chapter story.

The collections’ stories are inspired by the 1930s, the loss of hope and death. The stories draw from Charlie Chaplin‘s 1930 films including City Lights and Modern Times. The collections present the story with perfection in fabrics, treatments, performances, and colors.

The fabrics are Asian inspired. The fabrics are organzas, silk Charmeuse, and recycled piettes. The piettes are created from recycled cans. Breton uses a company in Twain that cuts, colors, and treats the metal.

Breton says, “I do my bestwith my designs to protect the environment” This metallic dress moments and texture are extraordinary. Breton states, “the dress movement comes from the way I weighted and draped the dress. I am so grateful it turned out so well.”

The color in this chapter is green (earth and rebirth), gold (prosperity and richness), and deep blue (continuous flow of life). The floral prints bring a beauty and a new beginning to the final chapter of the story.

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Breton’s chapters stay true to his aesthetics elegance. The men’s silhouettes are very on point. This collection Breton styled and designed himself. His stylist for several seasons, Montgomery Frazier The Image Guru, said, “we do not put anyone in anything that is ill-fitting. If it is ill-fitted they do not wear it. The textures and fabrics fit Breton’s catch line ‘wherever you go shine.’ The fabrics are rich, opulent, exquisite tailoring, and he is about the fashion. Being here with Breton is so glamorous at Style Fashion Week with the beautiful outdoor setting and jazz music.”

Breton develops his menswear after his own experience. He states, “when I was a ballet dancer in London and on Broadway every time I lifted my arm up when wearing a suit I would lose part of my sleeve. I knew I had to figure out how to cut a suit so I do not lose part of my sleeve. I trained at Turnbull And Asser, the suit makers for the Prince of Wales. He says, “I incorporate the English tradition I learned there with my development for the men’s suits.”

The fashion show stayed true to the designers’ aesthetic while completing the story started in New York. The beauty, tailoring, and signature detailing tell the story of hope, equality, and empowerment. Concluding with the image of renewing and shining wherever you are.

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The Glamour of the 1940s ~ Badgley and Mischka

By 4chionlifestyle | September 22, 2017

Badgley Mischka presents a collection at New York Fashion Week. It has been a little while since they produced a collection walk the runway. Last year instead of a runway collection they were on a book tour. “Badgley Mischka: American Glamour,” we had the honor of meeting with them during this time.

They discussed the runway and creating a collection. Runway designing compares to a wedding 6 months of really hard work and in five minutes it is over. It is exhilarating to see the full design and styling. Mark Badgley said, “it is like seeing your daughter on her wedding day.” They love the runway part of the fashion world.

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This collection takes women back to a time when things were tough and how they power through these times. The collection takes silhouettes from the 1940s. A time in history that required women to power through tremulous times.

The collections take nipped waists, a sense of armor with the use of beads, and jewels, longer hems, and voluminous skirts. They do have the seasonal trends with embroidered flowers, red roses, play with the sleeves, and the color red. There is a real modern pull from the 1940s silhouettes.

Badgley and Mischka continues the tradition of exceptional details. They are known for their beading and embellishments; it is all in the details. The inspiration for their beading comes from jewelry. Many dresses may have up to 30,000 beads, beaded by old men in India. They consider themselves magpies when it comes to their beading collections.

This collection included everyday wear from tracksuits to cashmere coats with sleek pants. The designer did not take from their glamorous woman even with flats.

Every woman who wears Badgley Mischka will be super glamorous with comfort and modern sensibility (sizes to 16 on the website). This collection adds a sense of empowerment. These designs will grace red carpets, social gatherings, and on the streets.The designers demonstrated that it is all in the details at Badgley Mischka.

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Bangladesh Meets New York Runway ~ Zoan Ash

By 4chionlifestyle | September 22, 2017

Sultana Ash, the designer for the Zoan Ash Couture label, brings Bangladesh beauty, glamour, and royalty richness to the New York Runway. The recently launched label hits Style Fashion Week with couture for every woman who loves feeling elite.

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The labeled launched April 2016 in Bangladesh in the heart of the shopping center Concord Colosseum. The launch was well accepted and stated to be, “amalgamation of royal personal expression that is inspired by wanderlust.” Zoan Ash website

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Ash bringing her fall-winter 2017 to New York is a dream comes true. This collection brings a richness with the fabric choice, colors, and detailed embellishments and embroidery. Luxurious golds fill the collection from the details to the fabric choice. Each embellishment is well thought out with the design, embellishment, and fabric.

The richness ties back to the labels origination of Bangladesh. The Swarovski crystals, rhinestone, gold and silver ornamentations capture the light at the right location adding a beautiful accent to a woman’s form.

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The texture and volume are created with the use of ruffles, lace, and trains. The lace brings a strong sense of romance and femininity. The ruffles bring a volume to the dresses creating a spirited fun. The trains provide a great movement in the gowns that are perfect for red carpets, formal evenings, and more.

The designer continues with the seasonal trends seen during New York Fashion Week. She has some play on sleeves, exceptional dresses in beautiful red, and sheer design for a beautiful sex appeal.

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The couture collection includes cocktail dresses for a less formal evening. These designs are full of just as many details. The design provides a fun flirty sense for an evening out.

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The collection inspirations, “beauty and sophistication,” is seen in each detail of every design. The fall-winter collection stays true to the labels aesthetics of elegance, sexy, and beauty from the designer’s homeland, Bangladesh. The collection comes to Style Fashion Week in New York bringing an elite design for the next glamorous moment, including The Oscars.

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New York Fashion Week Fall Winter 2017

By 4chionlifestyle | September 10, 2017

As the snow falls in New York City designers, models, and buyers gather for fall-winter 2017 collections. The runways fill with floral prints, tweed, variations on sleeves, and a little shoulder.

Winter fashion will be beautiful roses in print and embroidery, plaids, and prints. Tadashi Shoji‘s collection presents sheer flowing rose printed gown with a romantic feel. Tadashi Shoji’s collection stays true to his design aesthetics, that tailored to flatter all women adding a confidence and beauty to their fashion.

Adam Selman’s collection is full of the rose trend for fall-winter with embroidered roses. Denim jumpsuits, jackets, and skirts. Adam Selman’s brings a surprise element down the runway. One model with a black veil draping her face carrying a large bouquet of roses and greenery.

Desigual, a brand from Barcelona, brings the ordinary to unique extraordinary with the prints. The intense combination geometric shapes and stories telling prints. This collection brings emotion and a true sensory experience to the collection.

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Many collections bring a little shoulder to the winter collections. This adds a nice sex appeal to the designs. Nicholas K is a designed by brothers, Nicholas and Christopher Knuz, they give a soft chic splendid richness to their collection.

Erin Fetherston’s fall-winter collection brings the cold shoulder to the front of the collection. The cocktail dresses and gowns have a 1970s retrospect. The dresses created with chiffon and satin tiers and fringe adding a nice movement and volume. This stays with the whimsical feminine sensibility.

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The play on sleeves continued throughout all collections. The shawl with sleeves, bell sleeves, sheer, opened shoulder, sleeves flowing past the hands, sleeves with fingerless gloves, and hanging sleeves. The hanging sleeve popular on the red carpet recently. Erin Fetherston and Nicholas K’s collections play on the sleeves.

The color is seen on the runways on day one, red. The beautiful winter color is seen Adam Selma, Tadashi Shoji, Brock, and Nicholas K. The red trend is found in men and women’s fashion for autumn and winter. This color makes a statement without doing much. Red is happiness, alluring, present a person in charge and a little devilish.

Fall-winter ready wear fashion is just getting started. Will these trends from the first day continue to Europe and back to LA? What is your favorite from the New York City fashion week? Post your response here #4ChionStyle.