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Upend The Trend: Velvet for Holiday

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I’ve been seeing this oft-revisited trend springing up again from the fashion archives for Holiday season. I’m always puzzled by the understated tricks to mastering velvet. It takes fitness. It takes boldness. It takes this list.

Velvet can be incorporated perfectly into a wardrobe stocked with this year’s minimal trend that’s still going strong. Following a few easy rules, you can incorporate velvet into your winter wardrobe with ease.

Added bonus: it’s a lux, non-leather statement.

Here’s how:

Velvet dress

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  1.  Channel Karlie Kloss and Crush it. via Topshop
  2. Give credit to Pantone’s Color of the Year, Marsala. via Zara 
  3. Embrace a graphic print. via Anthropology
  4. Add it to a carry-over trend, your favorite kimono. via UO. 

 

 
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Indie Playlist

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Today’s indie snubbers of mainstream are a different brand. They’re a new crop of Warby Parker-wearing, Etsy-loving devout followers of barista culture and the resurgence of record stores. Bottom line? Hipsters.Love.Thrift. But with all this affinity for the second hand, one would assume indie designers would retail at shockingly low price points. Wrong. The latest …

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Peahen Pick: NYFW Day 2

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I think the design gods at were hard at work yesterday during the Zimmerman show. It was a meeting of the minds between two drastically different aesthetics – gauzy and nonchalant dresses were met with structure and poised suiting for a collection that was utterly heaven. Maybe they just do it differently down there in …