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Academy Awards: Best & Worst Dresses by Signature Style

The academy music is playing, prompting us to conclude this series and announce the last collection of awards for Signature Style:
Best Dress for Signature Style Nominees
Embroidered from lover’s sighs and starry eyed dreams, Alicia Vikander’s Ellie Saab gown was a romantic sonnet.  It was ornate without fussiness, and the ochre belt against misty aqua added a sprinkling of unexpected spice to the overall dessert of a dress.

Stacy Keibler donned drama via Naeem Khan’s ode to art deco glamour.  Sequined studs outlined a single cohesive narrative without falling into a flapper costume, while soft curls and natural makeup balanced the metallic moxie. 

The easy-going, traditional, girl next door stepped off her front porch and onto the scarlet carpet in flame red.  Aniston’s Valentino was appropriately simple but unforeseen, especially considering her historical commitment to black.
Worst Dress for Signature Style Nominees
 Nicole Kidman’s dress was the sartorial equivalent of a rambling lush:  soaked in statements yet disjointed of meaning.  There were ombre sequins, a mermaid silhouette, a scrolled hem, and a mysterious batman insignia at the waist.  One big statement is elegantly exciting, too many leads to a fussy and/or gaudy fashion debacle. 
Sunrise Coigney was too much yang, not enough yin.  The curves of her figure were violently attacked by a gang of severe angles: the pattern, the dropped waist, the handkerchief hem, the pin straight hair, even her shoes bound her victim to the severe architecture of the dress.
This look is stunning on Lady Adele.   Unfortunately she’s given it one too many encore performances .  This award winner could benefit by singing a fresh fashion tune.  Switch up the color, the silhouette, even the sleeve length.  Ditch the choir uniform, and dress like a soloist.
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Why your closet is sick and how you can heal it

Diagnosis-the torture chamber
Inside this ambry lie items endowed with the powers of self-flagellation and holy glorification. Items are distinguished primarily by size: smallish, mediumish, largish.  If the body is enrobed in smallish clothes with minimal wrestling, the day is deemed good and the wearer is appraised acceptable. Her closet exists to punish and reward her.

Prescription-editing

Back up sizes should be either be removed completely or hidden from the forefront of your personal showroom.  If it doesn’t fit and flatter fire it.  You are the closet CEO and board and all the items exist to serve your interests, not the reverse.

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Diagnosis: the museum
Inside this cold storage lies a rich, tangible history. The frock worn when eyes were first laid on Romeo hangs next to her cheerleader’s glory guise, her wedding ensemble is pressed beside the blouse donned during the debut of her most favorite episode of Downton Abby. Her closet is sentimental rather than functional.

Prescription-archive
This closet needs to relocate to the basement.  If items are kept they need to remain out of site, in protective garment bags. Better yet, take a picture and donate the actual item.

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Diagnosis-the rubbish bin
This rumpled receptacle vomits when opened. In the refuse there may be well-made trousers in need of hemming, scuffed designer leather boots, a favorite silk shell stained with soy sauce, a cashmere sweater dined on by moths. This closet lacks discipline and sanitation.

Prescription-Boundaries
Start with a clothing ambulance in which all injured items are rushed to repair or taken to the clothing morgue.  Continue convalescence in a boundary intensive wardrobe sanitarium.

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Diagnosis-The Disjointed Den
Trends from all different directions exist here. There are many items lying dormant and undisturbed, brooding with the irritation of their un-removed price tags. Sometimes this disorder is caused by a simple split personality: work is straightforward and boring, personal life is over the top to make up for the difference. Two different languages are unable to blend and conjugate a single look.  Other times it’s ugly clothism evidenced in the un-equal representation of anemic bottoms against plentiful tops.  It’s as if there are only nouns without any verbs or prepositions.  Whatever the cause, this schizophrenic wardrobe is unable to communicate a cohesive outfit.

Prescription-Unification
Mend the sartorial union by declaring an official signature style.  This cooperative lexicon will help you your clothing to converse.  Next make sure your vocabulary is rich with equal representation from each of the clothing categories.

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Diagnosis-The Repeat
This sideboard encloses one style of twin set in five different colors, the only visible pattern is vertical stripes, and the floor is veiled with a colony of sensible black shoes. This area acts as a mechanical uniform dispenser.

Prescription-Inspiration
Install a pin board and collage aspirations from magazines, catalogs, blogs, and especially your own successes.

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Whether you wardrobe represents one or many of these examples, we will be purging them, psychological dispositions and all. Next up is your 5 step closet recovery program.  In the end you’ll have a wardrobe you can actually wear.

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