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February 12, 2013 8:08 pm
With permission from Accessories Magazine
I know NY Fashion Week is showing Fall 2013, but lets not get ahead of ourselves. Lets escape the snow and winter that’s happening right now, and enjoy “our” next season first. Spring 2013 is hitting the stores, and the Asian floral influences is a breathe of fresh air. I can see the buds on the trees right now.
Style Room Shopping Tour Experiences find silky, shiny fabrics with floral prints and embroidered dragons, all artfully tied into kimonos or folded with origami pleats. For accessories, look for sashes and obi belts to literally pull this look together.
Find them on a Style Room Shopping Tour Experience
www.styleroom.com
February 6, 2013 10:34 am
Trend Finder: Rope
With permission from Accessories Magazine
A trend that refuses to be tied down, Spring 2013’s ropes take many forms. Look for everything from nautical ropes to metal twists to bungee and climbing cords as they decorate your neck with unique necklaces, waist with a great belt for dresses to jeans, wrist with fun bracelets, shoulders with amazing handbags and feet with all heights of shoes.
A Style Room Shopping Tour Experience has designers who feature this fun trend, so you’re in style tomorrow. Book your tour today www.styleroom.com
January 23, 2013 11:04 am
Can’t find a thing to wear (in your entire closet) for your special date night with your loved one? Style Room Shopping Tour Experiences will take care of that. We’ll unlock the locked doors to some of NYC’s top fashion designer’s showrooms and studios so you can shop for the same styles that Henri Bendel, Neiman Marcus, Barneys and other high end stores buy directly from.
Whether it be one-of-a-kind jewelry, an amazing handbag to pop your little black dress, or a red dress to make every girl at the restaurant jealous, we know where to bring you shopping.
Book your Style Room shopping tour today www.styleroom.com
January 5, 2013 1:15 am
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! So that must mean one thing. That every fashion designer in NYC is setting up their booths this weekend for the big fashion trade shows featuring their Summer 2013 collections.
For 3 days, designers will present their new collections to stores traveling to NYC from across the country. Their new collections will first ship to the stores at the end of April and May, just in time for you to plan your Summer getaways in style. Start thinking warm weather!
So it may be Winter in NYC (that’s me on the far right years ago during a lovely snow storm during set up), but for the next 3 days, designers will want you to think beautiful 80 F. weather so the stores can choose their favorite styles for their Summer buy.
To fully appreciate the glamorous side of the fashion industry, you must first appreciate all of the hard work that goes into preparing for a trade show.
The blank canvas you’re given, the bare walls, the construction zone ahead, the blizzards that causes obstacles with set up are endless, but it’s all part of the excitement and fun.
At the end of the day, it’s all about selling your beautiful new designs to the stores, and walking away with incredible orders to fulfill your season.
For 11 years, I owned my own showroom (yes, Style Room was born as a wholesale showroom before I started my shopping tours) representing international and domestic designers from around the globe. I loved what I did, and will always cherish what I learned (20 years in the industry in total – eek), my designers and my clients/stores who many I’m still best friends with.
But I must admit, I’m very excited to be walking the shows next week signing up incredible designers for my shopping tours vs the back breaking 10 hours of standing and showing clothing in 4″ heels (that’s me on the left inside the booth non stop showing the collections for 10 hours a day).
And I can’t wait to see the amazing new collections being presented. I love my job!!!!
To see the incredible new designs I find next week, book your Style Room Shopping Tour Experience for a behind-the-scenes look behind locked doors inside designer’s showrooms. You’ll LOVE it!
www.styleroom.com
January 4, 2013 4:34 pm
Trend Finder: Pastels
With permission from Accessories Magazine
Fashion is swimming in a sea of calm for Spring 2013, with pale pastels in all shades of mint, peach, lavender, pink and baby blue. With soft hues like this, it’s impossible not to stay cool and collected!
Soothing pastel colors in an array of fabrics and exotic skins, tones down the fashion market from the vibrant bright colors ending 2012. We welcome this calming trend as we organize our lives for the amazing year ahead.
Book your Style Room Shopping Tour Experience for 2013, and find these looks directly in the designer’s showrooms and studios at 50%-80% off retail before the stores put them out on the floor.
November 24, 2012 8:09 pm
Item of the Day
With permission from Accessories Magazine
For years, I’ve always had a smile on my face when I tried on shoes and there was a little surprise on the bottom. Corso Como does a little genuine Swarovski crystal on the sole, for an added touch of elegance. And I always make a point to show that off when I cross my legs. And here I thought I was the only one who really appreciated it. But I’m not alone.
TaylorSays is a new line of shoes that makes the soles the focal point, featuring original artwork by designer Taylor Reeve.
While high heels with red soles from a certain shoe company have been known to throw consumers into a tizzy, here’s something completely different to really make you want to kick up your heels.
Images of her paintings—from Day of the Dead skulls to butterflies to lions to sea life motifs—are screen printed directly onto the leather soles. Talk about a conversation starter. Girls, this is certainly one way to start a conversation with that cute guy at the bar.
Reeve made a name for herself doing unconventional paintings—working on motorcycles and surfboards, for starters.
TaylorSays turns this into wearable art for women who aren’t afraid to express themselves.
Retail: $199
www.TaylorSays.com and www.Heels.com
Book your NYC shopping tour today to find unique styles www.styleroom.com
October 23, 2012 1:59 am
Most people think you need to be a celebrity or a rock star to have a VIP experience in NYC. I strive to bring that experience to each fabulous individual, because…….you’re worth it!
You’ll meet designers face-to-face. You’ll see new collections that magazine editors and high end store owners just viewed that afternoon. That’s shopping like a celebrity or a rock star.
You’ll get to pre order styles so you know you’ll have the latest trend on order before the stores receive it. That’s shopping like a celebrity or a rock star.
Having locked doors unlocked, and then relocked so no one else can shop while you’re there as you enjoying bubbles. That’s shopping like a celebrity or a rock star.
Whether you want to shop alone for a super private VIP experience, or share this experience with your friends, I assure you, I’ll make you feel like a celebrity or rock star.
Book your VIP Tour today www.styleroom.com
October 3, 2012 4:33 am
One of our most popular tours is the Mother / Daughter Shopping Tour. What fun it is to spend a day with your other half. And by that I mean your mother or daughter. The one who you smile with, laugh (giggle) with, gossip with, and of course…shop with!
Style Room offers a fun day for both Mothers and Daughters to bond over what we all love most – shopping. I love seeing the daughters pick out amazing pieces for their mothers. Whether it be a perfect handbag, the “it” scarf, a pair of fabulous shoes, or the I must have those earrings, it’s all for the right reason. To make sure their other half looks fabulous at all times. Or, it could just be because it’s always fun to “borrow” your Mom’s accessories and clothing. We’ve been doing it since we were little kids when we played dress up in our mom’s closet. Although, now we are grown and can actually fit into our mom’s wardrobe. A bonus as that means you get to own “borrow” double the amount of incredible goodies!
Book a fun shopping tour today, and double your wardrobe tomorrow.
September 26, 2012 4:51 am
Yes, clearly that’s a typo, but it seems to be the sound I hear the most when people talk about shoes. Because shoes seem to be the #1 request on my Style Room Shopping Tour Experiences. I certainly know I’m obsessed with them. Why just today as I switched out my Spring / Summer shooooooooze (oops – shoes) to make room for my Fall / Winter boots in my closet, I noticed that I filled up quite a few bags full of shoes. There I stood looking at all of them, and all I could think of was how I wanted more.
I can’t help it. Wearing fun shooooooooze (oops, there I go again), I mean fun shoes just seems to put a smile on my face. The funny thing is that I’m happiest sometimes in a pair of ripped jeans and a tank top (OK, most of the time), but it’s all about the shoes I wear with them. To me, shoes make “my” outfit. Maybe I’m in flats (we all know that’s a joke as I’m always in 4″ heels – even though I’m already 5’10″ barefoot), or maybe I’m in heels – most likely – but it’s all about which shoes, or boots for that matter (soooooooo excited for Fall boots) that I pull on to make my outfit.
So I’m very happy to announce that I hear you, I hear all of the pleading to have shooooooooze – (shoes), boots / incredible styles for your feet on my tours. And I’m beyond ecstatic with the selection I’ve found (as are my clients). We have something for everyone. Be it a flat, to 5″ heels, a riding boot, to a biker boot, a sexy heel, or a sexy conservative style – the sky’s the limit (this season it certainly is with the models on the catwalk reaching crazy heights).
So grab your friends, and enjoy a private Style Room Shopping Tour Experience as we lock the front door, and you get to shop like a celebrity while enjoying a glass of your favorite drink. And we offer special exclusive discounts too! Because there’s always room in your closet (closets) for more fabulous shooooooooze!!!!!!!!
September 9, 2012 3:40 am
Time to go shopping. Wait, where are all the clothes?
Thanks to the brilliant menswear designer John Varvatos (that’s me on the right in the photo), the famous CBGB’s lives on!!! When CBGB’s closed their doors in 2006, New Yorkers (and loyal music fans) were a little lost. But thanks to John Varvatos, we can still visit history, and enjoy it from time-to-time (and shop!). That’s because the original walls of the famed music club are still intact, and preserved. We’re talking hardcore vintage bumper stickers plastered over every inch of thick black paint, along with graffiti. If only “those” walls could talk! Oh the stories we’d learn about all the famous bands who’ve played there.
But there’s a twist now. Now you can enjoy the famous space, all while shopping. Talk about shopping like a rock star (one of my personal favorites while shopping). Guys, get your friends together. Girls, get your boyfriends and husbands off that couch. This is one store they’ll want to shop in. And, if you become a client, you just might get to enjoy a private concert (like i did last night)!!!
Book a private VIP Luxury Personal Shopping Tour now www.styleroom.com
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