all things neon: is that you, mom?

Spotted at Sydney Fashion Week: The Neon Mom*

Thanks again, Tommy Ton!

*My mom would never actually wear this much neon.

That's what I was born for!

Peace, Love and Neon,

Marisa

styling tip: freshening up winter looks

It's late March in Boston and, surprise surprise, it's still freeeezing out! Not to mention today's random flurries. Having just returned from sunny and 80 Atlanta, I'm especially bummed about being back in the arctic tundra that is the Northeast. While my body aches to be swathed in flimsy tanks and flutter shorts, I am forced to keep my pants on. Literally.

Today I bring you two styling tips picked up from fashion month's especially gorgeous street style images. Both are examples of how wearing accessories in a new way can freshen up overly recycled cold weather looks---and can be carried out through spring. (If it ever gets here!)

up top:

{tommy ton for style.com}

{streetfsn}

Wear a necklace like a bow tie!

Add a statement necklace to a button down button all the way up, making sure to place the necklace neatly under the collar.

*Also, check out the double watch action in the second picture! Love this. Honestly...WTF does too.

down low:

{both tommy ton for style.com}

Wear socks with heels!

Socks with heeled sandals allow you to break out those pretty new spring shoes now. Contrast colors and patterns for a bold look.

my take aka today's outfit:

{necklace: free people, shirt: j.crew}

{shoes: nine west, socks: monoprix,

worn with skinny jeans: madewell}

Whattup crappy quality Photobooth images.

Here's to hoping for a warm April full of pantsless heel+sockage!

Peace, Love and Neon,
Marisa

styling tip: piling on the bracelets

Some subscribe to the belief that one's feet tell a lot about them: shoes, socks, and stockings represent one's profession, style, hobbies and interests. While this is certainly true, I much prefer to interpret the lives of others by looking at their hands and wrists. Bracelets, rings, strings and things all tell the stories of where one's been and who one is.

My wrists are constantly changing in the bracelets that adorn them--both the tiny bracelets that stay fixed on me for months, even years and the chunky guys that make their cameos to jazz up a look. While living in Paris and traveling Europe last semester, for example, I made it a point to buy a bracelet in every new place that I went. The result? I was my own scrapbook of my journeys!

While I've been doing the friendship bracelet thing since the days of Spice Girls and Limited Too, I must give credit where credit is due and admit that my beloved fashion editor muses' own bracelet choices have perpetuated my obsession for keep my wrists ever covered in stringy and chunky bracelet shenanigans.

Voilà Exhibits A and B:

{alex, jess and me in cape cod}

{this summer's usual assortment}

Check out my typical inspiration: editors' wrists in action:

{pictures from style.com}

Bet you're all running to your jewelry boxes right now to jazz up your own wrists, ya?

Peace, Love and Neon,
Marisa

want this now: what the editors are wearing

To me, fashion editors are like the cool girls in school. They’re the ones who know what’s hip before the rest of us and set the trends both in magazines and on the streets.

As you may know, fashion month is well under way (this week: Milan!), and I’ve found myself anxiously awaiting updates on Tommy Ton’s Style.com street style album (a veritable yearbook of fashion’s top editors) than images from the shows themselves. Why you ask? Because I am ready for a CHANGE, something fresh, something new in fashion, and I need the cool girls to be my guide.

What have they told me is in? Camouflage print, military colors and details, leopard everything, denim-on-denim ensembles and camel colored coats. Love, love, love and LOVE!

{photos by tommy ton for style.com}

J.Crew obviously got the memo for fall and has an awesome selection of these trends, many of which are on sale now!! Camo print pants, dress, and skirt, flack jackets, denim shirts, a denim vest, a great camel peacoat and some leopard print ballet flats.

My friend Ana already has the denim-on-denim ensemble down, wearing today a lightweight denim shirt from H&M and a pair of dark lejeans (I refuse to call them jeggings). Personally, I'm on the hunt for a furry leopard scarf as pictured above on fashion's favorite redhead Taylor Tomasi Hill and the stylish show-goer above her. I already got my hands on an army green military shirt and you better believe that I've broken out my Abercrombie and Fitch camo cargos from eighth grade.

Peace, Love and Neon,
Marisa