erin.

When thinking about my favourite designers and pieces season after season, I find that I gravitate to two extremes. It's either a passionate love to look like an extra from Saturday Night Fever with bright colours, platforms, airy shirts and my mini-fro or tough-meets-chic with a leather jacket, lots of fringe and combat boots.

With my fashion icon being Sophia Loren, who always looks stunning in perfectly cut pieces, dark smokey eyes and perfect hair...I sometimes turn to playing a new character every morning when I wake up and get ready for the day.

However, this season I'm leaning in another direction, a more feminine, but still interesting style a la Erin Fetherston. The characters she creates with her designers is the posh, classic with a twist girl, reminiscent of my other fashion icon, Carrie Bradshaw.
I like to look classic, but having that one standout piece can really make a look memorable (flower broaches, the Carrie necklace, the watermelon dress) - and just adds an element of more fun to each day.

I'm also passionate about designing and creating atmospheres and spaces to entertain/live in. Looking to the future, I know my life is going to inevitably be changing in the next few months due to school, work and life, and the aspect of moving is coming up.

For space and apartment inspirations, I'm looking at Erin Fetherston's gorgeous place for inspiration. Simple, classic, a little kooky and filed with unique details that really make the space, like the candles hanging over her dining room table.

taylor.

My beauty inspiration for the fall is the ever beautiful Elizabeth Taylor (RIP). Dark hair, red lips, clean brows and black-lined eyes. Stunning.

Add a turban, diamonds and a nipped in waist, and you may pass for the iconic beauty herself (a la Kate Winslet in V Magazine)

gwen.

STYLE STAR: GWEN STEFANI

There are so many fashionable women (and men!) out there today that it's very easy to be washed up in the epitome of good style. However, I've been feeling like what society and youth consider "fashionable" isn't exactly put-together or flattering for a lot of body and career-types. Not to say that you can't wear some of the really quirky clothes (contrary, I encourage it) but again, I feel that in the effort to be different, people have started to adopt identical "It Girl" looks.

That's where I look to an icon who does it right, every single time.

I've loved No Doubt forever. Growing up, Gwen Stefani emphasized girl power to the max as the lead singer of an all-male band. She wore studs but was still feminine. She always had red lips and perfect eyes. She could really sing. She looked tough, but when she spoke, was as sweet as pie.

With all the celebrity collaborations today, Gwen stands out as a true fashion icon with her clothing line L.A.M.B., which has been sticking punches since its debut in 2003. Every collection is fantastic, staying true to the flirty, rocker sense of style Gwen encapsilates, but still with a nod to being completely wearable.

Although she goes through phases and wears things that may be a little to crazy for the average girl to pull off - fushia hair, Alice in Wonderland dresses...I think we can all stand to take a note from Gwen's book of style. She's herself, whether that means wearing a bikini over a fishnet top, (which I may or may not have tried to interpret at a tween) or a leopard dress.

Oh, and she started wearing Louboutins before everyone went all crazy for them. Oh snap.

So if I was given the choice to raid a celebrity's closet, I would definitely want to take a troll through Gwen's first!

Some of my favourite looks: