• Party Ready

    Provided by: Holiday Essentials Editorial Team

    The holiday season is in full swing and your closet is looking as bare as Jennifer Aniston on the cover of GQ. If your party dresses have already hit the red carpet, mingled and gone for martinis this month, it?s time to treat yourself to a solitair ... more »

  • 5-minutes to fashionably fit!

    Provided by: Holiday Essentials Editorial Team

    Butter cookies, mincemeat pie, decadent chocolates and delectable treats. These are staples of the holidays. While they dance over your taste buds, they can wreak havoc with your waistline. So, to balance your desire to indulge in delicious delights while ... more »

  • Fashion mistakes and the holiday season.

    Provided by: Holiday Essentials Editorial Team

    A picture tells a thousand words. It's a scary thought as you squeeze your size 8 body into last year's size 6-dress holiday season dress.Stop - forget that tight dress, it will not fit and the damage you will do to your personal and professional reputati ... more »

  • Fashion strategies for the 12-14 hour day: Cubicle to cocktail

    Provided by: Holiday Essentials Editorial Team

    The Holiday Season starts in retail after Halloween: merchandisers swap jack o' lanterns for wreaths, reindeer and Christmas trees. But for the rest of us in the non - retail world, the first two weeks in November are the last chance to organize a wardrob ... more »

  • Instant evening looks: Liquid liner, wine colored lip gloss

    Provided by: Holiday Essentials Editorial Team

    What does a stylist do? Rachel Zoe, Jessica Paster, Lisa Cooper and Philip Bloch all respectively helped create or "brand" so we say, Nicole Richie, Jessica Simpson, Rhianna and Christie Brinkley. But really what do they do? It's a nebulous fuz ... more »

  • The perfect party dress: November through to New Years Eve

    Provided by: Holiday Essentials Editorial Team

    Ordinary. You could ask a thousand people to describe a "little black dress" and chances are that the word "ordinary" would never come up. Elegant, simple, chic or classic, yes, but never ordinary. And yet with five minutes to go befor ... more »

  • Stylish Accessories that turn ordinary outfits into extraordinary.

    Provided by: Holiday Essentials Editorial Team

    Remember when Celine Dion wore her jacket backward to the 1999 Academy Award ceremony. I totally understand wanting to take a risk and wear something unexpected but that just made her look weird and beg the question, "why does she have her jacket on ... more »

  • Traveling light and packing perfectly for a Christmas away.

    Provided by: Holiday Essentials Editorial Team

    I feel cramped and stiff after a transatlantic flight to London every Christmas and I am 5" 3 and 3/4' tall. I'm also lucky enough, and single enough, to be bumped up to business class on what seems like every other flight. The truth is that it is m ... more »