Flatter Yourself With Your Own Style!

June 19, 2008

Before turning her eye to style, Shannon McCarthy worked on both the left coast for art-house cinema owners Landmark Theatres, and on the right coast for boutique foreign-film distributor New Yorker Films. For the past seven years she’s covered the fashion and cosmetics world with freelance articles and PR work, writing on subjects as diverse as the superiority of hand-woven Alpaca fibers, organic skin care products and the ins-and-outs of buying screen-worn costumes (Cowardly Lion, anyone?).

Shannon learned early on not to let the glare of the runway lights obscure the difference between a trend and a fad. Her focus is on top quality clothes for real people and while she’s not averse to spending a little more where it counts, she thinks it’s silly to spend a fortune on the basics. A $25 blouse looks just fine under a designer jacket and those Manolo Blahniks go perfectly well with a camisole and capris.

She believes that your own personal style trumps the trends every time. Her advice: when it comes to your wardrobe, anything goes. Browse for the looks you love, but only buy the ones that love you back. And never get rid of anything you look great in. Fashion is fickle, but you can count on the fact that what’s on the thrift store racks today will be in the trunk shows tomorrow. (And vice versa.)

When she’s not thumbing through the glamour glossies and trade magazines, Shannon enjoys attending book readings at her local literary emporium and trying her hand at gourmet cooking.

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