Gok Wan’s Style Advice

Gok Wan and Imogen Lamport

Sponsored by Nuffnang On Saturday I went to watch Gok Wan on his tour for Westfield to show us the latest trends and how they can suit our bodies’. There were crowds of people, some men, mostly women all waiting eagerly to see Aunty Gok weave some magic. During his very entertaining show he shared [...]

Style Rules – Break or Follow?

Verily dress

There are a plethora of style rules to follow and sure they’ll help you look fabulous and flatter you body and colouring. But doesn’t it sometimes get boring following rules. I wanted to show you in one outfit the rules I’ve followed and the one I’ve broken. Breaking the Rules Today I wore a Verily [...]

Stylish Thoughts – Sue Donnelly – Feel Fab at 50

Sue Donnelly While I was in Florida for the recent AICI Conference I was lucky enough to connect with the completely fabulous Sue Donnelly, author of Heading South, Feel Fab at 50, The 80/20 Makeover and Does My Belly Look Big in This? and I asked her straight away if she’d do a guest post.  [...]

Sock it To Me

..A sock question from LGJ  I have to wear office-appropriate but warehouse-safe shoes, so I have close-toed brown slip on flats. Even with my longest pants, if I sit down and cross my legs my socks show. I’ve long since moved to black ankle socks (as opposed to the white socks that were long enough that [...]

10 Style Rules – Follow or Break?

Following on from my post about the Style Rules I’d never break, with some great comments about your style rules, it led me into thinking about all those rules out there, should you or shouldn’t you? 1. Blue and green should never be seen – I break this one all the time, cool greens with [...]

What are the Rules This Image Consultant Would Never Break?

. . Blogger Metscan asks:  One more suggestion for you Imogen. Could you do a post telling what rules you won´t break ever? It would be so much fun. Thanks !  It was interesting thinking about this topic – what rules would I never break?  I know there are definitely rules that I wouldn’t break [...]

Melbourne Cup – Racewear Rules

Tomorrow is the Melbourne Cup, the biggest horse race in Australia, and a day that has become a public holiday in Melbourne (yep, that’s how big it is). After years of race goers becoming less and less well dressed,  there is a push this year to redefine racewear in a modern, but still appropriate sense. [...]

What do You Do?

What do you do with yourself? How do you fill your time? Where do you go? Who do you see? These are some of the questions to start asking yourself on your journey to style. Yesterday you spent some time working out who you are. You may have discovered that there is a Work You [...]

5 More Ways to Break the Style Rules

The other day I posted on breaking the style rules, and I thought that I’d post some more ways to do it. Breaking the Style Rules 2 by imogenl featuring Miss Selfridge 1. Don’t match shoes and handbags – different is interesting. 2. Don’t match earrings and necklaces – sets are dull, look for relevance [...]

How to Break the Style Rules

I have provided post upon post of style ‘rules’ to follow, but one of the things I always teach my clients is how to break the style rules. Why have rules at all? They help those who have no idea or no reference to figure out what works for their body shape and proportion, to [...]