Style Icons Of The Week

Each week, Coco chooses two citizens who exhibit outstanding style from entries into the weekly SmallWorlds Style Icon forum thread. One male and one female will each be chosen, and each will be awarded 2000 Gold! Why not enter your outfit this week?

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Fall Fashion Forecasting!

Hello sweet peas - with Fall just around the corner for many of you, I thought I'd put my ear to the ground and ask my many style contacts around the world for some advance notice on Fall Fashions for you. If you've been wanting to gear your Fall wardrobe to looking totally fantastic, you'll love these advance tips! Of course, trends fade and the most important thing always is to feel good about what you're wearing above all else. But, if you are at all interested in the fascinating world of fashion forecasting, here is some of what's in store for Fall 2010! [Mwah] Coco x

Mmmmm.... Minimalist

This Fall we will see a moving away from the loud, conflicting, mixed and bold patterns of spring 2010 and into much more sophisticated looks. Yes sweeties, it's a re-emergence of minimalist fashions, but its far from boring! Think different textures in the same color.. time to get creative!

Soft and Plush - Go Velvet!

Darlings, Velvet, yes gorgeous lush velvet, is the fabric for Fall 2010. Try forest green, burgundy, and deep blues. Perhaps a little velvet peeking out from a minimalist look; adding a fabulous texture and making us feel really rather plush!

Black - it just never goes away!

Yes darlings, Black is the new black, again! This Fall is going to be all about noir. You can really make it zing through your creative use of velvet and metallic fabrics.

Find Beauty in the Details

Use gorgeous shiny bit and pieces; find beauty in the details. Those small ornaments or jewels can make any piece shine in an unmistakably gorgeous but subtle way. Think brooches, buttons... you know what to do!

Draping & Sheerness

Fall fashion is about details, and draping is just one more creative way to take something simple and create a masterpiece darlings! Try basic fabrics sewn in multiple layers that reveal subtle peek-a-boo areas! Sheer is back, but not over the top darlings - layer them with tanks over and under and top with a a blazer.

Paint it Metal

Oh yes we'll be seeing dresses, pants and skirts in a range of metallic fabrics. These pieces will appear as though they were applied in liquid form! To make this look work - go basic with the rest of the outfit so that you can let your metallic piece shine!

SmallWorlds Style Icon Competition - Two Fall Fashion Looks

This week I'd like to congratulate my 2 winners Anna Waters and Jabs Girl who dragged up some very very interesting looks from the bottom of their wardrobes - I'm not quite sure what to say sweeties - "gorgeous darlings" seems just inappropriate! Do enjoy spending your Gold!

Now since I've been writing about fashion forecasting above, I thought I'd ask you to do a little forecasting of your own... what do you think will be two different looks for SmallWorlds this fall - show me two different looks for SW Fall style and enter your looks into win one of two prizes of 2000 Gold!