If you only have work clothes - the black trouser and ribbed turtleneck you got four years ago at the Gap - you're not participating in your own style personality.

Rules like 'don't wear white after Labor Day' or 'shoes matching the handbag' are antiquated. Modern women should feel free to experiment.

All metallics are neutrals. So it is absolutely fine to mix gold and silver; you just want it to look like it has purpose.

Clothes are not Botox. Wearing a miniskirt does not take 10 years off your face.

Nothing's too girly and nothing's too masculine. But I do love color, and maybe that's a little girly - especially pink.

Style is joyful if you allow yourself to have joy.

Less is more. I truly believe in buying a few pieces with better construction.