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Simply You

Just a number

As legendary Hollywood costume designer Edith Head once said, “You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.” And as fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood (78) observed, you’ll enjoy a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes. Amen to that.

There really is something magnificent about a woman who knows her style and wears it with confidence. True style transcends age, class, racial and gender barriers – it’s in the way you walk, the way you hold yourself and the conviction with which you present yourself every day, almost regardless of how you dress. But there are ways to create an air about you and project who you are in an instant without uttering a single word, and one is through your clothing.

Fashion is not the frivolity it’s often made out to be. It’s a reflection of who we are and the message we wish to convey. By god, though, it can be fun!

Whereas our teens and 20s are all about experimenting and trying on a whole range of different identities for

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