GUCCI GUCCI

I'm feeling the magic Alessandro Michele is making at Gucci! His spring show was a technicolor parade of retro-tinged looks that felt geeky and girly, new yet familiar, young but mature.

These clashing themes are a turning point in fashion: often, designers present a strong vision of one type of girl and isolate customers that might not fit that demographic. Consider the Oscar de la Rentas and Carolina Herreras of the world crafting confections for the Park Avenue Princesses of the world - or the Wangs and Rousteings serving up twenty-something bad bitchery.

 And Michele is becoming the most buzzed about designer in fashion's flock. You see, Michele isn't a good designer; he is a great designer. A good designer creates something that makes you shop. A great designer creates something that makes you dream.

Fashion-obsessed females worldwide are fantasizing about becoming Michele's Gucci Girl. It is his reckless abandon of the de rigueur that becomes pyrotechnics lighting up the landscape of fashion. He spins a story whose narrative I have hopelessly fallen in love with.

Gucci bomber jacket, $3,500  /  Gucci bag, $3,800  /  Gucci jeans, $798  /  Gucci sunglasses, $425  /  Gucci heeled loafers, $1,100

Coach's Embellished Racer Jacket

When building outfits that dreams are made of, I usually start with one core item that gives me goosepumps and build the look around it. When I spotted this Coach leather jacket, it was love at first sight and my heart belted Celine Dion songs because life just won't go on without it.

The jacket is givin' me 80's-glam rock vibes so I wanted the rest of the look to serve some hippie-dippie 70's with the rainbow-adorned Anya Hindmarch bag, the perfect cropped flair Victoria Beckham jeans, and the now-iconic Chewbacca Gucci slippers that every fashion editor in New York traipses around town in.

Speaking of fashion editors, this outfit was inspired by Refinery29 Senior Style Editor Annie Georgia Greenberg. She has a killer sense of style and I often look to her for outfit post ideas and inspiration.

THE LOOK

Coach jacket, $997 (was $1,995)  /  Anya Hindmarch bag, $1,771  /  Victoria, Victoria Beckham jeans, $395  /  Gucci slippers, $995

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THE LOOK FOR LESS

Zara leather jacket, $69  /  Strike Gently enamel pin, $8 (buy enamel pins at Etsy and affix them to your jacket for the look of the Coach)  /  Moyna clutch, $48 (was $126)  /  Loéil jeans, $49  /  Marie Etoile fur-lined loafers, $68

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TUESDAY OUTFIT: HOW TO LOOK LIKE THE CREATURE FROM THE PRETTY PINK LAGOON

Roses are red, violets are blue, but pink is like Pikachu, so I choose you. A jolly pink coat, a fluffy Fendi, pink leather sneakers, and white jeans bring glee. This look's so Hanneli, a street style queen - you won't look like Spinelli, which is good 'cuz she's mean.

Coat by J. Crew / Bag by Fendi / Jeans by Cusnie et Ochs / Sneakers by WOMAN by Common Projects