Summer is here, and stylist Lala Trips knows just how to get your looks ready for the warm days and nights ahead. 

The 32-year-old Detroit native took her 10 years of experience working in the fashion retail industry — doing styling, visual merchandising, and more for Halston, Neiman Marcus, Anthropologie, and Intermix — and recently created her consulting agency, The LT Studio. Through her burgeoning business, Trips does personal styling and closet edits for female entrepreneurs and public figures; consulting for small fashion brands and retail stores; and public speaking. 

Here, she breaks down (and models) a few summer

Liza Minnelli’s overall look at the Oscars very last thirty day period reminded me that I have a own “Never Is the Up coming New Thing™” condition to report.

I generally implement “Never Is the Next New Thing™” to manner trends, owning lengthy noticed that the most provocative/grating/startling looks — the ones that make you say, “I would Hardly ever use that!” — are the types most probably to grow to be trends, large or smaller.

Just about every so generally, I have a private “Never Is the Subsequent New Thing™” transformation. For illustration, in 2008, I gave the bushy