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A PLUME BOOK

COLOR YOUR STYLE

DAVID ZYLA is the Emmy Award-winning costume designer and stylist for All My Children. He has been featured on The View and CNN Style, as well as in numerous magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. He lives in New York City and Los Angeles.

ALL WOMEN DESERVE TO FEEL EMPOWERED AND LOOK FANTASTIC.
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO THEM.

introduction:

what color is your style?

my client Lizzie was in distress. Shed recently been promoted at the marketing firm she worked for, and her boss had told her that she was in line for a second promotion. After years of struggling along at the junior level, it seemed that Lizzie was finally about to break through.

But her boss had also told Lizzie that her personal style had raised some eyebrows and that she just didnt make the right impression for a top executive. Confused and a little hurt, Lizzie called me for a consultation.

As a stylist and a costume designer, Ive worked for almost twenty years helping women express their own personal style, including politicians, models, TV actresses, and Broadway and film stars, such as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Cindy Crawford, Susan Lucci, Kelly Monaco, Christine Baranski, and Alfre Woodard, as well as scores of women who are celebrities only to the people who know them. One such woman was Lizzies boss, whod brought me to her Midwestern city to help her revamp her wardrobe. Thrilled with her own style renaissance, she told Lizzie that I specialize in helping women discover their own unique true colors: the colors that define their authentic style.

Authentic Style:

An integral, personal style that allows you to attract love, claim your power, balance your energy, and reveal who you truly are by choosing the colors, clothes, and objects that express your authentic self.

But while her boss had been eager, Lizzie was reluctant. I hate the idea of just buying some boring old suits and I wouldnt really know how to pick them out anyway, Lizzie told me, nervously drumming her fingers on the kitchen table. Im going through so much right nowI cant believe clothes are what I have to think about.

As we talked, I could see that Lizzie was indeed going through a lot. Besides the new challenges at work, her husband had recently lost his job, leading to serious friction in their marriage. One of her children was struggling with a drug problem ; another had a learning disability and was having trouble in school.

Yet despite all her worries about the daunting challenges she faced, I could see a real strength in Lizzie, a bedrock of determination and courage. Despite her frustrated, edgy voice, I could sense a naturally joyous person, the kind of woman who walks into a room and suddenly makes everyone feel that not only is she fabulousthey are, too. I could see why her boss thought so highly of Lizzie, enough to go out of her way to recommend me.

As I went through Lizzies wardrobe, I could also see why eyebrows had been raised. Here she was about to turn forty, yet she dressed like the teenager she had been twenty years agoliterally. Her entire look was from the 1980s: big hair, streaked with color; bold makeup, with bright blush on her prominent cheekbones; large, painted nails. When I met her, she was dressed in a short black skirt, a sizzling blue tank top, and an acid-pink-and-blue-patterned blazer with enormous shoulder padsall colors and patterns that did not connect. And when she showed me her closet, I could see more of those eighties power thunderbolt designs and electric hues: teal, bright white, royal purple.

It wasnt a question of age or fashion. Lizzies colors would have looked terrific on someone with different skin tones, eyes, and hair. In fact, Id recently had a consultation with a fifty-year-old client in Memphis to whom Id recommended just this palette. But for Lizzie, these colors were all wrong because they failed to express her true self.

I looked at Lizzies green-flecked hazel eyes, her deep brown hair, and her glowing beige skin, and thought immediately, Bronze Autumn. When I work with a client, I first identify her true colors: the five major hues of her palette: essence, romantic, dramatic, energy, and tranquil, plus her three neutrals, First Base (her version of black), Second Base (her version of brown), and Third Base (her version of khaki).

Once I know a clients true colors, Im able to tell which Season she is: Spring, Summer, Autumn, or Winter. Each Season corresponds to her basic coloringhair, eyes, skinand also to some aspects of her personality.

But four categories are hardly enough to express all the marvelous variety that each of us brings into the world. So within each Season are six Archetypes: distinct types combining the coloring, personality, and overall style that can help you hone in on the perfect colors, clothes, and objects that you need to express your authentic self. Your true colors, your Season, and your Archetype are the basic ingredients of your own authentic style.

Creating YourAuthentic Style

Identify your true colors: your essence, romantic, dramatic, energy, and tranquil colors, plus your three basesneutrals energy and ranquil colors, plus your three basesneutrals that are your own individualized versions of black, brown, and khaki.

Discover your Season: Spring, Summer, Autumn, or Winter.

Claim your Archetype: one of six distinct types to be found in each season, which will give you further ideas for colors, clothes, and objects that express your authentic self.

As a Bronze Autumn, Lizzie fit an Archetype that I think of as the Divine Diva. She was made to draw attentionto walk into a room and have all eyes turn to herbut it wasnt going to happen unless she chose the colors, clothes, and objects that revealed who she truly was.

You know, Lizzie was saying, its been a really tough few months. Between my job and everything at home... Her voice trailed off. I just dont feel like Ive got it in me to take on one more thing. I mean, clothes? Really?

I can see youre going through a lot, I said with sympathy. And given everything youre dealing with, I can see how clothes might not seem so important. What Id like to suggest, though, is that it would actually help you to solve your problems if youd change some of the things in your closet.

Lizzie stared at me, unable to believe I was serious.

Its true, I told her. If you know your colors, then you know yourself. And if you dress like the person you really arethe person I can see in your hair and eyes and skinyou start tapping into your own unique energy and freeing resources you didnt even know you had. Finding your true colors is one way to get in touch with your true selfand what could be more powerful than that?

YourTrue Colors

Essence Color: The color that harmonizes your skin tones and reveals your most genuine, open, and essential self; your version of white; wear it when you are having an intimate conversation, when you are meditating, or when you want to be completely open and honest.

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