We’re popping corks and cutting tie-dyed ribbon over here at LustreLife headquarters.  Festival season has officially commenced and like all good opening ceremonies, a girl needs cool digs to get her through a grueling lineup of groovy tunes and crowd pleasing, paparazzi snapping outfits. Any dedicated music lover festivalista knows packing for the festival circuit takes commitment, strategy and […]

Investment pieces are more rare than one maven might think.  A smart investment piece should have a long lease in your closet.  Fundamental and functional (too bad our politicians aren’t both) investment pieces are an asset to be worn time and time again.  Versatile, classic, understated fashion statements, justify the epithet: Investment Piece. Below are our Best Investment Winners. Saint […]

As every die-hard trend-aware fashion-following-gal knows, Pantone sets the tone every season identifying the key colors of the season. This S/S 2016, Pantone paraded new colors with names more like nail varnish than sophisticated chic.  Don’t believe us.  Then you be the judge. 1. Lilac Gray.  Fear not, some denim designers have seized the opportunity and rolled out sexy skinny […]

  Collectively, we editors and reporters here at LustreLife HQ have been in 37 weddings.  And collectively we editors and reporters here at LL HQ have donated, sold on Craig’s List and run over most of them. The biggest wedding trend du jour is to not go all wedding-y.  Think outside the proverbial ring box.  Bring in elements of yours […]

Queen for a day? More like queen for a Millennial and beyond. Beyoncé inspires and leads the music mavens as well as the fearless fashion followers and she hasn’t held back in her latest music video and reincarnation in Formation. Tackling racial lines, spotlighting culture and community, embracing different genres and eras, artfully and articulating conveying a message, talking to […]

Subtle seasonal changes in weather prove a fashion challenge. Warm one weekend cool the next, back and forth, up and down, temperatures are not as easily forecasted as fashion trends. Burberry, the archetypal house of the trench silhouette has several transitional coats and jackets that keep you comfortable and of course, ever fashionable. Easy to layer under, easy to layer […]

You’ve heard it from us before, the 90’s are the new black.  The latest silhouette to rise from the dead: the Slip Dress. Warmers temps are in our near future, which couldn’t make the Slip Dress a more perfect silhouette for a change in sweater weather. Easy to layer, effortless to rock, the SD goes grunge with an army boot […]

Haute off the presses are our selection of obsessions for Spring’s best accessories. With so much to choose from it is has not been an easy task of narrowing down our crushes to an edited list of the top four to die for items, but alas, that is what we are here for. If you are perplexed over which pieces […]

The 90’s beauty brigade is back! Celebrities like Drew Barrymore, Cindy Crawford, Jennifer Aniston, Christy Turlington, Alicia Silverstone and Wynona Ryder set the pace for the beauty and hair trends that defined the decade.  If you were a fan and all in when it came to: berry stained puckers, matte nude lips, nail polishes in unheard-of hues of blues and […]

Though designers continue to churn out collections five times a year, strategically aligning with the industry’s fashion calendar, the styles, silhouettes and pieces coming down the catwalk are user-friendly and more and more often, season-less, allowing the wearer to rock it year round. Case and point, we fell head over heels for Valentino’s black lace baby-doll because it is fab, […]