Fashion Feng Shui

In March I became the first person in Kentucky to be certified in Fashion Feng Shui. Evana Maggiore is the creator of Fashion Feng Shui and held this training in her beautiful Florida home. It is a holistic approach to personal style - dressing your body, mind, and spirit. A FFS workshop can guide you to a deeper understanding of your personal energies and teach you how to dress to honor your wholeness.

In a Fashion Feng Shui workshop you discover how to dress your Essence, Intention, and Appearance. Dressing your Essence means dressing the authentic person. Self-confidence requires authenticity. If your lifestyle is not honoring your Essence, you will doubt yourself. Your outer world needs to align with your inner being, then you project your authentic self to others. Dress who you are – inside and out.

Secondly, you learn how to dress your Intention. This means you dress the part you desire to play. Do you want more fun in your life, more money, different relationships? As Evana states in her book Fashion Feng Shui – The Power of Dressing with Intention, “You already are what you think you can be. You need only to Identify your Ideal Self and visually affirm it in your appearance in order to create it in your life”.

Third is dressing your Appearance or dressing your body. This is dressing to look your best. Communicating your personal style with confidence.

Lean how to make everything in your life flatter you. Clothes are your tools for transformation. It is very powerful.

I will be having a Fashion Feng Shui workshop on Sunday, July 25. For more information call me at 502.939.6000.

Here’s to your Transformation!

Chris

The Fashion Gourmet

For the last two years I have been working on a book called The Fashion Gourmet – Simple Recipes for a Delicious Wardrobe. The concept of The Fashion Gourmet is to take the successful format of cookbooks and provide simple recipes for appropriate dressing. The photographs on the opposite page of the recipes create impact, similar to seeing a picture of your favorite food recipe. Recipes are created with a woman’s body type and lifestyle in mind.

The same time my book proposal was complete the recession hit. No one wanted to see a new author unless they had a very strong platform. I put the proposal aside and continued to write my book.

Two years later and my book is still not published. It wasn’t just the cost of self publishing – it’s the cost of the photography.

Now I am taking the concept to television. Oprah Winfrey is looking for the next television star for her new network. I’ve submitted my three minute audition and let the voting begin.

The concept for The Fashion Gourmet is even better for television. On the show it will be easier to show and explain at the same time. Some ideas for episodes include:

• Basic Foundation Recipe. This is quickly demonstrated on the audition video. The idea is to have a basic wardrobe of 12-15 pieces and be able to create 60 plus outfits.
• Closet Organizing Recipe. This gives the ingredients and steps to turn your closet into your own boutique.
• What to do with Leftovers. Landfills are overflowing with textiles. Go “green” and see over 20 different ways to use clothing you might have thrown out.
• Special Occasion Recipe. Be ready for any occasion with a special occasion capsule.
• Measuring Your Body Type Recipe. Learn to dress your unique wonderful body shape once you know what that shape is.

This is just a sampling of ideas I have for a show. Help me make this dream come true. The five videos with the most votes automatically advance to the finals. Oprah’s staff will select another five. I would love to be a sure bet with the most votes but I need help. I need a lot of votes – daily – now through July 3rd, 2010.

Just click here or go to Oprah.com, click on My Own Show, then enter The Fashion Gourmet in the search box.

Click on the link to vote as many times and as often as you can. I’ll keep you posted on the progress.

Joyfully,
Your Fashion Gourmet - Chris