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About the Clever Sophisticate

FAVORITES

Style icons
Audrey Hepburn, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy

Clothing designers
Christian Dior (esp. vintage)
Oscar de la Renta

Favorite younger designers
Tracy Reese &Rachel Roy

Jeans
Salt Works
(great looking jeans; I get lots of compliments)
Calvin Klein (consistently have the best fit)
Earnest Sewn (great denim skirts)

Interior designer
Candice Olson

Clothing store (for marked-down designer labels)
Century 21 Dept. Stores, in NYC
& Loehmann’s

Clothing store (for inexpensive, yet trendy & well-made finds)
H&M

Store (for discounted housewares, linens, home accessories)
Marshalls/T.J. Maxx/Home Goods
(all three stores are owned by the same company)
&
Century 21 Dept. Stores
, NYC

Online shopping sites
Bluefly.com (discounted, high-end clothing & accessories)
Onlineshoes.com (all labels at reduced prices)
Dermstore.com
(high-end beauty products)
Target.com (great online-only deals on housewares & furniture)
Vitacost.com (Heavily discounted organic packaged foods & vitamins)