Finding beauty in nature is easy in Los Angeles—the endless greenery and topography is something out of a color-by-number picture book. You can twirl endlessly in a chiffon dress on top of a hill overlooking the ocean—but what does it all mean? 

Now those gritty streets of Hollywood… that’s really where I feel most at home. As a native New Yorker, there’s something about the smell of the concrete that puts a little hop in my {Alaia boots} step.  No one can navigate past a lagging crew of tourists or a pack of homeless youth better than this city chick. Foot traffic is my street traffic.

To play the part of city girl in this green, green world... {continue reading after the jump}

From New York to LA, a power chick always keeps pencil skirts in full rotation. I tossed my typical black pencil skirts to the side this season in exchange for surprisingly welcomed brights and prints.

On this day, I was off to a few casual meetings in Beverly Hills, so a matching top was the only right answer. In a more corporate setting, I would have swapped the floral tee for a classic white button down, tucked in with a wide belt.

Always play the part...just never follow the rules!

This dress even makes a plastic hanger look glamorous. For all of the days that I live to put together unassumingly perfectly paired separates, there is something refreshing about throwing on a dress as a one-and-done polished lewk.

Of course, I say this as I'm laying in a mushy bed in a pretty crappy hotel room in Palm Springs for a brief work trip. I'm out here in the desert styling a pretty major somethin-somethin. Zero glamour happening here-- just a bunch of hard work. Fortunately, with just the right dress, the fantasy of glamour is my secret reality...

Photography by Sabrina Hill

Sometimes the New York in me really comes out to shine. You know, that Nolita street style that you just can't package and sell at a store. It comes from the hungry within-- the boss lady who knows what her day is going to entail, and dresses the part. 

Besides, mixing voluminously billowing MC Hammer-esque silhouettes doesn't scream sexy unless you let it. There's a bit of an art behind the mash-up. Here it goes...

I crave color like Paris Hilton craves a #selfie on set of a music video. Bring it on-- more, more, more!

It's always been easy for me to pair wild prints together-- actually not much thought goes into the process. I find two prints that I like, and it usually works. In this case, I'd categorize both of these prints as "digi-square" {digital square} because they both look like they could have been brick walls straight out of a Mario Bros-esque video game in their past lives. In deepest conclusion, this commonality in print character makes them mesh well together. 

If I could offer one tip on mixing prints, it'd be this... (continue reading)...

Photography by Sabrina Hill

I wish I could dive into the sagas of my day today and tell you all about the celebrity fashion fitting I had this morning with my cutie male client Jonathan Bennett from Mean Girls, or sparkle your brain with verbal imagery about the diamonds I pulled this afternoon for a lookbook I'm shooting for a fashion brand later this week, or divulge on a gush story about all of the messy but amazing construction going on in #elspanishoasis right now, but I'm honestly just too tired. 

Luckily, I wasn't as tired this morning-- so backtrack through some of today's feast on my instagram @elshanesworld and catch yo' self up!

At what point do you pencil in personal time, when business is all on your mind? Fast forward... at what point do you exchange your third glass of wine for a bottle of water and get back to work? 

I can't decide what's sexier-- staying in on a hyped out social night to catch up on work emails, or maxing out a few shots of tequila with your newly introduced and conveniently connected "bestie" while ripping seriously improved triceps that so happen to be peaking out from your new ALC jumpsuit.

I find that...

What's your weekend denim fix? Do you hug those thighs tight with stretch vibes, or do you join an acid wash drop crotch movement? 

Introducing my same look, in two ways. Learn how easy it is to transform and update your weekend denim wardrobe...after the jump!