Dress for a Safari in the Concrete Jungle.

What happens when a silky lady like dress gets layered with a cotton twill utility vest and a chunky boot? You get an outfit is sophisticated enough for work or dinner on the town, but doesn't look like you're trying to hard.   Because isn't understated chicness always the goal?

1. Cotton vest by JCrew,  2. Silk shift dress 3.1 Philip Lim,  3. Glass by Philip Lim,  4. Rose gold bracelet by Eddie Borga,  5. Watch by Michael Kors,  6.  Boots by Alexander Wang,  7.  Socks by Falke,  8.  Bag by Golden Goose.

How I got There: My Go-to Summer Get Up.

I love to come up with an outfit that I can wear over and over throughout the season.  I'm soooo french that way.  But seriously, the outfit that I got loads of milage out of this summer was my Stella McCartney fruit skirt and a chambray shirt.  I wore it to a friends rehearsal dinner, countless dinners out and even to work.  It was the two images below( from Jak &Jill and Vogue.com) that inspired me rock this look and all though the picture of me below is not the best, you get the idea.  The shirt is from JCrew and the shoes I'm wearing are Loeffler Randall that I got at a sample sale, bringing the final cost of my go-to look down considerably.  Which is important since I'm not a Rockefeller.