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Jenna Lyons

Jenna Lyons, the Style Icon

Jenna Lyons, the Style Icon

Jenna Lyons has been J. Crew's President, Executive Creative Director since July 2010, and before that served as Executive Creative Director. She has always been loyal to J. Crew where she started out as the "assistant's assistant". She clearly had her eyes set on the bigger prize as she spent the next twenty years climbing the corporate ladder over at J.Crew. As a style maven she just makes you want to mix prints with bold colours, sparkles with tomboy shirts, coloured heels with jeans ...

She has a sophisticated yet cool and youthful attitude to her outfits and honestly she makes me want to put away my black, grey and white corporate outfits. And that is exactly what I have done, and switched them leopard heels, coloured sweaters, printed jackets and skirts. Splashed on some bright red lipstick and some bold accessories and going to work just seems more fun. I am in London after all, and there will always be another women wearing more sparkles, colour, heels and jewellery than me.

Jenna clearly "dresses for the job she wants, not the job she has" which is something camille had said me over brunch the other day - even though it was not in reference to Jenna Lyons - and it really stuck with me. I know exactly where I will be heading on saturday, and that would be the newly opened J. Crew store on Regent Street.

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J.Crew goes to the office

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Skirts, skirts and a few dresses - but more importantly colours.

Jeans, jeans and more jeans

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I have known about JCrew for a couple of years and always found their stuff effortless and timeless. But to be honest, I never really paid that much attention, and how wrong I was not to. I am not a huge fan of getting dressed in the morning and I do like to go to sleep with an outfit in mind. This apprehension is doubled when I started working - in a corporate environment may I add. Personally I really like what J.Crew has to offer in terms of work attire that is youthful and on the other end of the boring spectrum. Another added bonus is that they work with half sizes which means that there is most definitely your perfect size.

Let's face it, there is an increasing number of young ambitious women in the workplace - and so there should be - but there is no reason why we should dress up like the 50 year old male lawyer now is there? Not that there is anything wrong with being a 50 year old lawyer of course, I just don't fancy dressing like them.

Now if only they were present in Europe so that I could try them out before making an order online.

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