Olivia Palermo

Modest Day Wear

For day wear go for her choice of wide leg jeans or soft tailored wide leg trousers (rather those super skinny leggings). Team it with a soft shirt, loose sweater or a simple t-shirt. Even if it’s not long sleeved you can do like she does and cover it over with a lightweight jacket or pretty cardigan. If you’re not a trousers sort of person go for a long skirt take a look at my artists impression here.

Maxi Dress Glamour

For a special occasion, or those times when you want to feel fancy the quickest course to modest elegance is with a maxi dress or abaya. With an abaya you can dress it up with a statement cropped jacket (something with structure). For the maxi dress choose a simple blazer or bolero. The base should be pretty simple, Palermo tends to start with a simple elegant base and builds it up with the accessories. I’m not talking lots of bling, just one key necklace or bracelet and of course a beautiful bag.

Style Analysis

In terms of her style, she loves draping with jersey or chiffon. In the evening she adds sparkle with… well sparkle, sequins or satin- but it’s never top to toe, just accenting the outfit. She does go for bold prints but doesn’t really mix them, instead, if she goes bold with the print she minimizes the accessories and tones down the extras. The key is in the detailing, little things like bows, belts, texture and fringing details make the look interesting without being a slave to trends.

In a sentence: Keep a simple basic outfit, experiment with statement jackets and jewellery and top it off with a big funky bag.

Hadith of the Day

“Exchange gifts, and mutual love arises: shake hands, and enmity will fall away.” Ibn Asakir

The Content of Character, Collected by Shaykh Al-Amin Ali Mazuri

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Day

To Evening

Simplicity

She certainly has an amazing stylist who has given her a simple sophisticated look but injected a bit of trend and personality with accessories and jackets. The most notable trait for hijabis and Musimahs is the way she puts a statement jacket with a maxi dress. A useful tool for dressing modestly. Keep a look out later this week for a more in depth look at just what makes her style so easy to hijabify! And if that wasn’t enough you can check out this weeks Hijabi Sketchbook where she provides the inspiration.

Good Actions

Say Salaams and smile to sisters as you pass them on the street, even if you don’t know them!

Hadith of the Day

“Do not belittle any act of kindness, even that of greeting your brother with a cheerful countenance.” Muslim

The Content of Character, Collected by Shaykh Al-Amin Ali Mazuri

The Inspiration

As often happens with blogging you can really get carried away with a subject, in this case Miss Palermo (I had no idea who she was before now). I saw this picture and had a little peek at some other photos. It turns out she actually has good taste (or a good stylist) when it comes to modest fashion. You haven’t seen the last of this lady…

Hijab Style

Daily Dose of Islam

If you’re thinking about covering but don’t know where to start, take a maxi dress and a cardigan and work from there!

Hadith of the day

“Modesty is part of faith and fosters only goodness” Muslim

The Content of Character, Collected by Shaykh Al-Amin Ali Mazuri

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