Face the monochromatic season ahead. Style leaders highlighted include the sublime Bottega Veneta collection - encapsulating the gist of winter 2001.

As punk turns... Leather blended with feminine, albeit Goth inspired fabrics, offers a surprising element to winter 2001's dress code. Jill Stewart and newbie Syren show their wares. The retail punk craze wanes, as it slowly becomes replaced by a true goth influence in many a collection moving forward as far ahead as Fall 2001. On the forefront of the wave ride the new California based design sensation duo, "An Imitation of Christ", who pushed the concept to the nines - by showing their Spring 2001 collection in a Manhattan funeral parlour.

Basic styling for optimum winter dressing can be imitated for a fraction of the cost combining vintage finds, with your local Sears men's department.

Not all style based. Winter dressing depends largely on the essential ingredients found in winter clothing labels. Read carefully before wearing.

Winter footware requires hearty durability in anything but snakeskin, please.

Beyond the monochromatic horizon. All indicators point to a rhinestone cowboy effect for the next several seasons. Barometers include Madonna's recent reinvention by designer Fausto, a Texan in office, and the return of 1970s embellishment machine "The Bedazzler."

Winter is a mental state too. Seasonal Affective Disorder can cause highly unfashionable behavior. Tips to a rosy disposition.

How art imitates fashion and back again. Recent fashionable fabric influences (GAP, Paul Smith) include artist Brigitte Riley, showing at Manhattan's DIA Center until June. Meanwhile, fashion show frenzy is being emulated at gala art events on a regular basis.

Banana Republic's plan for a communistic dress code. Seeing a loophole for marketing BR holds "Tupperware-like" office parties in honor of "business casual". It can only a matter of time before the natives revolt and get tired of seeing their mirror image in the adjacent cubicle.

Face the winter wonderland and reclaim your rosy spring complexion. Put these winter tricks up your fleece lined sleeves in the Beauty Lounge.

Winter Style Studio how-to. Make your own trendy shawl that will set yourself apart from all the crocheted numbers out there in the chilly winter wonderland.

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