7Vintage blue enamel, diamond, and rose-gold necklace ($4,750, Abejas)
Audra Oden
8Vintage blue enamel, diamond, and rose-gold necklace ($4,750, Abejas)
Audra Oden
9Blue Nights by Joan Didion ($15 in paperback, Brazos Bookstore)
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10Blue Nights by Joan Didion ($15 in paperback, Brazos Bookstore)
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11Mason leather pants ($956, Coquette)
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12Mason leather pants ($956, Coquette)
Audra Oden
13Chanel glasses ($340, Neiman Marcus)
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14Chanel glasses ($340, Neiman Marcus)
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15Tom Ford blue cutaway pumps ($850, Neiman Marcus)
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16Tom Ford blue cutaway pumps ($850, Neiman Marcus)
Audra Oden
Picasso had a Blue Period. Derek Zoolander had Blue Steel. Walter White had Blue Sky. And when it comes to power pigments, the rest of us now have Dazzling Blue, which the color despots over at Pantone have decreed an official color of Spring 2014. Less safe than navy, less soporific than sky, we find that even a dash of it—on the rims of a bold pair of sunglasses or splashed across a flat clutch—takes us from “Hello, there!” to, “Who does she think she is?”