What's your Hyde Park Style?

Welcome to Hyde Park Style.

I'd like to say, first, that Hyde Park is not actually one place--it is many. And, moreover, it is the collaboration of the effortless style that has emerged from the many Hyde Park's we have come to know and love.

Hyde Park Style has come to represent, over the years, the chic dwelling place inside of each of us at Hyde Park Shop and the Hyde Park Style Team.

New Hyde Park was where my father grew up in NY, one of the most stylish men I know, someone who reaches for the stars each time and never settled for anything less than his best.

Hyde Park is a small town beneath the Palm Trees in sunny Florida where I personally first learned to be a grown up, a pretty through back to Palm Beach and Boca shopping, with an effortless sense of sophistication among the Mom's there, as they stroll along the cobbled streets with their children.

Hyde Park, IL is a progressive neighborhood in Chicago, where political ideas abound and their own blog, Hyde Park Progress is a lofty election of thoughts on where exactly our country is headed in this strange and unpredictable time.

And then there is Hyde Park, UK...a brimming mecca of culture near London where I once lived too. Hyde Park there was somewhere, where as a 6 year old, I first saw women in Mink Coats stroll the city streets, and knew that fashion was the only thing for me.

Hyde Park has been not only a place that I have visited and coincidentally, lived many times. Hyde Park has also come to represent an inclusion of ideas and voices that represent style, glamour and just the right amount of edge too.

Here at Hyde Park Style, we know what our Hyde Parker looks like...a little Catherine Malandrino, a little Louis Vuitton, steamed soy in Starbucks, a Barbara Kingsolver book, and the New York City Street beneath our feet.

What does your Hyde Park Style look like? More importantly, what does it feel like?

VTY,

H. Parker

PS...Please note: we are not rich, nor are we famous, nor are we anything but everything and exactly what we should be which is just lovely indeed-like little girls dressing in a mother's closet...true little starlets and actresses in our own right...so please, let's play.

"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening." -Coco Chanel