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There is a hair emergency happening at Muse Salon. At 9 a.m. on a recent Wednesday, co-owner/stylist Daniel Jones is hard at work fixing a color disaster. Five other clients are also awaiting his services, but Jones, thanks to the support of several assistants, is unflappable.

Dindy Yokel’s hair is crazy curly. “When I wake up in the morning my hair is like Shirley Temple,” said Yokel, 48, of Inman Park. At least it was about three years ago, before she discovered keratin.In Miami, where she lived at the time, Yokel got the Marcia Teixeira Brazilian Keratin Treatment and decided it was a godsend.

For years, the sartorially savvy have been telling their fellow fashionables to “work it out.” Well from the runway to the treadmill, fashion is now ready for a literal workout. Mainstream clothiers are introducing pieces that can run from the gym to the street.

When Diana Frances Spencer burst onto the international scene in the 1980s, she seemed every bit a princess. She was a member of one of Britain’s great aristocratic dynasties, attended the best schools and lived, by most accounts, a privileged life. All of which makes it easy to forget that she was barely out of her teens when her reign as Princess of Wales began.

Celebrity fragrances have dominated the global fragrance market in recent years as consumers swoon over scents by Sarah Jessica Parker, Jennifer Lopez, Derek Jeter, Sean “Diddy” Combs and all-time best-seller, Elizabeth Taylor.

The world watched on July 29, 1981, when Lady Diana Spencer married Charles, Prince of Wales, in a massive ceremony at St. Paul’s Cathedral. Sure, we were excited by the fairy tale perfection of the ceremony, but really it was Lady Diana in an ivory dress with hand-embroidered lace and a 25-foot train that kept most of the 750 million viewers enraptured.

Minx, a flashy new nail trend has exploded onto the celebrity fashion scene with such verve it is making cleverly-named polish seem passé.The premium product, a flexible polymer that is heated and applied to natural nails like a sticker, has been spotted at red carpet events, in music videos and on runways from Los Angeles to New York.

The decade's end was supposed to finish off those wacky, year-shaped glasses favored by the reveling seas on New Year's Eve in Times Square and around the world. Gone would be the convenient loops of the 1990s and the double-zero good times of the '00s.

The new year is a great time for reinvention, particularly when it comes to your beauty routine.Not long ago, Amy Leavell Bransford engaged in a little makeover of her own. The former label publicist decided to leave the music industry behind to reinvent herself as an esthetician specializing in organic facials.

A fabulous dress is a staple for any holiday wardrobe whether it’s an LBD, a floor skimming metallic gown or a quirky take on the ‘20s era flapper fringe dress.Designer Vera Wang prefers the look of an elegant black dress cinched at the waist with a belt.

There are certain style mistakes almost every guy seems to make.The very existence of “Barack Obama jeans” in the lexicon of (questionable) style, proves that not even the nation’s most powerful man is above the law of fashion.Some guys have managed to put the biggest wardrobe boo-boo’s behind them.

A small apparel chain based in Atlanta is opening a new store in Phipps Plaza this month. K-la boutique will open in 1,000 square feet on the lower level of the mall, near department store Belk. It will be the shop's fourth location. The others are in Atlantic Station, The Forum and Charlotte, N.

What do you get when you mix one sluggish economy with 48 local retailers? Four days of fashion and events designed to put the fun back in shopping."Fashion Over Atlanta," which runs Thursday though Sunday, entices shoppers with a daily schedule of special events such as fashion shows, trunk shows and celebrity appearances.

You don’t get to be one of Atlanta’s well-known retailers by sitting idly by, and Bill Hallman is working overtime to make 2009 a banner year.For almost 20 years, Hallman has served the fashion world with clothing collections that at one time sold in 75 boutiques around the globe, as well as his own retail stores in Virginia-Highland and Little Five Points.

Anansa Sims was determined to be a model. She lost more than 40 pounds, moved to New York, and signed with a major agency, but it still wasn’t enough. So she did the unthinkable. Sims, 24, who until recently lived in Atlanta, regained the weight, and a few years later, she tried again.

Riding boots. Motorcycle boots. Western boots. Booties. Or retro-style, over-the-knee boots.This season is a boot lover’s fantasy.Not only is it easier than ever to find a suitable style among the many options, it is also acceptable to wear boots almost anytime, anywhere and with any outfit.

The top catwalks in New York, London, Paris and Milan, Italy, give head-to-toe style cues for next season.But while shoppers have to wait months for the spring-season futuristic floral prints and lingerie looks that debuted at these just-wrapped Fashion Weeks, the beauty trends can move from runway to real world right away.

It took Kandi Burruss, cast member of the “Real Housewives of Atlanta,” three years to convince her friend Peaches Chin to open a clothing boutique. They had even come up with a name. But Chin kept stalling.“I didn’t want it to hurt our friendship,” said Chin who met Burruss years ago when she owned several Atlanta boutiques.

Mimi Tin desperately wanted the white over-the-knee Chanel boots she saw on the pages of Vogue.Unable to find her size at stores in Atlanta, she called every store in the country that might have them, only to hear the same thing, "Sold out." Two weeks after her search began, she finally located the $1,600 boots in Dallas.

For the recessionistas, elite fashion designers are bringing their covetable fashions to more affordable platforms.

Amy Smilovic has traveled the globe, but she’s never far from her Southern roots. Not only does the designer of Tibi routinely infuse her women’s contemporary collection with feminine Southern flair, but her company is headquartered in St. Simons Island, a place that has had an undeniable impact on her work.

On a hot summer day in 1994, Alyssa Haskins decided she had had enough. She stood in front of her bathroom mirror, lifted a pair of scissors to her head, and just like that, cut off all her hair.After years of getting hair relaxers, including one at age 14 which caused extensive scalp burns and hair loss, Haskins cut off her chemically straightened hair and resolved to leave the "creamy crack," alone.

In this economy, reinvention is the key to survival.The right suit can supercharge your career and your wardrobe.Once deemed the attire of corporate automatons, suits are staging a comeback. Texture, color and details such as leather trim, flowers and bows can elevate a suit above the ordinary, making it the perfect choice for a day at the office or a night of networking.

Buckhead hairstylist Derek J. is used to tending to celebrity tresses. He says his client list includes singers Natalie Cole, Angie Stone and actresses Terri Vaughn and Nicole Ari Parker, to name a few. The 27-year-old, originally from Toledo, Ohio, also been the stylist for three of the five divas that make up “The Real Housewives of Atlanta,” including Kandi Burruss while she was a member of the group Xscape.

Fashion can't be angry forever. It's an industry that thrives on what's new and what's next, and for spring that means cautious optimism about the economy.The tough, warriorlike styles in stores now were already on designers' sketch pads when the stock market was at its low point and the presidential election was still a campaign.