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In addition to giving you an up-close look at the hottest shoppable looks for next spring, Fashion Week is a great opportunity to check out what the stylish industry insiders are actually wearing. Among this well-dressed fashion crowd, black is usually the colour-of-choice, but last night I spied a couple of gals who embraced a real joie de vivre and put their best foot forward in eighties influenced hot-hues and chucky statement necklaces. Click on the jump below to learn more about their refreshing sense of style.

From right to left:

Name: Kate Daley
Occupation: Assistant Style Editor, Chatelaine
Wearing: BCBG hot pink linen skirt; Betsy Johnson polka dot trench; Gap black turtle neck; vintage tri-coloured metal necklace; David Dixon for Town Shoes; Mondor tights
Favorite Stores: Club Monaco, Banana Republic
Celebrity Style Icons: Diane Kruger, Blake Lively
Next Purchase: Saving for a Marc Jacobs handbag

Name: Nathalie Atkinson
Occupation: Style editor & columnist, National Post
Wearing: Thrifted green silk jacket (secondhand, label says Junnie Leigh, probably 80s); one-of-a-kind reworked vintage jewellery necklace by Raquel Castillo on Etsy.com; LBD from Desperately Different by Katya Revenko; Marc Jacobs leather pochette clutch; Secret tights; Bruno Frisoni boots.
Favorite Stores: Comrags, Cabaret Vintage, Virginia Johnson and Finn Boutique; Roots for bags; Véronique Miljkovitch studio boutique in Montreal; Jewellery from Etsy.com; any store that sells Chie Mihara shoes.
Celebrity Style Icons: Inès de la Fressange, Joan Crawford in her superb wardrobe back in the day (as dressed by Adrian), Carole Lombard, Elsa Schiaparelli, Vita Sackville-West, Peggy Guggenheim, Nancy Cunard and Millicent Rogers
Next Purchase: Probably John Fluevog ’s clunky new Alli style: part men’s brogue, part maryjane.