Glam Slam: Oprah’s Style Secrets

“I think what Oprah means to fashion,” Adam Glassman, the Creative Director of O, The Oprah Magazine tells us, “is feeling good in your body and feeling very comfortable in yourself and that you can look great at any size, at any stage of your life.”

Amen to that!

As Lady O tapes her final shows this week, I got to thinking about how she’s changed SO many things over the past three decades and fashion is one of them. She made it OK for all of us to feel ok with our less than perfect bodies.

We all have issues and she was brave enough to voice hers and we all related to her, empathized with her and cheered her on at the same time. She’s made a huge impact on fashion and Glassman, who has worked with Oprah since 2000 at the magazine, tells us how.

“I think what Oprah’s done with fashion is that she’s made it very accessible to every woman, so no matter who you are or how much you have to spend or what size you are, Oprah has really made fashion a lot of fun.”

Some of Oprah’s Favorite Things? “Oprah loves anything that has an open neckline and scoop necks are really good,” Adam says. “She avoids anything with a sort of high neck and she loves a skirt, whether it’s a pencil skirt or a full skirt. And Oprah also really loves a good wrap dress, like a shirt dress.”

Oprah knows exactly what she likes and also what she doesn’t like. (As if we’d expect anything else from the outspoken star!) “Oprah will never wear a necklace, no matter how much we try,” Adam reveals. “She really dislikes wearing necklaces or anything really around her neck and usually the color yellow she stays away from.”

We’ve all watched Oprah’s, style evolve over the years. “I think Oprah’s fashion evolution is like all of ours,” Adam says, “it depends on the decade. In the ‘80s, everything was big… there were big shoulders, big hair, big jewelry, lots of loud color. The ‘90s came around – a minimal kind of look and a lot of black and then I’d say over the last 10 years what Oprah really has done the most is gotten comfortable with fashion. She really feels that fashion has to make you feel alive and she will never wear anything that she does not feel beautiful and alive in and usually it has to do with being comfortable.”

Love it! Always a class act.