Plains & Prints’ upcoming Pre-Fall Collection, inspired by Kate Middleton’s regal fashion, Kate Moss’s biker chic vibe, and Cate Blanchett’s minimalist appeal, allows you to channel these best-dressed list regulars’ impeccable styles.

Style-savvy career women have plenty to look forward to from local retail label R.A.F. as it offers a coveted preview of what it has in store for the holidays by collaborating with premier designer Rhett Eala for its Pre-Fall Collection.

Gone are the days when corporate dressing meant donning the default crisp, two-piece suit in black, gray, or navy. Today’s office dress code is a breath of fresh air, bringing extra color and life to the corporate world with upbeat, fashion-forward—yet still work-appropriate—ensembles.

The Filipina’s fashion inspiration is the newest style icon of the popular women’s work wear label

All she ever wanted was to become a fashion editor. Working behind the scenes, either turning a celebrity or model into a style star or conceptualizing what would become the fashion editorial spread of glossies, she never envisioned herself to be the one taking center stage.

Celebrity stylist Liz Uy, the country’s own Rachel Zoe, who used to stage mini runway shows at home with her equally fashion-inclined siblings when she was little, is now taking her well-deserved turn in the spotlight via local women’s work wear brand Plains & Prints.

Becoming the style icon of the popular retail label cements her reputation as the country’s leading fashion influence; and for Liz, the choice of brand was all but natural. “I feel very much honored to be part of this collaboration. Plains & Prints is a label that I’ve worked with for six years as a stylist. It’s a brand that I trust, and most importantly, that I wear,” she reveals.

Check out the Plains & Prints Summer 2012 Lookbook Video:

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Watch this behind-the-scenes YouTube video during the Plains & Prints Spring/Summer 2012 photo shoot featuring Paula Taylor. The Spring/Summer 2012 Collection is a collaboration with premier Filipino designer Rhett Eala

The best fashion is a delicate balance of homage and invention. No matter how much the new and the future-forward are celebrated in the industry, it would be a waste not to be knowledgeable of the colorful and illustrious history of fashion. It takes a true sophistication to combine these contradicting perspectives and that is why fashion can be so awe-inspiring.

Definitely a turn in Fashion 2.0, “The Design Odyssey” collection gives a nod to honorary empress of the beckies Divine Lee as they hold a contest for her fierce followers. With simple mechanics employing social media and their fashion chutzpah, Lee’s followers on her eponymous blog send photos of them at their fiercest to win a shopping spree at Plains & Prints and the opportunity to meet both Divine Lee and Rajo Laurel.