There’s this feature in US Weekly magazine called “Who Wore It Best” that shows two celebrities side-by-side in the same outfit.  Readers are supposed to vote on who they think looks best in that outfit.  To me, it’s kind of like the ultimate celebrity death-match — a zero-sum game of image in an industry where image is everything.

Thankfully, we mortals are not subject to the same standards, and sometimes we can benefit from fashion inspiration from celebrities.  After all, celebrities have access to awesome stylists and looks right off the runway, so a little copy-catting can offer a power up to your everyday wardrobe.  I’ve definitely taken advantage of it, like here in this Temperley London sea foam green dress that Kate Middleton wore in April during her trip to India (see below).  She looked *amazing* in it, and I wanted it for myself.  So, without any fear of ending up in a “Who Wore It Best” feature, I reached out directly through the Temperley London Website and pre-ordered it.  About two months later — bam — I’m wearing it to drop off my son at his first day of school.

And that brings me to my other point.  There’s this great line in “The Devil Wears Prada” that fashion is “greater than art because you live your life in it.”  Totally true, and that is why, no matter how amazing a celebrity looks in something you decide to wear, you will ALWAYS look better.  Kate Middleton went to India, but I took a five-year old to his first day of kindergarten, a day neither one of us will ever forget (okay, he may forget, but I definitely won’t).  I lived MY life in this outfit and made it my own, which every one of us will do in what we decide to wear … no matter where the inspiration comes from.