Writer, educator and former dancer Andrea Pflaumer has had a life-long passion for fashion and clothing design. After retiring from a career as a dance and meditation teacher and lecturer she published her first fashion article about lingerie boutiques in the San Francisco Bay Area, which led to a ten-year assignment as a contributing editor for the East Bay Monthly’s Shop Talk and Shopping Around features. Since the 1980’s she has studied and researched the principles of individual color and style analysis with some of the pre-eminent experts in the field. Andrea currently writes dance and arts previews for the San Francisco Examiner and is a certified instructor of the TM® program. She lives in Berkeley, California. You can follow her regular updates and blog posts about fashion trends and how they relate to the real you click here.