CONTENT WITH STYLE

Kim Johnson Gross is an award winning, international best-selling author, editor and strategic brand content developer with expertise in clothes, beauty, home and food.

She understands the power of content, and how when it’s communicated effectively, it inspires and empowers women and men to make more confident life style choices.

Through books, magazines, style seminars, online social media platforms, videos and television, she has helped men and women of many ages gain style-confidence. She believes that when you have style-confidence, you will feel body-confident, which will help you be more life-confident.

Her clients include Chico’s, BoutiqueJacob.ca, ivillage.com, about.com, Instyle, More, Ford Motor Company, Dove.com, aol.com, Target.com, Business Week, Esquire, Domani (Japan), Audubon and Dockers.


This season's fashion is fabulous, and proves that style is ageless.

Online brand content marketing strategy: CHICO'S, 2012


Online brand content strategy: Boutique Jacob, Canada, 2011



AUTHOR










WHAT TO WEAR FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE
Ageless Secrets of Style
(Springboard Press/Grand Central Publishing, 2010)


"Style doesn't age, it evolves."

Many of us experience closet confusion as we transition into the next part of our lives.

What to Wear for the Rest of Your Life helps to redefine your Feel-Good closet, and inspire with "clothes meet life" stories of women who have rediscovered their style, body and life confidence.





The Chic Simple series is a primer for living well but sensibly. It’s for those who believe that quality of life comes not in accumulating things, but in paring down to the essentials. Chic Simple enables readers to bring value and style to their lives with economy and simplicity.

"The more you know, the less you need." Aborigonal saying







A menswear classic.
Editor. Introduction by Woody Hochswender


STYLE VIDEOS


Scarves are the backbone of every stylish woman's wardrobe. Here are three classics and several ways to wear them to max out your scarf wardrobe with incredible chic & feel-good fun!

TELEVISION


Guest appearances on local, national and international television and radio including BBC London, NPR, CNN, Food Network, Martha Stewart Living, Japanese television, Fox News and regular appearances on The Today Show.


QVC
Q2: co-creator & co-host of weekly Chic Simple television show

MAGAZINES









HEARST
Co-creator: Chic Simple Magazine

ESQUIRE MAGAZINE (Editor: Lee Eisenberg. Publisher: Philip Moffet, Randy Jones)
Editorial Fashion Director. Recipient of Menswear Industry annual editorial award.
Fashion Marketing Director: creator of Trade Talk & Esquire Eye; editor & host of fashion video series

AVENUE MAGAZINE (Editor: Michael Shnayerson. Publisher & owner: Judy Price)
Style Editor: fashion, beauty, home. Launched On the Avenue
Recipient of Communication Design Award for editorial feature.

TOWN & COUNTRY (Editor: Frank Zachary. Fashion Director: Mary Louise Norton)
Fashion & Shopping Editor




Fashion Editorials (conceive, develop, edit, market work, styling, copy):
AARP Magazine
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
BETTER HOMES & GARDENS
BUSINESS WEEK Special Section on Menswear


COLUMNIST


STYLE COLUMNIST: NYCityWoman.com

MORE MAGAZINE
What to Wear for the Rest of Your Life

INSTYLE MAGAZINE
Chic Simple Solutions


DOVE.COM
Inner Style

AOL.COM
Ask Kim

DOMANI(Japan)

BABYSTYLE.COM

WEIGHT WATCHERS.COM

TIBESTI.com

MODE MAGAZINE



TARGET.COM Shop with Kim & Jeff

BRAND CONSULTANT


CHICO'S
Online brand content marketing strategy, 2012

JUST ASK A WOMAN
Innovative beauty product

STARWOOD HOTELS
Cheap chic line of new hotels

FORD MOTOR COMPANY
Consultant, co-creator: Centennial Brand book for Blue Oval

DOVE
"Real" beauty campaign

TIME WARNER
Chic Simple Magazine & extended media platforms

KOHLER
Branding concepts and Step by Step Take Away Brochure for an umbrella campaign

STYLE SEMINARS & SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS



AGELESS SECRETS OF STYLE:
The League, Naples, FLA, 2012
Image for Success, San Francisco, 2011
Women & Fashion, Palm Beach, 2011
92nd Street Y Tribeca, 2011
Women Trustees, University of Pennsylvania, 2010
Colorado Springs Women's Expo, 2010 (sponsored by Chico's)

EWGA, Long Island Chapter, 2011
Spring Summer Style—sponsored by Tanger Outlets




LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND, 2010
With Iris Apfel, What to Wear for the Rest of Your LIfe

FORD MOTOR COMPANY
Global Summit: Value & Style Seminar

WORK STYLE:
Women In Communication, NYC & CT
Wharton School of Business
Vanguard Group (sponsored by Jones New York)

CHIC SIMPLE STYLE:
Orlando Museum of Art
Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Marshall Field, Hecht's, Lord & Taylor, Witchery (Australia), Crate & Barrel




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CLOSET CONFIDENTIAL: Personal Closet Consultations



I help clients find their personal style by editing their closet, while showing them how to wear what they already own in better ways, and also by shopping with them.