Vintage inspired? Check. Frilly and feminine details? Check. Love at first sight? Check. These delightful attributes describe Alexandra Greeco’s 2010 Pre-Fall collection. The Brooklyn designer collects a wealth of inspiration from vintage shops, photography and romantic details. The scalloped shorts and heart-shaped cutout are simply to die for. Check out her Etsy shop and inspiring [...]
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I like my jewelry like I like my coffee: strong, full of flavor and takes the edge off. Noir Jewelry has the kick I love, not to mention the celeb-wearing credentials (my faves Kelis and Rihanna has been spotted in Noir). Designer and owner Leeora Catala, who has done the do at Ralph Lauren and Oscar [...]
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Breasts have been out of style for awhile now. They went out when the waif heroin chic look entered and 12-year old Ukrainian models became all the rage. Alas, with everything else in fashion the presence of body parts is cyclical and breasts (boobs, hooters, knockers, sweater puppies) are getting their day in the spotlight. [...]
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The recent hiring of a white fashion director at Essence Magazine, a historic lifestyle and fashion publication for African-American women, has spurred a fashion debate rooted in issues of race, diversity and least of all fashion. When I first heard the news about the hiring of Ellianna Placas (formerly of O magazine) I didn’t know [...]
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I’m walking on sunshine and don’t it feel GOOD! Irregular Choice has always been a shoe lover of mine, but these babies just blew the roof off our love affair. A towering wedge, multi-colored shoe and fluffy orange foot bed, Chica wedges were made to be worn with a floaty white dress, dancing on a Conga Line with [...]
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The world (and Hollywood) has gone comic crazy. Comic-Con has taken over San Diego and if you watch G4 (like the geek I am) there’s non-stop coverage. I mean what’s not to love about superheros, villians and the stans that dress up like them. Comic costumes are magnificently stylish. All the rubber, molded chests and [...]
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We all have it. The one that got away. The shoe that we lusted, salivated over, pondered on and decided to leave in the store only to have it haunt us, to awake in cold sweats dreaming about the shoe lust that would never be. Shoe lust is a matter of the heart. Here’s my [...]
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Put away the lace and frills and rummage through your gentleman’s closet. While it may seem counter-intuitive, women dressing in menswear is the perfect way to channel your femininity. Katherine Hepburn notoriously wore trousers when Hollywood starlets were all about the glam, Annie Hall revolutionized the way we look at a vest and tie, hell [...]
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He stood in the Purple Rain and under the Cherry Moon, bathed in the waters of Lake Winnatonaka and partied like it was 1999 (never gets old). In the movie of my life (starring Sanaa Lathan as moi) Prince’s music provides the bass pumping, sex-infused soundtrack. Besides being a living musical legend (and bonafide F-O-X) [...]
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It seems that the ‘10 will be the decade of the Quirky Girl (you heard it here first). The Rhoda to the sweet Mary Tyler Moore. The Lucy to the well meaning Ethel. Fran Drescher to the stick up the butt C.C. Babcock. The eccentric, goofy friend that reads Proust, wears abstract designers and knows [...]
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