With every new season comes the opportunity to start anew. In fashion and life, it’s all about new beginnings.
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New Beginnings: In Style and Life
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Stylish Thoughts with… Lexy of BeautyFash
Name: Lexy J. Age: 32 From: Philly! Blog: Beautyfash.com Favorite Online Hangouts: lovemaegan.com / Making It Lovely / Hostess with the Mostess / Pioneer Woman / Le blog de Big Beauty Describe your style in two words Creative and Fun! What is your most memorable style moment? I can’t pick just one, but my most memorable style moments are definitely the ones when I get [...]
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Rise All Girls: Support Dark Girls the Movie
In the black community there are so many taboos. From our hair texture, size, education to skin color. Among Black women, issues of not being beautiful are pervasive and damaging and there is a great divide between light-skinned women and dark-skinned women. With all of the preconceived notions of beauty and the divisiveness among black people, one [...]
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Time Warp: Why the 40s and 50s are my Favorite Fashion Eras
{Famous Irving Penn photograph} The femininity, the quintessential beauty of dressing and the care and detail that was taken in looking good. These are a few of the many reasons why I love vintage clothing. Why I swoon for hours at pin-up photography and why despite my sometimes blunt disposition, I really am a woman who loves [...]
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Losing our Essence: Issues of Race in Fashion
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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