Archive for March, 2008

Spring’s Fairy Dresses Gone with the Wind: Good Nymphs Gone Bad

Spring’s Fairy Dresses Gone with the Wind: Good Nymphs Gone Bad
This season’s dresses look so sweet and innocent from a distance. Up close, it’s another story.
Styling by Harriet Mays Powell
Only last week, woolly, dense sweaters and jackets still seemed appealingly cozy. Now they are unbearably itchy and depressing. Pale colors and tender fabrics that echo [...]

Beauty Fashion: Screw Skin, Tattoo Your Teeth, Red Bull for Hair

Beauty Fashion: Screw Skin, Tattoo Your Teeth, Red Bull for Hair
SKIN
• Tattoos for teeth are the latest, um, cosmetic enhancement. To be honest we’d prefer a gold or platinum grill. [BellaSugar]
• Jo Wood, wife of Rolling Stones rocker Ronnie, supposedly convinced Kate Moss to use organic beauty products. Wood has her own line of ‘em [...]

Puma and Adidas: We have done nothing to Do With the Nazis

Puma and Adidas: We have done nothing to Do With the Nazis
We love when fashion collides with seemingly non-related topics like history and politics. In today’s chapter of hold-the-phone collisions we learn about the birth of sportswear companies Adidas and Puma, which began in WWII, and were founded by brothers Adolf (a.k.a. Adi) and Rudolf [...]

Carla Bruni Focus Again: the Wearing Purple!

Carla Bruni Focus Again: the Wearing Purple!
Carla is the center of attention at the royal ball. Random aside: Apparently they still wear those robes.
Our Carla Bruni-Sarkozy watch continues! On day two of her First Official First-Lady Trip, she wore only Dior again, but she looked much more comfortable and cheery, and even delivered her first [...]

Kids’ Choice Awards 2008: Ashlee Simpson and America Ferrera

Kids’ Choice Awards 2008: Ashlee Simpson and America Ferrera
Ashlee Simpson arrived at the Kids’ Choice Awards looking classy in a grey strapless Alexander McQueen dress. Even with the bright heels, her look was a little dull for such a fun event. I would have liked to see her in a sassier, brighter outfit — do [...]

March Shopping Madness: Is Vogue a racist and a weightist

Big controversy this week: Is Vogue a racist and a weightist
The big controversy of the week: Is Vogue a racist and a weightist?!
It’s March Shopping Madness! Peruse our favorite shoes, bags, dresses, and accessories of Spring.
Meet Fabcon: Diane Keaton.
Join me on my way to a Fab closet!
Be sure to read all my New York Fashion [...]

Italian veteran fashion label penetrates into Chinese hearts and minds

Italian veteran fashion label penetrates into Chinese hearts and minds
Salvatore Ferragamo is indelibly associated with Florentine flair. So why did the venerable fashion label celebrate its 80th anniversary in Shanghai? Jess Cartner-Morley reports
Jess Cartner-Morley in Shanghai
For seventy years, the headquarters of the Salvatore Ferragamo fashion house has been the medieval Palazzo Spini Feroni in Florence. [...]

Carla Bruni smiles How Britain falls for the French first lady

Carla Bruni smiles How Britain falls for the French first lady
During President Sarkozy’s visit this week, Britain has only had eyes for his wife. Yes, she’s beautiful, demure and fantastically chic, but is that the limit of the French first lady’s appeal? Here, we uncover the many other guises of Carla Bruni, from heiress, lauded [...]

Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On at a certain age in Las Vegas

Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On at a certain age in Las Vegas
Bette Midler loves, hates, loves Las Vegas.
“Will you excuse me?” asks Bette Midler. “I just want to get a lozenge. My throat’s very dry. The humidification doesn’t seem to be working in here.” Midler rises from the sofa and disappears into the [...]

May Andersen Gives you Dating Advices and Relationships Secrets

May Andersen Gives you Dating Advices and Relationships Secrets
 Do you miss Sex and the City? Enter May Andersen. We caught up with the model and her unruly past at the after-party for the Cinema Society screening of Stop Loss at the Gramercy Park Hotel last night, where she pontificated about dating in New York. She [...]