Resisting feel good fashion is difficult, but resisting free fashion is futile.
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Resisting feel good fashion is difficult, but resisting free fashion is futile. Think you can? Try checking out the fashion picks in today's Must Read posts to prove us wrong.
BussBuss turns us onto a lightweight blazer cut specifically for women. Who said garments inspired by menswear actually had to look like menswear?
After finally understanding the true necessity of sunglasses, Thrift Eye shows off her growing collection. Keeping sun damage away from your eye area has never looked so good.
A Few Goody Gum Drops is feeling generous and giving away a luscious purple fringed Botkier bag. Why buy what you can get for free?
Whole Foods tantalizes the environmentally friendly and foodies within all of us, but Chic & Untroubled uncovers their latest collaboration with Tom's Shoes. Whole Foods is proving much savvier than we gave them credit for.
Sending shock waves through perfumistas everywhere, Cuffington finally admits to not using fragrances until recently. Looking for help, she asks her readers to select her next fragrance purchase.
She coaxed him back on board, "for the sake of the label," which is currently on the selling block, and is much more valuable with Peter Som at the company. A new retention deal was reportedly struck last Thursday; but Som can get out of his contract at any time.
The basis for all the unrest seems to be Nexcen's financial constraints: The company can't support what Som envisioned for Blass. However, the prospect of a Spring 2009 collection shown to retailers only is being tossed around, and if Blass is bought by a company that can lend better financial support, Som is said to be willing to stay. *image: source
by POPSUGAR Fashion News
She was full of life and wit. She was beyond polite. So many, like Linda and Christy, had periods of being moody and difficult. She was always perfect.
>> THE MODELIZER —Naomi Campbell's got a new man: Russian real estate billionaire Vladisav Voronin, who she was spotted in Saint Tropez with in the past week, and has been dating for almost a month.
>> THE MODELIZER —Naomi Campbell's got a new man: Russian real estate billionaire Vladisav Voronin, who she was spotted in Saint Tropez with in the past week, and has been dating for almost a month. [Chic Report, Daily Mail]
Cowboy boots entered the hipster pantheon as the first ironic product tie in of the Williamsburg lifestyle.
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Cowboy boots entered the hipster pantheon as the first ironic product tie in of the Williamsburg lifestyle. Hank Williams and Willie Nelson became totems of the newly sincere grasping Americana that flooded urban enclaves. Soon these emblems gave way to new signs of the American dream, preppy replacing rustic in the hierarchy of cool just as surely as Vampire Weekend wears topsiders. But the cowboy rides again. Its not that we have seen girls sporting boots this summer, we could never figure it out the first time, as stinky feet don't evoke the eroticism necessary to full channel "youth" which is a prerequisite for hipsterdom. Rather, it was a most unlikely product that shifted our perspective.
The Dolce & Gabbana Runway Snakeskin Lace-Up Bootiefeatured in our Island Life photo editorial might seem a strange evocation of the soul of cowboy. But what are these booties if not the cowboy boot reinvented?
And lest you are tempted to call us crazy, community member Style...A Work In Progress has cowboys on the brain as well. She tickles us with proper cowboy aphorisms like "real cowboys never run, they just ride away." In which case, maybe the cowboy is riding back again. With booties like the Dolce and Gabana snakeskins you can't run away, you can really only ride a taxicab into the sunset. And if you prefer a more traditional boot we even have a substitute. But we think faded dungarees, a white boyfriend shirt and booties are just the way to bring the cowboy back, ironically and very expensively.
>> Linda Evangelista may not have landed that rumored fold-out September 2008 Vanity Fair supermodel cover extravaganza (fellow model Carla Bruni-Sarkozy does the honors instead) but she still has her Fall 2008 Prada campaign. Out from the shadows she comes, to have a buttoned-up, laced-up go at this matronly Steven Meisel-photographed set that leaves me feeling .
>> Linda Evangelista may not have landed that rumored fold-out September 2008 Vanity Fair supermodel cover extravaganza (fellow model Carla Bruni-Sarkozy does the honors instead) but she still has her Fall 2008 Prada campaign. Out from the shadows she comes, to have a buttoned-up, laced-up go at this matronly Steven Meisel-photographed set that leaves me feeling . . . well, a little bit blue. *image: source
Click it or ticket has been a national slogan for safer driving for some time.
by coutortureClick it or ticket has been a national slogan for safer driving for some time. But the way we seemed to be obsessed with buckling up in the fashion business you could be forgiven for thinking retailers underwrote the campaign. As community member Shoeblog points out, ornate buckled sandals are a favorite of New York City women this summer and Bill Cunningham has the photos to prove it. The trouble is that these buckled shoes, with or without heels, have made the rounds for so long that even our favorites like Dolce Vita are now on sale and every copy cat on the block from Steve Madden to Guess has shipped a facsimile to market. So while everyone else is saying one two buckle my shoe we are sorely tempted to say three four shut the door on this trend. And if you really want a nice buckled shoe? Can we suggest these Manolo Blahnik Buckle Anklestraps? We will just leave you with a variety of choices below and you can do whatever feels right.
BussBuss turns us onto a lightweight blazer cut specifically for women. Who said garments inspired by menswear actually had to look like menswear?
After finally understanding the true necessity of sunglasses, Thrift Eye shows off her growing collection. Keeping sun damage away from your eye area has never looked so good.
A Few Goody Gum Drops is feeling generous and giving away a luscious purple fringed Botkier bag. Why buy what you can get for free?
Whole Foods tantalizes the environmentally friendly and foodies within all of us, but Chic & Untroubled uncovers their latest collaboration with Tom's Shoes. Whole Foods is proving much savvier than we gave them credit for.
Sending shock waves through perfumistas everywhere, Cuffington finally admits to not using fragrances until recently. Looking for help, she asks her readers to select her next fragrance purchase.
