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We're off to press previews and store openings but not before we pass along a little tip sheet from our Network Partners!

Girl Woman Beauty Brains reviewed an anti-aging bionic serum and it made her skin really soft! We say bonus points for the brilliant green bottle. 

Fashionologie pointed out the, ahem, tension between Alexander McQueen, Topshop, and Target and also gave up some added details to the Target Designer Collaboration project being launched in Isaac Mizrahi's wake.

Fasshonaburu found a cute cropped faux fur coat for twenty eight dollars, to which we say...only at Patricia Field. 

...and Style Bite reviewed the Spring 2009 collection by a stylist cum accessories designer, who goes by Cheek-ie. Her website is also worth a peek (left). 

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We've got something for everyone in today's Must Reads, from makeup to fashion week--it's all out there.

Girl Woman Beauty Brains tested out some instant eye shadow and gave her readers the do's and don'ts of application. Only Avon would come up with something so, well, Mad Men-era. We're dying to try it out. 

Final Fashion gives her readers the run-down on L'Oreal Toronto Fashion Week, with Project Runway background info and comparisons to years prior. Check out her informative post here and also our runway galleries here.

Fassonaburu scoped out some toastie gloves for fall where proceeds help women in need. We declare this post the sweetest in our Network today.

Kingdom Of Style, as usual, is scoping out fashion's most promising young designers. These ladies also have a penchant for leggings, tights, and other body-hugging fashion items. Today, check out their post on designer Brian Lichtenberg.

 

 

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We are living in a state of almost complete panic what with the bailout going haywire and the DOW dropping 700 points so we are doing our best to keep ourselves distracted in our state of incomprehension with a happy grab bag of style blog posts. Maybe Henry Paulson would feel better too if he spent some time reading blogs as well. Well, maybe just the fashion and beauty ones!

The Fashionable Housewife, hopefully not worrying about variable rate mortages, has suggestions on skinny jeans for all bodies even those that have endured childbirth.

Fassonaburu has some truly confusing lace arm warmers. We think they might itch. But then we don't understand a lot of things these days, like say how people tasked with risk management didn't run worst case scenario forecasts!

Ma Petite Chou needs some tough girl shoes. We think Nancy Pelosi could use a few pairs for the next set of bailout negotiations.

Shoe Blog has another emergency. A shoe emergency at a discounter footwear emporium. With conditions like this we are doomed even with cut rate shoe shopping.

And finally The Tastemakers Society has found an umbrella that just about sums up how we are feeling about all of this insanity.

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Paisley, admittedly isn't our favorite print. We talked about this at length yesterday, when one of us picked up a Paisley number at the Dolce Vita sample sale. The verdict: exceptions can be made (the quality of fabric is key, and paisley bathrobes are always okay, also 'digital paisley' or 'pixelated paisley' is just fine). Our network partner, Fassonaburu, gave a shoutout to a Vera Wang skirt (also in blouse form below) with a paisley print and so, like your next door neighbor that you finally decide to make out with, we've decided to just give the print a full-fledged chance. Below, our favorite paisley numbers (yes, there was much trudging through the yucky ones) for this summer.

by coutorture On Tuesday the French National Assembly voted to make it a crime to "incite" anorexia or extreme thinness on websites, magazines and in advertisements. Naturally fashion reacted with some nonchalance. We personally can't get that worked up either as legislating culture only seems to go badly. Nevertheless the idea has gotten the wider blogosphere talking including our own community. Pink Rock Candy feels a little conflicted about the entire controversy. In fact she thinks that most of us are pretty grossed out by images of super sickly skinny women. To an extent I understand people’s concerns of sickly looking public figures including, but not limited to, models and most of Young Hollywood, influencing the impressionable youth and their not so impressionable elders, but in all honesty how many times does one have to see some waif’s sternum for us to say, “ew, that’s gross,” and move on with our lives? The Runway Scoop is pretty pleased with being an American because we are allowed to do, say, and live in whatever manner we choose. But she wonders if the French might actually have a point with these laws even if its a slippery slope and debatable if fashion and beauty are even the culprit. But then, if there weren't all these skinny images floating around so much, maybe these young girls would be healthy...or would they find something else to be addicted to? Fassonaburu is also concerned with the government overreaching its authority. She wonders what will happen next though if this is allowed to go forward. Next thing you know you'll be fined for having too low of a BMI yourself and promoting thinness to the girls around you. Besides, the visual appearance of a person does not have as much to do with their health as you'd think.

by coutorture Spring may be the most cliché laden of the seasons. Its hard not to wax poetic about the rebirth and renewal of the Earth when you have been slogging through mud, slush or just plain gray days for months on end. Even the least connected of mankind feels a sense of hope. Fassonaburu's longing for a James Perse full length tank dress for tip toeing around the tulips triggered an impulse in us to go browsing for long lean day dresses as the weather warms. This of course naturally landed us smack dab in the middle of Rick Owen's lilies collection to find his perfect jersey tube dress.
And it was there we realized just how much the collection speaks to our own hidden hopes and dreams for spring. Light, draped, and worn fabric hints at the struggles of surviving darker days. A less designer would have gone for color, but his somber pallet of grays makes us that much more hopeful. The light fabrics and the dark colors have us dreaming of misty mornings before perfect spring days. We leave you with our favorite spring ditty. We imagine ourselves clothed in Rick Owens traisping through our garden as dawn hits looking for fairies and loving the slender lilies both on ourselves and in the ground.

White coral bells upon a slender stalk Lillies of the valley grace my garden walk Oh how I wish that you could hear them ring That will only happen when the fairies sing.

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