Tag: Fashion
Beware Reka Nyari! Brilliant Photography.
Being born in Finland, and growing up in Budapest is an unusual beginning and one which, thanks to her parents, has given Reka Nyari a beautifully unique face. Having moved to New York when she was seventeen, she is left...
Fashionably late at Jill Stuart.
Jill Stuart is known for dressing the chic party girl; the one who wore that shiny little dress to the office Christmas party and got a tad drunk. So why was it that, other than the PR jet set...
Fashion for Action at the Housing Works. The Aplomb!
Last night we had the good fortune to attend the Fashion for Action Housing Works benefit - a four-day charitable fashion event, silent auction and sample sale that seeked to raise funds for Housing Works’ lifesaving services for homeless...
Victoria Secret Runway Show Great Success For Fat, Rich, Men.
Blowing money as scantily clad ubermodels blow kisses. Keeping it simple in America.
Unfortunately for us, our request to cover last night’s Victoria Secret’s fashion collection at the Lexington armory fell upon deaf ears. We think we know now why....
Dressing cross gender gets the NY Times thumbs up.
Reinventing fashion for the recession.
It seems the NY Times has come across a very interesting idea/trend of how to try and sell fashion to the world again. Simply, it involves convincing boys and girls that it's okay, sexy,...
Forty per cent is the magic number when it comes to flashing a little flesh
Oh, it is challenging being a woman. It's just one dilemma after another. Here is one that has had our brows furrowed since the day some smart cookie discovered flashing a bit of ankle could get her a long...
Lindsay Lohan Cries Like Baby and Takes Other People’s Stuff.
Making America your door mat.
Part 347 of adventures with the crack/coke/grog/freak whore continue. Dedicated to keeping America in the loop of what Lilo does from the moment she gets up, we couldn't resist recanting the following piece of nasty...
Violence in Advertising and why it sells.
If one pays attention to the type of advertising that has increasingly become de rigeur in society, more and more one will notice that advertisements are becoming increasingly loaded with the insinuation of violence against men or women. From...
Reduce, Reuse, Real Housewives.
Trying to figure out which reality works.
Look out, NYC. The Real Housewives of New York City are in the middle of filming their third season. Naturally, the PR machine that provides the elbow grease to facilitate and ease the...
Poser of the day.
Getting by with make believe...
One of the wonderful things about living in America is our collective freedom to behave and think as we will (or so we have been told) . That of course, is easier said and...
Hide Who You Really Are: The Schools That are Stamping out Self-expression
Is there any phase of life more uncomfortable, self-conscious and altogether confusing than the teenage years? It's all hormones, unrequited love, body-image, self-discovery, and it's embarrassing sometimes to the point of being painful.
Conformity is one of the strongholds...
Shag Bands: “New” Craze Taking Over the Playground.
Outrage in the school yard.
Kids these days are quite clearly depraved. The "newest" fad for UK schoolchildren is to sport 'shag bands', a bunch of brightly colored plastic bracelets that, if snapped, represent varying sexual acts (pink = flash...
Is Miley Cyrus Becoming an Ungrateful Brat already?
In dire need of genre clarification.
Miley Cyrus was recently interviewed where she admitted that she never heard a Jay-Z song before in her life, despite the lyrics in her "Party in the USA" track that claim ...
LA Fashion Week. Strutting the planks…a recap.
LA Fashion week closed October 31st 2009. Even though that date gave license to some scantily clad holiday behavior it also gave pause to how far the scene had finally had come and had yet to go. Then again...
Michelle Vale— Handbags That Are Oh, So Necessary
As a girl who recently gave up handbags for shoving my Metrocard and lip-gloss into my pocket, I figured that the Michelle Vale showing was going to be a tough sell. Don’t get me wrong, I...
