Packing for College I have already been through this before, but I return to college Sunday and have not packed a single thing. I have, however, had several episodes of standing miserably in front of my closet with a lost, confused look clouding my face. That fact is, my entire wardrobe will not be fitting into my tiny closet. And that's okay, I can accept that. But I just cannot be expected to narrow down what to bring and what to leave. Would a mother be expected to choose between children to take on vacation?..
Style Storage If you're tired of the humidity-induced frizzies, here's an indoor project to legitimize your indoor exile: Closet Overhaul. I'm not talking about Stacy-and-Clinton, dress-you-down-in-front-of-millions, dumpster-filling overhaul, but a sensible, thoughtful, and rational assessment of what's what in that dark and daunting pit you call a wardrobe. What, after all, is in there? ..
Beware of Crocs Crocs and other soft-soled shoes can get stuck in the teeth of escalators and cause minor to severe injuries. Sandals, tennis shoes, flip flops and other "shoe entrapments" have been yanked the bowels of those moving stairs. A few horrifying accounts describe Crocs and immitation Crocs on the feet of children becoming stuck as the escalator stairs converge and causing toes to be ripped off or mutilated to the point of needing amputation...
YAY OR NAY: Christian Lacroix tortoiseshell clutch bagBlog: The Bag Lady
1 week 6 days ago
If there's one thing about this bag: you can't say it doesn't make you look twice. Scanning through the pages of Net-a-Porter as I do many, many times a day (what a job eh...) this clutch bag from Christian Lacroix just really sprang out at me. I can't figure out if it's because it's super ug, or if it's just one of those bags which are so weird they're actually kind of wonderful.
Jessica Alba: Pregnancy Made Her All Fat And Gross And StuffBlog: Heckler Spray
1 week 6 days ago
While she was pregnant, Jessica Alba had quite the sideline in describing every single aspect of the pregnancy in excruciating detail.
Luckily, though, the recent birth of Jessica Alba's baby means that all that has come to end. And, in its place, Jessica Alba has started to give retrospective descriptions of her pregnancy in magazine interviews instead.
Anyway, we're judging unfairly because actually Jessica Alba is quite entertaining when she looks back on her pregnancy. Especially since the main thing she's concerned about is how fat and bloated and unsexy her unborn daughter made her feel. Great, that means in 20 years we'll be reading magazine interviews with the daughter about how Jessica Alba prenatally destroyed her sense of self worth. Thanks a lot, Alba.
Designer of PearlThe Daily
What do you get when you take the company responsible for producing the world's first cultured pearl and cross it with Japan's premier clothing designer? For starters, truly exquisite jewelry. Yohji Yamamoto's first foray into fine jewelry and Mikimoto's first jewelry collaboration with a designer results in the poetic Stormy Weather collection...
The Near-Fame Experience NYMag
Jay McCarroll works in the sort of space you'd expect from a fellow who dreams in fabric. It's outfitted with four sewing machines and oceans of material arranged in brilliant spectral sequence; his spring 2007 collection hangs on a rack in the corner, anchored by a quilt skirt so outsize it could easily double as a bedspread. But bedding itself is missing from this studio which matters more in this case than it ordinarily would: Though he's the first- season winner of Project Runway, Jay, 32, is still homeless in New York...
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Park Avenue Fashion FurorPage Six
Picky Park Avenue might wear Oscar de la Renta, but they certainly don't want him throwing a big fashion show in their historic neighborhood. The designer recently announced plans to move his Fall Fashion Week show from Bryant Park to 583 Park, much to the dismay of locals in a tizzy over traffic and noise...
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