Here’s a designer to keep an eye on. It’s no surprise that designer Thuy Diep is as talented as she is. Ms. Diep was born in Vietnam to parents who are both tailors. Under their tutelage, this designer learned at an early age how to make clothes.
She went on to Brown, later Parsons and landed [...]
Entries from March 2008
March 31, 2008
Thuy Diep Fall/Winter 2008 Collection
March 30, 2008
March Madness
March means it’s bracket time for NCAA fans. Being that my husband is a huge college basketball fan, we went to Ford Field Friday night to see the Sweet 16 Regional Games. For those of you who are not basketball fans, don’t fear. I won’t be discussing how terrible the Big 10 is performing. Instead, [...]
March 29, 2008
Dr. Pepper Free Soda Publicity Stunt
I have been waiting since Wednesday to write about this shameless attempt at publicity. It seems that Dr. Pepper will offer everyone in America a free soda if Axl Rose will release Chinese Democracy in 2008.
For those of you too young to remember, Axl Rose was in a band called Guns N’ Roses and is [...]
March 28, 2008
Fashion Lesson #9 Long & Short Necks
A few things happened this week that alerted my “Fashion Police” alarms. They all encompassed women with short or full faces wearing unflattering accessories or shirts.
This is a picture of Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy. As you can see in the picture, she has a full face and the appearance of a very short neck [...]
March 27, 2008
Fashion Sensei Says…
These Shoes Are Made For Walkin’…
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Dress For Success…
Narccissits Rejoice…
Now you can have your image immortaized in these personalize cufflinks from Eleven Forty Design.
Not very interested in a bust of yourself you say? Well the company says that they have an existing portfolio that ranges from Ghandi to Lucifer [...]
March 26, 2008
Banana Republic Joins The Green Movement
Last week I reported that Nordstrom is phasing in their eco-friendly shopping bags, now Banana Republic is weighing in. In a recent press release, Banana Republic announced that on April 8th,they will roll out a new 50 piece collection of men’s and women’s lines and will also adopt a new label and packaging system to [...]
March 25, 2008
‘Running of the Brides’
If you are bride, clear your calendar for this Friday. Filene’s Basement in Paramus, NJ will be holding their famous ‘Running of the Brides’ sale March 28.
Brides from far and wide stampede the store in hopes of scoring that dream wedding dress for a bargain price. This engagement is not for the faint of heart; [...]
March 25, 2008
Payless Designer Shoes
For those who haven’t stopped into Payless in a while, it might be time to give them another try. Payless has teamed with Alice + Olivia, Lela Rose and Abate to design shoes for the discount retailer.
Alice + Olivia designer Stacey Bendet first hit the fashion scene in 2002 with what her friends dubbed her [...]
March 24, 2008
SJP Reacts to ‘Maxim’ Magazine’s "Unsexiest" Woman Title/ Jamie Lee Curtis Goes Topless
In October Maxim Magazine published their choice for the “Unsexiest Woman Alive”, naming Sara Jessica Parker as their number one choice. Maxim’s feeling was that she was “the least sexy woman in a group of very unsexy women.”
Those of you who have not read the article I’m sure are saying “What?!!” I agree with you. [...]
March 23, 2008
More Flight of The Conchords
While researching an article in Maxim for today, now tomorrow’s post, my eyes were immediately drawn to this photo.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I am a big fan of the breakout HBO series Flight of the Conchords and their “folk-parody”.
Jermaine Clement (34) the hunk of burnin’ love to the left and his fellow [...]
