Monthly Archives: April 2012
LuckyFabb West Coast today: Join the Livestream
Good morning darlings! I’m attending the Lucky Fab conference in Santa Monica today. This conference,sponsored by Lucky Magazine, features designers talking about the business of fashion (Zac Posen, Janie Bryant, Cynthia Vincent), social media experts and bloggers. You can watch all the interviews and conference tracks on the livestream. Click here to watch the live [...]
Betsey Johnson Declares Bankruptcy
Pictured: My favorite piece from Betsey Johnson’s Black Tag line at NYFW last year (photo: M. Hall) Eccentric fashion designer and runway cartwheel spinner Betsey Johnson has declared Bankruptcy. It seems the designer is the latest victim of our stiff suffering economy, aka the great recession. With this Bankruptcy filing, Ms. Johnson is not going out [...]
Mother’s Day: Macy’s Thank-A-Mom Movement & Giveaway
Set your calendar reminder right now, in case you already haven’t got the date marked, Mother’s Day is coming Sunday May 13th. To help you celebrate, Macy’s has a free deal that you will want to take advantage of, both to honor your Mother and to help charity. This Mother’s Day, join Macy’s in their “Thank [...]
Vogue Announces a Live Stream of the Metropolitan Costume Gala
The Metropolitan Costume Gala has been called the Oscars of the East Coast. But unlike the Oscars, there’s been no telecasts In the past bloggers like yours truly have covered the event via live Tweeting of pictures discussing what celebrities are wearing what designers. Well, that’s about to change. The Gala is about to go [...]
Savings at Neiman Marcus Last Call on eBay with a Special Coupon
eBay offering good deals all the designer goodies sold at Neiman Marcus Last Call stores just in time for Mother’s Day gift giving. I reviewed the Last Call stores earlier this year and really enjoyed shopping them for brands like Tracy Reese, Robbi & Nikki, Layfette 148, Juicy Couture, Rachel Roy, Theory, Vince, Vivenne Tam, [...]
Alexander Julian Partners with Doncaster on the launch of Pell & Co.
Pictured: The new Pell & Co collection updates classic fashions I love a good story of a fashion house that has survived not only the great depression, but now, the great recession and is still being innovative. Since 1931 the Doncaster Collar and Shirt Company has provided shirts for men. Since1935, the company has provided shirt dresses for [...]
Special Offer to Shop & Swap on SNOBSWAP
New website SNOBSWAP has just launched with the premise that some of use would rather buy a pre-owned luxury items and save on the price, than pay full price for a new luxury item. The store allows users to list their items for sale, much like eBay. But where eBay offers just about everything, [...]
Lulu Guinness and UNIQLO Partner on Lulu Tees
As a lover of Lulu Guinness’s adorable art and pithy sayings (Put on Your Pearls Girls), I’m both happy and sad to write that Lulu’s cute designs are now available via discount retailer UNIQLO on a line of super cute T-shirts priced at $19.99 US. I’m happy to see the shirts, but sad that I don’t [...]
Would you buy a car from Victoria Beckham? She’s the new Range Rover Designer
The fashion path of the Beckhams amuses me to no end. Mr. Beckham has made a fortune fronting and “designing” men’s underwear. Ditto Mrs. Beckham with her clothing line, which own much inspiration to Roland Mouret. Now it’s been announced that Victoria helped to design a special edition Range Rover called the “Evoque”, to be announced [...]
Social Sharing: Coachella Fashion
Pictured: Melanie Griffith looking cool at Coachella. Melanie Griffith literally showed flower power at this weekend’s Coachella music fest in her bright floral pants. Based on the social fashion sharing going on, I would say Mrs. Banderas had one of the more upscale looks at the dessert fest in her wide legged pants reminiscent of [...]
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