Posts Tagged ‘Fashion’
Fashion Featured The Classic Glamour Dolls
August 27, 2010 - 2:39 pm
When you have a big event coming up and you are female, it’s inevitable that you want your hair and make-up professionally done. It just perfectly accents a night out on the town, a wedding, a red carpet ordeal, a high school reunion, or any situation where the goal is to shock and awe with your looks. One thing to consider is that when you hire hair and make-up people, they are in your house for a long time. I got my hair and make-up done for my wedding and spent a good 3 and a half hours bonding with my lady. She was nice, but there wasn’t anything unique about her and I found myself resorting to the ‘go to’ questions: Isn’t the weather nice? Where are you from? How long have you been doing make-up? We got through it, but there were a lot of moments when the concept of ‘silence is golden’ keep fluttering into my head.
I recently stumbled upon the perfect solution to my quest for make-up/hair artists with finesse, the Classic Glamour Dolls. Specializing in preparing you for everything from photo shoots, to performances, red carpet appearances, film, bachelor/bachelorette parties, birthdays, and special events, the Classic Glamour Doll “Team” consists of a group of make-up and hair artists whose motto is to bring you “Make-up and hair with a Hollywood flair.” The gals live out the 1920’s to 1950’s glam eras and show up to get their clients event-ready fully decked out in an old school Hollywood get-up that Fergie would describe as the definition of G-L-A-M-O-R-O-U-S. When I witnessed them in action, they explained to me that the look must always include: red lipstick, fake eyelashes, cat eyeliner, flowers or big jewels in the hair, very clean and shapely defined eyebrows, and a victory roll in their hair – obtained with hot rollers, curling irons, lots of hair spray and “thousands and thousands of bobby pins,” and of course fun rockabilly-inspired clothing.
4.79 (24 votes)
Loading ...Music Hipster Haven: The People of Sunset Junction
August 25, 2010 - 4:44 pm
If you managed to take your eyes off of the music stages, carnie games, explosion of food trucks, and vendors, you couldn’t help but miss the hipster haven that was Sunset Junction 2010. Saturday and Sunday at the Sunset Junction Street Fair, a fashion show took place, and the runway models were the Los Angeles hipsters. I am by no means a hipster, I’m not cool enough to keep that up with trends, but walking around the festival I was taking notes (literally for my article but also for my next shopping trip). I’ve seen hipsters before and been in many hipster hangout areas, but I don’t think I can say I’ve ever been in an area so saturated with them. By pure observation and a few crazy conversations on the patios of bars, I learned all about what is currently trendy, what is over the top, and what I definitely would not be able to pull off.
5.00 (6 votes)
Loading ...Fashion Geek Fashion: Tara Reich Brings Sci-Fi Sensibility to Couture
August 18, 2010 - 10:38 am
Generally, I don’t expect to discover talented fashion designers while visiting the blogs of my favorite comic book writers. Yet, when I read Paul Cornell’s account of CONvergence 2010, several photos he’d posted of girls in Doctor Who-inspired dresses caught my eye. A 1960s-style TARDIS dress?! I wanted one immediately.
In this way, I discovered the work of Tara Reich.
Reich’s family is in the antiques business, and early exposure to items ranging from space toys to Roseville pottery sparked a fascination with Old World and contemporary design aesthetics. However, it wasn’t until Reich, an avid fangirl, got involved in cosplay that she saw fashion design as a career option. She graduated from the fashion design program at Columbia College, Chicago in 2009, and won the Chicago Fashion Foundation Scholarship that year.
5.00 (17 votes)
Loading ...Fashion Black Milk Does Minimalist Luxe
July 30, 2010 - 9:31 am
Designer leggings. Is that an oxymoron?!
James Lillis of Black Milk would say no. Based in Australia, this designer — who had no formal training – was first inspired by the fashion atrocities he saw committed on the street! Australia is awash with leggings: every girl owns several pairs, & many of them prefer leggings over pants. Now, there’s nothing wrong with that — we are all entitled to our preferred aesthetic. But what really upset James was the poor quality of the leggings he saw girls wearing. If you use cheap cotton to make leggings, the sad outcome will eventually include saggy knees & bottoms, which don’t flatter anyone.
He decided that he couldn’t take it any more! Why couldn’t anyone make good quality leggings?! Maybe he was the right man for the job. After many, many hours at a sewing machine, breaking needles & making messes, he created his Black Wetlook leggings & hasn’t looked back since.
3.00 (4 votes)
Loading ...Fashion Featured Bloodmilk: Supernatural Jewels For Surrealist Darlings
July 19, 2010 - 12:02 pm
Miss Schnabel of Bloodmilk is not your average jeweler. You won’t see diamond engagement rings, mass-produced pendants or hoop earrings in her collection. Instead, she believes that jewelry provides “psychic armour.” Her work is thoughtful, & exquisitely strange.
If the love of your life is more a fan of the Brothers Grimm than Jon & Kate Plus 8, maybe a Bloodmilk bear tooth engagement ring is what she’s always dreamed of. Perhaps a sterling silver ouija planchette necklace is more her cup of tea. This is jewelery worn by unusual girls, the type who read tarot cards & prefer absinthe & wouldn’t be caught dead in Urban Outfitters. From two-finger owl skull rings to sparrow claw lariat necklaces, Bloodmilk pieces are dark but delicate, beautiful & obscene.
4.42 (12 votes)
Loading ...Fashion An Ethical Fashion Label… “Good One”
May 20, 2010 - 10:05 am
When I first heard the concept I was interested, but when I saw the product I was blown away. UK clothing label “Good One” is not only fashion forward, but ethically sound.
5.00 (1 votes)
Loading ...Fashion Uncategorized I Never Thought I’d Say This…
April 23, 2010 - 10:58 am
But I am so inspired by J. Crew right now! I always thought of J. Crew as the domain of the tennis & cocktail hour set: people with names like Binty and Muffy and Todd, who use the word “sloop” much more often than most of us, and somehow never get grass stains on their immaculate khakis despite spending 97% of their time in a grassy setting.
Unbelievably, their creative director, Jenna Lyons, is changing my mind. Now I’m starting to see it as a place to get excellent pieces which contrast so well with a more rock and roll or high fashion wardrobe.
1.92 (12 votes)
Loading ...Fashion Silver Lining Opticians: Famously Framed
April 23, 2010 - 10:57 am
In a cultural zeitgeist so obsessed with celebrities and Hollywood, most shops would just die to have one or two highly visible stars frequent their stores to create some much-coveted retail buzz. Silver Lining Opticians in Soho, NYC doesn’t have that problem. Some of their satisfied customers include marquee names like Jeezy, Diddy, Dustin Hoffman, Yves Saint Laurent designer Stefano Pilati, photographer Mario Sorrenti, Black Eyed Peas, Talib Kweli and so many more.
The independent, highly curated, vintage and contemporary designer eyewear store located on Thompson street in Soho was opened in 2007, but the owners have been dealing in luxury eyewear since 2005. The store was started by two partners: Erik Sacher (a licensed optician) and Jordan Silver (a longtime eyewear industry veteran). Jordan offers the following about his initiation into the eyeglass business.
4.75 (4 votes)
Loading ...Uncategorized Daily Dots: Terry Richardson vs. Ben Stiller, Sarah Palin vs. LL Cool J, Yeah Yeah Yeahs vs. Bloc Party vs. The Cribs, Pink Floyd vs. Nintendo, Nas vs. Damien Marley, Lollapalooza vs. Wheel of Fortune
March 31, 2010 - 5:07 pm
Today’s bloggin best…
- Feeling 2005? New music by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Cribs and Bloc Party. NME
- Nas & Damian Marley album trailer. 2DopeBoyz
- Bjork collaborated with E-40, sorta. Fader
- Sarah Palin and Fox News declare war against LL Cool J. Village Voice
- Dark Side of the Moon as played on a classic Nintendo. Retrothing
- Buy a vowel. Lollapalooza announcing line-up Wheel of Fortune style. Lollapalooza
- Terry Richards shoots a clothed (thank goodness!) Ben Stiller. Format Mag
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Loading ...Austin TX Featured Gallery Gala Darling and Molly Crabapple Do Austin RIGHT
March 17, 2010 - 2:56 pm
You can take the girls out of NYC, but you can’t make em blend in with the locals. We grabbed the always fashionable Gala Darling & Molly Crabapple, threw them in the “dirty” limo and had a crazy day exploring the small city charms of Austin TX. A little rain wasn’t going to get us down….we had a genuine riot of a good time!
3.46 (24 votes)
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