Posts with tag blog

Style for the silver fox crowd doesn't necessarily have much to do with what the 17-year-old models are wearing on the catwalks during Fashion Week. It has much more to do with embracing your signature style and being as unique as you want to be.

If you love bags like we love bags, you can't miss this giveaway over at Planet Handbag, a new website dedicated to fabulous bags "inspired by" designer brands.

We've all had a bad hair day or two or eighty, but a great majority of them go undetected, hiding away under hats or hoods or in the darkness of our own homes. However, sometimes those bad hair days encounter an unwelcome camera and we're stuck with a documented fashion tragedy for the rest of our lives. If you're looking for a bit of schadenfreude to soothe your soul because you've had one bad hair day too many, just check out this oddly beautiful hall of shame called Sexy People. Hopefully these photos also serve as reminders to stick with making basics look good instead of being a slave to fads and trends.

Some of our favorites involve laser beam backgrounds or big hair; if you're lucky, you may catch one with both. Also, evidently, it's submitted by the very same people in the terrible photos, so don't be afraid to laugh. Here are some excellent ones to get the ball rolling.

In 1973, the LACMA unveiled "LA Flash." The exhibition featured photographs of 400 of the city's most stylish residents, collected by a handful of shutterbugs who wandered different neighborhoods, capturing the best of L.A. street style. Now, on its 25th anniversary, the museum will re-launch "LA Flash," which originally ran for three months, for one night only. The photos, according to The Los Angeles Times, are still a fashion inspiration: "Many of the original images, which have been digitally enhanced for the new showing, could have sprung from the latest issue of Vogue."

There's no doubt that "LA Flash" was a precursor to the ubiquitous girl-on-the-street magazine pages and blog features we see today. With that in mind, the museum will offer a modern spin on the idea by starting a new, street-style blog to celebrate its anniversary.

Kim Kardashian is known for her bodacious bod, and umm, smelling good? Who knew? Apparently the reigning queen of bootylicious has plans for releasing a fragrance by Mother's Day of next year.

Wedding bloggers, you've caught some major competition coming your way.

Vera Wang, the Queen B of all things delicate, romantic, and memorable in regards to wedding dresses, has just set-up shop over at Brides.com for a week as a guest blogger. On the temporary union, Brides.com editor-in-chief Michelle Preli, says: "It is an honor to align 'Wedded Bits' with Vera Wang, an innovator in the fashion world and driving force in the bridal design community."

We always love reading about a new "how-to" when it comes to make-up -- one never knows when she's going to learn a swell new trick. However, many make-up tutorials on the web are geared toward women with fairly light skin and large eyes, not toward Asian or African American. That's not to say they're not out there -- they're just a bit less prevalent.

Best known for her infamous tuna/chicken affair, singer-and-actress Jessica Simpson isn't what you'd call a culture vulture. However, in the wake of a few personal life snaffoos -- breakup with John Mayer and public sibling rivalry with Ashlee -- Jessica has apparently turned to art to help her make sense of it all.

Following trips to France and Italy, Jessica appears to have been bitten by the culture bug. For instance, on her fansite blog (sweetkisses.net), the perma-tan star took a break from her usual upbeat self-indulgence to offer a despondent-sounding reflection on the following Michaelangelo quote: "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."

(Angel in the marble, eh? Now tell me I'm not the only who sees a certain amount of irony in the collagen-lipped, fake tan celebrity's gravitation to a quote about sculpture. )

She writes: Sometimes we are all so afraid to be honest with ourselves because we know that honesty will lead us somewhere off the path of the life we've mapped out in our minds. Today, I challenge us to ask ourselves this... What if we allow our fear to provoke us into action? Can facing our fear be what walks us to somewhere better? I do not have your answers, but in the quest to find my own, I've discovered somewhere worth traveling to ...

Ugh! Spare us the sob story, would you?

I know that art can be edifying and yes, visiting Florence can certainly throw you for a loop, but I have to say, I think I definitely liked Jessica Simpson a lot more when she just stuck to schilling lip gloss and acne medicine.

[via Post Chronicle]

According to the New York Post, Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour has taken her discriminating sense of fashion and applied it to language. Just as Wintour has put the kibosh on celebrity designers in her magazine, she has put the kibosh on the word 'blog'. As Vogue gears up for its bright new media future, Wintour has run up against the net term. In her quest to avoid 'blog', she's even gone so far as to ask her staff to come up with a new term for the concept.

It's rare for me to agree with old Anna, but in this situation we're in lock step with one another. If you want to know why, it's the 'og' phoneme that really bugs me, not the blog itself.

So Anna, if your crackerjack staff comes up with something better, let me know.

[via New York Post]

We're always looking out for our playmates in the world of fashion and style blogging, and we were more than happy to fall upon Blog on the Cusp.

Blog on the Cusp is the blog of the store Cusp and from their HelloWorld post, they are intending to "give you the Cusp girls' perspective, courtesy of our store managers and employees, who are on the front lines of fashion and shopping trends. They can see a handbag obsession occurring the minute stock arrives in the warehouse." In case you didn't know, Cusp is the younger, hipper sibling of Neiman Marcus. It isn't any cheaper to shop there (i.e. this isn't an "outlet" or "seconds" store); it simply carries clothing and accessories that cater to a crowd that might think of Neiman Marcus as Their first store opened first in McLean, VA, then Century City, CA.

If you're taking a moment to escape the Holiday family hell that's happening in your living room (or maybe that's just at my house) by surfing the Internet, let me introduce you to new a blog that might be fun for you browse.

Free People, the unique, indie-spirited brand that's associated with boutiques like Anthropologie and Urban Outfitters, has a brand new blog (only two months old!) where the writers post about everything from apparel to hollywood. It's nice that they don't always try to push their own brand, too.