Holiday Gift Guide Part I — Quirky and Perky Finds for Fun-Loving Gals
Christmas is coming!
Christmas is coming!
Though typically associated with high school jocks, disheveled college kids, gym rats, and bummy couch potato types, sweatshirts will no longer be relegated to the bottom of the fashion pyramid.
Watching London-based Greek fashion designer Mary Katrantzou rise to darling status within her milieu has been a rewarding experience in that it showed that the cream truly does rise to the top, that talented forces don’t have to live in obscurity, only to be recognized after death.
Ever marveled at the three-dimensional holograms displayed in films like Star Wars and Iron Man? Have you speculated about how the Enterprise’s transporter in Star Trek managed to convert people into energy patterns, then beamed them to different locations?
Yesterday was a crazy day, one filled with deadlines, press appointments, and parenting obligations.
So what if you never made your school’s JV volleyball, track, basketball, or lacrosse teams?
News flash: few celebrities actually have an innate sense of style.
I’ve never been a huge fan of Halloween — first, there’s the fact that I’m a scaredy cat (for me, watching a horror movie is akin to water torture); second, I always dread the slew of pranks that occur on Halloween evening (lawns being covered with toilet paper, cars and houses coated with smashed eggs, the firecrackers shoved into people’s mailboxes and so forth); and I really take issue with the number of absolutely scandalous costumes worn by tween and teen girls (the sexy kitty and sexy bunny ensembles have gotten out of control and now, of course, there’s the Miley- Cyrus- at-the-VMAs costumes that are soaring in popularity this year).
If you’re a fashion lover, a social activist, a champion of global commerce, or a die-hard U2 fan, chances are that, by now, you have than a passing acquaintance with EDUN, the clothing line Bono co-founded with his wife Ali Hewson in 2005.
Five years ago, “it” girl Blake Lively wore a figure-hugging Herve Leger bandage dress on Season 2 of Gossip Girl — on the fourth episode, to be exact, in a scene where Lively’s character, Serena van der Woodsen, attempted to make ex-boyfriend Dan Humphrey jealous after becoming privy to his flirtations with the newest female Constance student, Amanda.