This Season’s Yellow Plaid Fixation Has Clueless Fans Swooning

While plaid is a fall fashion staple, this year’s go-to color for the classic checkered print is much sunnier and lively than usual.
While plaid is a fall fashion staple, this year’s go-to color for the classic checkered print is much sunnier and lively than usual.
When it comes to fitness, there’s no such thing as a summer break — no matter the season, we all need to stay active and keep our bodies moving and grooving.
This weekend, in cities like San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Houston, Nashville, Cincinnati, Oklahoma City, and Seattle, members of the LGBTQ community will come together for their cities’ respective Pride parades, celebrations that seem all the more important during these turbulent times when so many politicians and lawmakers are trampling on the civil liberties of this very community.
Remember when Lara Flynn Boyle wore a pink tutu dress, along with pink heels that laced up to her knees, to the 2003 Golden Globes?
Maybe it was the frenzy over the total solar eclipse this August, the 2016 discovery of the exoplanet Proxima B, or the Star Wars franchise reboot, but fashion brands have turned their attention to not only our planetary system but the undiscovered wonders lurking in outer space.
It’s been a while since we’ve had a great trompe l’oeil moment in fashion — sure, it was cute when guys started sporting black T-shirts with screen-printed tuxedo graphics or, for that matter, when gals started rocking crewnecks printed with jeweled necklace motifs, but once these designs became ubiquitous, they lost the trickery element that made them special in the first place.
We often marvel at well-constructed garments, innovative silhouettes, and eye-catching design details, but how often do we really stop to think about the fabrics with which these pieces were made, about where they came from and how they were woven or dyed?
Whenever she stepped on a stage, salsa legend Celia Cruz gave us plenty of candela (meaning “fire” or “spark”) — and, 14 years after her passing, the Havana-bred singer is still considered the undisputed Queen of Salsa, her crown unreachable to even the most promising and ambitious talents.
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Regardless of who is occupying the Oval Office and whether you embrace liberal or conservative ideologies, the Fourth of July should be a day to set aside the subject matters that divide us, to shelf the political and ideological debates, and instead celebrate all the things that unite us — mainly, our love for this country.