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Never underestimate the “I-can-change-the-world” optimism of a plucky college student with a dream.
Never underestimate the “I-can-change-the-world” optimism of a plucky college student with a dream.
I may be allergic to cats, but that hasn’t stopped me from pledging my undying love to Hello Kitty — after all, who can resists a sassy feline with a dashing bow?
With Baz Luhrmann’s Great Gatsby reboot proving to be box office gold, style aficionados are looking back nearly 100 years to the era when Art Deco architecture, interior design, and fashion reigned supreme: the 1920s.
Though he’s of Irish and British descent, footwear designer Liam Fahy has more than a passing acquaintance with southern Africa — in fact, he was born in Zimbabwe and spent much of his childhood living in a small snake farm within a suburb known for being a hub for creative sorts like sculptors, painters, textile weavers, and musicians.
Earlier this month, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City unveiled its highly anticipated exhibit “Punk: From Chaos to Couture,” which chronicles how the musical movement birthed in the mid-1970s came to influence youth culture and, later, high fashion.
Yesterday, I filmed a segment for Telemundo’s “Mujer de Hoy” in which I discussed how to look stylish throughout pregnancy and beyond.
Earlier today, I head down to ModaListas, the gorgeous boutique into the Limelight Shops, the church-turned-nightclub-turned-marketplace located in Manhattan’s Flatiron district, where we filmed a segment for Telemundo’s “Mujer de Hoy” centered on how to dress fashionably during pregnancy.
Sure, she nagged you about eating your vegetables, reminded you incessantly that she was neither a maid nor a short order chef, and monitored your every utterance in case a curse word slipped out, but she also cooked you chicken soup when you had a cold, kissed every scraped knee and tiny boo-boo, read your favorite bedtime story so many times she could recite it from memory, stitched up your favorite stuffed animal for the 100th time, cut the crust off your sandwich, drove you to ballet or baseball practice at obscenely early hours, and displayed every excellent report card or sports team trophy with the pride others would reserve for Nobel Peace Prizes.
We’ve all seen our fair share of trompe l’oeil tees — the one with a screen-printed skeleton, the tuxedo one, the one with a multi-strand pearl necklace, and so forth.
Last year, when its neon pink, orange, green, and yellow handbags became a must-have among urban trendsetters, the Cambridge Satchel Company experienced an unexpected tipping point moment.