Some people spend all year looking forward to the New York City Marathon, the Kentucky Derby, or Super Bowl Sunday — for me, that sort of anticipation is reserved for such epic events as the semi-annual Rebecca Minkoff Sample Sale, which kicks off on Monday, April 20th in New York City and Los Angeles, as well as on Tuesday, April 21st online at RebeccaMinkoff.com.
What happens when you combine the colorful, quirky, illustration-heavy aesthetic of Australian fashion brand Black Milk Clothing with Solestruck’s penchant for bold footwear silhouettes with audacious patterns and unexpected details?
Did you know that April 12ht through April 18th is unofficially known as National Library Day?
After a decade of living in New York City, you can pinpoint a plethora of peculiar (and almost entirely unpleasant) smells: roasted peanuts that are just on the verge of being burnt, dried-up urine (it’s the unofficial smell of every subway platform), garbage rotting in the summer heat, day-old fish and sewage (a Chinatown special), horse manure (thanks to the “romantic” horse carriage rides tourists take around Central Park), cheap incense being sold on the street, car exhaust fumes, sweat and musk inside taxicabs (often made worse when the driver refuses to wear deodorant!), burnt rubber (from car, bus, and motorcycle tires), cat litter inside bodegas, and so forth.
NARS Cosmetics Founder and Creative Director François Nars describes the hues in his Spring 2015 makeup collection as “disrobed tones,” colors that celebrate the beauty of going au naturel without losing sight of the bravery necessary to bare it all.
April showers may lead to May flowers, but they can also wash away all hope of donning a stylish ensemble since the need to dress practically in order to avoid being soaked can often overshadow the desire to flaunt a pretty new coat or dress.
Like I said in my latest Telemundo NY “Acceso Total” segment, Sleeping Beauty was one sly fox!
As a leader within the Impressionist movement, Claude Monet did more than capture the beauty of water lilies and poppy fields — he showed that great art didn’t have to consist of hyperrealistic still life and portrait pieces, made with precise and deliberate brush strokes.
It’s finally time to shed our winter exoskeletons — those heavy wool coats, chunky sweaters, turtlenecks, wool trousers, and thick tights that started feeling like a cumbersome part of our beings, a built-in armor against the bitter cold — and wouldn’t it be grand to reveal smooth and radiant skin (albeit a bit paler than usual) as opposed to scaly, flaky, ashy limbs?
The Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, which marks the official beginning of the outdoor music festival season, kicks off in exactly one week, which means it’s time to plan those outfits that will prove practical and comfortable but still channel the desired rocker-meets-Boho-meets-hipster vibe.
