Thursday, May 17, 2012
Disco diva and five-time Grammy winner Donna Summer has died of cancer at the way-too-young age of 63. In 1979, all the 12-year-olds like me AND our parents were happily singing “Toot toot, ahhhh, beep beep!” along with her song “Bad Girls,” which was about prostitutes. Good clean family fun! My best friend and I [...]
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Gorgeous designer/blogger Stacy Lomman presented her Fall 2012 collection on February 16. The “Modern World” looks of this collection — her fourth — were inspired by ’60s Mod, especially Courrèges, who is a longtime fashion hero of Stacy’s. But the styles weren’t costume-like or vintage-looking. They’re modernized Mod, if you will. Here, let Stacy tell [...]
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Gorgeous blogger and jewelry muse Marian Kihogo let me know that a picture taken of her wearing my jewelry during New York Fashion Week was featured on Essence.com. She looks regal, like always! While searching for Marian’s picture, this photo of blogger Sai Sankoh jumped out at me. This has got to be one of [...]
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Friday, February 24, 2012
My designing friend Zang Toi‘s lucky number is 13, so he schedules his runway shows for the thirteenth of the month whenever he can. Sure enough, he showed his black, white and red Gstaad-inspired collection at Lincoln Center on February 13 in the early afternoon. When this gown — which reminded me of a hanbok [...]
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Friday, October 7, 2011
The musically talented but otherwise insufferable Kanye “Gay Fish” West showed his first line of women’s clothing in Paris on Saturday, earning reviews such as “Good thing Kanye West has a day job.” I’ve become inured to random-ass celebrities who deem themselves qualified to launch clothing and jewelry lines to great fanfare just because they’ve [...]
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Monday, September 19, 2011
She did it again! Blogger/designer Stacy Lomman raised enough money on Kickstarter to show her third collection under her own name. Her “Biohazard” collection for Spring 2012 was presented on Friday at The Cutting Room, accompanied by a live performance by New Wave Solar Powered Robots. The show was all about tough clothes for perilous [...]
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
My designing friend Zang Toi had his North Africa-inspired Spring 2012 show yesterday at Lincoln Center. I am madly in love with the model who opened the show — Georgie Badiel of the Muse agency. She came out wearing Zang’s strapless linen jumpsuit with a matching coat that was bordered with 23K gold leaf. She [...]
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Nearly one year ago, I wrote about crowdfunding site Kickstarter for the Independent Fashion Bloggers website. Kickstarter provides a platform for would-be entrepreneurs to announce a project, set a target financial goal and a target date for raising that sum, then solicit pledges that are processed via Amazon. The donors’ accounts aren’t charged unless the [...]
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Thursday, March 31, 2011
Gorgeous blogger and clothing designer Stacy Lomman presented her Fall/Winter 2011 collection yesterday and it was spectacular! Her Spring 2011 collection of glamorous cocktail dresses was fabulous, but this sportswear-oriented season was even more impressive. Here’s Stacy’s description of her collection: “Fall 2011 glamorizes and romanticizes the bold and fearless women of the French Resistance [...]
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