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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Isn’t it amazing how this Paco Rabanne jacket from 1967 still looks fashion-forward? I would love to wear it. It would be perfect with jeans and a black t-shirt. What can I say? The year 1967 produced all kinds of stylish things … like me!

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Monday, April 2, 2012

I like to watch music videos while I’m at the gym. Isn’t that quaint? MTV doesn’t play many music videos these days. I remember when it did. The first video the network aired when it debuted right after midnight on August 1, 1981, was “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Buggles. The Buggles need [...]

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Thursday, March 15, 2012

The Wall Street Journal has a story headlined, “Very Bright Lipstick, All the Time.” In it, Elizabeth Holmes writes: “In the beauty world’s eternal cycle between eyes and lips, it’s lipstick’s moment. Many women are adopting a signature standout lipstick color—bright red, rich coral, vivid pink—to wear day or night with everything in their closet.” [...]

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Sunday, May 15, 2011

A gorgeous blogger sent me a link to this vintage suit by Jean-Louis Scherrer ages ago, and suddenly the page is popping up in my browser all the time. I take that as a sign that the suit desperately wants to appear on my blog. The ruffle at the bottom kills me! I remember Scherrer [...]

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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

I was excited to see Tron: Legacy-inspired light sandals by Edmundo Castillo in the New York Times on Sunday. This year was a banner one for light-up clothing. Singer Katy Perry’s multicolor CuteCircuit gown was my favorite fashion statement at May’s Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Christina Aguilera’s electric crotch at [...]

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

In the early ’80s, there was a brief fad for vintage-style hobble skirts, which are so narrow that one can only take tiny steps. The term “hobble skirt” was first used in the early 1900s to describe designs by Paul Poiret. (Nowadays, we’d say we were dressing “steampunk.”) I remembered the hobble skirts last Tuesday [...]

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Monday, November 29, 2010

An event that is near and dear to my heart took place last Tuesday: the annual International Press Freedom Awards Dinner for the Committee to Protect Journalists. The dinner honors journalists from around the world who risk their lives to report from war zones and in defiance of brutal regimes.  MrB is coming to the [...]

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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Back in the ’80s, Absolut Vodka did ads that were so fabulous that we used to rip them out of magazines and tape them to our college-dorm walls. In 1985, Andy Warhol participated in an art-themed series of ads. Absolut launched a fashion series in 1988 with a custom-designed dress by David Cameron. I know [...]

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Monday, February 8, 2010

This might come as a shock to some of you no one, but I like to break the rules. That’s because a lot of rules are not hard-and-fast rules at all, but misinterpreted suggestions or theories. One of those is the need for eight glasses of water a day. Not true. Feel free to go [...]

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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Up!

I meant to take lots of photos at my pop-up shop yesterday, but I was too busy. Right before I closed, I remembered to take an outfit photo. The dress is a vintage Jacques Tiffeau. The shoes are by Yves Saint Laurent and are a few years old — the only YSLs that have ever [...]

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