I’ve been writing about bloggers wearing red tights and red pants since February: What Wendy Wore: New York Fashion Week Fashion Bloggers Caught Red-Legged, Part I Fashion Bloggers Caught Red-Legged, Part II Fashion Bloggers Caught Red-Legged, Vintage Edition Fashion Bloggers Caught Red-Legged, Part III This Red-Hot Spring Trend Has Legs (Huffington Post) The trend has…
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I’m in a Rush Today
It’s been like 1982 around here because I can’t stop listening to Rush. “Subdivisions” sure rang true for me in high school. My best friend and I had crushes on Rush vocalist/keyboardist/bassist Geddy Lee. The bassists always get to me.
Syria Is in Vogue, Teen Blogger Is in Jail
I ripped out this small Reuters item from the New York Times on February 15, as a reminder that freedom of speech isn’t to be taken for granted: Syria: Teenage Blogger Sentenced to 5 Years A teenage blogger, brought into court chained and blindfolded, was sentenced Monday to five years in jail on charges of…
Random Nostalgia for Fake Lesbian Teens From Russia
Does anyone else miss t.A.T.u, the Russian pop duo who posed as lesbians, dressed like schoolgirls and made out on stage? No? I’m the only one? Fine! I’m not ashamed. I still listen to their two songs once in a while. I fondly remember their underwear-filled performance at the 2003 MTV Movie Awards. I bet…
Lady Gaga Gives Me Crazy Jewelry Ideas
Last year, I made myself a special set of rings to wear to a Lady Gaga concert. I’ve posted them before on this blog, but here’s another look at them just for the hell of it. After I saw the photos of Gaga’s egg-tacular entrance at the Grammys on Sunday, I kept thinking, “This reminds…
Crossing My Fingers for Eminem, Lady Gaga at Grammys
Someone asked me for my “girl and boy crushes” at the Fashion Group International Rising Star Awards lunch last month. You know you’re at a fashion event and not the Council on Foreign Relations when you’re asked that question. The query is practically mandatory among the stylish set now: “What do you do?” and “Who…
Spotted: My Birthday/Holiday Gift From MrB
Whenever I photograph a purse, I try to get one of the dogs to pose with it. The Prada bag that MrB surprised me with for my birthday/holiday gift last month is so big … … that it required the presence of both dogs! I was impressed that MrB was brave enough to manage another…
Fashion Repeats Itself: Maluca’s Floral Jacket
Singer Maluca sashays down the street with curlers in her hair in her El Tigeraso video, but the style statement that really caught my eye was her orange-red-floral-on-black jacket. The color and print reminds me of the ’80s shirt that I wore in October. Next time I wear that shirt, I’ll pop in some curlers…
Requiescat in Pace
When I mentioned early this month that my Google Reader is a virtual graveyard of dormant, deleted and defunct blogs, a couple of people wanted to know more about the deceased. If you want to place a virtual pebble on a virtual grave, here’s a partial list (some are not linked because the old links…
New York Style Icon: Post-Punk Scenester Anya Phillips
If you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time, you know that my jewelry designs are largely inspired by interesting historical women, including Cleopatra, Elizabeth I and Anne Boleyn. But I’m also fascinated by ladies of more recent vintage such as Sally Randall, the mid-’80s New York It girl whom I wrote about…