Glamour Girl
Vasarri—Retirement/Store Closing Sale
One of the premiere shops in the Baltimore area—Vasarri in Pikesville—is going out of business. After 12 years, owner and shopkeeper extraordinaire Gail Kandel is retiring.
And to thank her customers and bid adieu, she is offering a knock-out liquidation sale beginning Wednesday, August 25th, at 9 a.m. Yep, you heard that right—9 in the morning. …
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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 08/21/10 at 11:32 AM
Well, it’s a good thing Glamour Girl has low blood pressure, because between the heart-racing prompted by the Subversive Toiles yesterday and the discovery of this auction today, she is about ready for a coronary à la Roger Sterling (though not as suave, to be sure).
As I wrote last year,…
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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 08/14/10 at 07:06 AM
Okay, I am totally stealing this idea from my friend Meg Fairfax Fielding, who does the beautiful blog Pigtown Design. But I love toiles so much that when I saw her latest post, I started oohing and aahing, and was reminded of my lifelong attachment to these whimsical, elegant, light-hearted prints that work…
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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 08/11/10 at 04:13 PM
Can’t remember now why I didn’t write about this last year, when the film first came out. But better late than never.
Sara Ziff is a fulltime student at Columbia University, but she still finds time to model once in a while, as long as it doesn’t interrupt her studies. This schedule is…
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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 08/06/10 at 06:39 AM
Interesting controversy going on at Essence Magazine. The 40-year-old publication, marketed primarily to black women, has just appointed a new Fashion Director. Her name is Ellianna Placas. She’s from Australia. And she’s white.
Though Placas has apparently been working behind the scenes at Essence for the past six months, many readers—and staffers—feel betrayed…
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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 07/30/10 at 02:22 PM
Whatever names we may throw around when talking about designers today – Chanel, Lagerfeld, Ungaro, Armani, Givenchy, Gaultier, Dior – our memories tend to go back only so far. Though the names of many venerable houses still exist, even if their founders do not, some tend to get lost in the fray. Even some that were the ne…
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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 07/21/10 at 08:05 AM
The other day, the Sun published an article by Jill Rosen dubbed “The Young and the Dressed Less” (I know, very clever—hats off to Jill for that!) about the stupefyingly bad choices interns are apparently making in what they wear to work. I know I shouldn’t be surprised by this stuff…
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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 07/16/10 at 02:50 PM
“The calla lilies are in bloom again.” Thus spake Katharine Hepburn in the 1937 movie Stage Door.
But I’m not talking summer here. I’m talking fall and winter. Specifically, the Christian Dior Autumn/Winter 2010/2011 Haute Couture show in Paris.
Thanks to the feminine and sometimes kooky genius of designer John Galliano, the show was awash in color. …
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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 07/07/10 at 09:08 AM
Truly, I ask you—have you ever seen anything so hideous in your life??
They are apparently called Jeggings—neologism coined from “jeans” and “leggings”—ha ha, right?—though I can’t think of anything to call them but ugly. Nothing says ‘stripper-chic’ like these things, especially in this come-hither ad from (the otherwise delightful) lingerie emporium As the late, great Alexander McQueen showed in his Spring/Summer show, ditto several other designers, including Albert Kriemler of Akris, fashion plus technology is a match made in heaven. That beautiful,…
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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 06/22/10 at 08:12 PM
This dress is from the Akris Spring collection:
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 05/25/10 at 10:18 AM
