Glamour Girl
Oscars 2010
Well, it was the worst Academy Awards ceremony in memory—Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin bombed so badly and so often it was embarrassing (why didn’t they demand better writing?? Billy Crystal, please come back!!)—the musical dance number was a mess, the memorial tribute kept getting interrupted by bits of dialogue that were supposed to complement James Taylor’s singing…
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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 03/08/10 at 10:01 AM
Was going to post a snow fashion spread, trying to inject some humor into our horrid Snowmageddon of the past five days, but then I saw the sad news that designer Alexander McQueen has committed suicide. Such a tremendous talent, such a terrible waste. I remember buying a coveted pair of AQ shoes, which I still treat as…
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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 02/11/10 at 01:11 PM
The world of fashion is full of beauty, glamour, fantasy, bravado, and, let’s face it, bull***t. The pronouncements of a few supposed know-it-alls on what’s in and what’s out (a constantly changing proposition, of course, else how would anything sell?), the artistic claims, the preening, the prancing, the phoniness, the exaltation of the freakish, the strained explanations of…
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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 01/28/10 at 04:39 PM
Okay, Glamour Girl admits she was more interested in watching Cranford on PBS last night than the Golden Globes – awards ceremonies can be so tedious, even with the likes of funnyman Ricky Gervais hosting – plus she knew she could just wait until this morning to see the round-up of red carpet photos. So Cranford it was.
… morePosted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 01/18/10 at 10:35 AM
It’s a new year, a new decade, and a new beginning. Well, at least that’s what we con ourselves into believing. So along with the new (insane) flying procedures (a future post will deal with the fashion implications) and the new resolutions to eat right, get fit, learn more, do better, blah blah blah, we can also enjoy…
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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 01/07/10 at 09:38 AM
From the great Glen Hibline, illustrious illustrator and creative genius. Only in Baltimore, hon!
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 12/25/09 at 11:21 AM
Glamour Girl is thrilled, thrilled, thrilled that there’s apparently a new trend afoot (and ahead, and awaist, and ashoulder, and a—well, you get the idea) for men, specifically American men, to—gasp—dress like adults! Quelle concept! She is positively atwitter (no, not in that sense).
As she wrote about just recently, here, and here, and…
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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 12/19/09 at 11:38 AM
I wrote about the David & Goliath case of Colle vs. Chanel here, and about my impression of LV products here. Updates to both today.
First, Carmen Colle lost her counterfeit case against Chanel, but the couture house has been ordered to pay her 400,000 euros for breach of…
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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 12/15/09 at 07:17 AM
This is a smaller-than-life-size image of one of the pages in the book The Affected Provincial’s Companion, a compendium of—how to describe it?—aesthetic musings, sartorial suggestions, historical anecdotes, philosophical levity, personal tidbits, political implications, botanical info, witty illustrations, helpful diagrams, and general silliness. It’s the work of the sweetly twisted mind…
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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 12/09/09 at 03:05 PM
You know that photos in magazines are routinely retouched, don’t you? I’m not talking about news photos (although Errol Morris in the NYT did a fascinating study of Robert Fenton’s famous photos of the Crimean War, and proved that they had been “fixed,” as well as a series of Thought Experiments on photographs in general, but I digress). …
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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 12/04/09 at 05:26 PM
