Archive for December, 2008
Marc Jacobs Dresses for Holiday Parties
Submitted by Fashion Week News Blog
We absolutely love this first dress by Marc Jacobs. It’s an asymmetric heart dress that would make a great choice for a New Year’s Eve Party! It’s flirty and fun
This number is a classic and appropriate for more formal holiday parties. Add some fun, colorful accessories (earrings, shoes, purse, shawl) [...]
Holiday Tops for the Divas…
Submitted by Off the Cuff Style
This Cross-Over Top made for my niece Willow, will be perfect during the holidays…and the winter beyond. Made from cotton/lycra knit, it features an embroidered snowflake on the shoulder.
SEWING NOTES: Ottobre Design pattern, #29 from issue 01/05..that I modified slightly. Shoulder seams stabilized with PRO-SHEER ELEGANCE Fusible Interfacing
from Fashion Sewing [...]
Vogue Tops Condé Nast’s List as Most Profitable Magazine
Submitted by Fashion Week News Blog
From today’s Page Six:
IT’S another year at the top of Condé Nast for Vogue. Industry sources told Page Six that Anna Wintour’s style bible “was the most profitable magazine in the company this year” - a stat that’s based on overall earnings. Vogue held the spot last year as well, [...]
Respect My Mind…Screw the rest
Written by Michael Vass
Young, old, or inbetween every woman has a mind. Latina, Black, and/or White every woman deserves respect.
At M V Consulting, Inc. we know this firsthand. Mothers, daughters, wives, and every woman on the face of the planet were on our mind when we were thinking of an image that could convey all [...]
Holiday Party: DNKY Slinky Party Dress and Marc Jacobs Gold Pumps
Submitted by Fashion Week News Blog
It’s the holiday season, and we all know what that means: holiday parties! What better way to get into the holiday party spirit than shopping for the perfect party outfit? Here’s a little number that’s particularly fun:
First we have a tiered silk DNKY tank dress:
Paired with some Marc by Marc [...]
Perfect party dresses for under £100!!
Submitted by Brittique Blog
Don’t think you get buy a designer party dress for under £100? Think again! Introducing Tofu. New to Brittique Tofu offer feminine frocks with personality - and for a very good price. All the perfectly pretty party dresses above are under £100. The only dress that’s more is the one featured in [...]
Reminder: Stockings & Stilettos San Francisco Shopping Event
Submitted by Fashion Week News Blog
Filed Under Appel & Frank, Fashion Finds
Appel & Frank Shopping Event: Stockings & Stilettos in San Francisco on Thursday, December 11, 2008.
It’s time to start shopping for the holidays! Find fabulous gifts at discounted prices!
Enjoy COMPLIMENTARY wine from Seven Daughters. Take advantage of Epi Center MedSpa’s make-overs, brow shaping, oxygen [...]
Great knits and fab fringed boots
Submitted by Brittique Blog
As Metro said today, those of conservative disposition, look away: this knitwear is for rockers - and boots too! If you picked up a copy of the London commute essential, you would have seen the fab jumpsuit by Cooperative Designs. We just got this in last week and are awaiting the [...]
Always check your gauge
Submitted by Brittique Blog
Every knitter’s nightmare - you spend hours, weeks, months knitting away at a garment with a vision of how the finished jumper/vest/sweater will look. You take it off the needles and - voila! - it’s too big or small. This just happened to me. I even knitted a gauge swatch and [...]
Anna Wintour Claims to Not Be Leaving Vogue
Submitted by Fashion Week News Blog
“I have no plans to leave American Vogue now or in the foreseeable future.”
Despite recent headlines, Anna Wintour claims to not be leaving Vogue. Not only is Wintour now dismissing the reports, but S.I. Newhouse — the Condé Nast chairman who was said to be meeting with French Vogue’s Carine [...]
Hemp Shirt…by Client Request
Submitted by Off the Cuff Style
Recently I was discussing a client’s wardrobe needs. He told me about a favorite shirt that he has had for many years that is now nearly in shreds. He asked if I would design a similar style, this time from hemp. This shirt is the result…
…its slightly rumpled “distressed” look [...]
Is Vogue’s Anna Wintour Being Ousted ?
Submitted by Fashion Week News Blog
This is the latest according to Gawker:
“The Waverly Inn was crawling with Condé Nast insiders earlier tonight, some of whom had been waiting as long as 20 years for the appetizer: The hot, delicious rumor that Si Newhouse was meeting in Paris with Carine Roitfeld to work out the final [...]
It’s tea time!
Submitted by Brittique Blog
Google kindly email me notifications of all blogs and websites that link to Brittique. I check them all and enjoy discovering new blogs who have discovered Brittique. Recently a blogger had linked to the new Emma Cook collection and commented on all the items she wanted.
When I read through the blog [...]
Deliciously dapper gents
Submitted by Brittique Blog
Dressing a man is really hard work. I discovered this first hand recently when I grew weary of my man’s wardrobe which was far too heavy on work wear and Abercrombie casuals.
First up, where do you actually go? There’s the High Street but I generally have issues with the cut, quality and [...]
