It’s been a glorious month vacationing in France. I spent the first part of my trip in the Poitou-Charentes region frolicking in the sun, enjoying the outdoors and eating waaaay too much cheese and saucisson during apero with friends and family. I know I didn’t post as much as you’d expect but I was on […]

After spending two weeks in the French countryside in the Poitou-Charentes region, a week in Paris was well needed. T and I boarded the TGV for a two-hour ride to the Paris Montparnasse station. We were staying with friends so there was no need for a hotel stay.  I had an aggressive schedule of sites […]

Someone turn up Versace! Versace! by Migas because the Spring 2014 couture collection is on fire!  First of all those hooded looks are channeling Cleopatra/Queen of the Night or some exotic Glamazon and I LOVE it.  But I digress. The opulent Versace Haute Couture collection is going to flood red carpets starting this week and […]

Ralph Lauren plans to unveil his spring women’s collection on Sept. 12 during New York Fashion Week, in keeping with his usual show timing. And just weeks after, Lauren plans to stage a runway show on October 8 just after Paris Fashion Week at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, kicking off a two-year commitment to […]

Paris Haute Couture Fall 2013 kicks of this coming Sunday, June 30th, with a week of lavish pieces celebrities, royalty and those with disposable income will be donning this this autumn.

The Alexander McQueen fall 2013 collection might have been scaled down drastically due to creative designer Sarah Burton on maternity leave (she’s due any day now), but it didn’t stop the fashion house from churning out ten exquisite looks inspired by the Elizabethan period.  The confections of gowns, capes, shoes and accessories from this show […]

Remember those plaid grocery shopping carts that were a rage back in 2006-2007?  We still see the men hawking counterfeit goods in Chinatown storing their items in these bags.  Louis Vuitton even created an expensive version of these back in 2007.  Today, Céline reinterpreted these grocery bags once again in the form of coats and […]

Jessica Chastain’s Golden Globes look was “classic Hollywood meets new Hollywood.”  Makeup artist Kristofer Buckle’s inspiration for her beauty look was “water color as opposed to painting,” so he created washes of color instead of strong lines and shapes. Jessica wanted her lips to off-set the softness of her dress, so they decided on a […]

Just on the heels of fashion week comes news that Oscar de la Renta has hired John Galliano to join his studio.  Yes! Galliano, as in the former Christian Dior creative director who got booted out after a drunken anti-Semitic rant on the cobble stoned streets of Paris two years ago.  It’s been a battle […]

Quelle Dommage! Alexander McQueen will not be showing during Paris Fashion Week, reports Women’s Wear Daily today.  Why? Because Sarah Burton, it’s creative director, is pregnant with twins and will be on maternity leave.  Don’t fret though, a scaled down presentation will be held in the label’s Paris showroom for select editors.  Burton is due […]

Hedi Slimane chose an androgynous model to front his Saint Laurent Paris menswear campaign and instead of the usual suspect – ahem Andre Pejic – he plucked Chanel darling Saskia de Brauw as the face.   Of course no mere mortal man can fit into most of the slim cuts of trousers from the collection so […]

Jay-Z did what he promised to do in his single N*ggas in Paris, which was to move the New Jersey Nets to Brooklyn.  And as logic goes, you must change the name to the the city in which the team is housed.  To drill the point home, adidas Originals has created a Brooklyn Nets collection […]