• 13
  • Jun, 2012
Lady Gaga's Perfume Announced!
POSTED BY admin IN Culture
Lady Gaga Fame Perfume

Lady Gaga announced her new fragrance today via twitter after fashion editors had allegedly moved her deadline up my leaking photos of the much anticipated fragrance. The perfume is called Lady Gaga: Fame and is rumored to have deadly nightshade (one of the most poisonous plants in existence) as one of the main ingredients. According to [...]

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  • 01
  • Jun, 2012
Burning a Birkin Bag
POSTED BY David DeMille IN Culture
francesca-eastwood_birkin

Francesca Eastwood (Clint Eastwoods daughter) and her boyfriend Tyler Shields have received a great deal of controversy over their recent art collaboration in which they destroy a $100,000 Hermes Handbag with a chainsaw and gasoline. The pictures (below) came with the following message: "Destruction is a beautiful version of freedom… Would you want this bag? Are you [...]

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  • 16
  • May, 2012
Hotel Missoni: Designer Hotels Post #3
POSTED BY David DeMille IN Culture, Things We Love
Missoni Hotel exterior

I appreciate the history and culture of Missoni, but I have to admit that this was the post I was least looking forward to writing. Missonis over-designed prints, lack of structure, and the general lack of monochrome color palettes put their offerings out of my comfort realm. And although the color palettes are definitely not monochromatic, and there are [...]

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  • 14
  • Mar, 2012
Maison Moschino Hotel: Designer Hotels Post #2
POSTED BY David DeMille IN Culture, Things We Love
Maison-Moschino

Ever dreamed of sleeping in a ball gown or jumping into a pile of deserts? What about sleeping under a canopy of tree tops? Maison Moschino is the dreamland you never knew you wanted. The second post in my series on fashionable hotels and resorts, (see my first featured resort: Palazzo Versace) is all about [...]

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  • 07
  • Mar, 2012
Hedi Slimane Announced as Yves Saint Laurent Creative Director
POSTED BY David DeMille IN Culture
Hedi-Slimane-YSL

BREAKING: Yves Saint Laurent has confirmed rumors that Hedi Slimane will be taking over for Stefano Pilati as creative director for Yves Saint Laurent. Hedi Slimane is returning to the house where he was artistic director of Menswear until 2000. Hedi Slimane will also be continuing his photography work at the same time, which is not [...]

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  • 02
  • Mar, 2012
Palazzo Versace: Desinger Hotels Post #1
POSTED BY David DeMille IN Culture, Things We Love
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I've been obsessed with travel lately. Obsessed. The Palazzo Versace hotel, located on the Gold Coast in Australia,  has actually been on my travel list for a while now, but my curiosity got the better of me and I started cheating on Versace searching for other designer hotels and found more fabulous than I was [...]

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  • 17
  • Feb, 2012
How to Tie a Scarf: 16 Scarf Tying Techniques
POSTED BY David DeMille IN Culture, Things We Love
How to tie a scarf

We've decided to take a break from our normally scheduled programming of lectures on couture and introductions to small unheard of designers to bring you a fabulous video from www.nordstrom.com on how to tie four different scarves in sixteen different ways: Now, there are literally hundreds of ways to tie a scarf, and this isn't [...]

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  • 29
  • Aug, 2011
Hedi Slimane's Fashion Diary
POSTED BY David DeMille IN Culture, Fashion, Things We Love
Hedi Slimane Fashion Diary (10)

I've always been a fan of Hedi Slimane's extensive work and dedication to the fashion community as a whole, but looking back through at the archive of photos available on his fashion diary, I'm noticing just how influential he was in the fashion community (especially for men) and how much I miss his influence. Hedi [...]

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  • 17
  • May, 2011
Anna Wintour for Equality
POSTED BY David DeMille IN Culture, Things We Love
Anna Wintour for Gay marriage

Anna Wintour has come out in support of legalizing gay marriage because "The right to say I do, is as fundamental as the right to vote". Anna has influenced the decisions, designs, and culture of the fashion industry for years, and hopefully she can do the same for equality. You go Girl!

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  • 05
  • May, 2011
Savage Beauty: Alexander McQueen's Curation @ The Met
POSTED BY David DeMille IN Culture, Fashion, Things We Love
Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty (5)

The Metropolitan Museum in New York has curated pieces designed by Alexander McQueen from the last twenty years including pieces from his own label, as well as other labels like Givenchy Couture. Alexander McQueen has long been a favorite of ours for his edgy, and artistic pieces, as well as his theatrical runway performances, bad boy attitude, [...]

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