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Contains colorful red & white checkered napkins and lobster boats for a festive picnic vibe. Available at PlumParty.com
- Lesley Scott
Fashiontribes Lobster Party Pack Fashion Parties & Entertaining Picnic Fashion Expert
Change the mood simply by changing shoes & accessories. From Shopbop & available through Glam.com
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Fashiontribes Glam.com, Glam Network Sundress Fashion Fashion Expert
From one of the most underrated labels on the planet. Available at Zappos.com
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Fashiontribes Costume National Shoes Fashion Cork Platform Fashion Expert
Handcarved with gold accents for maximum impact. Available at AlohaRag.com
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Fashiontribes Loree Rodkin Ring Fashion Jewelry Rock 'n Roll Jewelry Fashion Expert
Helps maintain chic'ness when sweltering temperatures set in. Available at JenniferOuellette.com
- Lesley Scott
Fashiontribes Beauty Jennifer Ouelette Fashion Hair Elastic Fashion Expert
The happy result of improving on a failed Nigella Lawson recipe. All the details are at Orangette.
- Lesley Scott
Fashiontribes Chocolate Malted Cupcakes Orangette Fashion Cupcake Recipe Dessert Fashion Expert
Probably the only t-shirt that comes with a warning label: "Wear at your own risk!" Available at Colette.fr
- Lesley Scott
Fashiontribes Atypyk Be Tough T-Shirt Fashion Pop Culture Fashion Expert
"Yes, people often spend more on their pet than on themselves,” says Nela Kash, president of the Cali-based Couture Accessories Inc, which does made-to-order color-matching with gold plating and fancy stone embellishment. “A pet collar or harness is a pet’s most fashionable statement showing the world just how pampered and stylish he is."
With an extensive catalogue of over 400 detailed photos, pet owners can select both the color-category of their pet and the stones - cut & polished real, semi-precious (a combination of agate, onyx, and jasper) or European faux - that best enhance Fido's or Kitty's beauty. Products are made from hand-stitched harness leather, similar to that used on horses, and robust custom-manufactured gold-plated rims that can stand up to most any pet roughhousing. A percentage of the proceeds are donated to animal shelters.
Get the goods at CoutureAccessories.com
- Lesley Scott
Fashiontribes Pet Accessories Couture Accessories Fashion Pet Style Fashion Expert
Made with an ash wood frame & cotton upholstery. Available at Overstock.com
- Lesley Scott
Fashiontribes Overstock.com Parsons Chair Fashion Home Decor Fashion Expert
Besides, who in their right mind can - or should - resist a nice, shiny set of knuckledusters, anyway? Available at Zappos.com
- Lesley Scott
Fashiontribes Jean Paul Gaultier Bag Fashion Tartan Knuckleduster Fashion Expert
The full skirt & exaggerated waist couldn't be cuter or more flattering. And paired with strappy metallic sandals? A Fashion knockout. Available at NeimanMarcus.com
- Lesley Scott
Fashiontribes Carmen Marc Valvo Strapless Sundress Fashion Fashion Expert
Valentino at Net-a-Porter.com
A fun, retro way to think about getting dressed is the old-school technique of matching of bag and shoes. But these days, they don't have to technically match. While white & black are classic choices, more offbeat - but equally as fun - options include metallics, florals, prints, and hues like lipstick red & muted green. The main thing is: as long as they look cool together, enjoy building entire fab ensembles around them.
Some shoe colors & options to pair with your white bag:
A super-affordable version of the right-now shoe - ShiekhShoes.com
Spiffy polka dots - the Carlen from NineWest.com
Classic black but still impeccably chic - Dries van Noten at MonaMoore.com
Christian Louboutin Metallic Gold Pump - NeimanMarcus.com
Marc by Marc Jacobs - Net-a-Porter.com
Guiseppe Zanotti - Zappos.com
Beverly Feldman "Palm East" - Dillards.com
Less expected: shades of green. Insight from ChineseLaundry.com
Stunning red pump by Pierre Hardy - PierreHardy.com
- Lesley Scott
Fashiontribes Fashion Podcast White Bag Fashion Shoes Fashion Expert
70s reminiscent - but in a really, really good way. Available at ShoeAddictShoes.com
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Fashiontribes Shoe Addict Shoes Rainbow Pumps Fashion Shoes Fashion Expert
Some online teen traffic stats from CNET:
But in a recent piece in YPulse.com, it could be that MySpace has run its "cool" course and is headed for has-been-land. Part of the problem is technical, such as shoddy IM'ing, which actually reflects a larger potential problem: becoming way too corporate. "How many marketing deals have they signed this year? You can tell where their priorities are right now, and it doesn’t seem to be the user experience. Maybe I’m picky. In my gut, I feel it’s risking going the way of Friendster."
Others, such as Max Valiquette, President of Youthography, a youth marketing and consultancy firm in Toronto are more ambivalent about the cross-roads of pop culture & marketing: “What's amazing is how quickly MySpace has gone from being this sort of authentic, user-created and user-managed website to a massive corporate shill. It's not that I mind - I'm just amazed, in that five or six years ago (at the height of No Logo mania) there would have been a massive backlash to this sort of direct corporate involvement. Now there isn't, and I am glad about that: truthfully, I think this is far more authentic, far more real, and makes the involvement of marketing in culture more overt, which is how we need to treat it.”
While research shows that online types don't mind being marketed to as long as it's something they actually want/need, overkill on sites like MySpace could make them increasingly susceptible to niche sites like Tagged.com, Bebo.com, and MyYearbook.com.
via YPulse.com
- Lesley Scott
(Illustration from aperfectworld.org) Fashiontribes Pop Culture Teens Online Fashion Expert
If your home truly reflects who you are, what do the following say?
Everyone's fave dictators are included: Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Tito, Mussolini, Mobutu, Idi Amin, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos. "York's hilarious profiles of 16 inner sanctums of the scary leaves no endangered tiger pelt unturned — each with their own uniquely frightful chic. An interior decorating book like no other, Dictator Style is a welcome tonic for a world in need of a good laugh at the expense of the all-powerful." Available at Amazon.com
- Lesley Scott
Fashiontribes Dictator Style Home Decor Skincare Fashion Expert
The newly-launched Leaf & Rusher Skincare is the brainchild of 90210 plastic surgeon Normal Leaf, and RN Rand Rusher - both of whom have put in years at clinics in Beverly Hills. Their comprehensive system is based on an easy-to-follow step-by-step process to perfect skin: - cleanse, tone, treat, moisturize, protect. The roller contains around 200 "micropoints" to increase absorption of vitamins, enzymes & lips. Available at SaksFifthAvenue.com
- Lesley Scott
Fashiontribes Leaf & Rusher Skincare Fashion Beauty Fashion Expert
Perfect for when company drops by...and ends up staying for breakfast. via Stylehive.com
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Fashiontribes Stylehive Barnard Vuarnesson Fashion Home Decor Fashion Expert
"I don't!" Available at MightyFlirt.com
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Fashiontribes Unwedding Ring Jewelry Fashion Accessories Fashion Expert
A breezy, chic way to accessorize during summer. At Neiman Marcus & available through Glam.com
- Lesley Scott
Fashiontribes Glam.com, Glam Network Juicy Couture Fashion Accessories Jewelry Charm Necklace Fashion Expert
All that's missing is the telltale red sole, but with all the money you'll have saved, who cares. Available at Bebe.com
- Lesley Scott
Fashiontribes Shoes Bebe Fashion Beauty Red Patent Peeptoe Skincare Christian Louboutin Fashion Expert
Burgundy & baby blue = delicious. Available at Nordstrom.com
- Lesley Scott
Fashiontribes Nike Merge Lift Watch Accessories Fashion Jewelry Fashion Expert
Comes with a moisturizing sunscreen, face cream & refreshing after-sun gel - all tucked into a chic bag. Available exclusively at Sephora.com
- Lesley Scott
Fashiontribes Korres Suncare Fashion Beauty Skincare Fashion Expert
I'm not sure which is better, the name - Pancake Meow - or the fact that you can customize the jewelry with your favorite filling, wire color, and even chocolate scent. Yum! Available at PancakeMeow.com via Slashfood.com
- Lesley Scott
Fashiontribes Pancake Meow Chocolate Jewelry Fashion Accessories Food & Cuisine Jewelry Gift Fashion Expert
A soft & elegant look that's pretty much seasonless. Available at UnsungDesigners.com
- Lesley Scott
Fashiontribes Scott Gibson NYC Black Dress Fashion Fashion Expert
Connecting Italy-lovers with their passions, DaVinci Capers: A Personal Renaissance Journey, offers week-long immersion programs which focus on cuisine, fine arts and language. To discover your own code to enlightenment, activities include:
“Leonardo shows us by example and through his writings, that to have fun learning and to spark our creativity, we must experience it," says Barbara Hardesty, founder of Da Vinci Capers. "In order to really experience an activity such as cooking, drawing, learning a language or writing, it is best to have an open mind and not to worry about the results.”
The 411 on the Da Vinci Capers for fall 2006:
All the info is at DaVinciCapers.com
- Lesley Scott
Fashiontribes Da Vinci Capers Tuscany Travel Fashion Fashion Expert
On artist grade canvas. Available at Overstock.com
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Fashiontribes Overstock.com Magritte The Son of Man Pop Culture Fashion Home Decor Gift Fashion Expert
Makes a great sunglasses case (about 4" x 7"). A portion of the proceeds go to the House Rabbit Society. Available exlcusively at FredFlare.com
Fashiontribes Amy Sedaris Pastry Pouch Pop Culture Fashion Accessories Gift Fashion Expert
Every Ambrosia bag begins life as a painting on canvas, which is then sewn into something functional. Available at UnsungDesigners.com
- Lesley Scott
Fashiontribes Ambrosia Bags Clutch Bags & Purses Fashion Accessories Fashion Trend Fashion Expert
Diane von Furstenberg at Net-a-Porter.com
Yes, all white is sweet-sweet-sweet. But to change things up, a full-skirted white dress just begs for a cropped knit top, especially in black with a pile of matching long necklaces. Vivid red kicks & bag add punch, while oversized Jackie O shades - in a dark color to play off the cardigan top - gives an air of high glamour.
Some black & red options to pair with a white frock:
Michael Kors cropped sweater from NeimanMarcus.com
Funky beads at UrbanOutfitters.com
Black with gold accents from Target.com
Jackie O-worthy oversized shade by Ralph Ralph Lauren at Nordstrom.com
DKNY Bridget at Zappos.com
Via Spiga Spruce from Zappos.com
Luella Joni bag from NeimanMarcus.com
Versace from eLuxury.com
- Lesley Scott
Fashiontribes Fashion Podcast White Dress Fashion Accessories Shoes Fashion Trend Bag Jewelry Fashion Expert
The unusual gradation on the heel is 100% gorgeous. Available at AlohaRag.com
- Lesley Scott
Fashiontribes Pierre Hardy Metallic Wedge Fashion Accessories Shoes Fashion Trend Fashion Expert
Just when you thought people couldn't get any more loopy about their pets. Also comes in a smaller version that can be attached to the pet's collar. Available at MyPetDMV.com - via ProductDose.com.
- Lesley Scott
Fashiontribes My Pet DMV Pet Driver's License Pop Culture Fashion Pet Shoes Pet Trend Gift Fashion Expert
Perfect for cabana chic or summer-themed entertaining. Available at Anthropologie.com
- Lesley Scott
Fashiontribes Anthropologie Starfish Tealight Fashion Home Decor Gift Parties + Entertaining Fashion Expert
What started as the humble concession stand of a Russian-Jewish immigrant at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair eventually grew to become the cosmetics dynasty of Max Firestein, aka Max Factor, Sr. The former makeup artist to the Royal Russian family, Sr. - evenually joined by son Frank who later changed his name to Max Factor, Jr. - were innovators in the feature film industry of the early 1900s, developing alternatives to grease paint for on-camera makeup. A staple in most every actresses kit by the mid-1920s, the Factors went on to develop a version that everyday women could wear, which they did - by the gazillions. By the time he passed away in 1938, Sr. was at the helm of a vertible empire.
Fifty odd years later, his great grandsons Dean & Davis started SmashBox Studios and Cosmetics, with testing done on makeup artists and employees instead of animals. In fact, their commitment to social responsibility is an admirable way-of-life choice, rather than just a marketing gimmick. And their products have achieved cult status amongst makeup artists, beauty insiders & normal chicas alike.
Read all about it at BeverlyHillsPeople.com
- Lesley Scott
Fashiontribes Bevery Hills People SmashBox Dean & Davis Factor Max Factor Fashion Beauty Fashion Expert
Started in Finland & now based in design-mecca Amsterdam, FOC is a key insider player in the development not just of commercial product designs, but also new industrial materials, and production techniques which eschew traditional notions of product assembly & storing of inventory. via Stylehive.com
- Lesley Scott
Fashiontribes Freedom of Creation (FOC) Design Trends Pop Culture Fashion Stylehive Fashion Trend Fashion Expert
