Weekly Web Snob Roundup: The Best Posts of the Week from Our Fave Online Fashion & Lifestyle Publishers. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG

FASHION:

• Whether you're feeling Afro Love, Downtown Doll, Fancy Flirt, Global Chic or Rock Punk...the new spring issues of the Fashiontribes magazines are finally live!
• Papierblog looks at the trending toward black for the Spring season.
• The list is in! StyleBakery.com lists the hottest emerging designers and independent online boutiques for spring.

MEN'S FASHION:

• Work it the 80s Preppy/New Wave Way a la Balenciaga. [Fashiontribes Fellow]

BAGS, SHOES & ACCESSORIES:

• Bag Snob picks the best of Jil Sander's Spring 2007 bags!
• Coquette highlights the colorful shoes of Poetic License that shouts spring is here!
• Designer inspiration or a coincidence. EBelle5 discovers the similarities between Forever21 and the Mulberry Emmy Handbag.
• Find out why dirty underwear is the best place to hide your valuables. [Styleaholics]
• Stylebites shares 5 super tips to getting the most from your handbag collection.
• Read the Stylehive interview with rocker Rusty Pistachio of PNUT jewelry, who designs edgy metal jewelry that has become a fav of celebs.
• The Jewelry Weblog says let's hop onto some cute Easter jewelry as well as a good cause.
• “San Tropez” Juicy Couture Shoes help you get your spring break on, sans breaking your AmEx. [Kristopher Dukes]

BEAUTY:

• La Mer is La Creme de la Creme. [FabSugar]
• Check out Second City Style Interview With Celebrity/Fashion Manicurist, Deborah Lippmann.
• Products that help you Avoid Blisters. [SheFinds]

 
 
 
LIFESTYLE:

• Enjoy the Kentucky Derby That Much More by Staying Like a Local. [The Travel Snob]
• Girlawhirl Gift Guide: great gifts for spring holidays.
• Good-For-You Chocolate from Hershey's. [The Sweet Life]

- Lesley Scott

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The Spring Issue of the Fashiontribes.com Magazines are Live! FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG

The spring issue of the various Fashiontribes magazines are now live at their new home on Moli.com!  Chockful of fun & fabulousness, check them out at Moli.com/Fashiontribes!

- Lesley Scott

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Valentine's Day Prompts and Props (and SNAPS) from The Sweet Life:Fashiontribes Sweet Life Blog!

Need more inspiration for Valentine's Day? Check out The Sweet Life blog for more yummy gift & food ideas. You will be drooling when you check out the goodies from Quady Winery, Dancing Deer baking company, Recchiuti Confections, and more from The SWEET LIFE BLOG

Quady winery Deviation dessert wine:

fork me, spoon me aphrodisiac cookbook:

Randy Fuhrman's brownies:

Dancing Deer valentines baking

Recchiuti chocolate:

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You also gotta look good for your Valentine date, so check out the clean, organic skin care line from Suki:

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For Last Minute Holiday Ideas, Check out the December Fashiontribes Magazines. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG

Afro Love For stylish boho types into everything from Missoni to Make-a-Wish, handily blending high fashion and social consciousness.

Downtown Doll Fun fashion'y fabulousness for cutting-edge cuties and artistes who crave cocktails, culture & the classics.

Fancy Flirt Calling all social butterflies who excel at the sport of shopping.

Global Chic Glamourous globetrotters and conoisseurs of timeless style with a serious jones for accessories.

Rock Punk Musical maniacs and punk princesses with a love of the nightlife and non-conforming.

Some highlights from the current issue of Fashiontribes.com:

Entertaining & gift giving:

- holiday entertaining tips from the pros
- Oxfam's gifts that do good
 - gilded gifts
- a chocolate fantasia
- perfect Christmukkah decor
- showstopping appetizers
- hassle-free holiday entertaining...online
- once upon a time
- gifts for a movie buff
- tips on charitable holiday giving
- throw a Bad Taste holiday party
- entertain with the Punk Rock vegan chef, Joshua Ploeg

Getting gorgeous:

- evening ensembles with an edge
- dazzle 'em with your holiday makeup
- the secrets of shimmery holiday gorgeousness
- an exotic vacation in your tub
- a bounty of fashion "riches"
- shop 'til you drop...and then some
- the season's best fashion trends
- an interview with Lipgloss & Black
- Heidi Minx & Whiteboy
- Betsey Johnson does perfume
- prince-ly pampering for pooch

Cool kid stuff:

- Great gifts for babies & kids
- rockin' kids threads
- at-home globetrotting with your tot
 - Operation Christmas Child

Great getaways:

- destination South Beach
 - sunworshipping in Portofino
- adventures in Auckland
- beautiful Belize

- Lesley Scott

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Weekly Web Snob Roundup: What's Fab in the Fashion Blogosphere this Week. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG

One of my fave pix of yours truly with my mom, Mary Jo Scott, on one of our annual trips to fun places like Burma, Tasmania, Uzbekistan, the Inca Trail, Tanzania, Nepal, New Zealand, camel trekking in Morocco, Easter Island - this one was taken when we were sailing around the various islands of Indonesia. She died of breast cancer in 2004.

It's breast cancer awareness month. As someone who lost their nearest & dearest friend/pal/confidante/travel companion - my mom, Mary Jo Scott - to this dreadful disease, it turned out that those ads are sadly right: breast cancer touches all of us, whether or not we are actually diagnosed with the disease. Visit BCRFCure.org, the foundation started by Estee Lauder, to find out ways to help & various beauty products which are donating proceeds to the fight.

Alternatively, click on this banner to visit The Breast Cancer Site, where simply clicking on the "Fund Free Mammograms" button help provide screening to all women, regardless of financial circumstance.

And on to the weekly Web Snob roundup of what's worth checkin' out on these fab online publishers:

  e Beauty Daily shows how to help in the fight, by participating in a new fundraising & educational program launched by the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
Design your likeness onto chic stationary, notecards & e-cards from Design-Her Gals like Second City Style did, and know that part of the proceeds from your order is helping to raise funds & awareness for Stage 4 breast cancer patients.

Act now or forever hold your peace (until next holiday season that is) to lay hands on Bobbi Brown's stunning limited edition holiday collection advises Beauty Addict.
Time to steal dad's Oxfords out from under him, or get your own pair is the word from Trashionista, who's loving the version that's made for chicks.

  It's the October edition of the Massclusivity Watch by Aesthetics + Economics, which info on Thakoon for Ninewest, Viktor & Rolf for H&M, Roland Mouret for Gap, and oh so much more.
  Zac Posen bags reports Fab Sugar! Beloved by the likes of Mischa Barton & Rachel Bilson & completely covetable.

  Watches from Piaget's Miss Protocol Collection don't get much more glamorous says The Jewelry Weblog.

Style Bites shares the secrets to high fashion on a low budget.

The Bag Snob girls are drooling over lux crocs & lush suede bags from the Dior Spring 2007 collection.

The new red lip trend: strong, chic & easily wearable says The Beauty Newsletter.

  Instead of a bum deal, Girlawhirl shows how to give your rear a boost, and save 20% in the process!

Your trusty Fashiontribes.com gang was busy launching the October issue of the tribe mags. What's your Fashion Personality?

- Lesley Scott

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Chic is as Chic Does, as the Global Chic Tribe is Well Aware. The New Issue of Fashiontribes.com is Live! FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG

The latest issue of the blogger-written & -edited Global Chic Magazine is up. Some of the highlights:

• This fall, the ballsy fashionista will at least try some Balenciaga'esque volume in her wardrobe says Trisha Okubo of Omiru: Style for All.
• Show up fashionably late, advises Global Chic Editor, Tia Walker of The Quest for "it", in a chic & bejeweled timepiece by Meyers.
• NARS transcends trends with a new Ultramodern Collection.
• Girlawhirl finds little treasures that make life that much more fabulous, and takes a tour through an impossibly chic Parisian fleamarket.
• Dessert wine 101 & some delish fruit-based desserts for additional fabulousness.
• Before dinner - or during - try a chic & earth-friendly Chardonnay.
• Gwen Stefani starts her mini-me Kingston out down the road to Style (with a capital S)  with a new line of children's wear.
• Small in age, maybe, but huge at the box office.
• Bad hair days needn't ruin your look at the dog run. Pet maven Julia Szabo of Animal House Style has the solution.
• amFAR rocks against AIDS

- Lesley Scott

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The October "Spooky" Issue of the Five Fashiontribes Magazines is Live! FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG

Five fashion "tribes" = five different fashion personalities & lifestyles.

From fashion, to beauty, to lifestyle, home decor, travel, entertaining, and even wine & pets, in the five different Fashiontribes.com magazines, we do our best to find the coolest stuff out there and then customize everything for each tribe.  And starting with this month's issue, each magazine now has its very own Executive Editor!

Some highlights from the brand spankin' new October issue:

• In the Afro Love magazine, editor Emily Wall has rounded up the latest on fashion with a conscious, interesting social issues, and everyday mesmerizing maquillage. Additionally, enjoy a warm bowl of soup, while catching up on the further adventures of the blogger riding through China on a tricycle.

• Sandra Mendoza-Daly of Debutante Clothing has ferreted out the best beauty Tricks & Treats for Downtown Dolls, as well as fall indie fashion finds, cute baby togs, the low down on where Old Hollywood goes to die - and travelling the world...from the comfort of the couch.

•  Fancy Flirts will enjoy the fashionable fruits of Stevie Wilson's industriousness from chic black for your crib, to the best beauty finds, shopping choices and where to head in Nantucket when wanderlust hits.

• White chocolate raspberry parfait. Mmmmmm....Other tasty tidbits that Tia Walker of The Quest for "it" gathered up in Global Chic: snazzy bejeweled timepieces, a jaunt through a Parisian fleamarket, the sweetest beauty finds, and the inside dish on Gwen Stefani's new baby line.

•   If sugary-sweet costumes for Halloween make you cringe, perhaps some Black Death Jell-O shots are more your speed. Other fab finds in the Rock Punk magazine: gargoyles, what rockin' black eyeliner & 80s icon Tiffany have in common, fashion in black & white, an animated fashionista with major attitude, and livin' large & loud in bangin' Berlin.

As always, a huge shout-out to Shelley Gottschalk of See-Thru Design who make the mags come to life & look fab!

- Lesley Scott

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FASHIONTRIBES ASK THE CHIEF: When Global Chic Steps Out in Style this Fall, Which is the Right Boot? The Chief of the Tribe Advises. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION & SHOE BLOG

(Apepazza Flute Boot - Nordstrom.com)

Dear Chief: I’ve been searching for the perfect pair of fall boots with no luck. I know exactly what I want; knee-length, fall colors, not too painful. I just can’t seem to find it anywhere. Any ideas? – These Boots Are Made For Walkin’

How, Walkin':  The perfect fall boot, Young Stylista? Look for a stylish wedge in a rich espresso hue with interesting details like buckles and lacing. And remember...stay fabulous!

– The Chief

Yay! After Much Too Much Time, the Brand Spankin' New - & Blogger Written! - Issues of the Fashiontribes Magazines Fall 2006 Fashion Issues are Live. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG & PODCAST

PODCAST: Yay! After Much Too Much Time, the Brand Spankin' New - & Blogger Written! - Issues of the Fashiontribes Magazines Fall 2006 Fashion Issues are Live. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG & PODCAST - MP3 File

Drumroll please...the blogosphere has spoken & the five Fashiontribes magazines are live & smokin'! Just in time for the upcoming Fashionweek, we've got everything you want to know about to kick off the new season in high style. From Afro Love, to Downtown Doll, Fancy Flirt, Global Chic & Rock Punk... many of your fave bloggers participated in this massive relaunch of the magazines, and the contributor roster is a veritable who's who of the blogosphere:

Fashion & Beauty:

• Beauty Buzz
• The Quest for It
• DebutanteClothing
• Beauty Addict
• Stylehive
• Ask Fashion Kitty
• Top Button
• The Beauty Newsletter
• Styleaholics
• HippyShopper
• I Am Pretty NYC
• Shopaholics Anonymous
• Omiru: Style for All
• Confessions of a Beauty Addict
• Miss Meghan
• The Manolo
• California Style
• Second City Style
• Bagtrends
• Counterfeit Chic
• Clothes-Pin Blog
• Zuburbia
• Teen Fashionista

Lifestyle:

• Celebrity Baby Blog
• design*sponge
• Girlawhirl
• Pet maven & author Julia Szabo
• Mommies With Style
• Becks & Posh
• My Retro Baby
• Domestik Goddess
• Punk Rock Baby
• Stylebytes
• The Thrifty Decorating Blog

Pop Culture & Travel:

• Treehugger.com
• Open All Night
• I'm Not Obsessed
• Friend in My Head
• Pop Culture Whore
• GenDigital
• Nerd's Eye View
• Woman Traveler
• Short Cut - a European City & Travel Blog
• China Wheelie

Check it all out at Fashiontribes.com!

- Lesley Scott

Calling Global Chic Goddesses: Check out the latest issue of the Fashiontribes Global Chic Magazine, up in Time for the New Season! Check out The Manolo, The Quest for It, Girlawhirl, GenDigital, a host of A-list bloggers. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG

The newly relaunched Fashiontribes Global Chic Magazine was written & created by bloggers! From fashion to beauty to lifestyle, here are some highlights:

• The Manolo predicts dark & stormy shoe weather ahead.
• Fall fashion goes back to the High School prom reports Omiru: Style for All.
• Counterfeit Chic dissects when copy becomes commentary in a stylish handbag.
• Bagtrends picks the trend to jump on right now.
• What's a must-own..immediately? The Quest for It's Tia Walker shares the dish.
• Fall in love with the season's rich new makeup hues, advises Beauty Addict.
• Girlawhirl picks products that up the faaaabulous quotient of life.
• Indulge with the Picasso of Chocolatiers.
• Tag along with Shortcut - a European City Blog & visit espadrille-central in Madrid.
• Stylehive finds an exclusive resort in Phuket with a showstopping floating bedroom.
• Being pregnant doesn't have to mean giving up style. Vaccari shows how.
• I know what you read last summer, and does GenDigital.
• Learn more about Dress for Success, the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, and how to fight blood diamonds.
• Quaff a light & fruity Rose, recommended specially by the Master Sommelier at New York's Counter Organic Wine & Martini Bar.
• Pet maven & author Julia Szabo recommends dolce vita dish options for your four legged friend.

- Lesley Scott