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- Weekly Web Snob Roundup: The Best Posts of the Week from Our Fave Online Fashion & Lifestyle Publishers. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG
FASHION: Transparency, escapism & old Hollywood Glamour! Fashiontribes dissects the Top 10 most interesting trends from the recent Spring 2008 New York Fashion Week. Time to crack the books! eBeautyDaily thinks Nina Garcia's new book, The Little Black Book of...
- It's Back to Fashion School 101: Books on Fashion, Charm & Style Help a Fashionista be Effortlessly Fabulous. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG
Apparently book publishing is the new black if the recent crop of fashion & style how-to's flooding the market are anything to judge by: Project Runway's Tim Gunn & Nina Garcia - whose day job is at Elle magazine -...
- Make Your Own Chi Chi Coffeetable Book at Couture Book. FASHIONTRIBES BLOG
Whether it's a wedding, baby's first steps, or the most fabulous fashion show, now you can capture it in a richly bound, handmade, luxurious book at CoutureBook.com. Combining old-world binding techniques, the latest printing technology, the speed of the Internet,...
- Weekly Web Snob Roundup: The Best Posts of the Week from Our Fave Online Fashion & Lifestyle Publishers. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG
FASHION: The styles of the roaring 20s are a hot trend for fall. Second City Style hows you how to put the look together and bring out your inner Garbo. Fashion Indie contines with its history of "Fashion Firsts" with...
- Shoe Fleur Takes on the Whimsical Side of Shoes. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION & SHOE BLOG
After photographing flowers sixteen ways to Sunday, Michel Tcherevkoff then reassembles the pix in Photoshop, creating shoes & bags - each with their own distinct personality. The Pre-Nup slipper is crafted from the virginal white lily, while the Miss Tress...
- "Deluxe" Looks at the Dark Side of the Luxury Industry. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG
From outsourcing production to Chinese factories to dressing celebrities for red-carpet events; from fighting massive counterfeiting operations to building designer outlet malls across America - today's $157 billion-a-year luxury industry is worlds away from the boutique family-owned businesses of its...
- Ralph Celebrates His 40 Years of All-American Style with a Book as Big as His Fashion Legacy. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION & BOOK BLOG
© RALPH LAUREN, Rizzoli International Publications, 2007 “…If you say something is ‘very Ralph Lauren’ you’re immediately understood.” — Audrey Hepburn at the CFDA Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony, NYC, February 3, 1992 Say “Ralph Lauren” & one of the following...
- Weekly Web Snob Roundup: The Best Posts of the Week from Our Fave Online Fashion & Lifestyle Publishers. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG
FASHION: Yet another affordable fashion line has gone the way of the designer capsule collection. Stiletto Jungle shows off Courreges for La Redoute. Modern fashion with a vintage twist has Coquette falling in love with Jovovich-Hawk's Fall Collection preview. My...
- GLAM SHOPPING BEAT: Be a Chic Pregnant Chick with a Few of the Right Fashion Ingredients. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG
Available at Amazon.com Glam Shopping Beat column by Lesley Scott: You're a pregnant style maven, which is all good and well until your curves and hormones start to expand and misbehave. Resist the urge to hide under a tent of...
- Weekly Web Snob Roundup: The Best Posts of the Week from Our Fave Online Fashion & Lifestyle Publishers. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG
FASHION: FabSugar gives a mini-lesson on tartans & plaids. Look like a sexy devil in a blue dress, says Coquette. Get the dish on layering basics from Omiru. Second City Style's got the best (or worst) celebrity fashion miss-fires of...
- "The Trench Book" Takes on the Mystique of that Timeless Piece of Chic Outerwear. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION & BOOK BLOG
What started life as a military uniform eventually transformed into a cornerstone of the twenty-first century wardrobe, a chic yet classic envelope that handily negotiates the tightrope of form versus function. From linen to leather, The Trench Book explores the...
- The King of Fashion Gets his Due from Diktats, a French Bookstore Specializing in Antique Fashion Books with a Rare Collection of Poiret Items. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG
As famed for his lavish parties - 300 guests in exotic Arabian Nights garb on The Thousand and Second Night - & high-flying art pals (Raoul Dufy; Paul Iribe) as he was for his use of lush fabrics, vibrant hues,...
- For a Better Quality of Life & Work, Slow Down & Enjoy the Ride Suggests Jon Gordon, Author of "The Energy Bus" - FASHIONTRIBES BEAUTY BLOG
You're always going to have 30 emails in your inbox, an unfinished (and growing) to-do list, and unreturned voicemails. The fact is, no amount of slaving away will ever get everything done...and author Jon Gordon suggests you chill & enjoy...
- Forever in Blue Jeans: "Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon" investigates the Enduring Allure of Denim. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION & BOOK BLOG
Beginning with the adoption of front-buttoned pants as a style of dress in nineteenth-century America (derided as “fornication pants” by Mormon leader Brighman Young), jeans have been worn by every sector of American society, and exported around the world. In...
- Cruelty-free Fashion Statements that Make You Look Great & Make a Difference to Our 4-Legged Friends. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG
Sienna Miller tells it like it is. The fact that Sienna Miller was photographed walking her doggies in this groovy Humane Society hoodie emblazoned with Club Sandwiches Not Seals - which contributes to the fight against the Canadian seal hunt...
- Win a Chance at Hundred$ of $$$ in Beauty Loot, Courtesy of KMR Communications in Honor of the Launch of "Revival Slim & Beautiful Diet" at NYC's Bruno Jamais Restaurant Club. FASHIONTRIBES BEAUTY BLOG
Dr. Aaron Tabor with mom, Suzanne "Joe Pesci," "Robert De Niro," KMR CEO Katherine Rothman, Dr. Aaron Tabor, "Paris Hilton," "John Travolta," "Tony Soprano" Owner Bruno Jamais, KMR CEO Katherine Rothman With age comes wisdom...and gelatinous belly and body fat,...
- Hang Out with the Queen of the Boozy Party Hags in 90s SoBe. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION & BOOK BLOG
g Follow along on the rise & fall of Rachel Baum, a sheltered, career girl who moves to South Beach in pursuit of the life less ordinary. Against a backdrop of celebrity-studded nightclubs, exclusive after-hours parties, and over-the-top VIP rooms,...
- Learn Makeup Artist Secrets with Linda Mason's "Makeup, the Art of Beauty" - now out in Paperback. FASHIONTRIBES BEAUTY BLOG
Originally released in hardcover version in 2003, the perenially popular makeup manual is designed to give the rest of us access to some of the tricks of the trade. “I really like the idea of the book being in paperback,”...
- Weekly Web Snob Roundup: The Best Posts of the Week from Our Fave Online Fashion & Lifestyle Publishers. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG
FASHION: Second City Style is making beautiful music with the accordion...pleat this summer. Head to Miami in sexy yet appropriate business attire, advises Omiru. Don't you hate it when you spot another gal in your favorite outfit? Coquette introduces you...
- Thoughts on the Army of Therapists, Beauticians & Trainers Who Navigate Women's Bodies in the New "Damage Control" Anthology. FASHIONTRIBES BEAUTY BLOG
We love them and we hate them; we revere them and we fear them; we need them and wish we didn’t: they're the hairstylists, trainers, manicurists, waxers, nutritionists, masseurs, healers, and sundry other pain/pleasure purveyors whose digits are on the...
- One Part High Class Shoe Fetishist + One Part Ricky Ricardo + a Dollop Each of Jacques Barzun & Ignatius J. Reilly = Manolo The Shoeblogger & his Philosophy of the Footwear. FASHIONTRIBES SHOE BLOG
Bask in the wisdom of The Manolo with this excerpt from The Consolation of The Shoes: MANOLO says, many years ago, when the young Manolo was sunk into despair over the dismal and impoverished conditions in which he had found...
- School's Out & It's Time to Indulge in Steamy & Fabulous Pulp Fiction & other Fashionable Summer Diversions. FASHIONTRIBES BLOG
Falling Out of Fashion by Karen Yampolsky. Fabulously bitchy fairytales from the backstabbing world of magazine publishing, by the former assistant to Jane Pratt (of Jane magazine fame) - Amazon.com The Devil Wears Prada starring Meryl Streep...SO much better than...
- Get the Truth Behind Cosmetic Surgery from a New Tell-All Book by Plastic Surgeon Christopher J. Saunders M.D. FASHIONTRIBES BEAUTY BLOG
From the "lunch hour" face lift to Botox parties, from med spas to “mommy makeovers,” it's apparent that the culture of beauty is approaching a state of frenzy. Add in "reality" shows like Dr. 90210, Extreme Makeover and arguably the...
- Whether You're Gothic or a Lolita, there's a Runway Trend For You. The Top 10 Best Fantasy Runway Looks. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG
Available at Amazon.com. Documenting an eccentric fashion trend started in the mid-90s in Osaka - which later spread to Tokyo & Harajuku - by the fans of Japanese Goth rock bands who began wearing Gothic fashion, the new Gothic &...
- Some of the Best Beauty Products in the World are to be Found in the Supermarket & on your Plate, as explained in "Eating for Beauty" by David Wolfe. FASHIONTRIBES BEAUTY BLOG
You are what you eat, and in this roadmap to a better, stronger, happier - and yes, more beautiful - you, Wolfe reveals what an art form proper nutrition is, every bite a brush stroke, every swallow a new color....
- A Pair of "To Die For" Shoes rules "The Shoe Queen" by Anna Davis, Along with the Jazz Age & Paris. Mais Oui! FASHIONTRIBES FASHION & SHOE BLOG
“The mid-1920s had seen hemlines rising up toward the knee for the first time…Beautifully designed, flamboyant shoes…promised a sensuality in the wearer…Genevieve prided herself on being one of the first women to really understand that shoes could be the focal...
- Get the Latest BUZZ on Parenting from a Nifty Blog- TheMomsBuzz. Fashiontribes Stylish In the KNOW Parenting Blog
Ok.. so you have a kid (or 2 or 3). You are juggling a job (or juggling being a FT mom which is a 24/7 job) and being a parent. How do you do it all and stay sane? Well...
- Get Ready for Summer by Losing Weight from the Inside Out with "The Revival Slim & Beautiful Diet." FASHIONTRIBES BEAUTY BLOG
When his mother began experiencing a midlife meltdown - expanding waistline, deepening wrinkles, dull hair, brittle nails, menopausal hot flashes and night sweats - Dr. Aaron Tabor, M.D., sprung into action, devising a plan to address all the issues, not...
- Don't Write a Thankyou Note to Helmut Lang if You're Worried About it Ever Coming to Light. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG
(All photos: Patrick McMullan - from NYMag.com ) An article in this week's New York magazine reports that the designer is publishing a number of thank you letters (for freebies) from his high profile circle of friends & acquaintances. The...
- Be Good to Mother Nature and She Will Be Good to you. Join GREENDIMES.COM to Plant More Trees. . Fashiontribes and LA STORY GIVING BACK Blog
Eco-friendly website GreenDimes.com introduces their first ever Tree Promotion, in celebration of Arbor Day Providing an easy and manageable way for EVERY person to make a difference in improving the environment and in honor of Arbor Day, Greendimes.com is launching...
- BEYOND THE GATES-- Takes You BEYOND Your World to One of Tribal Warfare.. LA STORY MOVIE REVIEW
“Beyond the Gates” is both a compelling—and repellant—depiction of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda in 1994. In contrast to the highly acclaimed “Hotel Rwanda” which deals with the same subject. Beyond the Gates does not tell the story of the...
- Read the Books & then Live the Magic on a Harry Potter Tour of Britain. FASHIONTRIBES TRAVEL BLOG
From Platform 9 & 3/4, to the Hogwarts library, to Moaning Myrtle's overflowing bathroom, The Travel Snob has the scoop on where to visit. - Lesley Scott fashiontribes.
- A Mysterious Storage Unit, the Word "Yes" & the Secrets that Bind Us Make for Fashionable Reading in "Self Storage" by Gayle Brandeis. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
Flan Parker has always had an inquisitive mind, searching for what's hidden below the surface and behind the door. She also has two young children and a husband she supports, whose dissertation of late seems to involve more loafing on...
- Spend Some Time with "The Wardrobe Shrink Scrapbook" & Uncover Your Most Fabulous Fashionable Self. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG
Designed and hand-drawn from the scrapbook of "The Wardrobe Shrink", Sarah Whittaker, who uses a system of 35 "Image Types" to help define one's style aesthetic, The Wardrobe Shrink Scrapbook contains 95 pages of info on analyzing your body shape,...
- Perfect for Your Fave Fashion Valentine: the "Chic in Paris" Style Bible. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG
Contains the wisdom of eight famous Parisian style icons (even Katie Holmes picked up a copy right before her wedding): YSL muse Loulou de la Falaise Ines de la Fressange, the face of Coco by Chanel and ambassador for Roger...
- Weekly Web Snob Roundup: The Best Posts of the Week from Our Fave Online Fashion & Lifestyle Publishers. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG
FASHION: FabSugar gets red carpet access at the Golden Globes! Air kisses, fabulousness...& hard work. Fashiontribes gets the straight scoop on the fashion biz in a podcast inteview with 24 Seven, the industry's premiere search firm. Ever wondered how to...
- Eat Like a Rock Star with Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand and His "Soundbites" Chronicles of Eating on Tour. - FASHIONTRIBES POP CULTURE BLOG.
Originally penned for his column in London's Guardian newspaper, Soundbites: Eating on Tour with Franz Ferdinand (available at Amazon.com) recounts his myriad culinary encounters, both savory and squeamish. Enjoy bull's testicles in Buenos Aires, a vegetarian buffet in Singapore, and...
- Tsunami Survivor Petra Nemcova Inspires "Supermodel" by David Breskin, a Tale of Travails & Gorgeousness. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG
Loosely inspired by Nemcova, the heroine of Supermodel is an outsized force of nature: fiercely competitive, intellectually curious, emotionally wounded, resolutely moral, and of course, ravishingly attractive—a globe-trotting innocent who exudes sexuality in every way—except the most intimate. Our celeb-obsessed...
- Stay Slim & Sleek this Winter with a few easy Tips from Endocrinologist Scott Isaacs. FASHIONTRIBES BEAUTY BLOG
The period between Halloween and continuing right through to Valentine's Day can sometimes seem like one long party filled with one long stream of fattening fare. And forget about hitting the gym regularly. The less than festive result is going...
- Scrumptious Desserts, Just Like Grandma Used to Make! "Heirloom Baking" Unearths & Updates 150 Classic & Beloved Recipes. FASHIONTRIBES POP CULTURE BLOG
Taken from their vast collection of antique manuscript cookbooks, and handwritten recipes passed down through the generations that they’ve amassed over two decades, Marilynn Brass and Sheila Brass will help even the most hapless cook whip up recipes ranging from...
- Weekly Web Snob Roundup: The Best Posts of the Week from Our Fave Online Fashion & Lifestyle Publishers. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG
GIFT IDEAS: In the true spirit of the season, here's something you can do to help save a soul with a life saving transplant. [Bag Snob] Whether you celebrate 8 days or 12, Fashiontribes finds the Top 10 best gifts...
- FASHIONTRIBES 5 MIN. PODCAST. Jean Muir: Enduring Fashion Giant with a Quiet but Influential Legacy. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG & PODCAST
For someone whose clothes lacked "hanger appeal," who wasn’t popular enough to be knocked off, and who never even had her own retail store, designer Jean Muir's influence & legacy continue to grow. Although the designer died in 1995, her...
- Let Bradley Bayou, formerly of Halston, Get You Dressed Fabulously with his new book "The Science of Sexy" - FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG
The former Creative Director of Halston has dressed celebrities like Debra Messing, Eva Longoria, Queen Latifah, and Maggie Gylenhaal to name but a few. However, he's a man with a bigger plan: to make the rest of us - regardless...
- Lotions, Potions, Cremes, Powders, Wands & Sticks. "The Beauty Buyble" Has the 411 on the Best Beauty Products for 2007. FASHIONTRIBES BEAUTY BLOG
Plus tips galore from insiders like hair gurus Sally Hershberger, Orlando Pita, Oscar Blandi; makeup maven Rebecca Restrepo; celeb colorist Lorri Goddard-Clark; NYC derm Dr. Dennis Gross, and Cloutier celebrity manicurist Carla Kay. Available at Amazon.com. - Lesley Scott fashiontribes.
- For Something Different this Season, Shawn Henderson of eBay.com Recommends Depression-era Glass, Vintage Ornaments & Magazines. FASHIONTRIBES HOME DECOR BLOG & PODCAST
PODCAST: For Something Different this Season, Shawn Henderson of eBay.com Recommends Depression-era Glass, Vintage Ornaments & Magazines. FASHIONTRIBES HOME DECOR BLOG & PODCAST - mP3 File As Design Director for eBay.com, Henderson sees it all - literally. And thanks to...
- Lancome Mascara & Bronzer Make the Elite Cut in "101 Things to Buy Before You Die." FASHIONTRIBES BEAUTY BLOG
According to the authors, lifestyle journos Maggie Davis and Charlotte Williamson, if you're going to spend your time & hard-earned ca$h, buy good stuff. Good policy. Following an exhaustive search for the very best, they included Lancôme's Flash Bronzer Airbrush...
- Losing Weight is Tough, But Needn't be Grim. Take Heart with Fellow Loser Jami Bernard in her Weight Loss Chronicle: "75 Pounds & Counting: My Excellent Adventure in Weight-Loss." FASHIONTRIBES BEAUTY BLOG
As film critic for the NY Daily News, Jami Bernard was a total babe living the fabulous life, reviewing movies, hanging out with movie stars, and gaining weight - 100 pounds worth. When the scale finally hit 230 pounds, she...
- Half the Fun of Fine Food is Reading About it. "Life is Meals" Guarantees Your Fave Foodie a Moveable Feast. FASHIONTRIBES GIFTS & PRESENTS BLOG
A quirky compendium of hints, historical notes, recipes, and food factoids which meanders through various observations on foodie friends like Alice Waters and Julia Child, literature (Lord Byron, Anna Karenina), and other fun stuff. Available at Amazon.com. - Lesley Scott...
- “Baste me in butter and call me Slappy!” Welcome to the World of British Personal Ads Where Drippy Sentiments Need not Apply. FASHIONTRIBES POP CULTURE BLOG
(Some of the more colorful personal ads showcased by David Rose of the London Review of Books; photos: Jonathan Player for The New York Times) Lonely hearts accustomed to trolling the American personals tend to come across a lot of...
- Glam Shopping Beat: Catch the Holiday Spirit with Goodies & Indulgences Recommended by Some of the Best Blogs in the Glam Network. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION & SHOPPING BLOG
Glam Shopping Beat column for the week of 11-1-06 - by Lesley Scott: With the arrival of November, darkness sets in early and the brisk, balmy nights of fall are but a memory. Instead of succumbing to gloom and doom,...
- FASHIONTRIBES DAILY 5 MIN PODCAST: How to Succeed in Business? Base It on a Philosophical Idea. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION PODCAST
When it comes to certain business principles, why re-invent the wheel? Instead, appropriate ideas that have stood the test of time…a few thousand years worth in one case. A recently published book, Purpose: The Starting Point of Great Companies (Palgrave...
- For Steals & Deals this Holiday Season, with the Primo Selection of the Best Stuff Out There, Author Marsha Collier Shows How to Score it on eBay. FASHIONTRIBES SHOPPING BLOG & PODCAST INTERVIEW
PODCAST: For Steals & Deals this Holiday Season, with the Primo Selection of the Best Stuff Out There, Author Marsha Collier Shows How to Score it on eBay. FASHIONTRIBES SHOPPING BLOG & PODCAST INTERVIEW - MP3 File Ask your typical...
- Celebrate the Literary Tradition with Author Richard Russo in November at Maine's New Literary Festival. FASHIONTRIBES TRAVEL BLOG
author Richard Russo Rich in literary traditions, Maine is home to many acclaimed, award-winning writers and the setting for numerous memorable stories. So it's only natural that they are launching Celebrating the Spirit of Place: The Maine Literary Tradition, a...
- Kick off Fall, Downtown Doll-Style! The New Issue of Fashiontribes.com Awaits. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG
The latest issue of the blogger-written & -edited Downtown Doll Magazine is up. Some of the highlights: Instead of fast-fashion from shopping malls & big box stores, sites like Indie Fixx offer unique & stylish alternatives. Ask Fashion Kitty finds...
- 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...
- Where's the Glamour in Being a Flight Attendant? Nowhere, According to the Queen of Sky Blogger - & Now Author - Who Delta Fired When Discovering She Had a Lot to Say. FASHIONTRIBES POP CULTURE & TRAVEL BLOG
With entry titles like “Where’s the Glamour,” “The Trip from Hell,” and “The Joys of Commuting,” the newly released Diary of a Dysfunctional Flight Attendant: The Queen of Sky Blog book is a realistic and humorous portrayal of a twenty-something...
- Stuff that's Cool: Five Things to Try. FASHIONTRIBES POP CULTURE BLOG
Sometimes it's good to sit back & let someone else pick the movie/place for dinner/night's entertainment. CSMonitor.com recently did essentially that, picking five winners that are sure to please the mind, the palate, and the entertainment quotient: FOOD Full of...
- Get a Wedding Dress Custom Made...Fall for the Wrong Guy. Starcrossed Love Gets the Haute Couture Treatment in Elizabeth Birkelund Oberbeck's "The Dressmaker." FASHIONTRIBES BLOG & PODCAST Interview with the Author!
PODCAST: Get a Wedding Dress Custom Made...Fall for the Wrong Guy. Starcrossed Love Gets the Haute Couture Treatment in Elizabeth Birkelund Oberbeck's "The Dressmaker." FASHIONTRIBES BLOG & PODCAST Interview with the Author! - MP3 File One afternoon, in a cloud...
- In or Out? Right or Wrong? Now or So Then? Fashion Tastemaking is an Endless Procession of Front Row Seats, Paparazzi...& the Contant Threat of a Fall from Grace. "The Beautiful Fall" Documents Paris in the 1970s. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG
Being among the chosen provides the nervous adrenaline on which fashion thrives - a highly visible state of grace which is played out in the front rows of fashion shows, on the covers of magazines, and being invited to the...
- From Utilitarian Garment to "the American Uniform", a New Book on Jeans Investigates this Sartorial Symbol of Our Society's Ethos. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG
Since their emergence over a century and a half ago, blue jeans have been worn by every sector of American society, and exported around the world. Beginning with the adoption of front-buttoned pants as a style of dress in nineteenth-century...
- Travelers Penning their Own Moveable Feasts Now Have a Crack at $1000 Plus Journey Beyond Travel's "Travel Book of the Year" Award. FASHIONTRIBES TRAVEL BLOG
As travelers young & old don backpacks in search of far-flung adventures across the globe - from the most remote destinations to the coolest beaches - they often put their words to paper, but never show anyone. Which is a...
- FASHIONTRIBES ASK THE CHIEF: Downtown Dolls Needn't Be Intellectual All the Time, Especially at the Beach. The Chief Recommends Some Light Summer Reads. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
(Available at Amazon.com) Dear Chief: Due to the scorching summer weather, my Downtown Doll friends and I are taking a long needed trip to the beach. What reading material do you suggest I bring on my sunny beach adventure? –...
- Whether Armchair Traveler or the Real Thing, Salon's "Literary Guide to the World" Sponsored by the Travel Channel Provides a Virtual Cultural Immersion. FASHIONTRIBES TRAVEL BLOG
Travel comes alive for sophisticated and novice travelers alike with the launch of this new section on Salon.com, as part of the Travel Channel & their Be a Traveler campaign. The interactive journey begins on a large, colorful world map...
- Not Your Average Little Girl's Lock and Key Diary. Books by Sabrina Ward Harrison for Big Girls with Big Thoughts. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION & ART BLOG
Incredibly cool arty books & works that defy categorization. SabrinaWardHarrison.com - Emily Wall Fashiontribes Fashion Clothing Ready-to-Wear Sabrina Ward Harrison Fashion Illustration Art Fashion & Art Fashion Expert
- Fashiontribes Finds: the Best Blog Posts for the Downtown Doll Tribe for the Week Ending 7/2/06. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG
So many posts, so little time. So we sorted through them all for you & here's our Fashiontribes Finds picks for the coolest stuff with a Downtown Doll vibe. DOWNTOWN DOLL WEEKLY FASHIONTRIBES FINDS: Amy Sacco on Cocktail Culture Patent...
- "Oh-My-God...Like, Did He Tell You That His Friend's Friend's Best Friend's Cousin Like..." The Notebook Girls, Penned by Authentic High Schoolers, Reveals the Secret Lives of High School Chicas. FASHIONTRIBES POP CULTURE BLOG
What started out life as a regular composition book in September 2001 quickly filled five volumes, recording the inner thoughts & confessions of four high school freshmen. "The notebook sort of paralleled our friendships," says co-author Sophie Pollitt-Cohen, 18, who...
- So Much More than Merely Shaken vs. Stirred, Cocktails Have Become a Social Icon. Hipster-Restauranteur Amy Sacco Investigates. FASHIONTRIBES ENTERTAINING BLOG
Glamorous and exuberant, more than any other drink, the cocktail has a place in our social culture that stylishly evolves as the years go by. From classic scenes in old-Hollywood films like The Thin Man to Carrie Bradshaw’s cosmopolitans, the...
- Happy Birthday, Mr. President...& Anyone Else on Your Gift Giving List. Andy Warhol is Always Welcome. FASHIONTRIBES GIFT BLOG
A wide-ranging presentation of the iconic Pop artist's works: drawings, paintings, multiples in various print editions. Includes biographic chronology, as well as selected individual exhibitions, catalogues & books. Available at MOMA.org - Lesley Scott Fashiontribes Andy Warhol Marilyn Head Fashion...
- Avoid Unnecessary Fuss & Formality with "The Food You Want to Eat" - Queer Eye's Ted Allen Dishes on Satisfying Fare. FASHIONTRIBES HOME DECOR BLOG
Emmy award winning food and wine connoisseur Allen gets right to the point with 100 recipes for accessible, satisfying fare by focusing on an approach designed to inspire people to cook (and eat) with simplicity and passion. Act now to...
- FASHIONTRIBES TIDBIT: Don't Hide Your Obsession with Bags, Flaunt it with Some Fun Bag-Themed Memorabilia Picked by Bag Guru Pam Pekerman of Bagtrends. FASHIONTRIBES BLOG & PODCAST
PODCAST - FASHIONTRIBES TIDBIT: Don't Hide Your Obsession with Bags, Flaunt it with Some Fun Bag-Themed Memorabilia Picked by Bag Guru Pam Pekerman of Bagtrends. FASHIONTRIBES BLOG & PODCAST - MP3 File Sports fans paper their walls in sports posters....
- Literature & Wanderlust Mix Well at Chautauqua's Spencer Hotel in New York, Where Each Room Pays Homage to a Famous Author. FASHIONTRIBES TRAVEL BLOG
Chautauqua's Spencer Hotel recently announced the introduction of a new Book Club Getaway Package for groups and book club members who want to enjoy a weekend getaway with their literary-loving friends - featuring a wine cheese reception, full British breakfast,...
- FASHIONTRIBES TIDBIT: Lovely Leopard, What More is there to Say? It Never Goes Out of Style, Always Looks Glamourous, and Translates Well into All the Areas of Life that Matter. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG & PODCAST
PODCAST - FASHIONTRIBES TIDBIT: Lovely Leopard, What More is there to Say? It Never Goes Out of Style, Always Looks Glamourous, and Translates Well into All the Areas of Life that Matter. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG & PODCAST - MP3 File...
- "The Stolen Child" Makes it to the Top of the Amazon Best-Seller List With Nary a Professional Review to be Found, Thanks to Great Word-of-Mouth from Amateurs. Is this a Death Knell for the Pros? FASHIONTRIBES POP CULTURE BLOG
By placing a new work of fiction onto the Top 25 list of The New York Times bestsellers, amateur book critics are beginning to demonstrate some major muscle. A podcast on NPR points out that instead of following tradition, the...
- Welcome to the Fabulous Lifestyles of the Cruel & Despotic. A Man's Crib is his Castle, so Check out the Proof that Absolute Power Corrupts (Taste) Absolutely in "Dictator Style" by Peter York. FASHIONTRIBES HOME DECOR BLOG
If your home truly reflects who you are, what do the following say? Saddam Hussein's creepy private art collection General Noriega's Christmas tree the strange tube and knob contraption in the Ceausescu bathroom Everyone's fave dictators are included: Hitler, Lenin,...
- Loves the Opera, Modern Architecture & Fine Dining. If This Sounds Like a Tot You Know, "Urban Babies Wear Black" was Written with them in Mind. FASHIONTRIBES GIFT BLOG
Perfect for the hipster parent in your life. Available at MOMA.org - Lesley Scott Fashiontribes Urban Babies Wear Black Books & Literature Pop Culture Fashion Gift Fashion Expert
- Noted for His Excellent Manners, George Washington's Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior are More Timely Than Ever Today. FASHIONTRIBES BLOG
While it's true that teenagers know pretty much everything, the 14 year old Washington must have actually been onto something when he penned these 110 rules of comportment. Available at GreerChicago.com - Lesley Scott Fashiontribes George Washington's Rules of Civility...
- The Gift of Good Taste is Easy with Directions from the High Priestess of Interior Design, Kelly Wearstler, and her book Domicilium Decoratus. FASHIONTRIBES GIFT BLOG
Photos of Wearstler's own Hillcrest Estate family home add up to a bound collection of luscious home decor porn for interior design enthusiasts. Available at VelocityArtAndDesign.com - Lesley Scott Fashiontribes Kelly Wearstler Domicilium Decoratus Fashion Home Decor Gift Parties +...
- In a Celebrated Real Estate Market, Meet the Most Celebrated Address of All: 740 Park Avenue. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
Of all the buildings in Manhattan where the super-rich choose to reside, 740 Park Avenue has the fanciest pedigree - starting with its developer, James T. Lee, Jackie O's grandfather (on her mother's side), and bigwig tenants like John D....
- Treat Yo Mama Right for Mother's Day. There's Still Time to order "The Perfect Fit: What Your Shoes Say About You" by the Marvelous Miss Meghan for Mother's Day. FASHIONTRIBES GIFT BLOG
There are myriad moms: hipster stiletto barefoot babe clog chica Midwest Mama New York sophisticate high fashionista sweatpants & sporty Bergdorf blonde wild curly brunette pomeranian-toting kitty-loving iPod-listening From your aunt, to your sister, to your grandma, to your best...
- Take a Trip up New York's Social Foodchain in "The Debutante Divorcee" by Plum Sykes. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
In the world of Sykes's Bergdorf Blondes, women hunt for the most elusive accessory of the season - a husband. In Divorcee, they put just as much effort into ditching them. From the newly single partying like it's 1999 -...
- A Quirky Mix of Memoir, How To's On Digging Dirt & Interviewing, "But Enough About Me: A Jersey Girl's Unlikely Adventures Among the Absurdly Famous" is a Fun Guilty Pleasure - FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
A writer for Rolling Stone who also contributes to Vanity Fair, GQ and Vogue, Jancee Dunn has the inside scoop on the paparazzi, hanging with the stars, and the gossip mill - all from the perspective of those who are...
- On a Fabulous Floating Palace, Everyone is Having the Time of Their Life Until a Mysterious, Terrible Odor Permeates the Splendid Ship in "Walter the Farting Dog Goes on a Cruise" FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
All signs point to Walter, and so he is banished down below, with the stinky cheeses. Walter doesn’t mind—at least he has something to snack on. But not even the cheese room can contain Walter’s powerful farts, so he is...
- A Colelction of 8 Polished, Beautiful & Terrifying Stories by by Charles 'Ambrosio, "The Dead Fish Museum" Delves into Love, Loss, Betrayal - the usual suspects - & the Redemptive Power of Love. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
Set in remote cabins, asylums, Indian reservations, the backloads of Iowa and the streets of Seattle - a son confronts his father’s madness and his own hunger for connection on a misguided hike in the Pacific Northwest. A screenwriter fights...
- Fashiontribes Finds: Our New Pick o' the Best of the Week for the Downtown Doll Tribe - for the week ending 4/23/06. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG
You asked, we listened. This kicks off our weekly Fashiontribes Finds post, where we sort through the deluge of posts from the week before & list our top picks individually for each tribe. DOWNTOWN DOLL WEEKLY FASHIONTRIBES FINDS: A touch...
- You Know How to Cook, But do You Have What it Takes to be a Celeb Chef? Find out with "Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker & Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany." FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
Fabulously notorious bad-boy chef, Anthony Bourdain, loved this book for the "sado-masochistic fun...[of] watching the author, an untrained, inexperienced and middle-aged desk jockey slowly transform into not just a useful line cook--but an extraordinarily knowledgable one is pure pleasure." Additionally,...
- What Would Happen if You Ditched Your High-Powered Life for Something Completely Different? From Lawyer to Housekeeper, Sophie Kinsella's "The Undomestic Goddess" Spins a Humorous Yarn. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
On the brink of achieving her dreams of partnership at a chi chi London lawfirm, 29 year-old Samantha Sweeting makes a huge blunder just before the partnership decision. Dazed, she gets on on a train. After ending up in the...
- In the Dispute Between Venus & Mars, One Brave Insider from the Venus Camp Has Some Advice on "How to Stop Your Woman from Bitching" - FASHIONTRIBES POP CULTURE BLOG
According to many experts, women & men speak different tongues - especially once a relationship commences - communicating in something labeled ‘cryptic talk’ which the males in our midst are unable to decipher. Apparently we need a translator to learn...
- Slovenliness, Bodily Fluids, Social Isolation, Being Unfit for Unemployment & a Visit from the Tooth Fairy. It's Only Augusten Burroughs in Vintage Form in "Possible Side Effects" - FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
Always fun & funny - although sometimes a tad too navel-gazing - Burroughs latest continues to explore the themes of his difficulties with alcholism, odd behavior, and struggles with being a misfit in life. Although his James Frey'ish declaration that...
- WWWD? Spend 70+ Years to Acquire the Wit & Wisdom of Willie Nelson, or Take a Shortcut with his "The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart." FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
From meditation to knowing that everything is interconnected, this blend of philosophical wisdom and down home advice (Think positive!...Do unto others...) also contains the icon's insights on: weed: "I'll support a war on drugs, but not a war on flowers...
- From Abused Former South Central L.A. Gangbanger & Prostitute to Attorney & Powerful Motivational Speaker. And You Thought You Had it Tough. "A Piece of Cake" - Cupcake Brown's True Story. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
After her mother died, Cupcake (her real name) - age 11 - went to her father, who only wanted her for the social security checks. Left with a heinous foster mother who let her nephew repeatedly rape Cupcake, she repeatedly...
- Set in the Same City as "Blindness", Jose Saramago's Latest, "Seeing", Deals with an Unrelentingly Cheery Populace Who Cast Blank Ballots in a National Election. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
In Blindness, a temporary epidemic of blindness sweeps through an unnamed capital, sparing only an eye doctor's wife, who helps who helps her rag tag posse survive until the condition mysteriously vanishes as quickly as it arrived. Seeing takes place...
- Worth Reading For the Title Alone: "Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles" by Kate Braverman. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
Following the riots & a massive earthquake, lifelong Angeleno Braverman quits Cali for a farmhouse in the Allegheny Mountains. In this collection of essays, she reassesses her hometown of Los Angeles, considers the clash of town-vs.country in her new location,...
- Art Forgery, Japanese Culture & a Mystery Woman in 3" Manolo Blahniks Make For a Riveting Story & Peek Behind the Phoniness of the Art Market in "Theft: A Love Story" by Peter Carey. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLO
"Two-time Booker-winner Carey (Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang) returns with a magnificent high-stakes art heist wrapped around a fraternal saga. Butcher Boone is an all-id all-the-time Australian painter of enormous talent and renown. Now divorced...
- "What Should We Have for Dinner?" A Loaded Question that Delves in the Food Chain (Literally) in Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma" - FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
Reviewed by Pamela Kaufman (The Botany of Desire), executive editor at Food & Wine magazine: "Pollan examines what he calls "our national eating disorder" (the Atkins craze, the precipitous rise in obesity) in this remarkably clearheaded book. It's a fascinating...
- A Stuggling Cancer Lab at Boston's Philpott Institute is a Mini Stage for the Greater Drama of American Science in Allegra Goodman's "Intuition" - FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
"In another quiet but powerful novel from Goodman (Kaaterskill Falls), a struggling cancer lab at Boston's Philpott Institute becomes the stage for its researchers' personalities and passions, and for the slippery definitions of freedom and responsibility in grant-driven American science....
- Chatty Stories from New York's Storied Past Make 'Em Go Down Easier in "The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell" by Mark Kurlansky. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
WWAEOD? Just how do things look from the perspective of the once plentiful - and plentifully consumed - Eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginicas)? The latest effort from the chronicler of both cod & salt, Kurlansky starts this odyssey with Henry Hudson's...
- Like Your To-Do List Isn't Long Enough. Now there's "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" - FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
Covering a century of memorable writing, each work of literature featured in the book was handpicked by a team of about 20 bookworms who know for good writing: Derek Attridge - James Joyce expert Cedric Watts - authority on Joseph...
- "The Nasty Bits" from Everyone's Favorite Nasty Chef, Anthony Bourdain, Presents a Feast from the Detritus of His Years Cooking & Traveling. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
"Arranged around the basic tastes: salty, sweet, sour, bitter and umami (a Japanese term for a taste the defies description), this scattershot collection of anecdotes puts Bourdain's brave palate, notorious sense of adventure and fine writing on display. From the...
- FASHIONTRIBES TIDBIT: Spend a Mere Two Weekends a Year Polaroiding that Season's Outfits & Watch Your Ongoing Morning Closet What-Do-I-Wear-Today?!! Drama Vanish Without a Trace. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG & PODCAST
PODCAST - FASHIONTRIBES TIDBIT: Spend a Mere Two Weekends a Year Polaroiding that Season's Outfits & Watch Your Ongoing Morning Closet What-Do-I-Wear-Today?!! Drama Vanish Without a Trace. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG & PODCAST - MP3 File I recently interviewed image experts...
- Addressing Rappers, Jewish Heritage Freaks & Even Charles Lindbergh Fans is All in a Day's Work for T. Cooper in "Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes." FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
"In 1907, when Esther and Hersh Lipshitz inexplicably lose their blond boy, Reuven, while disembarking at Ellis Island. They are fleeing the pogroms of czarist Russia and are headed for Amarillo, Tex., where Esther's brother Avi lives. An indifferent mother,...
- Just in Time for Mother's Day, it's "The Gallery of Regrettable Food". Yum. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
Once upon a time, not all that long ago, the following dishes were thought to be a good idea: Ketchup Pistachio Cake Meat Pie with Meat Crust Baked Peppers with Creamy Marshmallow Sauce Foamy Prune Whip with Cherry Gel Eggs...
- Unraveling the Mystery of his Older Brother, a Victim of the Pan Am Flight Shot down Over Lockerbie, Ken Dornstein Finds Him in "The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky" - FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 went down over Lockerbie, Scotland, and with it, the Dornstein's older brother, David, a prolific writer. Almost a decade later when the author began reading his late brothers papers, he traveled to...
- 60 Years After She Died, "Suite Francaise" - Two of Five Planned Novels about the Nazi Occupation - Was Discovered by author Irene Nemirovky's Children. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
"Celebrated in pre-WWII France for her bestselling fiction, the Jewish Russian-born Némirovsky was shipped to Auschwitz in the summer of 1942, months after this long-lost masterwork was composed. Némirovsky, a convert to Catholicism, began a planned five-novel cycle as Nazi...
- Think Big, Live Even Bigger...& Reap the Rewards. Bonnie Fuller's "The Joys of Much Too Much: Go for the Big Life..." Advocates Being Oversized & Proud of it. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK & POP CULTURE BLOG
As a high falutin' magazine editor with a husband, four kids, and a big life, she knows for too much. How to have it all - a "jam-packed, maxed-out" life? (Sign me up!) Think positive and go for it. Don't...
- Forget Dry vs. Sensitive vs. Oily. Your Skin Type is as Complex as You. "The Skin Type Solution" by Leslie Baumann, MD, Helps You Find - & Treat - Your Personal Skin Profile. FASHIONTRIBES BEAUTY BLOG
Finding the right products for your skin type just got harder...and easier. Harder because it's not as easy as those four broad old-school categories, and easier because once you really figure your skin out, you'll know exactly what it needs....
- The Shortest, Smartest, Easiest Path to Happiness & Prosperity? Help Others Get There First. Author Peter Temes Explains in "The Power of Purpose: Living Well by Doing Good" FASHIONTRIBES BLOG
Regardless of how you define success - more money, power at work, becoming a better parent, or making your community a better place - if you help other reach their goals, you're guaranteeing yourself greater & more meaningful triumphs, and,...
- What to do When Your Love Life Tanks Majorly? Elizabeth Gilbert's Three-Step Approach: "Eat, Pray, Love" - FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
Following a nasty divorce and a disastrous love affair, the 30-something author heads to Italy, India & Indonesia to indulge in food, people, and prayer. From her Italian convo partner to ascetic Indian experience to chilling in Bali, this is...
- Dreaming of Being Dostoyevsky's Muse & Actually Being One - or, Perhaps, a Kept Woman - is Recounted in "Memoirs of a Muse" by Lara Vapnyar. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
Reviewed by Caryn James: "What kind of person writes a thesis about makeup in 19th-century Russia? Tatiana Rumer, a would-be historian from the collapsing Soviet Union, wants to know where people from the past dumped their garbage, "what men used...
- The Stately, Time-Honored Side of Japanese Culture Gets the Royal Treatment from a Watercolor Artist in Kate T. Williamson's "A Year in Japan" - FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
This delicately crafted artist's journal offers colorful impressions of a young woman's extended visit in Kyoto, Japan. Williamson's watercolors are playful, bright and spare, and each section illustrates a theme or topic that has inspired the artist/author over her travels...
- Duck Walker. Coin Polisher. Doll Doctor. Artificial Inseminator. But a Few of the Unusual Occupations Profiled in "Odd Jobs" FASHIONTRIBES POP CULTURE & BOOK BLOG
Who blows the bugle at the Kentucky Derby? Who dusts the dinosaur bones at the Smithsonian? Who sniffs dog breath for a living? Who measures the breasts of real models? Meet the real people who perform these truly peculiar jobs....
- Despite the Rich Fare, Why Don't French Women Get Fat? Veuve Cliquot CEO Mireille Guiliano Offers Some Insights. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK & BEAUTY BLOG
Despite the fact it's been out for a while, from the Oprah show to every diet & beauty outlet, this book continues to have legs. And for good reason. While it doesn't contain hard science, a clearly-defined plan, or lists...
- So Many Metros...what Happened to the Good Old "Man's Man"? Frank Vincent of The Sopranos Gives Wannabe Macho Males a Map with his "A Guy's Guide to Being a Man's Man" - FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
According to actor Vincent, a man's man is "a jack of all trades, but also a master of all," who: drinks only imported beer (that is, when he can't round up a fine scotch, a gin martini with three olives,...
- The Further Adventures of the Santerre Family: Adultery, Resentment, Dissatisfaction, Recovered Memories. How does Your Family Stack up to Maile Meloy's "A Family Daughter"? FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
In evanescent scenes distinguished by clean, wry prose, Meloy observes the Santerre family, whom readers met in 2003's Liars and Saints, from a crafty new angle. The book opens as the deeply Catholic Yvette Santerre frets over her granddaughter, Abby,...
- Who Knows More About the Beauty of the Human Body than a Plastic Surgeon? Dr. Bruce Nadler's New Book "The Nip Tuck Workout" Applies the Principles of the Knife to the Gym. FASHIONTRIBES BEAUTY BLOG
Based on his twenty eight years as one of Manhattan's top plastic surgeons - and a competitive body builder himself - the good doctor knows a thing or two about the principles of proportion and symmetry. In his new book,...
- C.M Mayo Unearths the Hidden Side of a Storied Mexico City Neighborhood as She Personally Reads her Lively Account of a Stroll through Coyoacán. FASHIONTRIBES TRAVEL BLOG
Most authors would be thrilled to win even a single award for their writing...ahem...howeeeeevvvver, C.M. Mayo is apparently not most authors. Her deeply personal essay about that most intimate of environs, home, garnered not one but two awards: the Lowell...
- #1 on Every Food Studies List, "Sweetness and Power" by Sidney Mintz Shows How Our Love of Sugar Affected Culture & Social Instutions Such as Afternoon Tea & Slavery. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
This book is #1 on every food studies list. Mintz, an anthropologist, tells the story of our love for sugar, and shows how this love affected the culture and social institutions--from afternoon tea to slavery--of sugar producers and consumers. -...
- Take a Trip with Francis Mayes to Spain, Portugal, Italy, Morocco, Greece, Turkey and Scotland in "A Year in the World" - FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
Even people who don't normally read travel books are aware of the old Italian villa that Mayes and her husband restored, chronicled in Mayes's bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun and three other books about Tuscany. So it's somewhat surprising when...
- Living Large: The New Andy Warhol "Giant" Size Book Lives Up to Its Name - 600 pages, 2000 images & weighing in at a Stunning 15 lbs (Probably More than the Artist Himself). FASHIONTRIBES ART BLOG
With the Warhol movie Factory Girl coming out this fall starring Sienna Miller, and the upcoming Ric Burns documentary Warhol airing on PBS American Masters, it's shaping up to be the season, if not year, of Andy. And now there's...
- English Only Seems Like a Rich Language, Until You Try & Figure out the Word for the Momentary Confusion When a Cell Phone Rings & No One Knows If its Theirs...& Other Modern Dilemmas. Barbara Wallraff's "Word Fugitive" FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
How many times have you searched for just the right word to describe some modern conundrum and come up empty-handed? These "holes" in the language create "word fugitives" which cause people to begin rooting around in coined words to come...
- From Yves Saint Laurent to the Spice Girls, Roxane Lowit Captures the Glitterati in the Act of Doing What They Do Best: Partying. Check Out her Coffeetable Book "People" FASHIONTRIBES FASHION & BOOK BLOG
These eye catching and candid works extend from the 1970s to the present. This photo diary is filled with with enough familiar faces to have you glued to the couch for hours, people-watching and wishing you were part of the...
- Spend a Year "Not Buying It" or Do it Vicariously with Judith Levine's book About Not Shopping. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK & POP CULTURE BLOG
If you've ever contemplated cutting down on your consumerism but couldn't bring yourself to do it, Levine's volume allows you to witness and learn from this drastic experiment without going through the withdrawal yourself. Since giving up shopping entirely is...
- Learn About Afghanistan's Struggles & Political Turmoil While Enjoying a Riveting Romp: Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner" - FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
In his debut novel, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini accomplishes what very few contemporary novelists are able to do. He manages to provide an educational and eye-opening account of a country's political turmoil--in this case, Afghanistan--while also developing characters whose...
- Expressing Your True Identity with the Right Fashion Look is Not Only Easier than You Think, It's the Key to Authentic Style. Visual-Therapy's Jesse Garza & Joe Lupo, Authors of "Nothing to Wear?" Tell All. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG & PODCAST INTERVIEW
PODCAST INTERVIEW: Jesse Garza & Joe Lupo of Visual-Therapy and the Authors of "Nothing to Wear?" Explain how Expressing Your True Identity with the Right Fashion Look is Not Only Easier than You Think, It's the Key to Authentic Style....
- Like Tattoos, Dogs Leave a Permanent Mark. Ken Foster's "The Dogs Who Found Me" Explores Why Taking in Strays is the Right Thing to Do. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
After Foster adopts his first dog, Brando, from a shelter, he can't help noticing an alarming number of stray dogs, which he had never noticed before. Once he starts looking for them, he finds strays everywhere: on the side of...
- Get Your Pad Whipped Into Shape in 8 Easy Steps with Makeover Expert Maxwell Gillingham Ryan of Apartment Therapy. Warning: Follow the Strategies Outlined in his Book & You May Never Want to Leave Your Nest Again. FASHIONTRIBES HOME DECOR BLOG
Ever since we interviewed the fabulous Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan of the Apartment Therapy blog last year (CLICK HERE to check out the podcast), we knew without a doubt that he was, well, fabulous. And now, he's even more fabulous - faaaaabulous...
- You Call Me a Skinny Bitch Like That's a Bad Thing! A Tell-All Vegan Diet Book That Dishes on Why the Inmates Are Running the Asylum @ USDA - & Other Truths. FASHIONTRIBES BEAUTY BLOG
Not your typical boring diet book, this is a tart-tongued, no-holds-barred wakeup call to all women who want to be thin. With such blunt advice as, "Soda is liquid Satan" and "You are a total moron if you think the...
- Get the creativity a-flowin' with a book of D.I.Y. activities-Fashiontribes Gifting Blog
From record covers with flair to wearable items, this book is the perfect way to help get someone's creative juices flowing. D.I.Y. Design it Yourself by Ellen Lupton. XOXO R
- A Retelling of the Cosmic Struggle between Good & Evil - with a Dash of Judeo-Christian Mythology & a Helping of Pop Culture Mythos. Jonathan Carroll's "Glass Soup" - FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
An ambitious retelling of the cosmic struggle between good and evil, with a little Judeo-Christian mythology and a smattering of popular culture mythos thrown in, make Carroll's latest a delicious dish—one that's lighter and better plotted than his White Apples...
- Help your forgetful friend get organized with a Birthday Book-Fashiontribes Gifting Blog
We all know someone who is terminally forgetful. Help your buddy sort out their schedule with this snazzy little Birthday Book-perfect to log in that important day for all your friends. Crisis Averted. XOXO R
- How Better to Get Up Close & Personal with a Pack of Irishmen than By Getting Trashed. Just Kidding, but Eric Roth's "The Parting Glass" is a Nostalgic Ramble Through 43 of the Best Pubs in Ireland. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
Ireland's pubs are legendary gathering-places for revelers to sing, dance, and share a little craic with their stout. Like many traditions entering a new century, Ireland's pub culture may now be endangered - even as the "Irish Pub" look and...
- The Number One Enemy of Your Finances? Yes, Those Innocuous Gadgets, Cars, Toys & Lil' Plastic Credit Cards Rather Uninnocuously Piling Up Your Debt. "Pay It Down!" Says Finance & Money Expert Jean Chatzky. You Can Do It. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
From Debt to Wealth on $10 a Day the rest of the title promises. Really? According to Chatzky, the average American family: has 16 - yes 16! - credit cards more than $8000 worth of debt By saving $10 each...
- Bruce Webber's gorgeous bok will make even the cynics love fashion-Fashiontribes Home Decor Blog
Bruce Webber's Blood Sweat and Tears, or how I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Fashion, is packed with some of the most glorious fashion images of our time. From Vogue shoots to never-been-seen treasures, this is definitely your new...
- Well It's About Time. "Blink" & "The Tipping Point" Author Malcolm Gladwell has Finally Started his Own Blog. FASHIONTRIBES POP CULTURE BLOG
In a recent entry in his blog, Gladwell notes: "In the past year I have often been asked why I don’t have a blog. My answer was always that I write so much, already, that I don’t have time to...
- Read "Vladimir Nabokov, Alphabet in Color" & Acquire the Man's Genius Talent. Not Really, But It's Still Interesting to See the Relationship Between Sound & Shape the Way He Did. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
Vladimir Nabokov saw letters in color - q was browner than k; s was not quite the light blue of c, but a curious mixture of azure and mother-of-pearl. If you've ever wondered how the colors Nabokov heard might manifest...
- You Looka So Thin. Mangia, Will Ya?! "Entertaining with the Sopranos" Has Everything You Need to be a Sicilian Crowdpleaser by Way of the New Jersey Suburbs. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
From Baptisms, to Communions, Confirmations, Graduations Parties, Bridal Shows, Receptions, Holidays, Birthdays & even Small Events for Women Only & Men Only, you don't have to sleep with the fishes to be a crowd-pleasing host or hostess. This helpful tome...
- Candide-Like Mayhem & Murder, Mixed with Abolitionism & More Mayhem Add Up to "The Amalgamation Polka" by Stephen Wright. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
After Liberty Fish, a Yankee born in 1844, visits his mother's ancestral Carolinian home, he is basically kidnapped by his Southern slave-owning grandfather, Asa, and taken aboard a blockade running ship bound for Nassau. The young man learns Candide-like lessons...
- Words Are Indeed Mightier Than the Sword, Especially Between a Teen & Her Mom. "You're Wearing That?" by Deborah Tannen Reads Between the Lines. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
The relationship between mother and daughter will continue to keep many a therapist in business & living large for, oh, pretty much the rest of known human existence. Deborah Tannen - author of hits like "You Just Don't Understand" and...
- Courtesans & Dwarves in the Italian Renaissance Make for a Delightful Tale in Sarah Dunant's "In the Company of the Courtesan" - FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
In their day, courtesans had all the fun. No wonder they're a staple of historical non-fiction & fiction alike. In The Birth of Venus author's second novel, the fabulous & celebrated courtesan Fiammeta & her pimp, Bucino Teodoldo, a hideous...
- Love Martha Stewart? Really, Who Doesn't. "Being Martha: The Inside Story of Martha Stewart and Her Amazing Life" Lets Us Peek Behind the Bad Press & Witness a Successful, Talented, Driven & Emotional Chica. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
I should state upfront that I majorly heart Martha, so I was naturally overjoyed to see this insider account of the divine Ms. M, penned by her longtime friend and former neighbor who watched the negative press coverage as she...
- Impress your man with some nitty-gritty baseball factage-Fashiontribes Book Blog
Baseball Prospectus 2006-The Ultimate Baseball insiders guide to stats. Editorial Reviews Book Description It’s the gold standard of statistical guides, lauded by insiders: “Baseball Prospectus is one of the first things I read every day.”—Theo Epstein, Boston Red Sox General...
- In "A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies" by Ellen Cooney set in 1900s Boston, A Proper Young Lady Doesn't Realize She's Lodging at, Well, a Reverse Brothel Where Proper Young Ladies Get Their Freak On. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
After catching her husband - the youngest son of a majorly wealthy family - in questionable circumstances with another woman, the until-recently bedridden Charlotte Heath quits her life and seeks out her only friend, who works as a cook at...
- Ah, Brooklyn, a Nice Quiet Place to Die...Not! "The Brooklyn Follies" sets the Record Straight on That & Other Matters in Local Boy Paul Auster's Latest Loveletter to His Fave Borough. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
From Tom, a cab driving former grad student on a spiritual quest to an over-the-top book dealer flogging fake manuscripts of The Scarlet Letter - to drag queens, greasy spoon waitresses & colorful locals - Auster once again deals up...
- What Keeps Unhappily Married Couples Together? From Illness to Inertia to Pure Spite, "Becomiong Strangers" by Louise Dean Lays it all Out with a Sharp Eye & an Equally Sharp Pen. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
Long-listed for the Man Booker, this look at two bad marriages - set in a Caribbean resort - shows the petty cruelties, neglect, boredom & lies that keep dying marriages on life support. Although the strongest moments occur when the...
- Book to impress with a Taschen World Atlas-Fashiontribes Book Blog
Taschen's Atlas Major-the most amazing way to impress a geography buff. The finest and most comprehensive baroque atlas was Joan Blaeu's exceptional Atlas Maior, completed in 1665. Covering Arctica, Europe, Asia and America, it was a remarkable achievement and remains...
- Immortalize the Family Name (Barnacle) & Inherit my Entire Estate. The Barnacle Sisters Compete with Each Other for a Fortune & the Boys Next Door in "A Taxonomy of Barnacles" by Galt Niederhoffer. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
Barry Barnacle (né Baranski), the "Pantyhose Prince", has five daughters: Bell, Bridget, Beth, Belinda, Beryl and Benita Barnacle - who range in age from 10 to 29 - but no sons. A social Darwinist, he announces at one Passover seder...
- An Orphan & her Grandfather Living Beneath the Himalayas in the 1980s on the Cusp of the Nepalese Bid for Independence in "The Inheritance of Loss". An Excellent Sophmore Effort from Kiran Desai. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
Jemubhai Popatlal is a retired Cambridge-educated judge who lives in Kalimpong, at the foot of the Himalayas, with his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, and his cook. They have a makeshift group of neighbors such as a posse of Anglophiles who are...
- American playwrite extraordinaire Sam Shepard has some amazing early works-Fashiontribes Book Blog
While many people are familier with Sam Shepard, some of his earlier works are lesser known. The Unseen Hand and Other Plays gives a little view into his past life. From Library Journal This duo offers a full-length play and...
- Juice Fast Your Way to Gorgeousness without Having to Head for the Himalayas, Check into a Fancy Spa, or Quit Your Job. FASHIONTRIBES BEAUTY BLOG
The human body has an incredible capacity for healing and longevity, and fasting gives it the well deserved vacation it needs to repair itself, and revamp your health from the inside out by cleansing, nourishing, rejuvenating & healing. Even just...
- Not up on your classics? Start with a little Joyce-Fashiontribes Book Blog
If your going to refresh the classics, you need to start with Joyce. The Portable James Joyce is a good place to start-a collection of some of his best. A good sample of Joyce , January 16, 2005 Reviewer: S....
- If "What About Bob?" Were Set in England & Involved a Mysterious Chick Instead of Bill Murray, as Well as More Sturm & Drang, You'd end up with Ali Smith's "The Accidental". FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
Before writing The Accidental, Ali Smith wrote Hotel World, shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and the Man Booker Prize, and several short story collections. Her work is absolutely original, with a trademark quirky style. When a mysterious and barefoot...
- Fashiontribes Faves: The Months best Pop Culture Moments for January 2006 -Fashiontribes Pop Culture Blog
American Idol *Is Kelly Clarkson a Music Hog"-Yeah, we are totally addicted. You got a problem with that? You know you love watching the talentless, semi-talented and other sing their hearts out. And, BTW, what is the deal with Kelly...
- Fashiontribes Faves: Our top Ten People, Rock Punk Edition-Fashiontribes Pop Culture Blog
Sienna Miller-We are so OVER Jude. Sienna is coming into her own with some serious acting (Cassanova, Factory Girl) a cool new look and the shedding of her boho-chic skin. On virtually every magazine this month, we can't get enough...
- Fashiontribes Faves: Our top Ten People, Downtown Doll Edition-Fashiontribes Pop Culture Blog
New Year, new ideas. Here at the FT, we are all about the people who are invading our thoughts. Each month we will present you with a list of our personal faves-Tribally, of course. So, with no further ado: Michelle...
- Hedi Slimane and music are like fish and water-inseperable-Fashiontribes Book Blog
Three things we love in one book-Photos of Musicians Performing, Hedi Slimane and clothes. Hedi Slimane STAGE. Book Description Over the past few years, Hedi Slimane’s ongoing design collaborations with musicians on their stage costumes has allowed him unfettered access...
- Don't Ask, Don't Tell....& Don't Be Shocked This Policy is a Disaster. Yale Law Prof Kenji Yoshino's Latest Book Explains How Our Civil Rights Are More Than What You Reveal; They Extend to Your Right to Reveal Who You Really Are. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
If you've felt pressured to "act white", anglicize your name, be "less feminine" at work, or avoid displays of affection with your same-sex partner in public - you understand what it means to hide who you truly are. While everyone...
- Who wouldn't want a little Rollins in their pocket? -Fashiontribes Book Blog
You already know we have a total crush on one Henry Rollins-how cool is it to have a pocket version? Check out The Portable Henry Rollins. Book Description Henry Rollins is an artist whose legendary, no-holds-barred performances encompasses music, acting,...
- Poets & Writers is more than a magazine-it's a foundation to help fund writers-Fashiontribes From The Heart Blog
Poets and Writers funds the written word in America. Good stuff, no? Poets & Writers, Inc. is the primary source of information, support, and guidance for creative writers. Founded in 1970, it is the nation's largest nonprofit literary organization. Our...
- One of the Fash Pack's Favorites, Richard Avedon, has a great book of portraits-Fashiontribes Book Blog
Richard Avedon Portraits-Raw, Beautiful and perfect. From Publishers Weekly The subject of an upcoming retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Avedon long ago entered the canon of fashion photography and modern portraiture. His trademark images of people standing against...
- Isn't it Time to Revisit Aladdin & His Magic Lamp? Operate Stealth with Ali Baba & the 40 Thieves? Set Sail with Sinbad the Sailor? Assouline's New Version of "The 1001 Nights" is as Gorgeous to Look at as It is to Read. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
When it was published in the 1920s, art publisher H. Piazza's version of The 1001 Nights was one of the most specular ever - containing illustrations of Mohammed Racim and miniatures by painter Leon Carre. Assouline new abridged version of...
- Emotion in Action ( a book within a book) is Lou Reed's foray into bookishness-Fashiontribes Book Blog
Anywhere Lou Reed goes we follow. Emotion in Action. Book Description "Like everything else I do my photos are about emotion. I'm interested in causing and recording emotion through action and interactive sequence, the sequence meant to tell a story...
- Double your pleasure with Marcel Duchamp-Man Ray- 50 years of Alchemy-Fashiontribes Book Blog
We love famous friends. Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp had a notorious history of friendship and collaboration. Check it out with Man Ray-Marcel Duchamp 50 Years of Alchemy. Book Description Drawn from several sources, this catalogue includes works by Marcel...
- Family Secrets, a Farm on the Border with Botswana & Apartheid All Come Toghether in the Hauntingly Beautiful "Skinner's Drift" by Lisa Fugard, daughter of South African Playwright Athol Fugard. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
After 10 years away in the US, 28 year old Eva van Rensburg returns to Johannesburg to care for her estranged & dying Afrikaner father. Through a series of flashbacks to Skinner's Drift - the farm where she grew up...
- Self Help, or Self Delusion? In Her New Book, "Self Help, Inc." Cultural Critic Micki McGee Exposes the Self Defeating Lies at the Heart of the Self Help Industry - and What We Can Do About Them. FASHIONTRIBES POP CULTURE & FASHION BLOG
(Author photo by Denise Malone copyright 2005) Like the diet industry, the self-help industry is a juggernaut. From books, to audiotapes, life-makeover seminars and regimens of all kinds, it just keeps growing & growing. So what does all this self-help...
- We love the Wilco-so natch, we need to have The Wilco Book-Fashiontribes Book Blog
Yes, we are Wilco addicts. Jeff Tweedy is a muse of sorts. The Wilco Book is packed with info on one of our favorite bands. Amazon.com Between all the critical acclaim, Greg Kot's book on the band, and the introspective...
- Sick of Being Spun to Death? You're Not Alone. People Are Hungry for Authenticity & Realness Rather than the Overproduced, Overstyled Lavishness That's So Common Now. An Interesting Pop Culture Podcast. FASHIONTRIBES POP CULTURE BLOG
Ron Mueck Susie Watson, a trend analyst, and Barb Luhring, a pop culture pundit, hold forth every week at Pop Goes the Culture! Their weekly podcasts cover everything from lame New Years Resolutions to celebs who "can't seem to act...
- For Anyone Who Feels Like They've Dated & Hated All Possibilities Within a 100 Mile Radius of Home, Maria Dahavana Headley's "The Year of Yes" Proves There's Hope...so Hang in There. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
After yet another budding relationship that ended up going nowhere, or yet another atrocious second (or third) date, who hasn't sworn off dating permanently, swearing allegiance to a life free of dreaded first dates? One frustrated morning, the 20-something NYU...
- Know Someone Who is Nutty About Peanut Butter? Encourage Them to Have it for Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner with The Peanut Butter & Co. Cookbook. FASHIONTRIBES GIFT BLOG
Filled with recipes for every meal, snack & munchie attack, it's also packed full of fun factoids, nostalgia, and even has a foreward by comedian Jerry Seinfeld. Available at ILovePeanutButter.com - Lesley Scott Fashiontribes The Peanut Butter & Co. Cookbook...
- Wish you caught Black Flag live? Me too! Get In The Van then-Fashiontribes Book Blog
The Man, the myth , the Rock legend: Get In The Van-On The Road With Black Flag by Henry Rollins. You can call Henry Rollins a lot of things, but do not (repeat, do not) call him lazy. Over the...
- Whatever it is One Does Outside the Box, It's High Time to Focus on Core Competencies, Customer Needs & Other Tried-&-True Business Notions That Actually Produce Results: Douglas Rushkoff's "Get Back in the Box" FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
Our unhealthy obsession with "outside the box" thinking has created a dubious cult of growth, competition, and less-than-traditional business strategies. According to Rushkoff, it's time to get back to basics: focus on what you're good at, give your customers what...
- Bound for Glory-Woody Guthrie's life story-is fascinating and animated-Fashiontribes Book Blog
Woody Guthrie was not only a musical pioneer, but an inspiration for generations of musicians after-Bob Dylan's first song was an ode to Mr. Guthrie (Song for Woody) and Wilco and Billy Bragg made 2 albums of lost Guthrie songs...
- Take a walk on the wild side-learn the inspiration for Lou Reed and his crazy songs with Lou Reed's photographs of New York-Fashiontribes Book Blog
Imagine Lou Reed's songs in photograph form. The soon to be released Lou Reed's New York is a collecction of the kooky genius's photos-we can't wait. Book Description After his first book of photographs was published, Lou Reed told a...
- Sir Paul does an adorable kids book-what can't this man do?-Fashiontribes Book Blog
All around Maverick Paul McCartney lends his hand to a childrens book. Inspired by his love of Classic Disney, one of the music gods must have done good-he is recieving tons of critical acclaim. High in the Clouds-Sir Paul McCartney....
- A Romp Through Late-Victorian Britain, Featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a Victimized Mixed-Race Lawyer & Unrequited Love. Julian Barnes's Latest: "Arthur & George" FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
Shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize, this latest tour de force from the author of Flaubert's Parrot brings together the internationally famous creator of Sherlock Holmes & an obscure, half Indian, half white country lawyer, George Edalji - son...
- Tim Hawkinson's brainy and personal art is our contemporary fave-Fashiontribes Book Blog
From Ballpoint red pens made into a bloody, decapitated index finger tip to a construction paper explosion, Tim Hawkinson is amazing. After a successful Whitney Retrospective, the fairly young man is sailing atop the art world, and we couldn't be...
- Amy Hempel's Collection of Stories - "The Dog of the Marriage" - Looks at Love from all the Angles & Gets at the Essentials: Good, Bad, Ugly, Indifferent & the Completely Fabulous. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
Narrated by women who eavesdrop on the neighbors and hire animal psychics to track down their missing pets, Hempel's latest story collection unfurls its singular visions with off-kilter crankiness. Whether the characters are dealing with uncertainties, annoyances or tragedy, Hempel...
- Love his giant soft sculptures? Check out Claes Oldenberg: An Anthology to see the complete picture-Fashiontribes Book Blog
We love Claes Oldenberg's crazy creations-giant soft sculpture drums, shuttlecocks, boxing gloves and more. Don't know enough about this mad scientist? Check out Claes Oldenberg: An Anthology. It is a complete picture of an artist we adore. Clas Oldenberg /...
- Know an Aspiring Host or Hostess with the Mostest? Help Matters Along with the Gift of Knowledge: Party Maven Nan Kempner's Recipe, Menu & Dish-Filled "R.S.V.P." FASHIONTRIBES BOOK & GIFT BLOG
Socialite & globetrotter Nan Kempner knew her parties. As part of the Park Avenue haut monde, Nan Kempner entertained, and was entertained, by a heady mixture of the socially high and mighty. In R.S.V.P.: Menus for Entertaining from people Who...
- Egon Schiele had a delicate yet violent way with his women-check it out in Egon Schiele: Drawings & Watercolours-Fashiontribes Book Blog
Egon Schiele possesed his amazing drawings with a delicate and violent beauty that, at least in my humble eyes, has never since been matched. In my book collection, of course then, is Egon Schiele Drawings & Watercolours-a complete look at...
- Picture This: You're a Pot-Smoking, 40 Something Depressive Who Killed Your Son in a Car Accident - and Are Now Punishing Yourself in Myriad Ways, Including Pretending to be Wheelchair-Bound. Dennis Cooper's "God Jr." FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
Jim has been an emotional mess ever since that terrible day a year ago when he got into a car accident that killed his teenage son, Tommy. Since then, Jim gets around in a wheelchair, but he has a secret:...
- Our fave art-fashion collective, Tsubi, releases a book we love-Fashiontribes Book Blog
Skinny Jeans, sublime knits and a good Book? Sounds like Tsubi can do no wrong. The Tsubi Book Successful streetwear label Tsubi have decided to launch its pictorial memoirs simply entitled 'Tsubi book'. Having presented their collections in controversial and...
- Realism at it's best: James Rosenquist: Time Dust gives the complete graphic portrait of a master-Fashiontribes Book Blog
When I moved to New York, the first art I saw was Rosenquists F-111. It was positioned as you walked off the escalators of the old MOMA, introducing you to their collection of Pop Art. Impressed, as a term, does...
- How Do You Spot a Robot Mimicking a Human? Deactivate a Rebel Servant Robot? Evade a Swarm of Marauding Robotic Flies? "How To Survive a Robot Uprising" is the Must-Have Survival Guide for the New Millenium. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
In this uncomfortably humorous survival guide, Daniel H. Wilson, a Ph.D. candidate at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, reminds readers that "any machine could rebel, from a toaster to a Terminator," and though the forms our future robot...
- Complete your week of how to reading with a handy-dandy guide to play guitar-Fashiontribes From The Heart Blog
If your gonna sing in your imaginary band, why not strum along as well? How To Play Guitar-Everything You Need to Know to Play the Guitar Should do ya. Book Description In How to Play Guitar guitar players of all...
- Kurt Vonnegut's Witty "A Man Without a Country" Asks Not What His Country Can Do For Him, But What the Hell's Wrong with His Countrymen? FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
Kurt Vonnegut is among the very few grandmasters of contemporary American letters, without whom the very term "American literature" would mean less than it does. His novels include Cat's Cradle, Timequake and Slaughterhouse Five. A Man Without a Country is...
- Expand your horizons this year with a whole new voice-Try Singing for Dummies-Fashiontribes Book Blog
What better way to kick off the new year than by starting a band and fronting it yourself. Tone Deaf? Try Singing For Dummies. Book Description Ah, there’s just nothing better than singing in the shower. The acoustics are perfect...
- From Bad Tempered Pets to Strange Attractions, Work, S-E-X, Art, Knitting, Wrestling & Other Everyday Activities, David Shrigley's "The Book of Shrigley" Filled w/ Dark & Hilarious Scribbles Deals With It All. FASHIONTRIBES GIFT BLOG
SproutHome.com - Lesley Scott Fashiontribes Fashiontribes Files Gift Sprout Home David Shrigley's The Book of Shrigley Humor Fashion Pop Culture Fashion Expert
- Treat yourself to a buff bod by learning to surf this year-Fashiontribes Book Blog
This summer, I intend to look hotly bikini ready. The best and most fun way to do so? Surfing, natch! The Complete Guide To Surfing should suffice as my guide. From the Back Cover With its comprehensive text and brilliant...
- A Firsthand Account from Tokyo's Near Future of Surviving Implanted Electrodes Which Decipher Coded Messages. Haruki Murakami's "Hard-Boiled Wonderland & the End of the World" is Serious Fiction That's Seriously Good. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
The last surviving victim of an experiment that implanted the subjects' heads with electrodes that decipher coded messages is the unnamed narrator of this excellent book by Murakami, one of Japan's best-selling novelists and winner of the prestigious Tanizaki prize....
- Like your toppers? Learn how to design and make them yourself-Fashiontribes Book Blog
Lately, my fixation is hattage. I enjoy me many a good hat. My newest ambition, therefore, is to learn to make my own hats-particularly little pill boxes and vintage-inspired hats. My guide? The Hat Book-Creating Hats for Every Occasion. Good...
- Start the new year with new hobbies-Learn to knit with a handy guide!-Fashiontribes Book Blog
Always wanted to do the handmade scarf thing? Me too. Enter Learn To Knit-the perfect guide to help you learn the crafty hobby. Book Description Creative Arts & Crafts’ Learn to Knit helps readers learn the most popular needle craft...
- I'll See You & Raise You Five. Learn 14 Different Poker Games with Poker Night. Poker Table Lingo Learned Separately. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
Turn a quiet evening at home into Poker Night with Poker Night: All You Need to Bet, Bluff & Win by Scott McNeely. It comes complete with chips, cards, cheat sheets, and instructions for 14 different poker games -- and...
- Movie Star extraordinaire, Paula Deen, schools me and my New Years Resolution in Country Cooking-Fashiontribes Book Blog
-The Lady and Sons Country Cookbook Collection- Best of the Southern Cooking cookbooks, August 2, 2004 Reviewer: Sandra Williams (Pasadena,MD) As the owner of 74 cookbooks I would rate Paula Deen's cookbooks as consistantly having the best tasting & easiest...
- Stephen Hawking's Latest Astronomy Porn "What's Out There" Features Pix of Dwarfs (White), Pulsars, Nebulas & Other Assorted Drool-worthy Star Matter. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
One breathless Amazon reviewer praised What's Out There: Images From Here to the Edge of the Universe as: "Another fascinating picture book for star gazers and astronomy buffs to look at and drool! This collection of one hundred eighty spectacular...
- Quirky Cooking? Count me In! Alton Brown gives me fun lessons in my resolution to learn more about cooking in the New Year-Fashiontribes Book Blog
-I'm Just Here For the Food- Amazon.com Alton Brown, host of Food Network's Good Eats, is not your typical TV cook. Equal parts Jacques Pépin and Mr. Science, with a dash of MacGyver, Brown goes to great lengths to get...
- You can't keep your cookbooks in fine order without something to prop them up while you are cooking-Rachel's Lifestyle Resolution: Organize your house in the New Year-Fashiontribes Home Decor Blog
Let's be real. If I am going to follow through with my crazy idea to actually start cooking in the New Year, I best have a way to read the recipe without ruining my books. The only way I can...
- As humour will no doubt be a key ingredient in my cooking experience, the WASP cookbook is ideal for my resolution adventures in cooking-Fashiontribes Book Blog
-The WASP Cookbook- Right into the time capsule for future WASPs, March 14, 2002 Reviewer: Catherine S. Vodrey (East Liverpool, Ohio United States) Alexandra Wentworth isn't such a WASP that she'll say no to marrying for love (specifically, marrying former...
- It's High Time to Get Caught up on the True History of the Arctic Peoples with Robert McGhee's "Last Imaginary Place: A Human History of the Arctic World" - FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
The myth of the Arctic as an untouched wilderness penetrated only by the most intrepid of adventurers and populated by primitive peoples who had to be tamed along with their wilderness takes a beating in this refreshing primer from McGhee,...
- Help a Green Thumb Get Her Garden on with Gayla Trail's "You Grow Girl" Book - a Guide to Transforming Everything from a Suburban Backyard to a Teensy Fire Escape into a Lush Green Respite. FASHIONTRIBES GIFT BLOG
Along with all the ins-and-outs of soil, seeds, sowing and growing, You Grow Girl is chock full of fun and funky projects that make gardening more than just growing plants. Learn to grow and bag DIY tea, make hand salve...
- Giada di Laurentiis and Everyday Italian will certainly aid my quest to heed a new resolution of improving my cooking skills-Fashiontribes Book Blog
-Everday Italian- In her hit Food Network show Everyday Italian, Giada De Laurentiis shows you how to cook delicious, beautiful food in a flash. And here, in her long-awaited first book, she does the same—helps you put a fabulous dinner...
- Jamie's Kitchen-a fun way for me to prompt my desire to learn to cook int he new year-Fashiontribes Book Blog
-Jamie's Kitchen- A Culinary Inspiration, October 23, 2003 Reviewer: B. Marold (Bethlehem, PA United States) It is difficult to evaluate this book without opinions' being colored by seeing Jamie Oliver's experiences in nurturing fifteen (15) young needful men and women...
- The History & Consequences - both Literal & Figurative - of Erasing Architecture is the Subject of Jeff Byles's Fascinating "Rubble: Unearthing the History of Demolition". FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
"What makes the subject of demolition so rich and compelling is that it both attracts and repels," Jeff Byles, author of Rubble: Unearthing the History of Demolition recently told Time Out New York (December 15-28,2005). "It was that mystery at...
- "If Oprah Winfrey & Bob Villa Had a Kid, Their Offspring Would be Norma [Vally]" - Author of "Chix Can Fix" FASHIONTRIBES HOME DECOR BLOG
CNN.com had the right idea about the former model and personal trainer-turned handywoman as the Discovery Home Channel's Toolbelt Diva. Her motto: "Honey, do it yourself!" Her new book Chix Can Fix (Viking Studio/Penguin Group; out March 2006) offers more...
- In Case of Broken Heels, Unstitched Hems, Tiny Tears & Other Causes of Ruined Interviews & Embarassing First Dates, the Prepared Fashionista Can Break Open the "Fashion Emergency Kit" from Plum Party. FASHIONTRIBES GIFT BLOG
Not all fashion emergencies result in a reality show crack team showing up on your doorstep to make you over. So, unless you're surprising your recipient with a visit from the Queer Eye lads or What Not to Wear, this...
- Are Men Necessary? Maureen Dowd Considers This Question at Length & Comes Up with Amusing Anecdotes & Breezy Bon Mots Along the Way. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
With hands on hips and eyes wide open, Dowd surveys gender relations in contemporary settings such as the workplace, the White House, the mall, and the media, comparing and contrasting as she goes. And while her secondary sources are endless--and,...
- Truth & Beauty, a look into the ties that are formed and broken by a friendship strained, will warm your heart this Christmas-Fashiontribes Book Blog
-Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett- In Truth & Beauty, her frank and startlingly intimate first work of nonfiction, Ann Patchett shines a fresh, revealing light on the world of women's friendships and shows us what it means to stand...
- Lucy Grealy's Touching and intense memoir, Autobiography of a Face, will leave you with insights on self that you never had before-Fashiontribes Book Blog
-Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy's memoir- Amazon.com At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. In...
- A Fun & Friendly Bitchslap of the Williamsburg Indie Music Scene Which We All Know Takes Itself Way Too Seriously - in "Gary Benchley, Rock Star" by Harper's Editor Paul Ford. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
Recent college grad & indie Rock God wannabe Gary Benchley ditches Albany for hipster central Williamsburg, Brooklyn to “rock out.” Unfortunately, he discovers that it’s a “terrible time to rock, but a terrific time for data entry.” While temping, he...
- From Mens Mags to a heart-aching father-son story, Lads is tender, humourous and fascinating-Fashiontribes Book Blog
-Lads by David Itzkoff- From Booklist Arriving on the New York publishing scene in 1998 with a newly minted liberal-arts degree from Princeton, Itzkoff seized the moment and moved back into his parents' suburban home. And that was his best...
- After reading A Million Little Pieces, diving into My Friend Leonard should be a treat-Fashiontribes Book Blog
-My Friend Leonard by James Frey- Amazon.com In the bold and heartbreaking My Friend Leonard, James Frey picks up the story of his extraordinary life pretty much where things left off in his breakout bestseller and Amazon.com Best Book of...
- Industrial Spies, Hackers, Russian Mobsters, Techno Archeologists, Internet Fan Boys, a Buzz Rickson's Jacket & a Heroine w/a Serious Allergy to the Michelin Man...It's William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition" FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
I love a good book where the threads are the star of the show. While he probably didn't do it intentionally, the coolhunting heroine of William Gibson's Pattern Recognition, Cayce Pollard, sports a tough black Buzz Rickson's MA-1Flying Jacket (in...
- Give Your Budding Fashionista a Leg Up By Instilling a Craving for Cashmere Early On with the Tale of a Family of Mongolian Cashmere Goats in "Cashmere If You Can". FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
Hijinks are promised as the Hohhot family of goats climb the fashion foodchain at Saks Fifth Avenue's flagship NYC store. SaksFifthAvenue.com - Lesley Scott Fashiontribes Cashmere If You Can Saks Fifth Avenue Books & Literature Children's Book New York Fashion...
- More Known for Stuffy British'ness and, of late, Keira Knightley as the Hip New Face of the House, Asprey Gives Surprisingly Good Gift. FASHIONTRIBES GIFT BLOG
(Photo from KKWaveFront.org) Sure they carry five-figure exotic skin handbags, painfully tasteful watches, and exquisite saddles that should up the level of your polo game, but who knew Asprey carried an extensive line of rare & fine books? Pick up...
- Tag Along on a 30 Year Ride Through Manhattan a with former Smalltown Ohio boy. In "Gone to New York" You'll Meet NYC's Larger-Than-Life Types, Check Out Fun Street Scenes & Soak Up the Inimitable Gotham Vibe. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
In the early 1970s, Ian Frazier left a small town in Ohio to move to a loft in lower Manhattan. Gone to New York is his account of the city over the thirty years he's lived there, featuring street scenes...
- If you can escape reading Leo Buscaglia's Seven Stories of Christmas Love with dry eyes, you are clearly hard of heart-Fashiontribes Book Blog
Dr. Buscaglia shares seven holiday episodes from his life and reminds us that Christmas can last more than one day. Peace, joy, and goodwill are not seasonal; they are life-sustaining, life-enhancing, hopeful words that should be spoken, sung, and practiced...
- Think you know the meaning of no rest for the weary? Think about how America's teachers feel-Dave Eggers gives a scarily accurate peak into the lives of our educational professionals with Teachers Have It Easy-Fashiontribes Book Blog
From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. This book provides a punchy, thoughtful look at the issues surrounding teacher salaries in the public school system. And while it is openly biased on the subject-the authors see salary reform as the best way...
- Charmed, I'm Sure. "The Charm of Charms" Book is a Quick 'n Easy, Return-Proof No-Brainer for the Accessory Queen in Your Life. FASHIONTRIBES GIFT BLOG
This look at the story of jewelry charms is as gorge as it is interesting. Horchow.com - Lesley Scott Fashiontribes Fashiontribes Files Gift Books & Literature The Charm of Charms by Jade Albert & Ki Hackney Jewelry Horchow Accessories Fashion...
- Fake Your Way to Culinary Fabulousness with "The Silver Spoon" - Italy's Cooking "Bible" for the Past 50 Years & Finally Translated & On These Shores. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
Since it was first published in 1950, Italy's version of The Joy of Cooking has been a bestseller and it's easy to see why: over 2000 recipes emphasizing fresh, seasonal ingredients - most all of which are available at a...
- Our favorite press (that would be Greybull, thanks) has a feature on The Photographs of Ron Galella-and Mr. Tom Ford writes the intro-Fashiontribes Book Blog
-The Photographs of Ron Galella- Voyeur. Bandit. Hound. Ron Galella has been called every name in the book. In 1955, fresh out of the United States Air Force, he became a paparazzo--and redefined the genre. From his notoriously obsessive treatment...
- Jonesing for some nostalgia? Pick up Shel Silverstein's A Light in the Attic-the poems will bring you straight back to those sunny childhood memories-Fashiontribes book Blog
Last night while I lay thinking here Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear And pranced and partied all night long And sang their same old Whatif song: Whatif I flunk that test? Whatif green hair grows on my chest? Whatif...
- With a new movie out starring Kate Bosworth and Richard Gere, it's time to re-read Myla Goldberg's excellent debut, Bee Season-Fashiontribes Book Blog
I am certainly not a classified fan of modern fiction, but I adore Myla Goldberg's Bee Season, because it does that heart string-tugging thing that makes a book warm and delicious. The coming -of-age story is somehow relatable, no matter...
- Become a Vertible MacGuyver with "The Book of Cool" - 3 DVDs & a 320 Page Book of Mad Skillz & Tricks from Extreme Skateboarding to Pool Shots to Magic Tricks. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
Become a card shark. Whip up tasty beverages like your fave bartender. Learn from the world's best pen twirler...the possibilities are endless! Talk about something that could seriously add to the quality of your journey through life. BookOfCool.com - Lesley...
- 80's icon and poloroid artist Maripol launches her new book-a catalog of 80's icons in poloroid form-with panache, at Nom de Guerre Brooklyn Friday December 9th-Fashiontribes pop Culture Blog
MARIPOLARAMA Come meet me, drink, and be merry!! XOXO Rachel Fashiontribes Fashion Fashiontribes Fashion Expert Style Lifestyle Books Books and Literature Maripol Maripolarama Nom de Guerre Shopping
- Ralph Lauren's "diary of a Collection" breaks down Ralph's fashion life-an ideal gift for your fave fashionista-and donates all it's proceeds to the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention in Harlem-Fashiontribes From The Heart Blog
-Ralph Lauren Diary of a Collection- Printed in a limited edition of just 3000, "Diary of a Collection" follows the creative process behind the Fall 2005 Women's Collection--from inspiration to runway--as told in the words of Ralph Lauren himself. Included...
- O. Henry penned the ultimate story of selflessness and giving at Christmas-The Gift of The Magi will forever be my favorite Christmas Tale-Fashiontribes Book Blog
-O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi- One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies.... Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.In...
- Want to Laugh So Hard, You'll Snort Milk Through Your Nose? Roddy Doyle's Barrytown Trilogy Set in 1980s Working Class Dublin is Humor Medicine Extraordinaire. FASHIONTRIBES BOOK BLOG
A hilarious trilogy about the Rabbitte family of Dublin - a rowdy, raucous working class clan - the juicy slang is worth the price of admission alone. In The Commitments Jimmy Rabbitte Jr. is tring to form a soul band....
- John Lennon Remembered-Real Love: The Drawings for Sean is a tender book of Lennon's illustrations for his beloved son-Fashiontribes Pop Culture Blog
John Lennon Truly believed in peace. My Mother bought me this book, Real Love: The Drawings for Sean, as a gift for one of my younger birthdays. The simple drawings-some done for Sean, some done with Sean are a tribute...
- Remembering John Lennon-John Lennon: The New York Years is an excellent peek into John Lennon's life that has never been published before-Fashiontribes Pop Culture Blog
JOHN LENNON: THE NEW YORK YEARS Published to coincide with the 25th anniversary of John Lennon's death and the 65th anniversary of his birth, this is an intimate album of photographs, most never published before, of Lennon in his last...
- With the rise of fantasy novels, o
