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Winter Beauty Survival

picture via chicks57 After about 25 years of taking care of my own skin and general well-being (including the appearance) of my self, I have gradually improved upon my knowledge of what is necessary and what is unnecessary in the maintenance and improvement thereof. Here is the inside look into what I do to myself [...]

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The Best Liquid Eyeliner

Get those Hilary Rhoda retro/mod eyes the Estee Lauder Way! That’s right; my favorite liquid liner is officially Double Wear by Estee Lauder. Thanks to my mother for introducing it to me. It is long-wearing, non-smudging, and has a precision applicator that is just perfection. Also, the black is a really black black, and not [...]

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Thoughts on the New Gap Holiday Campaign

Is it just me or do they just make the same striped stuff every year? I still love seeing my favorite celebrities being glammed up as if they were models. That’s just yummy, and that’s really all the Gap is good for nowadays if you ask me. But they have to find another hook for [...]

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Jay McCarroll is alive and well!

Yes, folks, the ultra-talented and ultra-entertaining first winner of Project Runway is now selling stuff through his new website! There is also a new documentary about him that is currently making the festival circuits. He has also been teaching fashion design at Philadelphia University. On top of all this he has designed a dress made [...]

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Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show

by Jenna Rocca Don’t forget to tune in on Wednesday, December 3, at 10 Eastern time on CBS, for the fashion spectacular of the year! So Christmasy, magic-ey, and over-the top; it always gets me into the spirit of the season. See some teaser shots here (above, Julia Stegner returns to the lineup). The musical [...]

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Mad Men in Vogue!

Look for Jon Hamm of Mad Men with Catherine McNeil in December’s issue of Vogue, photographed by Mario Testino. In case you have been dead for the past year, Jon is the star of the sleeper hit TV show Mad Men which is a multi-award winning AMC TV drama about marketing executives in 1960s New [...]

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R.I.P. Randy Johnston

The fashion world has another casualty. What happened to Randy Johnston? The beautiful, 20-year old model appears in the latest i-d magazine with Lara Stone but has died suddenly and no one knows why.

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Change we can dress for!

by Jenna Rocca With a new first lady poised for her throne in the white house, I’m having hot flashes alternating with images of Jackie Kennedy (left), and I’m not the only one talking about this, I must concede. The presidency of JFK not only defined the state of mind of a whole generation, but [...]

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Ungaro at MAC

by Jenna Rocca and Henna Presenting the new collection at MAC as executed in its ad/press photo. Pretty pretty, huh? That’s cos’ its spearheaded by Emanuel Ungaro‘s wunderkind of a new captain Esteban Cortazar, who was supposedly discovered by Chris Ciccone (Madonna’s brother, according to his dumb book). I love the styling in the photographs, [...]

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The Return of Ziggy Stardust

By Jenna Rocca Some S/S 09 collections have featured, very prominently, if not blatantly, Bowie-inspired garb and styling. I’m loving it. Nothing beats Natalia Vodianova (below) in drag. I nearly passed out when I saw the photo below wherein she has his Ziggy Stardust’s trademark red hair. This trend was featured most notably in the [...]

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