Culture: Fashion and Beauty
Currently listing articles 247-201:
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TV Review: Project Runway - Season Five, Episode One— Season Five of Bravo's hit show Project Runway begins with one not-so-delicious challenge.
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Book Review: Casual Elegant Knits - Classy Designs for Men and Women by Faina Goberstein and Dawn Leeseman— Surprisingly stylish, semi-simple knits for men and women.
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Book Review: Cable Confidence - A Guide to Textured Knitting by Sara Louise Harper— A great guide for knitting complex cable patterns.
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Gwen Stefani's Harajuku Lovers Clothes Line At Macy's— Harajuku Lovers has been successful in part to America’s open embrace of what it represents: another culture and freedom of creative expression.
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Book Review: Signature Scarves by Nicky Epstein— Scarves - they're not just for beginners anymore.
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Do Women Prefer the Bad Boy?— Science proves what everyone has known for years: jerks always get the girl.
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Book Review: Knit So Fine - Designs with Skinny Yarn by Myers, Grutzeck, and Sulcoski— Skinny yarns make for beautiful knits.
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Book Review: Inspired to Knit - Creating Exquisite Handknits by Michele Rose Orne— Beautiful, feminine, and intricate designs for the advanced knitter.
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TasteTV: Yosh Han on Chocolate Perfumes— Yosh Han talks about her incredible chocolate perfumes on TasteTV's Chocolate Television.
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Some Musings on Sex and the City: The Movie— It's not a great movie, and I'm not exactly sure why.
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Book Review: Tweed - More Than 20 Contemporary Designs to Knit by Nancy J. Thomas— Classic knits for a classic yarn.
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Book Review: Fashion 101 - A Crash Course In Clothing by Erika Stalder— An informative fashion guide that highlights the clothing essentials with colorful artwork and fun facts.
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Book Review: Retro Knits by Kari Cornell and Jean Lampe— A great collection of vintage patterns, updated for the modern knitter.
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Video Training Review: High-End Industry Retouching Techniques: Series One With Vitaly Druchinin— If you want to really learn the techniques of the high fashion photographers then you need to check out High-End Industry Retouching Techniques: Series One.
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TasteTV Top 5 Report
— The TasteTV Top 5 Report features chocolate art, Bray wine, chef movies, sexy chocolate dresses, and Hardwear by Renee.
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Get Earth Day Friendly with Earth-Friendly Products and Fashions— Take a look at these new eco-chic and environmentally conscious products.
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Interview: Big Green Purse Challenges Women to Embrace Conscious Consumerism— Diane MacEachern's new book challenges women to use their Big Green Purse to buy sustainable products and support eco-conscious companies.
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PC Game Review: Fashion Solitaire— A fun alternative to standard solitaire, but not worth paying $20 for poor graphics.
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Book Review: Creators - From Chaucer and Dürer to Picasso and Disney by Paul Johnson— "It is frightening to enter your workroom early in the morning and face an empty canvas, a blank sheet of paper, or a score sheet..."
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Satire: Jane Austen At SmashBox, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week — Weary of another season in Bath, Jane Austen accompanies B.C.'s Literary Fashionista to the collections in Los Angeles.
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Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week: A Runway Of Black, Grey, and Greyer— Is color dead? BC's literary fashionista finds out at Fashion Week.
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Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week: How Green Is Green?— Eco-fashion hits the runway in image-conscious Los Angeles.
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Book Review: Twinkle's Weekend Knits by Wenlan Chia— Bulky, fashion-forward knits are great for a quick project, but don't offer much in the way of unique designs.
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Law & Order Chooses Character Over Couture, Cashmere Mafia...— Given the choice, I'd always choose characters and stories over clothes. Others may feel differently.
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Fifteen, Punk, and Slightly Feminine— A look at the stereotypes men and women have against each other.
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Book Review: Fashion - A History from the 18th to the 20th Century, edited by The Kyoto Costume Institute— Think that fashion has gone the way of all flesh? Take a look at these books.
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Book Review: Entertaining at the White House with Nancy Reagan by Peter Schifando and J. Jonathan Joseph— White House entertaining has an important role in history. This gorgeous book illustrates that role.
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Book Review: Sensual Knits, Edited by Yahaira Ferreira— Sensual Knits offers classic, wearable knits, perfect for the new generation of knitters.
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Product Review: Sexy Beast Doggie Perfume— Pamper your pup this holiday season.
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TV Review: Fashionably Late with Stacy London Season Premiere— Friday nights are Ladies Nights with Stacy London.
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Book Review: The Tokyo Look Book - Stylish To Spectacular, Goth To Gyaru, Sidewalk To Catwalk by Philomena Keet and Yuri Manabe— The Tokyo Look Book is an entertaining and useful look into the fashions of Tokyo - from couture to crazy.
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Aesthetics: Appealing to More— Aesthetics is changing due to a new desirable class and technological advances.
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Stylized Sculpture: Contemporary Japanese Fashion from the Kyoto Costume Institute
— An exhibit at The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco.
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Run's House & BC Magazine are Giving Away... Sneakers?!?— That's right, we've got a pair of sneaks to giveaway. Stop looking at me like that, you know you want them.
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Finally Figuring Out What I Want to Be When I Grow Up
— My calling is fashion and philanthropy in New York.
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Finding The Right Jeans— There are a lot of places with great jeans, but not every jean is for every body type.
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Interview: Big, Bold Jewelry from Ninaki Priddy— Ninaki presents a collection of big, bold cocktail rings based in architecture.
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TV Review: Beauty Addicts: How Toxic Are You?— A UK television documentary is full of misinformation and missed opportunity.
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Fashion Foibles at the Taping of Fashionably Late with Stacy London
— Although thrilled to receive confirmation for my admittance to the taping, the stipulations for attire sent me into an agonizing fashion frenzy.
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Tangos for Evita— How can we know the dancer from the dance?
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NY Fashion Week for W Scene on LX.TV— W Hotels takes us inside Fashion Week New York and into the W Hotels Backstage Lounge.
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LX.TV Visits Tinto Tapas Espana and Smythson on Rodeo Drive— This week, tapas take a turn for the better, and the Brits bring luxury to Los Angeles.
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Book Review: Fashion, Fine Shoulders and Poiret at the Metropolitan Museum of Art— The man who "dethroned the primacy and destabilized the paradigm of Western fashion."
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Interview With Treea Cracknell, Designer of Sleep With Modesty— Designer Treea Cracknell talks about her background and the inspiration for her designs.
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Interview With Designer Jules Sherman— Jules Sherman creates stylish and unique accessories - in rubber.
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Couture Rocks!— Rock Bands brings a little bit of rock n' roll to your wardrobe - even if you are timid.
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The Emperor’s New Baggy Pants— We don’t need laws to enforce decency. We need a society that refuses to accommodate the indecent.
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