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Ins and Outs for 2009

Julia Plevin | Posted 01.01.2009 | Style


Julia Plevin

Here are some Ins and Outs for the New Year. Even though the economic downturn and war in the middle east are on our radars right now, I believe that ...

Cut-Out Dresses: One Way To Look Hot When It's Cold

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.29.2008 | Style


WWD has declared the cut-out dress a trend, deeming it the most practical way to stay sexy in frosty conditions. "Baby, it's cold outside," Ray Char...

The New Beauty

Natalia Rose | Posted 12.23.2008 | Living


Natalia Rose

Instead of continuing to value youth for the sake of youth and flawlessness for the sake of flawlessness, we are starting to let go of commonly held ideals of external beauty.

Tailors Give New Life To Old Clothes

dailymail.co.uk | Charlotte Kemp | Posted 12.08.2008 | Style


With the dark cloud of recession looming, what better investment is there than to have a favourite piece remade? Apsley Tailors in Pall Mall has certa...

Kafeyah Scarf Now Trendy With Iranian Youth

guardian.co.uk | Robert Tait | Posted 12.01.2008 | Style


For nearly 30 years its distinctive chequered pattern has been a sacrosanct symbol of Iran's Islamic revolution and an essential garment for its most ...

Uniqlo Heat Tech Human Vending Machine

Dave Pinter | Posted 11.20.2008 | Business


Dave Pinter

PSFK stopped by Times Square earlier today to check out Uniqlo's Human Vending Machine for their HEATTECH apparel line.

We Thought Thigh Highs Were Only Okay For Halloween

Michelle Madhok | Posted 10.31.2008 | Style


Michelle Madhok

Recently, we saw a style we first thought was an early Halloween costume: black thigh highs and a mini, a là bad ass school girl.

Christian Louboutin To Produce First 8-Inch Stiletto

dailymail.co.uk | Sadie Nicholas | Posted 10.20.2008 | Style


Indeed, with shoe fashions becoming ever more extreme - designer Christian Louboutin yesterday announced his plans to produce a pair of 8in tall stile...

Is That Obama You're Wearing?

Women's Health | Kristen Dollard and Nicole Kwan | Posted 10.17.2008 | Style


Is that Obama you're wearing? If Palin fans are all about her coif du jour, us Obamaites are focused on wearing Barack close to the vest, literally....

The Porntastic Aesthetic Of American Apparel

International Herald Tribune | Ben Seidler | Posted 10.06.2008 | Style


Harrison, of British GQ, describes her first encounter with an American Apparel ad: "There it was, just as it was. A nubile girl in a pair of white-st...

Obama Fashion Fever In Paris (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Willow Lindley | Posted 10.03.2008 | Style


While Sasha Baron Cohen tried to steal the show at designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac's Spring 2009 presentation during Paris Fashion Week, he faile...

90s Era Negligees Hit Paris Fashion Week

The New York Times | Ruth La Ferla | Posted 10.03.2008 | Style


Paris showed its teasing side in lingerie-inspired designs that expressed a steamy -- and sometimes dark and sultry -- vision of spring....

The Business Of Being A Hipster

Refinery29 Pipeline | Gabriel Bell | Posted 10.03.2008 | Style


You'll like this one: In an article in Forbes and syndicated on Racked, one writer took in the scene outside the Fashion Week presentation for Edun. "...

Jamie-Lynn Sigler Predicts A Lot Of Purple For Fall

AP | ERIN CARLSON | Posted 09.05.2008 | Style


NEW YORK — Many stylish women worship the color black, but not Jamie-Lynn Sigler. The 27-year-old actress, also known as Meadow from "The Sopra...

The Second Coming Of Vinyl

New York Times | Alex Williams | Posted 09.02.2008 | Style


The ranks of vinyl devotees are growing. Lately, the anachronistic LP has experienced an unlikely spike in sales, decades after the mainstream music i...

Sheer Exposure: Showing Skin Is Totally In

Refinery29.com | Posted 08.25.2008 | Style


Apparently the exposed side bra wasn't enough. Ever since Genevieve Jones showed up to the 303 Gallery opening in a see-through lace sheath, we've see...

The Death Of Trends: Part III

The JC Report | Erin Magner | Posted 08.19.2008 | Style


This piece was originally published on JCReport.com. For the past two weeks, we have analyzed the shift from overarching seasonal trends to a constan...

The Summer Playsuit: An Endorsement

Huffington Post | Posted 08.18.2008 | Style


This week's "Ask Hadley" column in The Guardian addresses the Great Playsuit Debate: are playsuits/rompers/onesies/whatever you choose to call them sa...

The Death Of Trends: Part II

The JC Report | Erin Magner | Posted 08.12.2008 | Style


This piece was originally published on JCReport.com. Last week, we introduced the first in a series of articles about the changing face of fashion tr...

The Death Of Trends: Part I

JC Report | Erin Magner | Posted 08.05.2008 | Style


This piece was originally published on JCReport.com. Back in February 1988, Vogue's "Point of View" column constantly alluded to the "right" style. P...

Doing Less With Less

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 07.29.2008 | Business


<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

What is less well recognized is that in response to the economy, Americans are doing a number of things less as they strive to manage the heck out of a challenging situation.

How Hollywood/Media Have Lost Complete Sight of its Female Audience and Why Women Will Follow

Patricia Handschiegel | Posted 07.28.2008 | Media


Patricia Handschiegel

Confidential to media: Your idea of what women are and what we seek in leaders, role models and entertainment is about as on target these days as Microsoft's Vista operating system.

How Obama Could Create a Long-Term Democratic Majority

Paul Loeb | Posted 02.02.2008 | Home


Paul Loeb

If Clinton is nominated, the Obama momentum will likely crumble. Young people will feel betrayed by a candidate who's just finished doing her best to destroy the person they've invested their hopes in.