Posted on April 12th, 2008 by Rossella Frigerio
Celebrities: our fascination with their other-worldly lives is incessant, from the colour of their latest ‘it-bags’ perched upon their elbows, to the clothes they dress their little ones in. Now, we can find out what their most intimate living spaces look like, whether it be country-style or boho-contemporary. Filled with scrumptiously glossy photographs, Elle Decor So Chic [...]
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Posted on April 8th, 2008 by E. Nina Rothe
“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.” Coco Chanel.
For the baby girls in your life or even the little girl hidden inside all of us, I’d like to suggest a great book, “Different Like Coco”. Drawn and written by Elizabeth Matthews and published by Candlewick Press, [...]
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Posted on March 28th, 2008 by Rossella Frigerio
Dame Vivienne Westwood’s Opus is set to break records as one of the largest fashion books ever published. Showcasing 97 never-seen-before polaroids of the British fashion industry’s most renowned faces (taken with the world’s largest Polaroid camera), this incredible work is prefaced by Westwood’s personal ‘Active Resistance to Propaganda’ manifesto.
With only 900 pieces in circulation [...]
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Posted on March 15th, 2008 by Keyonna S. Cox
Every season, fashion designers present their latest creations on the runway and magazine editors pick and choose from the wares to determine what’s “in.” What if your personal style goes against the grain of seasonal trends? What if updating your wardrobe every year is not in your budget? What if you had access to style [...]
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Posted on March 3rd, 2008 by Brina
The Delivery Man
Joe McGinniss Jr. © 2008
Black Cat/Grove/Atlantic New York
Review by Samuel Bartlett for Chic Today
A rainbow of perpetual neon moonlight illuminates the haunting streets of Las Vegas, an ephemeral host for the dreams of tourists, where delusions of the short road to riches mostly segue into nightmares of the antithesis, lost money, lost hope, [...]
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