Recessionista Neck Garland
May 14, 2012 Affliction
This holiday season, their spin on statement necklaces includes a decorative bow in plaid ribbon instead of solid grosgrain or velvet. I think it’s a nice complement to a little black dress or a red cardigan. And best of all, the price! It’s only $29.
I always feel compelled to fall into the Gap. I just love it all the time — especially when they start airing their holiday commercials and ads.
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Recessionista Sunglasses as Big as Dishplates!
May 8, 2012 Affliction
I have to say, I had been waiting for something like this from stylist-to-the-stars Rachel Zoe for a long time.
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And once you’re done buying these, check out some other looks Zoe created, such as her amazing faux-fur vests and her beautiful oversized sequined clutches that can work for day with its chain strap and easily transitions for cocktail hour.
Bravo, Zoe!
These $34 swoon-worthy sunglasses are basically modeled after all the vintage eyewear that she used to style on her girls — including Nicole Richie as well as herself.
Her QVC line has delivered these amazingly affordable, oversized plastic sunglasses to keep the sunshine out of your eyes and to keep the paparazzi going crazy wondering who you are. I love the scale, the size and the gradient lens that makes you appear like a VIP. The cut of the frame is so good, in fact, that it works on most face shapes. They come in gradient black, brown, purple and red.
Caterina Gatta, Rome’s Vintage Print Princess
Apr 10, 2012 Affliction
Photo: Courtesy Photo; Sketch: Courtesy of Yoox.com
Mary Katrantzou might be Europe’s reigning print queen, but up-and-coming Rome-based designer Caterina Gatta is carving out a niche of her own with her limited-edition contemporary collection of LVPDs, a.k.a. little vintage print dresses. Last night, Gatta was one of seven young Italian designers fêted at London’s Italian Cultural Institute for the first edition of the city’s International Fashion Showcase 2012, an initiative to promote emerging talents from all over the world. While various presentations took place at 19 embassies and cultural institutions around London, we watched Gatta unveil her 13-piece collection of vintage print dresses. And these aren’t just any old fabrics—Gatta hunts for the last few meters of fabric from the likes of Gianni Versace, Valentino Garavani, and the iconic Rome Couture brand Lancetti. (The fabrics are either traceable back to the original designers’ collections or signed by the original designers themselves on the selvage.) Along with the dresses, Gatta showcased a selection of hats, also in vintage prints, which she designed in tandem with her latest discovery, Milan-based milliner Francesco Ballestrazzi.
Gatta’s pieces will be in stores this spring at New York’s Kirna Zabête and Julie Skinner’s vintage haven P.S. Postscript Couture in the Meatpacking District, but her six-dress collection (sketches, below) to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Lancetti is already available (and selling well, she reports) on Yoox.com. For the birthday tribute, Gatta scoured the back rooms of Italy’s fabric shops for original Lancetti prints and reinterpreted them in her own contemporary style. In the pipeline for Gatta is next spring’s collaboration with primo Italian silk printer Mantero in Como, whose extensive print catalog for the world’s top designers has her in a state of bliss. “The real difference this time is that we will be reprinting, which means it’s no longer limited-edition and I can mix patterns on unexpected fabrics like lace,” Gatta tells Style.com.
—Rebecca Voight
Recessionista Get Kate Beckinsale’s Dress For Less - UsMagazine.com
Mar 6, 2012 Affliction
Can you believe that news? $15 and it looks so rich! I love a good, straight and simple maxi dress every once in a while, like this black dress Kate Beckinsale recently wore.
The little feature that makes me insane is the gathering and the layer at the bustline! So elegant, so chic,wholesale Burberry sunglasses! Kate Beckinsale’s version is from Susie Rose and available at Wal-Mart stores. Sized from small to XL, this dress and a stop at your local Wal-Mart is a must!
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BBC News - Today - Eurovision Engelbert Humperdinck ‘will get the geezer votes’
Mar 3, 2012 Affliction
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Seventy-five-year-old singer Engelbert Humperdinck has been announced as Great Britain’s entrant in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest.
Broadcaster Paul Gambaccini told Today presenter Sarah Montague that the decision was a “coup” of “fantastic imagination”.
The decision was “tactical” he said - the votes for trendy young artists will be fragmented so “why not go for the geezer vote”.
“It’s the most brilliant stroke since we last won with Katrina and the Waves.”
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Feb 20, 2012 Affliction
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LFW Preview Marios Schwab
Sep 21, 2011 Affliction
In a new series, Style.com drops in aboard a few of London’s hottest youth talents to ascertain out what’s in store. Next up: Marios Schwab, who presents his collection tomorrow.
“I’m preoccupied with the topography of the body,” Marios Schwab said at his Dalston laboratory a few days before his Fall show. “I look at clothes in a many extra graphic sense—what you area and where you place it.”
His inspirations for the season scope from the Austrian architect Adolf Loos (who famously wrote namely ornamentation slows down culture) to the notable inscription at the Temple of Delphi, “Nothing in excess.” That aids to unravel the subtle touches, like traditional broguing nigh the torso of a burgundy leather dress. That’s a detail namely brings to mind the tattoos in his Spring ‘11 collection. “The hand is forever the same, so whatever it draws comes from the same mind,” he says. “And there is something approximately the things that surround you all your life.”
But Schwab is apparently having fun at stodgy Loos’ outlay, also. His inspiration embark is covered with images of pearls, including a portrait of a smiling Marilyn Monroe draped in a pendant. “It’s the opposite of all this, no?” the designer laughs. “I wanted to mingle the gentleman’s brogue with someone quite petticoat, cold, and far like pearls.” Throughout the collection, rows of Swarovski faux pearls are inserted into seams, so the pearls are merely half-exposed, alternatively “caught” in the draping of a loden fleece clothes, favor necklaces.
And how namely he maneuvering apt vacant his mind of all this once the show namely over? “I’ll go to a Greek isle and relax. But 1st, I absence to go out and celebration, fair go savage!” Nothing in excess—except the casual bash.
—Kiki Georgiou
Photo: Jaja Hargreaves / julystars.blogspot.com