One of our favorite boot trends for fall ’14 is the Chelsea Bootie. They are utilitarian, unfussy, comfortable, go with everything from jeans to dresses and lastly…they are seriously badass! Chelsea boots date back to the Victorian era. In fact, they were originally designed and patented by Queen Victoria’s shoemaker J. Sparkes-Hall, back in 1851. …
When I read the title ‘Sandals That Are So Ugly They’re Chic: Fashion Embraces Flat, Birkenstock-Style Sandals’ in last Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal, I gasped. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine Birkenstocks would be considered high-fashion. I have always hated Birkenstocks and always will. Growing up only hippes and Dead Heads wore them. …
Marni designer Consuelo Castiglioni has found another innovative solution in using special, sustainable materials. Her new Winter Edition 2013 jewelry collection is made of recycled and pressed cardboard components. With bold, geometric modular elements on cotton ribbons, the pieces retain the edgy quirkiness that is unique to Marni, while remaining environmentally-friendly. The cardboard is natural or dyed …
If you haven’t been monitoring your calendars as vigilantly as er, some of us, then you may have forgotten that the Marni for H&M collection hits stores this week, and we’ll be on the front lines of the madness (literally) at a special press preview party this Wednesday, March 7th. But until then, we dug …
Missoni for Target Causes Webstore Crash: Unless you’ve been under a rock for the past 24 hours, you’ve surely heard of the massive online crash the Missoni for Target collection caused yesterday. The retailer’s web site crashed from the chaotic demand for the designer diffusion collection, which bowed online at around 6 a.m. Eastern Time …
