Gen Art (an organization dedicated to showcasing emerging artists) has teamed up with Biore Skin Care for a national competition dubbed “UNCOVER/DISCOVER.” Each category prize comes with a showcase opportunity in New York and a $20,000 development grant. Categories, which are open to females only, include music, art, film, and, of course, fashion.
So, go […]
When I was in Ghana last year, I was surprised by the number of Ostrich farms (I knew 4 ostrich farmers in a 50km radius). Now, as I flip through this season’s fashion mags, I’m starting to understand this sudden rise in Ostrich husbandry.
Ostrich leather accessories and feathered dresses are everywhere this year. The […]
Imagine my surprise when I stumbled upon a mention of Linux in this month’s American Vogue. Apparently, the next hottest thing in ultra-portable computing is the Eee PC by Asus. Finished in pearl-white, weighing in at just under two-pounds, and designed to be completely shockproof, the Eee is the ultimate for mobility.
The thing is, the […]
The mission of the now-over New York Pet Fashion Week (Aug 17 - 21) is to “create an inspiring and unique tradeshow venue for national and international pet lifestyle exhibitors and buyers.” In other words, absolute pet-mania and doggie dresses that probably cost more than my entire spring wardrobe.
In its second year, the newly minted […]
Last week, Vogue launched VogueShop.tv. The site features a number of videos from behind-the-scenes clips at fashion shows to 60-second instructional segments, but its main feature is the ability to browse through the magazine’s ads and click directly to a purchase point. Considering that this month’s Vogue masthead didn’t appear until page 228 of the […]
Check out this article from Canada’s National Post newspaper. It’s all about the Fashion Camp hosted by The Design Exchange, a great organization (and building!) devoted to supporting and promoting Canadian Design.
The young ‘campers’ learn design basics and sewing skills over the course of a week. When I learned to sew, my mother gave me […]
Etsy.com is one of my favourite sites to find clothing, accessories, home items, and crafts from truly independent designers. Etsy is about one-of-a-kind, handcrafted pieces (a few thousand of them) as well as building a community for the designers’ themselves. I know that at my local market, there’s a weekly ‘Etsy’ table staffed by volunteer […]
This month’s Bust Magazine (a very bodacious mag with a feminist twist) features a great interview with Velvet, the plus-sized model who caused a media frenzy when Jean Paul Gaultier sent her down the runway in October.
Though the article isn’t available online (sniffle), here’s a snippet;
Bust: If you could dictate the future of the fashion […]
So, I spent the last weekend flipping through my stack of August magazines (a very therapeutic process that involves tea, highlighters, pens, and post-it notes). It was all fall-trends-this and high-heeled-Oxford-shoes-that (it can get a bit repetitive after a while), when I stumbled on a couple of articles about Tulle. Oh, Tulle, you romantic […]
This month’s Vogue magazine features a fantastic excerpt from Alek Wek’s upcoming book - Alek: From Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel.
Wek grew up in the war-torn Sudan, amidst strife and ongoing conflict, but since the day she was scouted by a modelling agency while shopping in London, Alek has been an international force on the […]