Don’t be thrown by the Skinnygirl brand name on Bethenny Frankel’s new shapewear line. “It’s not about what size you are,” Frankel says. “It’s all about solutions for women.” (Photo credit: Michael Simon)
VIVmag wins two int'l magazine awards
VIVmag, the all digital luxury magazine for women earns two international awards. The tradition of creating excellence in digital magazine publishing continues as VIVmag has won the Digital Magazine Awards 2010 - Silver Award for Lifestyle Magazine of the Year while also sharing in Photographer of the Year for their - March/ April VIV cover shot by Alexx Henry.
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In the new book, You Are What You Wear: What Your Clothes Reveal About You (Da Capo Lifelong Books, 2012), Jennifer Baumgartner, Psy.D., argues that our fashion woes are actually tied to deeper life issues. (Our plans to spring clean our closet suddenly got more interesting!)
Still stumped on what to get Mom this year? We’ve got some online ideas that will make gifting on May 13 easier — and charitable at the same time.
It seems like it was only yesterday when we told you about a new shopping site called Gilt, an invitation-only site that would allow members access to online 36-hour sample sales of clothing and accessories from high-end designers. Since 2007, founders Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson have turned Gilt Groupe into a business valued at $1 billion and have expanded sales to include items for men, children and the home — and launched deal sites that encompass travel (jetsetter.com), food and drink (gilttaste.com) and city-specific offers (giltcity.com). The successful businesswomen set out to answer the question that they’re most often asked — “How did you do it?” — in their new book By Invitation Only: How We Built Gilt and Change the Way Millions Shop (Portfolio, 2012) out today.
As fans of Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice, we were eager to see Shonda Rhimes’ latest creation about a Washington, D.C., crisis-management expert. We were even more intrigued when we learned the show was based on a real-life woman, Judy Smith, who was a behind-the-scenes fixer on everything from the Iran-Contra scandal to personal disasters, such as former D.C. mayor Marion Barry’s drug bust and the Monica Lewinsky-Bill Clinton foofaraw. In the ABC’s Scandal, premiering tonight, Kerry Washington plays Olivia Pope, who deals with similarly sensational situations.
On rainy days in New York City, it’s common to see broken umbrellas languishing in trash cans and littering the sidewalks — a friend of ours even has a Tumblr account dedicated to umbrella mortality. So we were intrigued when we heard that Catherine Edouard Charlot collects dead umbrellas and transforms them into handbags and other fashions in her Brooklyn studio. In fact, all of the Himane Sustainable Designs accessories and fashions are made from upcycled items or repurposed materials.
We’ve had to wait an agonizingly long 17 months for the return of Mad Men due to contract negotiations with creator Matthew Weiner. So it’s with eager anticipation that we await the two-hour March 25 premiere of Season 5 at 9 p.m. on AMC to find out if Don Draper (Jon Hamm) is really going to marry his secretary and what unhappily married Joan Holloway Harris (Christina Hendricks) is going to do about the baby she’s expecting, thanks to her on-and-off secret relationship with her boss, Roger Sterling (John Slattery).
We’ve complained in the past about the dorkiness of serious cycling attire for women, but we recently discovered Club Ride Apparel, which brings new style to your road and trail adventures. Club Ride is a relative newcomer, but worth seeking out for its cool, street-inspired wear.
If you’re like us, you’ve coveted a great jacket or gorgeous dress while watching a reality TV fashion competition. Fashion Star has the instant-gratification solution. Premiering on NBC March 13 at 9:30 p.m., “The show is just as much about shopping as fashion,” says Elle Macpherson, creator, host and executive producer. The 14 contestants will vie for the approval of judges from Macy’s, H&M and Saks Fifth Avenue, where winning designs will be on sale the very next day after the show airs.
So many gift suites, so little time — that’s how it was in the days leading up to the big weekend of film awards (including Oscar night). We made the rounds of the pop-up lounges set up throughout Los Angeles to shower celebrities with freebies and services while supporting a variety of charities.
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