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70 Looks to Love for Spring

Posted on December 16, 2009
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I spent more than my fair share of time this morning gazing admiringly at W’s January 2010 photo spread by photographer Craig McDean. So many silky, feminine looks. I’m looking forward to pulling out a few of the silk Mischen pieces I bought on Gilt come spring!

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The Rhoda to Perfection.

Posted on December 15, 2009
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Last night I stopped in to the Capitol File holiday-issue party, which Hilary Rhoda attended as the issue’s cover girl and guest of honor. Just a few observations, in no particular order:

- The blonde is her mom. Yup.
- Hilary was wearing Stella McCartney. I knew you’d wanna know.
- Hilary is at once totally normal-looking and intimidatingly model-perfect. It’s sort of weird. Just when you’re like, okay, she is like kind of normal-skinny and girl-from-Maryland, you snap a photo like the up-close one above and realize again why she is the face if Estee Lauder. She…is…gorgeous.
- I want her eyebrows.
- I want her eyebrows.

Read an interview with Hilary Rhoda here, or check out the new Holiday 2009 issue in stores.

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Allison Parris Trunk Show Tomorrow

Posted on December 10, 2009
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Allison’s clothes are perfect. The kind of clothes that solve problems in your wardrobe and therefore, seemingly solve problems in your life. They’re actually eco-friendly too. The Spring line is somewhat vintage, forties-inspired (LOVE the cardigan-with-tulle-skirt outfit here). Join the lovely & fun Allison and her equally lovely & fun biz partner Marissa tomorrow eve for an intimate trunk show party. See you there?

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Score Rodarte For Target a Week Early

Posted on December 10, 2009
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Target’s staging a holiday Target-To-Go walk-up shop in Georgetown this weekend, and while it takes more than a mass retailer launching an event in Washington to make me feel proud of DC’s coming-up-ness, I do think it’s pretty cool that this is only taking place here, in NYC, and San Francisco.

This means that city-dwellers who can’t stomach the idea of trekking into the traffic Bermuda triangle that is the 14th Street big-box store explosion can….umm, trekk to Georgetown via the series of convoluted public transport available. That’s okay though – you have to admit that Georgetown is fun for shopping and people-watching and eating cupcakes. Among the limited amount of items available for this Target-To-Go thing? Pieces from Rodarte for Target, one week ahead the store debut (12/20). Not all of the items will be there, but the (I’m sorry, scary) ribcage dress, black halter dress, and those super-cute belts all will be. If you get there early enough!

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Cool + Creative

Posted on December 10, 2009
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Last week I attended the “Cool Creative Christmas” party at the residence of Danish Ambassador Friis Arne Peterson. The house itself is filled with incredible mid-century modern design – including some gorgeous oversize lighting fixtures you can see here. But for the party, the already fabulous residence was completely transformed into a fairytale-inspired winter wonderland – and green, to boot – at the hands of students from the Danish School of Design and our very own Corcoran College of Art + Design. It was amazingly gorgeous and even more amazing to think of the months and months of work that went into making the thousands of lush paper flowers (from, among other things, coffee filters!), wreaths, floating lights, and more. Just like a fashion show, hours and hours are put in to create a brief moment of pure, indulgent fantasy. Speaking of fashion – each of the students, above, was a total fashion plate in her own right. Look at all of the amazing headgear! Inspiring, inspiring, inspiring….This photo above + more here.

And if you want a piece of emerging-art-talent for yourself (or for someone else…it is that time of year, isn’t it?), don’t miss the Corcoran College of Art +Design’s Off the Walls Sale starting TODAY (til 9 p.m. tonight, perfect for after work) through the weekend.

Guests were treated to a lavish buffet of incredible Swedish dishes prepared by Chef Trina Hahnemann (including some insanely amazing and crispy pork rind…yes). I left with a copy of her cookbook, which I devoured (in the figurative sense) snuggled up on the couch Saturday, when I woke up to that first snowy, winter day. It’s more like a coffee-table book than a standard cookbook in that the photographs are stunningly beautiful and, like the recipes that accompany them, evoke the pleasures of each season. The winter images were particularly meditative.

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Avant Marilyn.

Posted on December 7, 2009
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I’ve been inspired recently by a pile of Avant Garde magazines I picked up at the Georgetown Flea market a few weeks ago. The magazine had a brief run between 1968 and 1972 and during that time published 16 issues, each packed with essays and art, including a series of erotic lithographs made by John Lennon. Issue #2 featured an exclusive contribution by Bert Stern – the last photographer to photograph Marilyn Monroe before her death – of images from that shoot printed in Day-Glo serigraphs. Each page appears hand-done and individually painted, and must have been insanely costly to produce. Scanned just for you, Bert Stern’s phantasmagoric view of Marilyn.

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Kicky.

Posted on December 2, 2009
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Did everyone tune in to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade this year? We always have it on Thanksgiving morning while we begin the day-long cookfest. I absolutely loved The Rockettes this year, and well, every year, really. There’s something so wonderfully retro and glamorous about these ladies and their routines. In a world overrun with stars made in fifteen minutes or less and too-cool-for-school posturing, The Rockettes are a refreshing dose of Americana. Loving their cheeky Santa-inspired outfits and mini hats. Enjoy!

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