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Clinton! (not that one)

Posted on March 26, 2010
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Calling all Clinton supporters!

Last night, due to a rather long (and I’ll admit it, whiskey-soaked) evening before, I cut out of a party at the W early and didn’t accompany Betsy and Holly up to the roof for drinks. And today I’m very sorry, because Clinton Kelly was there! What Not to Wear is one of my favorite TV/fashion guilty pleasures….and it turns out he’s in town for an event tomorrow at Macy’s in Pentagon City as part of his Make Over America campaign (“political” campaign branding=the new black?).

Twelve lucky ladies from the DC area (we were one of 8 cities selected) got the Clinton Kelly treatment – style makeover, hair, makeup, witty Clintonisms – and will strut their stuff tomorrow at Macy’s Pentagon City at 2 pm.

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Robin & Michelle

Posted on March 23, 2010
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Click here for tickets.

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where the green grass grows

Posted on March 17, 2010
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The moment one gives close attention to anything,
even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome,
indescribably magnificent world in itself.
- Henry Miller

I took this photo (of a photo) at FotoWeek DC last year. I want to lie down in the grass like this…in the middle of nowhere…and feel the spring breeze and listen to the air and do nothing else.

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Behind the Scenes – First Ladies Collection

Posted on March 11, 2010
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“We’re going to have to lower Barbara’s purse…”

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Water World

Posted on March 10, 2010
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Harvard-educated-architect-turned-jewelry designer Sylvia Gottwald ’s wearable art, which feature sustainably sourced shells and pearls, will be on display March 12-April 16 at Bistrot Lepic in Georgetown. This Saturday from 3-5, the public is invited to a viewing with complimentary French wines and hors d’oeuvres.

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spring feels like this

Posted on March 9, 2010
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LOU DOILLON & GONZALES FOR VANESSA BRUNO from DILLINGER#MAGAZINE on Vimeo.

Lou Doillon for Vanessa Bruno. I want to do everything in this video over and over again.

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and she became the hero of her own fairy tale

Posted on March 5, 2010
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I went to an advance screening of Alice and Wonderland last night and it’s all I can think about today. I may need to see it several more times. As you’d expect from Tim Burton, everything is just a little bit off – at times outrageously so, as it should be. And just when you think it’s getting a bit too box-office (explosion/chase scenes, girl-power cliches), some camera angle or line throws it back into fantastical delirium. The clothes, notably Alice’s wardrobe, are gorgeous – there’s a long blue gown with straps criss-crossing it (above), an unfinished-looking red dress with a tulle skirt, and a long pajama jacket with pants and sandals…somehow both costume and ready-to-wear at once. I’ve read a review or two suggesting that the clothes look “too runway” for this story, but I think they fit perfectly into Burton’s imagining of Alice as she teeters on the precipice of adulthood, learning love and instinct over fear, trusting the internal and exploring the external, and discovering the distance between impossibility and possibility. If fashion is fantasy, then these clothes are ideal for the film (and don’t we all want the fairy tale?). In keeping with Burton’s vision – the story is an interpretation – an expansion, if you will…they remind us of an Alice we knew, or thought we knew – before.

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