Shopping, Style and Beauty

10 Jun 2009

Broke-Ass Style Porn: This is Glamorous

One of the main reasons I buy Vogue magazine is to temporarily slip into a fantasy world in which I am eternally chic and have loads of spare time to jet set around the world and contemplate the nuances of a wardrobe entirely based around nautical, equestrian, and faux-woodsy themes,

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03 Jun 2009

Divisidero Art Walk Thursday Night

It seems like Thursday keeps getting better!  I’ve already told you about the ill-ass party at Shotwell, but guess what else is happening?  Oh wait, you totally guessed The Divisidero Art Walk didn’t you?  That’s what I get for putting it in the title.  Well just pretend like you were surprised ok?

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03 Jun 2009

$3 Drinks, Discounted Clothes and the Crew that Opens for M.I.A.

First off, just in case you were wondering, last’s night’s Mos Def/Curtis Mayfield party was off the hook.  I damn near sweat through my clothes because I was dancing so much.  Curtis Mayfield does that to a motherfucker.  Ya know?   It’s seeming like Thursday night should be a pretty

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03 Jun 2009

The Pages of Your Soul

I read a ton of magazines. I read books too, I swear to God, but as absurd, elitist, and unrealistic as fashion magazines often are, I still love reading them.  On a basic level, it’s just brain candy;  beautiful girls in awesome clothes are fun to look at.  And I

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31 May 2009

Union Design Festival — Free to stroll 150 indepdendent designers!

I always have trouble buying things for some of my friends. Its not to say that I don’t know them ‘” hell, I’ve known most of them for WAY TOO LONG, in fact ‘” but that their interests are so hodgepodge that its hard to say what they would like

Monica Miller - The Intern 0
29 May 2009

New York: Save Fashion! Final Sale Extravaganza

Fashion’s in trouble..and it needs your help!   Ultimate arbiters of independent style, Refinery29 have been hosting their fantastic pop-up shop SAVE FASHION for the past month.  It’s in a glass walled annex attached to Port Authority and the racks of designer dresses, shorts and handbags ensure that the drunk

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28 May 2009

Discounts and Hors D’oeuvres at the second Haight Street Art Walk tonight!

The best thing about the recession is that its not just you that’s hurting ‘” its everyone. From big head honchos downtown in the fi-di to college kids just barely getting started out (I have a world of shit to look forward to…), everyone is still trying to save money

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27 May 2009

5 Warm-Weather Sartorial Mishaps

This Memorial Day I watched a dear friend place two bags of BBQ charcoal on his skateboard, sit  atop of them and let his Pit Bull pull him all the way home. It was awesome.   Right before that happened, I was in Prospect Park, riding around on one of

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