The fashion world is always buzzing when New York Fashion Week comes around. It’s one of four main fashion weeks on the calendar, the others being London, Paris and Milan. Other American cities receive attention for their runway shows, such as Atlanta, Chicago, Seattle and St. Louis but the semi-annual Big Apple event is the [...]

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During the 1960s, suede clothing earned a solid place in the counterculture fashionista’s closet. Suede jackets, long suede coats, boots and suede mini skirts were all the rage. Suede had that intangible quality that spoke to that generation. Suede is soft, natural and sexy. The suede rage wasn’t limited to a woman’s closet - men [...]

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Everyone from my generation remember Swatch watches. When I was a kid, everyone had a Swatch watch. They were cheap, colorful, pretty high quality, and extremely collectible. Somehow, as we were growing up they suddenly disappeared. They went the way of snap bracelets and MC Hammer pants, or so I had thought. I had figured [...]

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So you’ve done it. You’ve come up with the perfect halloween costume. You did all the sewing and the hemming, the coloring and the staining and the dying. Hell, you’ve even storyboarded it, sketched it and priced it out on three different websites.
But you’re not done.
The perfect halloween costume isn’t perfect, and the complete halloween [...]

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Thousands of years ago, man had very few avenues to express himself with. Painting on cave walls and the like wasn’t what you might call public art, as it was for those few who had enough spare animal fat or oil to burn long enough for the painter to actually do the work, as none [...]

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You don’t have to always start the Bedroom decorating ideas in the bedroom. To this private area you can incorporate elements from nearly every other room in your home. This is quite true and many interior decorators will say that your sleeping area should be a sanctuary. A really comfortable sanctuary consists of more than [...]

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All women love to shop for clothes, as any man will attest. However, this can get to be a costly proposition. Some women think that they must have dozens of costumes to be well dressed. You may not have given sufficient thought to women’s accessories as a secret weapon to developing a wardrobe with fewer [...]

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The winter fashion trends for the 2008-2009 fashion season offer a spectacular array of fashion choices. Accessories play heavily into the well dressed woman’s wardrobe, so before you go shopping, take a look at your closet contents and see how some of your wardrobe might be updated to fashion genius status with a few simple [...]

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Whether they’re real or imagined, just about every woman tends to magnify what they consider to be less than perfect body proportions. You may think your waistline is too big, your legs too short or your bust too small – or too big. Whatever these problem features may be, there are ways to create visual [...]

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The law requires you to have some auto insurance, and if you are leasing or financing your car, you probably have to have full coverage. If you own your own home, it is not very smart if you do not have some type of fire and flood coverage. When you have a mortgage, as most [...]

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