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Dallas’ Fashion at the Park

Posted in Sidetracked by Fashion, tagged , , on October 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Sorry I’ve been so conspicuously silent in the past few days. I’ve been covering Dallas’ “fashion week,” called Fashion at the Park, for the Dallas Observer‘s blog Unfair Park. While most of the collections shown are Fall 2008 (rather than the Spring/Summer 2009 collections seen at New York, London, Paris and Milan fashion weeks), Fashion [...]

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Ebay Wish List: YSL Manifesto Tote Bag

Posted in Sidetracked by Fashion, tagged , , , on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

If I had been at New York Fashion Week, I would’ve loved seeing the shows, lusting over the latest fashion and beauty items and mingling with the tall and beautiful. But what I missed most about not attending Fashion Week: the free stuff. Early in September, I saw pics of the limited-edition YSL Manifesto tote [...]

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Nail Techs, Fashion Week’s Lowest Caste

Posted in Nails, tagged , on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

An interesting article (but a fast read) in The New York Times this morning highlighted the role of nail techs—crawling on the floor, stepped on, with hands that smell like feet—behind the scenes at Fashion Week. Fascinating is the idea that nail designers spend days mixing custom nail lacquers for designers (for instance, Twinkle‘s designer [...]

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Cheap Shoes at Fashion Week

Posted in Sidetracked by Fashion, tagged , , , , , on September 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

New York magazine’s blog made a snarky crack earlier this week about an Aldo retailer who was promoting their shoes as “seen on the runway at New York Fashion Week.” The implication was, dahling, “cheap” shoes are for the unwashed masses and have nothing to do with fashion. I guess Payless didn’t get the message, [...]

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