Fashion :: Cake or Death?
A Google search for "fashion" returns over 398,000,000 links to a variety of sites offering hard news, blogs, photo/video features and retail shopping options. Independent voices now have the means to distribute their own philosophies, preferences and opinions. Glossy print publications remain highly influential, but they are no longer the sole arbiters of style. 'The web is the most fashionable thing out there,' says Senior Fashion Reporter for ZOOZOOM, Xenia Viray. She adds, 'I don't know anybody... who... doesn't find half of the information they talk to their friends about that day from the internet. And that's exactly what fashion is about. It's about drumming up buzz. It's about doing it quickly and it's about making people want more. And the web is the perfect place for fashion.'
Can fashion shift from dictator to facilitator? more...
Beauty :: Skin Care 2008 :: Dry, Neutral, Oily
As those of us in the Northern Hemisphere begin to daydream about this wintry season's end and the arrival of warmer weather, we contemplate the idea of coming out of hibernation. Finally, no more Michelin-man down coats. No more layers, layers, and yet more layers. When we finally do come into the light, we'll need to think about sloughing off our old beauty regime and finding something for our newly re-emerged selves. It seems to me that we are often locked into a specific skin care program regardless of temperatures and climate changes and stick with the same old, same old. Women often tell me they do this because they know what to expect, it's within their comfort zone and they are daunted by the idea of trying a new product, even when the old ones cease to perform at peak levels. more...
ZOO Daily :: Celebrate Cinco De Mayo
It's Cinco de Mayo and it's time for some Tequila ... and as luck should have it, we just received a beautiful black box sealed with wax & leather. In it is a sleek looking bottle of 1800 Select Silver Tequila, so being a Monday morning and very much the beginning of the week, better to start it off with a kick. What a kick ... we can't think of a better way to start the week. We celebrate our Mexican friends and French enemies. We love our jobs ... and you can too. Just subscribe to win a bottle of 1800 Select Silver. We'll draw the winner at 5pm today (Monday May 5th), and if you're in Manhattan, well bike you the bottle so you can celebrate tonight! more...
Beauty :: This Freedom
'Our standards are so completely changed from the old that comparison or argument is impossible.' Cecil Beaton, 1928.
In the 1920s, women were waking up from a post-Great War slumber and rising as vaseline-lidded flappers. Shaking off their hospital and munitions factory uniforms to 'bob their hair, raise their hemlines & paint their faces', '...they smoked hard, swore hard, and drank hard - got 'blotto'. more...
Fashion :: The Woman in the Window
Bettie Page was a mix of the girl next door and the object of sexual desire; and while that fifties notion is appealing, it comes with a lot of campy baggage. To take the coy sex appeal of the Page era out of its 'Beach Blanket Bingo' context, throw in other notions. Intellectualize the sex pot.. more...