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New York fashion week was optimistic and light despite the current economic crisis in the world. Overall the shows were a good insight into what trends were to follow in Milan, London and Paris.
“A journey of a thousands miles, begins with a single step,” said Lao-tzu. For Designer, Saida Mouradova (left), her journey in to the world of Fashion, which brought her to The Parson School of Design in Paris, and then to New York City, began at age 15 in her native Azerbaijan.
The One. The Only. Melissa Odabash. She put the “Designer” into Designer Celebrity, as she defied the odds, becoming one of the few to make the successful transition from ten years as a model — including appearing in Sports Illustrated — to becoming a Mega-millionairess-heralded creator of designer swimwear, that is sought out by the Stars and fashion-conscious women around the globe, including her Zebra-print bikini, which became within two years of its creation, “the best selling item in the Victoria’s Secret catalogue.”
Amanda from Fashion, evolved takes her Eco Fashion quite seriously. The freelance writer and mother of two, lives in Austin, the most liberal city in Texas, and possesses a progressive outlook on the co-mingling of ecological sustainability and style, at times, two forces that have been in conflict with one another.
Born and raised in California, currently decamped in Germany, fashion blogger extraordinaire Jennine Tamm (left) is a graduate of the London College of Communications, and founder of the much heralded The Coveted and Independent Fashion Bloggers.
The Coveted with its empathic emotive exposition has elicited strong praise and a rising fan base, whereas Independent Fashion Bloggers serves as a junction, a gathering place for independent fashion bloggers to exchange ideas and information.
Dynamic Duos throughout history: Batman and Robin, Tarzan and Jane, Bullwinkle and Rocky, Scooby Doo and Shaggy, Cleopatra and Marc Antony, and two of our favorite Glamornista highnesses from down Glasgow, Scotland way, Michelle and Marie of the fabled fashion and style site, Kingdom of Style.
Kim Rowley, whose collection of shoes numbers around 300, knows her footwear in every form, shape, and fashion, from sandals to stilettos, boots to ballet flats, crocs to uggs, and wedges to pumps. And she graciously shares her knowledge with us at Shoeaholics Anonymous, her fine site, for those like her, who have a unquenchable desire for shoes, shoes, and more shoes.
The “voice of Bella Sugar”, Annie Tomlin, is more than a beauty with style. She’s had a long term involvement in Web Fashion, starting her own website in 1996, then working at Oprah.com for four years, later moving on to serve as shopping editor of Time Out Chicago, and eventually joining Bella Sugar in San Francisco. Annie, who hails from Michigan, has written for such publications as Alternative Press, Jane, and Bust…
She has fashion for breakfast, style for lunch, and haute couture for supper, with plenty of room left over for fab and glamour. It’s the one and only, Teenuh Leone, the very en vogue, twenty-something writer, artist, and stylenista from Baltimore, who is proprietress of Fashion For Breakfast, a site that details Teenuh’s personal style, chronicles the fashion industry, and celebrates the quest for the “Glamorous Life.”
We likey Daddy Likey’s Winona very much indeed for her quick wit and charming sensuality. Toss in a few raging fashion hormones, sweet naivete, and an absence of malice against the world, and you have a complex, intriguing woman with more than an echo (and the bunnymen) of goodness in her heart.
