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“Wife Dressing: The Fine Art of Being a Well-Dressed Wife” By: Anne Fogarty
“I always carry extra white gloves and extra stockings”
These are words of wisdom from fashion designer, author and stylish wife Anne Fogarty circa 1959. Her book “Wife Dressing: The Fine Art of Being a Well-Dressed Wife” (With Provocative Notes for the […]

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“Celebutantes” Buy It!
Celebutantes Book Review:
For all of us outside the realm of the Hollywood elite, Oscar week is just another chance to ogle our fave stars on the red carpet. For Lola Santisi, it’s a trip through Wonderland.
“Celebutantes” by Amanda Goldberg and Ruthana Khalighi Hopper is an insiders ficticious memoir into the insanity of Oscar […]

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Q&A: Essential Pieces for a Preppy Look [Omiru]

A: First a bit of fashion history for you: preppy fashion is derived from White Anglo Saxon College Preparatory School uniforms. Read entire story.
Priv“it” View - Marc Jacob’s [The It Lists]

“Private” comes as a book of photographs housed in an exclusive Louis Vuitton monogrammed case […]

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(This Bestselling Author is Big News…No Bones about It!)

Meg Cabot
Heather Wells’ adventures at New York College are, in part, based upon your own experiences working at NYU. What’s the most outlandish situation you ever had to face as an assistant dorm director?
It would have to be the time someone walked into my office and […]

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Times bestselling author Meg Cabot’s third mystery featuring intrepid amateur sleuth Heather Wells, a former teen singing sensation-turned- assistant residence hall director. After solving two murders at New York College’s “Death Dorm” (a.k.a. Fischer Hall), Heather wants to focus her honed-and-toned (well, more honed-and-toned than her posterior in yoga pants, at least) […]

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