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Wife Dressing Book Review: A Very Proper Valentine’s Gift

No Comments 11 February 2008

“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 Book Review…One Haute Read!

No Comments 02 February 2008

“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 [...]

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Fab Fashion Blogs Friday

Comments Off 30 November 2007

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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Q&A with Meg Cabot

No Comments 15 November 2007

(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 [...]

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Meg Cabot’s Newest Heather Wells Mystery: Big Boned

No Comments 13 November 2007

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) investigative skills on [...]