Fashion & Style

Yesterday we revisited the funky 50s. Today we flashback to the mod style of the 1960s! This newsreel features Pop-Art, Op-Art and tons of mini-skirts. And the peek-a-boo midriffs, go-go boots and graphic patterned dresses all remind us of, well, this year.

Watch fashion videos from the VIDCAT archive! See several decades of fashion footage on VIDCAT TV including original vintage fashion newsreels from the 1950s- 1960s, top fashion shows from the 1980s- 1990s, funky promotional fashion videos from the 1980s and recent fashion week designer runway shows. Now you can play VIDCAT fashion videos on your website or blog… check out vidcat.net http://www.vidcat.net for details.

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Most people do not realize that my twin daughters are actually twins as they are fraternal, so not identical.?  Plus they have complete opposite personalities and style, especially when it comes to hairstyles and clothing.?  This past weekend, while on vacation, we shopped at the Oulets at Silverthorne.?  The adidas store was having a sale of buy one pair of shoes, get one half off. So the girls? picked some shoes out for school.?  The twins? looked identical as babies, except Macy’s feet were always bigger!?  And I dressed them alike, but had to buy shoes in different sizes.?  Now, they will not get them mixed up!? 

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Runway Africa: I movement dedicated to showcasing, promoting and exposing African designers to the masses. According to their site,

???Runway Africa believes strongly that by exposing African designers to the global market, Africa (as a whole) will begin to see a change in each country’s economic and social agendas. By stimulating growth in the textile and garment industries, Africa can begin to see some economic stability in those areas. In essence, this kind of mass exposure puts the continent’s talent and creativity in global markets and increases the ability to manufacture apparel deriving from Africa.???

Sounds good so far but how do they plan on doing it? Well, they hold a series of events, mainly on the east coast, to highlight specific designers and raise money for a cause. Their next event is being held tonight at Posh in DC and presents Harreit??™s Alter Ego designer and creator, Ngozi Odita. The event is in celebration of African Women??™s Day and the money raised will go towards Keep A Child Alive.

The main event takes place this September. Runway Africa 2007 will be held in D.C. at the Embassy of France. Designers Ruby (South Africa), Sika Designs (Ghana), Bezeymailan (Togo), Blokes ???n??™ Divas (Nigeria) and Harriet??™s Alter Ego (Nigeria) will all showcase their ???Africhic??? lines at what will be one of the events of the year. Visit www.runwayafrica.com for more details.

Photos from past Runway Africa Events.

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Chic, well-made and modern, this is not a cocktail table you want to eat your Lean Cuisine off of.

The table, by Italian designer Tonin, features bi-level glass in your choice of black or white-frost. Available as a rectangle or square, and in your choice of wood finishes, there’s nothing keeping you from the perfect centerpiece for your living room or den. 

We love the cutout ellipses on the side panels, which provide enough coverage to hide clutter and enough sculptural interest to make the table a worthwhile investment. The glass surfaces also make for easy cleanup should you spill that fourth cosmo across the tabletop. 

Just make sure you don’t get mesmerized by its perfect proportions and ruin your shins - because at only 11.5” high, the table is a tiny bit low.

(We can always find a fault in even the most perfect of objects. Thanks mom!)

Where In The Hive: bookmark/185819

Who: AuntBee was the first to add the Square Cocktail Table with Ellipses to the Hive

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Last weekend while the makeup lady at MAC was trying on loads of eye shadow colours on my sister, I wondered over to the Bobbi Brown counter and fell in love with the BB salesgirl’s makeup. She had a ‘light’ (as in not as dramatic as most of MAC’s salespeople’s makeup,) smokey eye. She proceeded to try it on me but they were out of a certain shimmery, creamy eye shadow base so the eye shadow didn’t look at all impressive on me, (or maybe it’s just that the salesgirl was really pretty herself -that is so unfair!)

Next I noticed her nails and loved the colour. They were a lovely milky, white-ish, pinkish, champagne colour. They were exactly what I was looking for -something milky, but not plain white or pink. But I didn’t realise Bobbi Brown made nail polishes at that point so I didn’t ask her where she got her nail polish from. Later on, a friend told me Bobbi Brown did actually make nail polish so I decided to head to another Bobbi Brown counter in the hopes that the salesgirl’s nail polish was from BB. After looking through the six shades, half of which were already out of stock, I guessed it was Tutu.

Since I have zero skills in painting nails, I got someone to do it for me while getting a facial. The results were… a bit more pink than I anticipated. Now that I’ve had time to accustome myself to painted nails, I suppose they don’t look as pink as they first looked. Actually I think I may be starting to like the colour! (Haha sorry, this is my 28 hours of thoughts after getting my nails done.)

The one really big thing I must complain however is that BB nail polish seems to chip REALLY easily. Admittedly, I’ve got three layers on because I wanted the colour to completely cover up my nails so maybe the polish on my nails is really thick. But I’ve been pretty careful about using my fingers in the past day and it’s not like I’m doing any nail-polish-chipping activities. (Although did you know msn-ing people is terrible for your nail polish? Too much constant typing!) BG justifies the chipping to me as “Bobbi Brown isn’t exactly known for their nail polish”. I know but still, I expected more from the brand and the price! Oh well.

Nail-painting is such an irritating and time-consuming activity, who know? No wonder I only ever experiment with nail polish during school holidays! Please let me know what other nail polish brands chip or scratch easily so we can all avoid them!

Image credit: www.bobbibrown.co.uk

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