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Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
by Eleanor Foa Dienstag on Playing Around

Although Miuccia Prada (born 1949) was not enthusiastic about the idea of comparing and contrasting her ideas and designs with those of another idiosyncratic Italian

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(Fashion) Life is In the Details

Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Shopping Around

Life, they say, is in the details. Now that you’ve acquired the separates (at Christmas, during Hanukkah, combing the Sales) how do you create a

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‘Til Death Do Us….Oh! Never Mind

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
by Charlene Giannetti on Living Around

Most weddings cost money. Kim Kardashian made money on hers, more than $10 million. After only 72 days, she has filed for divorce from her

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Bags: The Essential and The Frivolous

Monday, August 29th, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Shopping Around

These days you can spend a month’s rent on a handbag. A handbag?! I decided not to venture where you’d have to forego taxis, pilates,

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O2living Boutique Is An Ode to Holistic Shopping

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
by Michall Jeffers on Shopping Around

“It is pain, but it is good pain,” the divine Eva was cooing to me during my reflexology treatment. “People with too many drugs in

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The Amazing World of Gloria Vanderbilt

Friday, November 19th, 2010
by Charlene Giannetti on Reading Around

Young people may know Gloria Vanderbilt as Anderson Cooper’s mother. She is that, of course. But before her son made a name for himself as

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Goods of Conscience—Clothing for a Cause

Sunday, September 12th, 2010
by Stephanie Amy Collazo on Shopping Around

By Stephanie Amy Collazo In the basement of a Catholic Church in the Bronx one priest is producing sustainable clothing good enough for the stars.

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