Long before glossies and style bloggers there were fashion plates, which the rich woman of yore would take to her modiste (and the less-rich woman would try recreating at home). But have you ever noticed how the women in these illustrations of whatever was “in” for the season always look like they’re discussing…
I've been studiously ignoring all sides of the Ice Bucket Challenge kerfuffle—if people want to be cold and wet when they donate money to charity, that's fine by me, but let's not pretend like these videos qualify as "entertainment," let alone "comedy"—however, I was intrigued today to come across the "Ice Bucket…
In today's Tweet Beat, it's Halloween. It's also #throwbackthursday. Also Kal Penn sat next to a strange man on the train.
All 15-year-old April Spielman wanted to do was dress up as Tinkerbell and go to Disney's Animal Kingdom with her boyfriend (who bears a startingly resemblance to Peter Pan). She spent hours getting herself into a meticulously crafted Tinkerbell costume, and she was so excited and then... She got stopped at the…
This amazing armor, inspired by Joan of Arc and created by Grace Duval, took fifty hours to put together.
Heidi Klum is never at a loss for cool Halloween costume ideas, but she really outdid herself last night. She'd announced that she was going as a dead body—like one from the Bodies exhibit where they've stripped the skin off so you can really see what's going on inside—and man alive did she deliver. Seeing it in the…
[New York, October 29: Actress Anne Hathaway attends the Halloween Extravaganza at Lanvin Boutique on October 29, 2010 in New York City. Image via Getty.]
If you feel like you've been trapped for months deep within the boring recesses of non-sexiness, you're in luck. There's a light at the end of the tunnel!
"It's a validation that you're a real woman," Oprah once famously said of being Vogue's cover-model. So we can only imagine how more real she'll feel as the co-chair of fashion's biggest night, tonight's Met Costume Institute Gala.
Another appalling Halloween costume alert! And this one's topical:
