Nina Garcia's books are so charming. She offers a lot of solid advice. In the latest, she talks a lot about vintage/consignment shops and tailoring/mending and editing your wardrobe, and gives an extensive resource list that includes all her favorite Web sites. She's as down-to-earth as she is fabulous. And all three of her books are beautifully illustrated by Ruben Toledo. I'm a big fan. :)
@Penny: I've also been pleasantly surprised by Amanda Brooks's I Love Your Style. Whoever did the photo research for that one should be congratulated -- so many unusual pictures, it's so much fun to flip through.
33-24-35 IS curvy. It's an hour-glass shape. Why is "curvy" a euphemism for fat? I really hate that. Plenty of smaller women have curves. Plenty of larger women do not. Shape does not relate directly to size! And isn't that shape sort of a rarity in the modeling world lately? I mean I can't say I'd know, but most of the models I've noticed have tended to be pretty straight up and down
@colormeroutine: Yeah except that the whole point is the aforementioned lazy writers have completely co-opted the word "curvy" to mean thick or not of model proportions. So when they try to call Lara Stone curvy, the rest of us call bullshit.
What's so hard to understand, Georgia May? Your father is a famous rock star and your mother is a well-known model, so they always got plenty of media attention. They had a tumultuous relationship, so, again, they got plenty of media attention. You are their daughter and you've decided to enter the same industry as your mother, so now you get plenty of media attention. See, it's not so hard to understand, is it?
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Oh and this: I'm a little sad about Halston's reported troubles. I'm not sure why but when I was little I associated the label with the absolute height of fashion and wanted their dresses to wear at les discotheques. I was probably seven or so. Plus, they made that signature perfume and my favorite aunt wore it and to this day I love that smell.
@NefariousNewt a.k.a. General Awesomesauce: And his eternally-pursed lips bring to mind nothing so much as Marcia Brady thinking sucking in her cheeks gave her cheekbones.
Can't find it now because my office blocks youtube but if you search for Salvadore Dali and gameshow you will find a clip from this 60's guess-the-celebrity show in which the contestants ask Salvadore Dali yes or no questions to determine his identity. It is without a doubt the best thing on the internet. The man is hilarious.
@BabyJane: Yay! Thanks. Sad that I can't watch it but I've seen it a bunch. I love how he answers yes to pretty much every single question like - are you a famous athlete?
@Eleanor Ramilly: Aw, shoot. Are we really gonna go all too cool for school on Dali? Sure he liked to pull stunts to draw attention to himself, but dude was talented. His work is pretty dope - I thought that when I was 18 and I think it now (18 years later).
@dreamweave: I'm just messin'. He was insanely talented and his work is the shit. I just love Surrealism and like many that do, think he was a bit of a sellout. My comment was trite- I was just kidding around. :)
@TransFat: "Hello. You came back. I thought you would."
OT, but one time I was talking to a new friend in a bar about comic books. I asked him if he liked The Sandman and he said with a scoff, "Yeah, I read that in High School."
@Eleanor Ramilly: I hate that. I got a similar reaction not too long ago for just now reading The Invisibles. Guys like that should get shanked for less. It's not like the concepts are terribly sophmoric, it's just THAT good that it becomes kind of the gateway "graphic novel".
I read X-men when I first learned to read, but my arguably first, more dark and dense comic was Johnny the Homicidal Maniac so theres no way to win. Just gotta bring your shiv to bars is all.
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Oh and this: I'm a little sad about Halston's reported troubles. I'm not sure why but when I was little I associated the label with the absolute height of fashion and wanted their dresses to wear at les discotheques. I was probably seven or so. Plus, they made that signature perfume and my favorite aunt wore it and to this day I love that smell.
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"But Sandman volumes are all sequentially rainbow colored so I'm like, being super like liberal and like subversive."
What is lady Death saying in you avatar anyways? ...that is death right?
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OT, but one time I was talking to a new friend in a bar about comic books. I asked him if he liked The Sandman and he said with a scoff, "Yeah, I read that in High School."
Pwned.
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I read X-men when I first learned to read, but my arguably first, more dark and dense comic was Johnny the Homicidal Maniac so theres no way to win. Just gotta bring your shiv to bars is all.