Fashion Minutes

McQueen poking Fun ~ Alexander McQueen sending down a hodge-Podge of Fashions from the century gone by and mocking how the longevity of Fashion is well your next years Trash!

Valentino The Movie ~ The NY Post talks Documentary, and lets you know where you can watch the Retirement footage of the last 2 years of Mr. Valentino at the helms of his namesake!

Museum Outings for the Rich ~ Vogue tells you about the soirees of the Socialites of NYC and their musings in Pretty Frocks with Designers at their sides.... otherwise, Director's Council Winter Ball!

Selfridges turns 100 ~ Retail Therapy cool for over 100 years and London has the store that celebrates it!!!

Talking Leather ~ The Evening Standard discussed YSL penchant for leather this season.

Losing High Heels??? ~ British Quips on why you should lose the High Heel, obviously runway season has made them scared.

The Big "It" Girl ~ The Toronto Star reminding us that Big Girls aren't usually IT?!?!?!?!

Teen Shopping Affected ~For your business readings.... Report on Business gives you the low down on how American Eagles Profits just aren't measuring up!

The Green Machine

Money.... it's all I ever hear about. Probably doesn't help that I am the most fashionable person I know who is an addict of CNN. But when you hear about it daily, when it's the topic of discussion from breakfast til your midnight cap..... the fashion industry is listening too.

Green is not a colour you see walk down the runways often. It actually is the least flattering, the most unattractive and most unfavored colour by designers for eons. But with people talking Greenbacks it well is something you see daily. So since people are comfortable discussing and seeing this colour as often as they do, why not capitalise on this brings us to Paris runways. Paris is usually the brink of Newness in Fashion. It's the style starting we expect that trickles down into the mainstream markets daily but takes a few years to see.

Now I am not talking about your Emerald Green that has graced the pale skin of some of the most beautiful women in the world. Jewel tones have been a staple in the designers repertoire for the past century, I am talking about a pale, pastel kind of American dollar green. This colour has only graced the woman of the world a whole of 2 other times the last century and it was also during a money era. During the recession, green was the colour of choice. It was the working mans colour; woman could easily by greens at their local fabric stores and it was in High demand with the ever growing Industrial revolution and the leftovers of war. Followed by the short lived weird fashion times of the late 50's, when people were procreating Baby boomers, mothers had incomes from the wars, Fathers were going back into the workforce and finances were on the forefront of the consumer. So bring on the Green and let me know if you'll be sporting this colour, I am on the Fence.... I guess the Green plastic kind!!!

Wednesday Weekly Product!!!

I am a mommy as most of you all know, and my hair has taken the largest beating of it all!!! So when I got my pretty little hands on these products really I couldn't pass a week without letting you all know about them. I have lost a substantial amount of hair, I have always had thin hair just a ton of it, and I don't have time for rollers and blowouts.

In comes Sunsilk Daring Volume, I have every product from this collection minus the Shampoo and Conditioner.... but it's all the same. The root spray is the greatest thing right from the first spritz, with half damp hair I could feel my roots lift. Truly a magical product.

So with my Vavavoom hair I put in the Leavin Conditioner from the same family and it left a soft silky feeling in my hair without any weight. After enjoying my new products I felt like blow drying my hair and being pretty. And if any product can make you look good and feel good on the inside too it gets my vote!!!

DSquared's costumes Gracing Britney....

Sneak peeks were released of Britney Spears Circus concert yesterday, but most of all the planned leak showed of the Fashion house get, that hasn't been seen since the likes of Jean Paul Gaulthier when he did Madonna's cone bra tour in the early 90's.

The Fashion house putting the threads together are none other than Dean and Dan Caten of DSquared, based out of Milan, but born in Canada. Now this isn't their first time dressing a songstress diva, as they put together the Cowboy attired worn in the 'Don't tell me' video.

I will have the pleasure of seeing her concert on the 18th of March, and am looking forward to the supposedly 21 costume changes. As well, Britney's team and the big PR mavens of Candie's want you to know she is their newest spokesperson. Following in the footsteps of the very very young Hayden Panettiere. Who do you think makes the better spokes person.... you tell me!!!

Goop what?

I find the Entertainment/Fashion and Beauty industry are intertwined, but with the growth of Myspace, Facebook and Twitter celebrities seem to have the finger on the pulse that everyone wants to know what they're doing and well are interested in what they are thinking. Which is why I bring you GOOP!!!

Goop is the brain child and musings of Ms. Gwenyth Paltrow, in a Newsletter format; you can read and catch up on things that she finds interesting, riveting and must haves! Learn about her trainer, her food, and even where she likes to go. Read the trend, wonder how long this will last???

Colour Me Bad!!!

Why are people so afraid of Colour??? I have had the privilege of receiving a very FUNTASTIC eyeshadow quad from Cover Girl called Tropical Fusion. When you first set your eyes on this case it might be a smidge jarring, but let me tell you this is the best little bundle of fun and colour that anyone who lives North of the Equator could use to spruce up their ever boring WINTER!!

This colour combo takes any one's make up case from Drab to Fab, this little popular makeup quad even has it's own Webtutorials... for every type of colour combo to make you reminisce of fun times on the beach, sipping your Bahama Mama while enjoying Caribbean dancing and Soca playing drums.

Get your hands on this one before you can't find it, you'll thank me.... it's the best bang of 4 colours you'll get for you buck. Work it with your Winter Blacks and Whites, it really will make a night out on the town memorable. I know I'll be wearing it this Weekend!!!

When bad clothes happen to good people!!

Need I say more. Love me some Lucy Lui, love Pink... hate the gloves, the belt and the shoe combo. I will say it now and LOUD.... get a new STYLIST!!

Favorite piece on a celebrity....

I have to say I am truly not a fan of Mrs. Katie Cruise but I am a fan of this fantastic Red coat she sported on night after a David Letterman. It's a winner... and she is exuding class. Love it, Love it!!

SHINY Best Product

This year I am going for GLAM when I am telling you about the best product in my opinion, now the product itself isn't new, but the colour choices get bigger and more vibrant... so what is this product it's a Canadiana brand I am proud to say I support. It's the M.A.C. Cosmetics Pigments.

These pigments are so vibrant and can literally do anything to liven up any form of makeup application. I love just wearing it on it's own, but perhaps those who like to glam it up big time would add it to the works. Don't be surprised when you go and buy it, these little containers are sold by weight not by volume.

I am a sucker for Kitschmas and Violet (which isn't on the website.) Also loosely based on the same effect is the Glitter. So add some glittering effect into your world, bold shine and stand out with your sparkling ways.

Year in Fashion... review!!

Well...I guess this is the first time I will get to make a review of the year that has come and gone. Not to mention; it's about time I post again, but I will reveal the wheelings and dealings that I have encountered....

Biggest Collaboration: Roberto Cavalli for H&M. Why? Because he really is the biggest designer they ever had... he is not Madonna's version of Fashion. This is a big house name with a big style and presence to boot. He brought his trueness to the collection with the same Zebra and Leopard panache that he infuses in his own collections.

Fashion Celebrity mix-ups.... it seems like Hip Hop doesn't want to do Fashion no more, or at least their interest in it has peaked and the financial bandwagon has given all it has to give, because Jay-Z and Russell Simmons have either completely quit their established companies or are taking less important roles.

Biggest Model... put away your big head Daria, your Canadian peers are kicking your butt and they seem to enjoy the industry a tad more than you do. Coco Rocha is not only climbing the corporate ladder stealing campaigns from under you, she doesn't mind still putting her face on the front of a Canadian Mag.

Biggest Celebrity Fashion disaster... I know most of you are thinking I will print about Britney, but you are wrong a mere 24 year old Amy Winehouse gets the top honour here. Why? Because she looks like a classless person and it ages her wrongly. For someone who is at a such young age to be vibrant less and without any fashion sense PERIOD!! She gets my top honours.

Funniest line to see in a Discount boutique... The House of Dereon!! Stop touting yourself as a fashion house if I am finding you stuff in a TJ Maxx for not much money period. Your stuff is in the same league as the Apple Bottom purses that sit beside yours.

And FAVORITE fashion piece that designers are setting up for S/S 2008..... WHITE JEANS!!!

So bring on 2008, I am planning on making it a year to remember!