October 2009

They Googled what?

Every once in a while I like to check my keyword stats to see what brings new visitors to my blog. I am never disappointed by the curious keyword searches some people embark upon. Below is a screen shot of some recent queries: Sorry I wasn’t more help with “ho clothes,” but LiLo and Ungaro [...]

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Twitter has tweaked fashion, forever.

Wanted to share an excerpt of a recently published article, What’s hot in fashion? Twitter, tweeps, because it hammers home this point:  we’re in a new age in the  fashion world, and we should all be grateful. We’ve got more insider news, scoop, photos, and real-time revelations than ever before—all because of that cute little [...]

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Girl Crush: Dita Von Teese

I so love Dita. Love, love, love her for her art, her beauty, her grace, her curiosity, her guts, and her ability to be so provocative and ladylike at the same time. (How does she do that, really?) My new favorite thing is flipping through the personal photos and comments of the people who inspire [...]

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Accidental Discovery: Inkwells

I’m so bad about this. I just blogged about my propensity to get sidetracked on the Web just the other day, and here I go again. Anyway, my latest spontaneous Internet journey landed me on the most charming blog—Inkwells—where you may view and commission the lettering expertise of Leigh Wells. I so love this style [...]

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StyleShot: Paz Vega

At the Rome International Film Festival on October 15, 2009. Good lord…the woman popped out kid number two three months ago! Talk about a yummy mummy. Could she be hotter?

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Links à la Mode: IFB Weekly Roundup, October 15th

Yay! Grit and Glamour was featured in today’s Links à la Mode Weekly Roundup on the Independent Fashion Bloggers site. Cool! Ethics and Morality in Fashion City Edited by Ashe Mischief This week’s Links á la Mode covers the gambit in regards to the ethical and moral questions surrounding fashion right now…. we have Confessions [...]

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Fashion Flashback: YSL Fall 2001 RTW

I swear it just seems like yesterday that Tom Ford waved his magic wand and resurrected not only Gucci, but Yves Saint Laurent from brand mismanagement hell. In reality, the years have flown by, Ford has gone on to other things, but the Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche fall 2001 ready-to-wear collection still reverberates in [...]

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And another reason…

the South is the best! I love being a Southerner, especially when you read headlines like this: Manners help make a miracle Southern politeness may have saved lives amid the chaos after Charlotte-bound Flight 1549 crashed in the Hudson River, says a new book. Nine months after skidding to salvation on the icy Hudson River, [...]

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