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  • Should a Life Coach Have a Life First?
    The face of the profession is becoming increasingly fresh, with some clients receiving motivational guidance from coaches young enough to be their children.
    
    
  • Scotty Bowers and His Sexual Tell-All of Old Hollywood
    Scotty Bower’s new memoir, “Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars,” offers a lurid account of trawling an X-rated underworld.
    
    
  • What I Wore: The Soprano Danielle de Niese - What I Wore, From Jan. 18 to Jan. 24
    The soprano Danielle de Niese finds herself always a bit dressed up, even on casual days.
    
    
  • Studied: Blogging as Therapy for Teenagers - Studied
    Researchers find blogging provides a therapeutic value for teenagers.
    
    
  • Modern Love: Embracing Marriage, Flaws and All - Modern Love
    I’d spent the past couple of years applying myself to my marriage — thinking about marriage, reading about marriage, and trying forms of couples’ therapy.
    
    
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  Yahoo! News: Fashion News

  • Gaultier channels Winehouse, stars shop for Oscars (AP)

    AP - The final day of Paris's spring-summer haute couture week saw Jean Paul Gaultier serve up a cigarettes-and-all homage to late singer Amy Winehouse and Valentino show off the dazzling couture work of seamstresses who toiled for thousands of hours to create a lavish white collection.

    
    
  • Glee's Lea Michele fills closet with Candie's (AP)

    AP - Lea Michele is moving from a locker to a much bigger closet. She's the star of the new Candie's ad campaign, dubbed "Hanging at Home," shot at a private mansion in Beverly Hills, Calif. The images show her poolside, in the kitchen, in a bed with satin sheets and in a walk-in closet, wearing a new outfit and pair of shoes in each one.

    
    
  • Gaultier fetes Winehouse, Givenchy goes futuristic (Reuters)
    Reuters - Jean Paul Gaultier delivered an ode to Amy Winehouse at his spring/summer 2012 haute couture show in Paris on Wednesday. The late pop singer's musical spirit and bad girl fashion sense were all over the runway.
  • Chanel aims sky-high, and Armani courts A-list (AP)

    AP - On day two of Paris's frantic three days of haute couture collections, Chanel took the fashion crowd to the skies and highlights included super-sexy, celebrity-filled Armani Prive.

    
    
  • French brand Courreges takes retro fashion online (Reuters)
    Reuters - Courreges, the futuristic fashion brand of the 1960s, is poised to bring its vinyl boots and A-line mini-dresses back into vogue, relaunching the French name online.
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  the latest from teenvogue.com

  • What To Wear for Girls' Night In
    Sometimes being a social butterfly is exhausting! Stay in this weekend with your best friends, a few board games, and the chicest loungewear around.
  • Retro-Glamorous Nail Art Tutorial
    Learn how to do retro-glam manicure art from nail artist Madeline Poole of Nailing Hollywood.
  • Giving Back: Andrea Chahin of TOMS Shoes
    This teen works with TOMS shoes to help children in need in her home of Honduras.
  • Celebrity Fashion Trend: Full Skirts
    Emma Watson, Lily Collins, and Ashley Benson prove that the bigger the skirt, the bigger the statement.
  • Beauty Look of the Week: Jennifer Lawrence
    The in-demand actress looked effortlessly beautiful at the Oscar nominations announcements.
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  InStyle.com - This Just In

  • Look of the Day: Angelina Jolie
    Jolie worked a leather pencil skirt in N.Y.C.
  • InStyle's February Cover Girl Is...Drew Barrymore!
    Find out what the newly engaged actress/producer has to say about her fiancé and how this relationship differs from those in the past.
  • Amazing Jason Wu Pieces Under $60
    The designer's spring collection for Target has finally been revealed. Is it wrong to want every single look?
  • Check out the most tried-on hairstyles of 2011
  • Discover 10 ways to get a winter glow
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  nymag.com: Fashion and Shopping

  • Bonjour, Brooklyn
    International-travel bookstore Idlewild unveils a Brooklyn offshoot to its Flatiron headquarters.
  • New Stuff
    A pendant lamp, a magazine rack, and more new stuff in New York stores.
  • Coco and Breezy Dotson, Sunglasses Designers
    “We grew up in the suburbs, and people used to stare at us because we were different. We created eyewear to block eye contact.”
  • The Best Bet
    Colorful socks, Idlewild opens in Brooklyn, and more.
  • Real Fur vs. 'Faux' Fur
    A dozen stylish garments for the purist and doppel gängers for the animal-sensitive.
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  The Standard - Latest News

  • Posh spice up life for Britain with class act
    A sound not heard since the early Eighties floated over the Thames one recent morning - that of posh young Tories braying with delight.
  • On cloud nine
    Having experienced a rousing reception in Hong Kong, the Olympic torch was carried on to the mainland proper before celebrations broke out over the rare milestone of it being taken to the top of the world.
  • Take note
    Lenovo has launched a global online philanthropic auction of Olympic torch- themed, limited-edition notebook PCs, with three available for Hong Kong bidders.
  • Shakespeare set to music
    The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra is taking William Shakespeares Henry V into another dimension. British film star Samuel West will be performing The Cathay Pacific Discovery Series: The Orchestral Shakespeare on on May 30 and 31.
  • Art for all
    Affordable modern and contemporary art from all over the world is on show at The Hong Kong International Art Fair, ART HK 08, which aims to make art accessible to the general public.
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  The latest from Wmagazine.com

  • After Hours: Broadway's Finest Celebrate Smash
    "This is all for a TV show?" That was the resounding refrain Thursday night when NBC, the Cinema Society, and Volvo hosted a blowout premiere for Smash, the hotly anticipated Steven Spielberg-produced TV series about the making of a Broadway musical.
  • Chaos Theory
    Classic French knitwear gets an unexpected twist.
  • Shapeshifters
    Day bags get a ladylike update with structured silhouettes.
  • Stephanie Sigman
    Actress Stephanie Sigman takes on the Mexian drug war in Miss Bala.
  • Jan 26: Wit
    Cynthia Nixon returns to Broadway.
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  Daily Front Row: The Fix

  • Target, Jason, and the "Wu Girls" Hit Skylight Soho
    A rainy nook of nowhere-man’s land on Hudson Street—aka Skylight Soho—morphed into a charming Parisian playland for the launch of Jason Wu for Target last night. Laduree macarons, dished up for immediate nibbling and beautifully boxed as a takeaway treat? Check. Trompe-l'œil shutters, windows, and the ilk in the vein of Madeline scrawled on the walls? Of course! A high-energy performance Yelle, by France's fave "melancholic dance music" outfit? Done and done.
  • The Daily Media
    Patricia Alfonso Tortolani, formerly senior editor at InStyle, has been named beauty director at Allure...Susan Spencer, formerly executive editor at All You, has been named editor-in-chief at Woman's Day...Elizabeth Mayhew, formerly editor-in-chief of Woman’s Day, has left the publication...Danine Alati, formerly managing editor at Brides, has left the publication...
  • Links of The Daily
    Bad Taste [Vogue UK] Amy Winehouse's father, Mitch, speaks out against Jean Paul Gaultier's latest couture collection, calling his bee-hived chanteuse look-a-likes "bad taste"...Karl Lagerfeld Interviews Himself on Net-A-Porter [Huffington Post] K-Lag has a face to face sit-down with the person who knows him best
  • FGI Fetes Its Latest Rising Star Winners
    Cipriani's uptown outpost played host to more than just ladies who lunch, as Fashion Group International hosted scads of pre-NYFW-preoccupied fashion folks at its 15th annual Rising Star awards this afternoon. A quick recap: Wes Gordon tied with Misha Nonoo for the women's RTW category, and Simon Spurr nabbed the honors for men's wear. "I've been nominated for awards many times, but this is the first I've won!" exclaimed Spurr as he accepted the Movado, glass starburst-topped award from Thom Browne, who reminisced about his own jaunt on the same Rising Star podium five years prior.
  • Paris Couture: Valentino
    (PARIS) Valentino: Pier Paolo Piccioli and Maria Grazia Chiuri planted the seed for Spring with a budding couture collection patterned with every type of pastel-hued perennial springing up along the French countryside. Surprisingly, the inspiration was not floral fantasies dreamt up in the wee hours of the morn. Rather, it was the realism during the Age of Enlightenment in the 18th century that propelled the design duo to send out a barrage of ultra-femme Jane Austen gowns swathed in layers of demure taffeta and delicate organza. Balancing the antiquity of high-collared silhouettes and voluminous, deep-pocketed skirting? A smattering warm-weather coats, including a winning ivory coat dress with a raised hemline, and garden party frocks fit for high tea at the catwalks venue, the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild.
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  • "It's a New Mix"

    Karl Lagerfeld understands decor as well as he knows fashion. The premises for his new signature collection Karl are an opulently minimal series of salons in an hôtel particulier on the Left Bank, so it made sense that the food for the dinner party he hosted on Wednesday night to launch the line should also focus on the bare opulent essentials: caviar, foie gras, and lobster, with a logo-fied iPad as a takeaway. One of the T-shirts in his Karl range features a fanciful self-portrait with the handwritten message "I Love Gossip." Plenty of that in a room full of fashion people, though I spent much of the night talking about obscure Eastern European films with the encyclopedically informed Anja Rubik. How often do you get the chance to have a real talk with anyone about Dusan Makavejev's scatological Sweet Movie? Especially while chunks of foie gras are drifting back and forth under your nose.
    
    Rubik stars in the commercial that Trey Laird made for the launch of Karl. It was pre-loaded on the iPad. Sui He is also in the ad. She spoke no English when she arrived in New York a year ago but now sounds as politely precise as an elocutionist. On the day of the shoot, Sui was intimidated by the ease of the more experienced models. "It was like a competition," she said. Everyone's a winner in the finished product, which premiered at the dinner, but Sui seemed a little taken aback at how persuasive she was as a minx.
    
    "It's a new mix," murmured Lagerfeld to the camera at the end of his film. Right on cue, Azealia Banks appeared to perform. The neighborhood is "nice," so she didn't get to play more than two songs, but a ruckus was duly raised, and the hair of the haute bourgeoisie peering down into the yard from their windows was surely curled (presuming they could understand her four-letter wordplay). From caviar to c-you-know-what…It may have been a new mix, but it was the same old polymath Karl.

    
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  • 24 h Party People

    After the success of the Double Club in London, Paris was an obvious target for another of Prada's cultural interventions. The 24 h Museum was exactly that, an imposing exhibition space constructed inside the Palais d'Iéna for all of one day. Prada's collaborators this time were the art provocateur Francesco Vezzoli and Rem Koolhaas's design team AMO, who mimicked the traditional museum setup with a central gallery of classical "sculptures" (photographic images of ancient statues mounted on Perspex, with contemporary features superimposed). There was even a monumental techno-goddess in the grand stairway of the Palais, à la the Winged Victory at the Louvre.
    
    The 24 h Museum opened last night with a party that was a work of art in itself. First, there was a dinner for 120 or so, in the central gallery. As party guests began to arrive and the gallery's metal grill doors were briefly closed, it became clear that we were actually in a huge cage. That fit right in with the conceptual mind games Vezzoli and his patron Miuccia Prada play so well. Super-chef Alain Passard, who specializes in extraordinary vegetariana, did the menu. I tasted a hibiscus reduction for the first time in my life. Entertaining (on a grand scale) footnote: All the tableware, glasses, and cutlery apparently came from Miuccia's home. After dinner, there was a disco in the Salon des Refusés, the room where museums would traditionally store things that were rejected from exhibitions. Kate Moss directed the music—Dexys Midnight Runners, David Bowie, George Michael, the hits of your (or at least her) life.
    
    It's easy to imagine the Herculean effort that went into making the 24 h Museum happen. That's power. But it looks like power is Prada's theme this season. The shadow cast by Miuccia's star-injected men's show last week is a long one. She got another celebrity turnout last night, from Polanski and Deneuve to Salma Hayek and Diane Kruger, with a smattering of art world stars. Still, the ever-contrary Vezzoli said, "This is a night when romanticism trumps power." Mind you, it was romance with a twist. The artist also claimed inspiration from the Oedipus complex. It was his mother's eyes that were superimposed on every statue.

    
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  Omiru: Style for All

  • January 2012 Lookbook: What to Wear with Military Boots
    This look is part of Omiru’s January 2012 Lookbook series, which builds upon our 16-Piece January 2012 Capsule Wardrobe.  See more information about this look. Military boots make an aggressive statement - but you don’t have to have a hard edge to wear them.  All you have to do is soften your look with a few [...]
  • January 2012 Lookbook: How to Mix and Match Jewelry
    This look is part of Omiru’s January 2012 Lookbook series, which builds upon our 16-Piece January 2012 Capsule Wardrobe.  See more information about this look. Choosing the right accessories is key to making a look more than the sum of its parts.  And while a statement necklace or pair of earrings can transform the most basic [...]
  • January 2012 Lookbook: The Rule of Threes
    This look is part of Omiru’s January 2012 Lookbook series, which builds upon our 16-Piece January 2012 Capsule Wardrobe.  See more information about this look. There’s a certain rhythm that you get when you see a pattern in triplicate.  This "rule of threes" is pleasing to the eye, which is why you see it not only [...]
  • January 2012 Lookbook: Show Your Personality Through Accessories
    This look is part of Omiru’s January 2012 Lookbook series, which builds upon our 16-Piece January 2012 Capsule Wardrobe.  See more information about this look. The right accessories can really make a look.  By itself, this purple blouse and green skirt can run the gamut from mod to prim and proper - but with a set [...]
  • January 2012 Lookbook: Schizophrenic Color
    This look is part of Omiru’s January 2012 Lookbook series, which builds upon our 16-Piece January 2012 Capsule Wardrobe.  See more information about this look. Once you’re comfortable wearing color, the real fun begins.  You don’t have to limit yourself to a single color - or even two or three.  You can embrace the world of [...]