Category: The Fashionista Laboratory

  • Fashionista Lab Featured in the San Francisco Chronicle

    How exciting! Although cold and rainy, the photoshoot was fun. Everyone else kept their coats on – we were all being rained on – but I took mine off. It wasn’t part of the outfit! For the full article, click here. About a month ago Ellen Lee from the Chronicle contacted me to be interviewed…

  • Quiz: Place the Photos

    Let’s play a game! Look at the following images and tell me if they’re from: A) A vacation photo album B) A magazine spread C) A catalog D) A lookbook I don’t know where they are, but I want to go there. And I’ll take the wardrobe too. What do you think? Are these images…

  • The Final Unfashionable Frontier

    Gym clothes. (Photo via Clutch Magazine) Remember when people wore oversize T-shirts and -GASP- tapered sweat pants to work out? And before yoga was popular and it got its own category of clothing? There used to be a time when nobody cared about looking good while working out. I used to revel in the fact…

  • The Fashion Food Pyramid

    You’re familiar with this, right? The food pyramid provides guidelines for how to make sure you eat a balanced diet. Thinking about some of the purchases I made last year, I realized there were things I could do to better balance my shopping habits. So I made my own pyramid. Absolutely: items bought on sale,…