Fashion with a spark of intellect.
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Consuming happiness
A number of years ago a friend gave me a retro magnet that said, “anyone who tells you money can’t buy happiness just doesn’t know where to shop!” I was reminded of that when I read this New York Times article about consumers becoming happier as they buy fewer things. The idea is that it’s…
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Project Runway recap: Double Play
This week’s challenge came with a caliber of reward not usually seen until a much later episode: the winner will have their look featured on a billboard in NYC. Big deal! Then, a few hours before sewing curfew Tim announces that not only will they have the runway show, the designers also get a photo…
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Weekend Wedding
This past weekend I went to a wedding at a summer cottage on a lake in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Not just a wedding – a long weekend full of being outside and in the water. I gloriously spent most of the weekend in a bathing suit. After an afternoon of waterskiing my friend (the bride)…
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Project Runway recap: Hello my name is
Welcome to Season 8! What’s with the extended introductions? First Heidi and Tim talk about the designers, then we see them meeting each other in pairs and groups of 3. They all have to meet each other anyway so I would have preferred they did it all at once instead of showing 2 people meet…
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