Apparently officials in France and Italy have decided the Burqini reveals too little and have banned women from wearing them to public pools and beaches. Thanks to an Australian sportswear company named Ahiida, Muslim women can be modestly attired while fearlessly active in the water and on dry land. Ruqaya Al Ghasara, a short distance [...]
ANOTHER BIRTHDAY, ANOTHER BIRTH CERTIFICATE Today is President Barack Obama’s 48th Birthday. Which birth certificate do you have? Apparently a merry band of predominantly conservative skeptics have been the darlings of the news media for their efforts in time travel to switch the President’s place of birth from Hawaii to Kenya. Their mission…to make the [...]
Correction: June 21 is Father’s Day! . Earlier, I posted June 14 – But I still dig the video. The holiday was started in Spokane, Washington, June 19, 1910. Sonora Smart wanted to celebrate the single parent who was her father after hearing a Mother’s Day sermon in chruch. William Jackson Smart lost his wife [...]
Anna Wintour’s 60 Minutes interview – I guess the most revealing moment of this one-on-one with the 59-year-old editor of American Vogue is that she removed her signature shades to talk with Morley Safer. I see Wintour’s “decisiveness” as her strength in the fashion industry; others may hate her for it. But there it is. [...]
I love Bill Cunningham’s “On the Street” fashion columns in the Sunday New York Times. For the slides shows on-line, Bill’s raspy voice makes you think he’s reporting from the scene of a crime. Bill gets around. Having recently turned 80, he pedals his bicycle around the big city streets collecting and beholding his beautiful [...]
I like totally spaced out on Fashion Week (Fall 2009 collections) which wrapped up in NYC yesterday. On the topic of “fashion,” I tend to defer to Robin Givhan on this blog. Like me, Robin knows fashion is more than just expensive clothes. And we don’t obsess over Anna Wintour’s sunglasses. In the Washington Post [...]
I was about to fire off a “misidentified Black person” email to the Washington Post today (if Undercover Blackman didn’t beat me to it), over Robin Givhan’s story about the Glamour [Magazine] Women of the Year awards which were held in New York this past week. [btw - the Glamour awards throw substance ahead of [...]
As someone who doesn’t enjoy shopping but gets a kick out of watching the world strut down the catwalk, I just had to share this “The Daily Show” video. Afterall, it’s fashion! But like all fashion makeovers we must have the BEFORE: In the narrow confines of political style, the accepted rule is to dress [...]
The tents are up and the gift bags stuffed. Fashion Week is on in New York City from September 5 – 12. It’s the spring collections gliding down the runway. I could use a spring break. Robin Givhan of the Washington Post is already planted there. Looking forward to her updates on her WaPo blog [...]
I’ve been turning this over-and-over in my head. What do I come out of the gate with on my first blog entry for Eclectique|916? Well first Welcome! How did this happen? Last year around this time, I reviewed the September fashion magazines with an email essay to my friends and fam list. It wasn’t my [...]
