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Jean's Palm Beach Fling
It's Jean, here, kiddies, to narrate the story of my latest trip to Florida. For the second year in a row, I escaped the winter chill and headed to Palm Beach Gardens with five friends I first met 47...
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There Are Eight Million Great Looks in New York City
Some Are at The Manhattan Vintage ShowSince Jean was sunning herself in Florida, Valerie had to take full (!) responsibility for covering the first of the three Manhattan Vintage Shows this year, all...
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Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
Have you seen Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno on Sundance Channel? This is not one of the characters in the program. This is.We recently had a chance to see Rossellini do Green Porno at the Brooklyn...
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Elegance in an Age of Crisis: Fashions of the 1930s
On the opening night of New York Fashion Week, we covered The Museum at FIT's Elegance in An Age of Crisis: Fashions of the 1930s. Â The exhibition, of approximately eighty ensembles and thirty...
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Down the Rabbit Hole!
We're late!But we'll be up in all our splendor tomorrow night!Come and see us on Thursday night. Â (Just this once. Â Next week we'll be back to Wednesday night.)
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City as Canvas - When Graffiti Was King
In yet another snow storm, we trekked way uptown to the Museum of the City of New York's exhibition: City as Canvas: New York City Graffiti from the Martin Wong Collection.(Thanks to MCNY's terrific...
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IFs at New York Fashion Week
Here we are -- in the snow (again) -- at Lincoln Center last Sunday evening for a runway show in the Pavilion. New York Fashion Week is an amazing semiannual phenomenon. Â It is sort of like the...
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All the Strutting at Fashion Week Isn't on the Catwalk!
In our last post, we focused on the designers and the models and clothes on the runway. Now, we're covering the people at New York Fashion Week, because not all the strutting was done by the runway...
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Carol Markel's Open Studio
We were thrilled to receive an invitation to Carol Markel's Open Studio 2014, where she promised to show new hats, beads and drawings. Â She also said she would premiere her exciting new Hat Shop In a...
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Button Up Your Overcoat?
(in The Whine Bar) andOut of the Mouths of BabesBefore the whining begins, let's hear it for Shubham Banerjee, a twelve year old boy in seventh grade who developed a braille printer, which he is...
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Trade Show Hijinks at ENK's Coterie
an inside look at the fashion buyers' marketHere we are at Coterie, a three day showcase of Fall/Winter 2014 "premier women's ready-to-wear, accessories and footwear". Â The Ilux representative took a...
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The Eyes Have It
Okay, remember last time we mentioned the tip of the iceberg? Here's what lies beneath. These are just some of the other fabulous eyeglasses, sunglasses and reading glasses we discovered.Illesteva red...
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Black Dress - Ten Contemporary Black Designers at Pratt Gallery
Readers, if you're in the New York area, go see Black Dress at Pratt Gallery, featuring ten contemporary and legendary African-American fashion designers.  Co-curated by Adrienne Jones (whom we...
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Thirty Minutes in New York City
If you're very lucky, when you're walking near Saint Patrick's Cathedral you'll run into Lionel Shell, or someone very like him, visiting from England, and not afraid to wear color in a city that...
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Mi Closet, Su Closet, Beacon's Closet (or: We Let One Cat Out of the Bag)
Imagine how thrilled we were to be approached to do a photo shoot with Beacon's Closet, our up-to-now secret consignment store that has been the source of some amazingly stylish additions to our...
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"Baby You Can Drive My Car!"
When we got our invitation to the Classic Car Club (CCC) of Manhattan's "Ride Fast with Class" event featuring local aspiring Indycar driver Luca Forgeois, our hearts went into overdrive! Â We have been...
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Folk Couture - Fashion and Folk Art
It's true that one thing leads to another. Â At Coterie in February, Fern from the boutique Rosebud at Koos told us - in glowing language - that we had to visit the American Folk Art Museum to see the...
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Obsession Control
Jean's New Year's ResolutionOb-ses-sion - noun:- a state in which one thinks about someone or something constantly or frequently especially in a way that is not normal;- a persistent disturbing...
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Eyewear, You Wear, We All Wear
we visit the l.a. Eyeworks trunk showSometimes it's nice that history repeats itself.  Just as last year, l.a. Eyeworks took over Alexander  Gray Associates to show off their line of eyewear....
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The Pier Antiques Show
The Pier Antiques Show, presented by U.S.Antique Shows, is one of the largest antique events.  It features more than 400 vendors  Although it wasn't done intentionally, it happened: two antique shows...
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