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The Throes of Fashion Week Insanity

For the dozen or so readers I have out there, I have not been posting lately because: 1.) I have been getting ready for the first week of school. 2.) I have been procrastinating a handful of articles and blog posts that I am supposed to be doing. 3.) I have started to train for...

Is Fashion’s Night Out worth televising?

Apparently, someone had the bright idea to televise Fashion’s Night Out come September. As Variety says, CBS will air “a one-hour special Sept. 15 that covers the fashion industry’s second-annual event, which will have taken place five days prior. Telecast will include preparations made for Fashion’s Night Out, an initiative that began last year as...

New York or BUST!

I never really understood what that meant: “ or BUST!” Every time I say it, I can’t help but remember the opening credits of Perfect Strangers when Balki Bartokomous was sitting in the back of a horse-drawn wagon and he had a box that said “America or Burst”. Nonetheless, I am headed off to New...

A Finer Guide for the week of Feb. 8, 2010

What to watch on the runway… It’s that time of year again – it’s time for FASHION WEEK in New York! Starting Feb. 11, smokey eyes and nude lips will invade Bryant Park as designers send their Fall 2010 collections down a runway like a log ride; telling the masses of fashion junkies what they...

Asian pop culture tally as of September 17, 2009

If you combine Fashion Week with some of the cast members from Glee, then there are TONS of Asian Americans to add to the tally: Jenna Ushkowitz: The stuttering singer from Glee who has an affinity for a Hot Topic-like clothing. Iqbal Theba: The blunt and funny principal in Glee Harry Shum Jr.: Based on...

Gas X and New York Fashion Week

Gas X and New York Fashion Week go hand in hand. I don’t know why, they just do. While in New York, my friend had little gas problem after we ate at a soup dumpling house. In an attempt to alleviate said gas, she scoured the shelves at Duane Reade for some sort of gas...

New York Fashion Week diet and FNO

I arrived in New York for Fashion Week yesterday and was welcomed by rain and traffic. And lucky for me, it was Fashion’s Night Out…or not. As I was walking around checking out the scene, I was thinking, “Maybe fashion should’ve stayed in for the night.” Did this really “stimulate the economy?” It was fun...