So you go to the farmers' market to buy produce, drink organically grown fair trade coffee, and listen to indie music. Are you really going to wear a little dress mass produced by desperate children in developing nations? It's cheap, sure, but doesn't it make you feel an itsy bit dirty? Do clothes have karma or do you just feel better when you know the person who made them? Are ...
Fashion needs risk takers. If somebody hadn’t dared to wear the first bikini we’d all still be treading the proverbial waters in our woolen swimsuits. The trouble is some fashions have serious consequences. And we don’t just mean photographic evidence of that micro mini fiasco coming back to haunt you on Facebook. We’re talking permanent damage. We’re talking suntans. ...
FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE OREGONIANTuesday, May 17, 2005VIVIAN McINERNYThe man wore a tuxedo and a blindfold. The woman wore very little at all. Strutting down the fashion runway in tall shoes and tiny lingerie, she led the formally attired man by a red sash that bound his hands.Fashion Paloozazaza 2005 earned its extra "za"s.The quirky fashion event last Saturday featured clothes, ...
FIRST PUBLISHED: The Oregonian, January 27, 2002It was a dark and stormy and stylish night Hundreds of people stood in the rain in a line that snaked around an inner city warehouse district, otherwise deserted on a Sunday night, waiting to get into an 8 p.m. fashion show. Calvin Klein? Ralph Lauren? Michael Kors? No, the crowd gathered to see the original creations of about 20 Oregon ...
Celebrity» Click Here For The Latest PostsCelebri-teasePosted by Vivian McInerny January 01, 2008 10:45AMEdited soon there after It has come to our attention that readers like celebrity gossip.Editors suggested (She means superiors insisted!) that I blog (write snarky stuff) about said celebrities. But we are, in our heart of hearts, rather nice. (She's out of touch with pop ...
People with the kind of deep, dark, suntan they've obviously worked to achieve simply look creepy to me.
Of course, they probably think I look sick.
Ah well.
