London, your days as king of the big wheel are numbered. Las Vegas is coming for you. Vegas is also coming for fans of ridiculously big carnival rides. Caesars Entertainment, the world’s largest casino company, will plant shovels in the dirt next month and start digging the foundation for a rotating upright wheel to outshine
Continue reading …If Italian Vogue is trying to drum up interest in boring old hoop earrings, they’ve certainly chosen a controversial way to go about it. The Guardian reports that the fashion magazine featured an online spread on gold hoops which they had dubbed “slave” earrings. “Jewellery has always flirted with circular shapes, especially for use in
Continue reading …What do the words “succedaneum” and “wittol” have in common? Here’s a clue: you probably won’t be encountering them on your next GRE test anytime soon. Even though you’re probably more concerned about crossing your t’s and dotting your i’s, its easy to forget that language is a living, changing thing. Collins Dictionary has compiled
Continue reading …A Pennsylvania photographer canceled senior photo sessions with four high school girls after spotting nasty comments they made on Facebook. Jennifer McKendrick says she came across a ‘burn book’ Facebook page, created by teens for writing negative comments about their classmates. You might think it’s a phase every gossipy high schooler goes through, but this
Continue reading …This is one model who’s not so thrilled that her face is emblazoned on a shirt. California model Hailey Clauson, who’s just 16, has filed a whopping $28 million lawsuit claiming that a racy photo of her is being used illegally on the company’s apparel. The Manhattan court filing rails against Urban Outfitters, two boutique
Continue reading …Congratulations, people of Portland! (Or, if you’re of a super-strict moral fiber, then shame on you, people of Portland!) Dating site OkCupid has tapped into their data to determine which cities across the U.S. have the most promiscuous residents. By analyzing how many people have profiles with “Casual Sex” marked as a type of relationship
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Author and fashion expert Jill Martin explains how to organize your closet, celebrity style. (Aug. 19)
Continue reading …NewsFeed’s Feifei Sun rounds up the brilliant and bizarre from this week in fashion. Artistic Wear. Designer Lisa Perry’s new capsule collection features frocks decorated by artist Roy Lichtenstein’s works. [Refinery29] Grace Kelly Gets the Barbie Treatment. Mattel is releasing three dolls inspired by the actress-turned-royal, including one Barbie dressed in Kelly’s iconic wedding gown.
Continue reading …Nabisco has just introduced the Triple Double Oreo, a new variety of the classic bestselling cookie with two layers of Oreo crème (one chocolate, one vanilla) and three Oreo cookies. The Triple Double is a new variation on a product introduced in Argentina in 2008: the Oreo x3 (“Por Tres”), which also combines three cookies
Continue reading …A new book says that Coco Chanel, in addition to running one of the world’s most influential fashion empires, also spied for the Nazis. Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel’s Secret War was written by a Paris-based American journalist who asserts that the fashion icon was an agent for Germany’s Abwehr military intelligence organization and
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