NewsFeed’s Feifei Sun rounds up the brilliant and bizarre from this week in fashion. Babeyoncé Style. The singer—whose baby bump has raised eyebrows—is developing maternity clothes for House of Deréon, the fashion line she started with her mother, Tina, in 2004. [Harper's Bazaar] A ‘Great’ Partnership. Tiffany and Co. will provide all the jewelry to
Continue reading …Bravery comes in many forms. Sometimes it’s charging to the front lines, and sometimes it’s taking a hard line on facial grooming. According to the Wall Street Journal, some American male soldiers stationed in Afghanistan are getting their eyebrows shaped into “slender arches” via threading, plucking or shaving. This despite a Marine Corps regulation, added
Continue reading …It’s no secret that Glee has a flair for the dramatic, but this time it may have gone too far. The show’s most recent adoption storyline has sparked a petition urging executive producer Ryan Murphy and Fox to create a PSA about “adoption realities.” For those not setting their DVR to tape Glee every week,
Continue reading …As the days ticked by, September rolled into October and the Occupy Wall Street movement dug in at Lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park, a question loomed: How long would they stay once cold weather came? We may not have to wait that long to find out. On Wednesday, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office released a
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The end of the world is nigh – again. Doomsday prophet Harold Camping is once more predicting an apocalypse, and apparently we don’t have long left. The 90-year-old California radio mogul has pointed to October 21 on the calendar, by which date he reckons it will “probably” all be over. But this time around he
Continue reading …A brand of gummy candy is sour-apple flavored and doesn’t contain cannabis, but some parents and activists are outraged over its leaf shape. Critics say the candy encourages children to smoke pot. “We’re already dealing with a high amount of drug abuse and drug activity and trying to raise children so they don’t think using
Continue reading …Fashion retailer Urban Outfitters has landed in hot water after a scathing letter points out its (potentially illegal) fascination with all things Navajo. Earlier this week, Sasha Houston Brown of Minneapolis published an open letter to the company’s CEO as a guest contributor on the blog Racialicious. Brown posits that the frequent use of “Navajo”
Continue reading …It’s been around the block a few times. But that didn’t put the brakes on an auction for the world’s oldest car, where bidding closed at a staggering $4.6 million last week. A steam-powered automobile, billed as the oldest-operable car in the world, fetched more than twice its estimated price at the RM Auctions house in
Continue reading …It’s been around the block a few times. But that didn’t put the brakes on an auction for the world’s oldest car, where bidding closed at a staggering $4.6 million last week. A steam-powered automobile, billed as the oldest-operable car in the world, fetched more than twice its estimated price at the RM Auctions house in
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