Tom Ford, GAP, Karl Lagerfeld and now Marc Jacobs, the 12 year-old starlet is landing top modeling contracts that A-list actresses and veteren cat walkers like Kate Moss would certainly covet.
I Don't Care What Anyone Says, I Like Rachel Zoe
Rachel Zoe gets a lot of flack in the press, but I am a fan of her work. Anyone who pays attention to her cleintelle can see an immediate difference (for the "not as good") when they are no longer working with her. The best example is Jessica Simpson who dropped Zoe for stylist Jessica Pastor shortly after Dukes of Hazzard came out. Jessica went from sexy chic/boho casual to Texas housewife meets Holly Golightly faster than you could blink a false eyelash. With more misses than hits, her sense of style has become more forgettable than enviable. This is not because Ms. Simpson knows what to put on (or what not to), but all due to a change in her stylists. Anyway, W magazine ran an article on Ms. Zoe. You can read the full article by clicking here.
Here's an excerpt from the article: Shopping with Rachel Zoe, the pixie-size celebrity stylist who says she hates the term "celebrity stylist" and instead wants to be referred to as "just a stylist," is a dizzying, even exhausting, experience. Five minutes into a visit at What Comes Around Goes Around, a vintage-clothing shop in New York's SoHo, she has swooned, kvelled and plotzed over any number of items. On this brisk November afternoon, she's searching for goddess dresses for the spring 2007 Jimmy Choo and Judith Leiber advertising campaigns she'll be styling; outfits for public appearances by her clients Lindsay Lohan, Mischa Barton, and Nicole Richie (the last of whom will hire a rival stylist a little more than two weeks later); and, of course, pieces to fit her own rail-thin frame. Each swoon, kvell and plotz is accompanied by a different, wildly effervescent superlative.
Spring Fashion 2007
Spring 2007 is coming faster than we can imagine. With February rolling in, expect retailers to start marketing their newer lines. Watch the video below as a refresher of things to come.
There's also a great link at you tube with a collage from the Style Chanel. Click here to view.
Charis and J Product Watch
We are both addicted to Origins Youthtopia Skin firming cream with Rhodiola. This product is absolutely AMAZING. With a slight floral fragrance, silky feel, and fantastic results...Charis and I don't see switching to another face cream anytime soon. You can use it alone, but works best with the White Tea Skin Gaurdian. We used the product once a day (usually at night since we both like to use stuff with sunscreen during the day).
Apply one pump of White Tea Skin Gaurdian to a fully cleansed face (Don't forget toner if your skin is oilier). This product creates a protective bubble around skin so skin won't age before its time. (It's also good for all skin types). Then, apply a small finger-tip of Youthtopia, which helps empower skin to rebound from damaging stress, retrieve its youthful buoyancy and reduce the look of lines and wrinkles.
Remember - facial products are not hand lotions, by using your fingertips (and not rubbing the product into the palms of your hands - and then on to your face), you will be applying the product where it's intended and get more stretch of the precious ounces that you receive when buying facial creams. If used properly (once nightly and correct application without overuse), we found that Youthopia ($47.50 / 1.7 oz) when used with White Tea Skin Gaurdian ($49.50 / 1.7 oz) can last upwards of 2 months. Stop by your local Origins store to ckeck it out or purchase at Origins Online Store.
Don't Forget - Remembering Dr. King
"We learn, at the last, to look at our brothers as aliens, men with whom we share a city, but not a community; men bound to us in common dwelling, but not in common effort. We learn to share only a common fear, only a common desire to retreat from each other, only a common impulse to meet disagreement with force. For all this, there are no final answers.
Our lives on this planet are too short and the work to be done too great to let this spirit flourish any longer in our land. Of course we cannot vanquish it with a program, nor with a resolution.
But we can perhaps remember, if only for a time, that those who live with us are our brothers, that they share with us the same short moment of life; that they seek, as do we, nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and in happiness, winning what satisfaction and fulfillment they can.
Surely, this bond of common faith, this bond of common goal, can begin to teach us something. Surely, we can learn, at least, to look at those around us as fellow men, and surely we can begin to work a little harder to bind up the wounds among us and to become in our own hearts brothers and countrymen once again.
What we need in the United States is not hatred. What we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love and wisdom and compassion toward one another. " Robert F. Kennedy, excerpt from "The Mindless Menace of Violence"
