Kiss Me Stace

Poll: BIG 1st Date

Designer Ella — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:29:39 +0000

So I’m not really asking for advice, but more wanting to start a conversation. I have a big 1st date coming up, as in he’s away so we can’t meet yet, but we’ve already gotten to know and like each other. (BTW, I would also not be wrong in calling this a hot date.) The 1st [...]

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Why wear bikinis, anyway?

Designer Ella — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:15:52 +0000

“All those old skanks in these tabloids all wear bikinis. Don’t you want to be different? Don’t you want to look more fabulous and glamorous? Aren’t you sick of the bikini?” - Simon Doonan I couldn’t agree more, and yet I couldn’t pinpoint it before this bold, genius gay said it in this perfect way. I still [...]

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Kiss Me Stace’s own Twitter Fashion Micro-Blog

Designer Ella — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:57:31 +0000

My Twitter has become something very dear, and very personal for me; an outlet for deep thoughts. This has also led to me using the service so much I thought I’d plant seeds now to hope grow a Twitter section of our financial business. (Search Google if you don’t think Twitter can be monetized, that’s [...]

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Magazine Ads Decrease - Is this bad?

Designer Ella — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:20:33 +0000

According to WWD, most magazines are selling fewer ad pages for their upcoming issues. This comes after years(?) of ads taking over magazines to the extreme points of there being more ad pages than content; huge, heavy books even bigger some months with no extra articles; and even Vogue, in my humble opinion, holds half [...]

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Frightening Men’s Swim Trend ‘09 - Short Shorts

Designer Ella — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:51:03 +0000

The trend for males from Miami Swim this past weekend, showcasing designer swimwear for Summer ‘09, is definitely a fright of sorts. Every designer that included men’s swim trunks (or lack of trunks) included short shorts. Short shorts. On guys. Male short shorts. Every guy I know only wears shorts down to his knees, and swimwear is no [...]

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Help Name our Next Blog: Vote!

Designer Ella — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:59:58 +0000

We’re starting an anti blog of sorts, related to (too) expensive and fugly handbags. My friend and I will be working on it, but we can’t decide on its name (two minds can be slower than one). Please take this poll and feel free to leave comments. (Note you can add your own idea as [...]

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Eye Can’t Decide: Flattering?

Designer Ella — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:45:40 +0000

This double-color cardigan by Marc by Marc Jacobs is pretty cute, but my eye can’t decide whether or not this halvsie effect is slimming or widening, and I don’t believe there’s been a set rule on this matter either. What do you think? n n Is this 2 Stripe Look Flattering? Ultimately vertical! Slimming! Like 2 sweaters (or 4?)!...

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Find your Supermodel Strut

Designer Ella — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:40:47 +0000

(A public service announcement.) There are times, days, and longer stretches when a woman doesn’t feel her best. When this happens to you, whatever you do, don’t lay around depressed. Get out there, do errands, meet friends or just take a walk. And no matter how you feel, exhausted, hot, sweaty, whatever—push through the “pain” and [...]

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Shooooo(e) La La! What a Haute Blog!

Designer Ella — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:23:28 +0000

I’m amusing myself with ridiculousness this afternoon. Labeling it and putting it away, not to worry over but placing it in a file for chuckles when needed. Why obsess over media icons - why force one’s body to the pain over footwear with spikes to the rear of the soles - why does a fashionista [...]

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Let Me Introduce Hilary Clinton to Clinton Kelly!

Designer Ella — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:34:51 +0000

You know the problem well, you can’t block it from your mind. The low-long-hemmed unbuttoned jacket swinging away from the widest point of ample thighs/hips… Hilary Clinton and her “pantsuits” (more on that ridiculousness later)… But it never happened, she never got a lifelong-style makeover from the gurus at What Not to Wear. What a picture, [...]

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