Star Wars Force 4 Fashion Recruits Haute Designers for Charity
In all my days as a film critic, I don’t think there’s ever been a more all engrossing, highly anticipated film than the latest Star Wars installment, The Force Awakens. Now even high fashion designers are getting into the spirit, collaborating with Bloomingdale’s on a charity project entitled “Force 4 Fashion,” which gives all us couture cultists…
KILLER HEELS Exhibit — Stroll Through These Exclusive Photos
Photos and feature by Staci Layne Wilson @StaciWilson Calling all shoe lovers! (which really means calling everyone who would care to read this) Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe, organized by the Brooklyn Museum, is on tour, and currently closeted at the Palm Springs Art Museum, where it’s showing through December 13, 2015. I had the infinite pleasure…
Bruce Lee Style and 75th Birthday Celebration – Exclusive Interview with Shannon Lee
By Staci Layne Wilson @StaciWilson When you conjure up an image of Bruce Lee, you probably either think of the famous yellow and black jumpsuit he wore in the film Game of Death, or you think of him shirtless and bloody in Enter the Dragon. But the clothes made the man in many ways, according…
Sam Heughan, Jamie from Outlander, Sets Fall Fashion Trend
Just in case you want to wear a little piece of Jamie Fraser close to your heart (and who doesn’t?) Sam Heughan, who plays the russet-haired Scottish hunk in Starz’ TV adaptation of the bestselling Outlander book series, has inadvertently set a hot new fashion trend. It’s the simply forged Celtic brooch, perfect for keeping the loosely woven scarf or…
Check Out Irish Fashion Icons Lainey Keogh and Louise Kennedy
When you think of superstar European designers, the first names that come to mind are probably Italian, French or perhaps English. All that’s about to change. You are about to have your fashion worlds rocked by a couple of fabulous ladies from…Ireland, if you can believe it. Lainey Keogh and Louise Kennedy are such well established…
Lady Gaga's French Bulldog is the New Face of Coach
I don’t know how Coach could have been smarter, savvier or hit more At Home In Hollywood than to feature canine stars as the new faces of their brand. The leading New York design house of modern luxury accessories and lifestyle collections appears to have gone to the dogs with an ad campaign titled “Coach Pups,” and French Bulldog Miss Asia…
The Mad Style of Undurraga Wines
If there’s one thing Mad Men has taught us, it’s that ad campaigns are all about style, and a wit thrown in there doesn’t hurt either. One of the cleverest, and most fashionable ad campaigns I’ve come across in some time is one Testa Wines of the World came up with to promote Chile’s Undurraga wines,…
The Glory of Sue Wong Fashion Show “Mythos & Goddesses”
No one ever claimed that the Los Angeles version of Fashion Week rivals New York’s, but you’d never know that from inside Hollywood’s Taglyan complex on a recent balmy night, when internationally renowned designer Sue Wong kicked off Art Hearts Fashion Week with a hypnotic and sensual Goth Opera fashion show entitled “Mythos & Goddesses,” to introduce…
Oscar Swag Standouts
So here I am, right before the Oscars, in GBK’s fabulous gifting suite and surrounded by hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of amazing Oscar swag as well as top Hollywood glitterati, and all I can focus on is actress Naomi Grossman, who played the pinhead Pepper on American Horror Story: Freak Show. Having shaved her head of all but a…
Fabulous Finds at the Oscar Secret Room Luxury Lounge
Have you ever wondered how stars (and non-stars like myself) can schlep home hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of swag from events like the Secret Room Events Beauty Bar and Luxury Lounge? Do we back up a U-Haul to the W Hotel and crate it out on a dolly? Perhaps line up an Uber fleet…