No, not of the Russell Crowe persuasion, but of this summer's hottest trend - the gladiator sandals. My favorite Parisian bloggers have been featuring them since February and the trend has finally ar...

Yves Saint Laurent died last Sunday. I was never too familiar with his work, but he is ubiquitously cited as a fashion god, alongside Chanel and Dior. An insightful, albeit exhaustive, article in Wome...

I would imagine that a lot of guys would shy away from wearing floral because the pattern is strongly associated with the feminine. However, Géraldine Dormoy's latest post about the opening of ...

An interesting blog entry examines the success of Zara. Even though the author is of dubious authenticity, the article summarizes many of the points of a Columbia Business School case study I read las...

Women's Wear Daily (aka The Fashion Bible) had a very interesting article last week about how the 90s supermodels are very prominent in the European ads for the Fall Winter 2008/'09 season. The main a...

Two years ago, I discovered a great drugstore foundation that I now swear by. This one is so good that I have yet to try the $40 department store foundations that most of my friends wear. The foundati...

Someday I will be brave enough to write a short novel on Fashmag about the Ukrainian-Russian singing sensation VIA Gra, a band whose name is a clear reference to the drug, but who tries to disguise it...

  From a 2002 Columbia Business school case study on Zara:   " 'In our view, the U.S. [market] is over-retailed, and the U.S. consumer, outside of the coasts and...

As a regular college senior and a coffee fanatic, I usually down on average two cups a day, six days a week. This consumption takes place in class in order to refrain from dosing off into a land far...

Inspired by Rumi, the Sartorialist's coverage of Parisian fashion and the cold evenings in the Peninsula, I have been sporting my favorite Winter '08 look more than a fair amount lately. The look is...

Dear friends, someday I will tell you how my obsession with everything French and Parisian came about. But for now, let us get back to the subject of lips. Many sources tell me that the quintessenti...

    It is spring. And spring means happiness. Happiness reminds me of Paris and the whole train of thought reminds me of that one time I studied abroad in Paris last spring. What a magi...