They say that to figure out if something is "worth it", you should take the cost of the item, and divide it up by the number of times you'll use it. With this theory in mind, I was able to justify buying a beautiful heather grey, cashmere, fits-me-like-a sexy-glove, feels-like-buttah, tank top.

I visited what I hope is going to be my new office in the Flatiron District and was feeling optimistic when the alluringly monochromatic windows of Club Monaco beckoned me in.

So, fine. I don't have a car payment anymore since moving to NYC... for the cost of one, I now have a great tank top! I like this better than I ever liked my car.

Hrm, did this come in black..... ?

Digging these shirts. Via monstro.

Project Runway is looking for fabulous new designers for their next season (their 6th). I just got an email from Kasha Foster, Casting Director for the show, who says she is looking to tap into some of Des Moines' promising designers.

Applications and more information can be found on their website:
http://www.seenon.com/project-runway/season-6/casting/

(Please note: the submission deadline has been extended to Friday, August 1st.)

Let's see a Des Moines designer on the show!!

Perhaps this helps to explain why I am drawn more to art than fashion these days?.....

Body Politic

By INGRID SISCHY
Published: February 25, 2007
NY Times

Last fall I was stopped in my tracks as I walked into a show in Milan during the collections, and a male friend, who’d just witnessed the same debacle that I had, raised his eyebrows and asked, “What happened to feminism?” It’s a question that is being asked repeatedly these days, and for good reason. The only word for the fashion collection we’d just seen was “bimbo” — clothes put out on the runway without irony, without quotation marks, without any raison d’être other than saving money on material. Over the course of the next two weeks I gave myself a little assignment. I’d watch the runways in Milan and Paris and check off those clothes that signified a throwback to the long past of objectifying women. And on the other hand I’d put a little star down when the designer seemed to be wanting to take us into the future with a view of women that reflected self-possession.

Good thing I still like swings. Of course there were exceptions, designers who were true to the present, but by and large it was backward and forward and backward and forward. Then there were the designers who left earth entirely and showed a universe of female droids and cyborgs. These were the ones who, intentionally or not, illuminated the big challenge facing women’s fashion, best described by tweaking the famous tag line from “Star Trek”: women’s fashion, the final frontier . . . to boldly go where no one has gone before.

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What party can I throw to justify wearing this dress??

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"2006 Year in Review"

Whew! 2006 was an astonishing year!

Here are some highlights we'd like to share:

Liza damns the man, and starts working for the woman - herself!
After many years of hating the man and trying to find the energy for a freelance career on the side, Liza finally had the nerve (smarts?) to set off completely on her own. Good things happened.

Grey Markets 1 & 2
A dream for a long time, The Grey Market finally became reality. Between installments one and two, TGM championed over 50 Iowa designers and businesses, and gave literally thousands of Iowans a place to buy cool Iowa stuff. A highlight was when Juice included TGM in it's annual year-end round up: + GREY MARKET. A novel idea in the East Village: Fashion-forward clothing from Iowa designers, entertainment, booze. Two times in, it's looking like something that hopefully continues for a while. Props to Liza Kindred. (Thumbs up) Yay!

Lullabot!
Working to help Lullabot achieve blow their goals out of the friggin' water was an awesome part of 2007! This company, just finishing up it's first year, has achieved international acclaim in it's field. Liza helped this awesome company work with such well-known (and nice!) clients as Yale University, MTV US, MTV UK, Sony BMG, Participant Productions, and many, many others. Liza also plans their workshops from them, from coast to coast.

1st Juice fashion cover

You all will know why it's so cool! Now we can get sewing patterns over iTunes!!! Think about it.... sewing patterns over iTunes. Genius!

When did anorexia come back in style? Do we have Nicole "Deathbed" Richie to thank for this, or just her retched stylist, Rachel Zoe, who turns all of her charges into disgusting clones? Retch.

Read this article to find out how you can acheive the "Rachel Zoe" look. Be warned: it includes no bra, 25" jeans, and no excercise. Also, apparently, no food. Great advice, thanks. Way to go, Rachel Zoe "Used-to-be-Rosenzweig-but-that-was-too-Jewish".