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No Friends of Mine: LEGO Goes Pink

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Pink LEGO

Let’s start by making something very clear: I absolutely adore LEGO. Its concept, design, products and company philosophy are fantastic. My husband is a LEGO collector who owns every variation of Star Wars minifigure the company ever released and is known on Twitter as Lego Master. Last Saturday was spent in a rapturous build and endless admiration of the recently released Jabba’s Palace set, and this year we have decided that all our Christmas decorations will be made out of LEGO, including their wonderful Winter Village sets, which are still boxed and waiting for December the 1st when we buy the tree.

Nor, I hasten to add, do I have anything against the colour pink per se. Apart from the fact that it would be weird for me to write for the Little Pink Blog and be a voracious anti-pink feminist, I believe that colours in themselves are not inherently evil, and that women should wear pink and buy pink products if they feel like it.

That said, this week I joined 61,000 [Read more...]

December 6, 2012

Queen Rania Talks Education and Innovation at the Clinton Global Initiative 2012

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Originally posted on Recurso International’s blog, check out the original, HERE.

Personal commentary has been added to this post*

Image via Queen Rania’s Facebook Page

“Technology is not only for the individual, it’s for humanity.”

I adore Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah.

Like my idol the late Princess Diana of Wales, Queen Rania sees beyond wealth, extravagance and the fact that she’s royalty.

She seeks to help those in need, strives for positive changes and believes that education, having heart and using the worlds assets can lead to a better, brighter and healthier tomorrow for the world’s next generation.

This week, here in New York, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah joined President Bill Clinton, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and World Bank President Jim Young Kim at the eight annual Clinton Global Initiative.

The opening panel, held on Sunday September 23, entitled “Designing for Impact,” focused on the how citizens of the world could cultivate an environment where their lives and the lives of those around them can serve as vehicles for change. [Read more...]

September 27, 2012

Penetrating Markets: A British Tale

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With Stuart Trevor, original founder of ALL SAINTS, discussing his plans for Bolongaro Trevor

Considering that the United States accounts for approximately 30-percent of the world’s GDP, how do you penetrate it?

Post-Nolcha’s menswear show, I attended a Q&A at the British Consulate-General’s office to hear what Firetrap (denim/streetwear), Pretty Green (by Liam Gallagher) and Bolongaro Trevor (from the original designers behind the cult retail chain, All Saints) all had to say about how to breakthrough into the US market. [Read more...]

September 18, 2012

PR Meltdown at Betsey Johnson 70th Retrospective

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Oh, dear, Fashion Week is always full of unfortunate things that happen. It comes with the territory. We love Betsey Johnson, so we were very excited to see her Retrospective. It was a celebration (and birthday party) of 70-years of Betsey! Oh the pink, the Queens, the tulle and the glitter — except, sadly, it didn’t happen. [Read more...]

September 11, 2012

Ruffian SS13: Baroque in the Street

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One part Williamsberg-hipster, one part Carine Roitfeld’s 16th arrondissment Parisian bourgeois upbringing, was exactly what we thought of upon seeing Ruffian’s Baroque in the Street.

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September 8, 2012

Bed Head’s Urban Canvas

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I love my hair.

One could possibly say I’m obsessed with it.

I also love art … like a lot.

So when the two merge outside of Fashion Week and the musing of my mother or other stylists, I get giddy.

That’s pretty much why TIGI’s Bed Head is super cool this summer with their latest collection.

Bed Head invited three artists (Jim Mahfood, Nicholas Saunders and Harry Woollacott) to unleash their creativity on their most iconic and best-selling products: Afterparty, Small Talk, Hardhead and Masterpiece. [Read more...]

June 18, 2012

Leisure Meets Luxury at the W Hoboken

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Leisure meets luxury at the W Hoboken when 70+ summery-clad ladies and gents boarded an endless champagne-gasmic yacht and set sail around the New York Habour. [Read more...]

June 7, 2012

Conflict of Pinterest: The Most Beautiful Country in the World

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What country do you deem to be the most beautiful in the world?  If you were to ask me, I would have to be bias and scream out SPAIN!

Pinterest is the new social media outlet that is literally taking over the world with pins and repins of visually appealing photographs on anything from DIY projects, to fashion, weddings, travel and more! [Read more...]

April 20, 2012

Skittles: Taste the Colour of a PR Crisis

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David Goldman | Associated Press

For the past few weeks I’ve been watching an atypical type of public relations crisis unravel — that of Skittles.

Skittles, you know, the taste the rainbow, fruity, sugary hard candy you chomped on endlessly until you hit university and gained the Freshmen 15.

Yes, that Skittles.

Why, you say?

Because of Trayvon Martin: the 17-year old teen who was carrying only a packet of Skittles and a drink when he was shot and killed on February 26, 2012 in Sanford, Florida by George Zimmerman.

The strangest part of the aftermath from the Trayvon Martin shooting is Skittles are flying off the shelves. [Read more...]

April 5, 2012

Precious Stones: An Evening with Hilary Park

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What do you get when you have a theoretical math major turned jewelry designer who has an affinity for the stars?

Park.

Hilary Park.

That’s who!

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February 21, 2012

Backstage at New York Fashion Week FW12: Style at Anna Sui

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Technicolor cat-eyes are in!

At least they were at Anna Sui’s Fall/Winter 2012 show at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.

Pat McGrath dolled up the models in an azure blend backstage. [Read more...]

February 18, 2012

Spring 2012 Couture: Christian Dior [VIDEO]

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Between the black crocodile patent scales and floral designs, the Spring 2012 Couture collection from Christian Dior is extremely [Read more...]

January 26, 2012

Pre-Fall 2012: Donna Karan

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In typical Donna Karan fashion, pre-Fall means ‘back to work’ where the tribal, fun moods of Spring are out and menswear-inspired separates are in!

To say we are obsessed with this collection would be selling it short.

We think it’s gorgeous, so feminine, so grand, so… Donna.

The colour palette is [Read more...]

January 4, 2012

Pre-Fall 2012: Hervé Léger by Max Azria

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shrunken suede moto jacket

Bandages and body-cons!

But you wouldn’t expect anything less from Hervé Léger by Max Azria who is keeping the bandage dress alive in all things body-con for another season with their pre-Fall 2012 collection.

Pre-Fall 2012 has a lot of exceptionally fitted [Read more...]

January 2, 2012

Little White Lies: Frozen Planet Fakery and the Fall of the BBC

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By: Alice Bonasio

It is always sad when your heroes let you down, and this week one the people I most admire did just that: Sir David Attenborough.

When it emerged earlier in the week that certain scenes in the BBC’s latest wildlife documentary series Frozen Planet had been filmed in a zoo, I was truly shocked.

Not because they had used the footage of newly born Polar Bear cubs – which by any standards was amazing – but because they intercut it with scenes showing wild polar bears, with a narration that deliberately misled the viewer. [Read more...]

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