Posted by Nina Lalli at 3:26 PM, October 31, 2007
Lynn Yaeger, a self-proclaimed shopping bulimic (chronic buyer and returner), discovers the Path train this week ("like the subway, but cheaper! Different!") to visit Kohls and try on Vera Wang's entire low-priced line there. She also ventures to Target, with dissapointing results, H&M, Barney's, and Patricia Field's, where the Drag Queen queen has brought platforms to Payless. We, being cheap and hoping to be cute, love this trend. For those of you who do, too, be aware that Roberto Cavalli's line debuts November 8.
Posted by Nina Lalli at 5:26 PM, October 15, 2007
In case you don't receive email alerts from Urban Outfitters, they're taking a lesson from Sarah Jessica Parker and holding an under $20 sale, starting Wednesday.
Posted by Nina Lalli at 4:57 PM, October 11, 2007
No, that's Kevin, a Jersey-born and bred Italian American who loves Alexander McQueen. There's also a fake Wilmer Valderrama who says gloves are a must. In fact, the season 4 cast of Project Runway includes several gayer versions of real celebrities. Bring it on, kids. Set your DVR for 10PM, November 14.
Posted by Nina Lalli at 3:51 PM, October 10, 2007
With excruciatingly conflicting feelings of nostalgia and consumerism, Lynn Yaeger, with Robert Sietsema as her guide, takes on Bleecker Street in its current state this week.
Where there was once a Turk-run bodega, there's now a Steve Madden store; the antique toy shop that inspired Yaeger's own collection (and maybe her makeup routine) is now one of many Ralph Lauren stores.
But then again, our critics are not nearly the first to complain about the demise of this street. Sietsema recalls a few examples of stores whose arrivals seemed to signal the end of Bleecker, and those have now been replaced once or twice over. And Yaeger finds this quote from 1872:
Twenty-five years ago they were homes of wealth and refinement. Now . . . the old mansions are put to the viler uses of third-rate boarding houses and restaurants.
Posted by Nina Lalli at 5:45 PM, October 3, 2007
You should know this already, so we're not going to try to hide it from you any more: Built By Wendy is having a sample sale in Williamsburg starting Friday and going all weekend. Details are here. We're anticipating some major shopping competition, but, well, let the best girl win.
Built By Wendy -- Brooklyn
46 North 6 Street
Williamsburg
(718) 384-2882
Sample Sale
Friday, 11-8
Saturday, 11-8
Sunday, 12-6
Posted by Nina Lalli at 5:07 PM, October 3, 2007
Lynn Yaeger is at it again this week, writing about fashion for the people. She wonders what level of style is really available to bigger girls -- even average-size women? To find out, Yaeger leaves Manhattan, which we've seen many times, but usually she's heading to Paris or Tokyo, not Brooklyn. She also takes a meeting at Burlington Coat Factory, a bit of a bummer, unsurprisingly. And she ingests the alarming Skinny Bitch books, which recommend starving in order to stay thin. There's an idea. Of course, Yaeger manages to find a steal at Burlington. But could you?
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