Lilly Pulitzer and Margaret Thatcher died within a day of each other. Two very influential women indeed. Yet Pulitzer had a very profound fashion effect on me. Lillian Bostwick Phipps Pulitzer Rousseau (known since 1959 as the preppy designer Lilly Pulitzer) died Sunday morning at her Palm Beach residence at the age of 81. I have so many amazing  memories [...]

The fashion blogesphere and Twitterverse are all up in arms about a recent article penned a few days ago by Suzy Menkes for T Magazine (read “The Circus of Fashion” here). I generally respect the hell out of Ms. Menkes who has been the head fashion reporter/editor for the International Herald Tribune since 1988. I remember reading her for the [...]

I have to admit, I did not know there was a factory fire in Bangladesh that killed more than 100 factory workers over this past weekend. I was in a Thanksgiving holiday all-consuming bubble (which is my family) so I was out of the loop for a few days. Last night one of our editors brought this article from CNN [...]

Lately I have been feeling rather blase about fashion. I’m slightly bored. There doesn’t seem to be anything terribly new and trends are recycling faster than I can keep up. Mind you, I will buy a trendy item to pair with my designer duds at Zara in a New York minute. Yesterday I came across an interesting article in the [...]

Maybe it’s the MBA talking, but I am always interested in the business side of fashion, so an article in today’s WWD about the state of women’s fashion really caught my attention. I have seen so many changes in the fashion industry since we launched Second City Style nearly 8 years ago. At the time we launched fashion was totally [...]

Admittedly, I am just catching up on the style section of the NY Times and an article from April 18 entitled ‘It’s Not You, It’s Me,’ We Tell Our Clothes, really resonated with me and is a topic I had considered approaching. How many women do you know who have been wearing certain labels for years, even though they no [...]

I was unable to attend the press event the night before the collection launched, but heard it cleared out in 14 minutes anyway! I would have been so pissed had I gone. Alia managed to snag the skirt pictured above for me, however. Thanks Alia! Anyway, as a mother with two young sons there was no possibility of my waiting [...]

I think we are finally seeing the demise of the Kardashian klan! Finally! SCS reported earlier that the Kardashians were planning on releasing their own magazine dedicated to everything Kardashian, all the time. Well, in an event that surprised no one, that idea was demolished and the only person to blame is head mistress Kris Jenner. Sources told Page Six [...]

Hometown Chicago girl Giuliana Rancic opens up candidly to Michigan Avenue Magazine in the upcoming January/February 2012 issue. Rancic talks to editor-in-chief Susanna Negovan about her discovery of breast cancer through an IVF treatment check-up, the decision to have a double mastectomy this December and her desire to still attempt to have a baby this year after her recovery. Rancic [...]

Vogue Italia posted a video of what life would would like if “glamour” was on the main menu at all of those home shopping channels. To coincide with Vogue‘s January 2012 cover shot by Steven Meisel, depicts top models Caroline Trentini and Daria Strokous hawking the must-have items for 2012 on a faux-cable channel. Don’t you wish we lived in [...]