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Life With...

Life With Keegan Singh!

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< ? $caption[1] = "Keegan & George are currently loving this vintage Nirvana image” ?>
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< ? $caption[5] = "One of Keegan’s favorite books for inspiration” ?>
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< ? $caption[6] = "Flipping through racks of Balmain at KCD” ?>
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< ? $caption[8] = "Drawers full of everything you need to style – tights, lookbooks, Fed Ex forms, etc. ” ?>
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< ? $caption[9] = "Keegan & Kate Lanphear in Paper’s Beautiful People issue” ?>
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< ? $caption[12] = "One of Keegan’s shot gun paintings from home” ?>
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< ? $caption[14] = "Keegan’s sister just got him this poster – he loves it” ?>
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Adventures in Copyright

Adventures in Copyright: Marc Our Words

There are bad knock-offs and then there are really bad knock-offs. Modcloth’s version of Marc Jacob’s Ginny bag is strictly the latter. Their rendition, strangely called the Debbie Gibson bag, lacks all of the qualities that make us lust after MJ’s without disguising its design references. Modcloth remembered the purple leather tassels, the leather woven [...]

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People Are Talking

Do Clothes Make The Woman?

All of my friends are interviewing for jobs. Ok, not all, but I haven’t had this many friends updating their resumes since my senior year of business school and the only major difference – aside from the economy – is that the what-do-I-wear question’s taken on an entirely different dimension. Now that we’ve been in [...]

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Quote of the Day

“It’s all about the Band-Aid. It makes her come off much more charming and unstudied than I would have expected…The band-aid makes the photo…The Band-Aid makes her so much more…I too noticed and deeply appreciated the Band-Aid.” — Sartorialist commenters on Carine Roitfeld today.

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Streetwalker

Streetwalker: Back in Black

Angele, sales assistant Got her: Shopping near Les Halles on her lunch break. Stalked her: Because we’re clearly going through a harem pant phase. We’re not confident enough to wear them, but the rest of Paris makes them look awesome – we might have to snag a pair after all. Shot her: Because she kept [...]

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People & Parties

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< ? $caption[2] = "Aaron Hicklin" ?>
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< ? $caption[3] = "Anne Vincent" ?>
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< ? $caption[4] = "Bill Milner" ?>
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< ? $caption[5] = "Cecilia Bonstrom & Kelly Cutrone" ?>
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< ? $caption[6] = "Paul Sevigny" ?>
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< ? $caption[7] = "Katrina Bowden" ?>
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< ? $caption[8] = "Ed Westwick" ?>
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< ? $caption[9] = "Melissa Bent" ?>
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< ? $caption[10] = "Moby & Sir Michael Caine" ?>
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< ? $caption[11] = "Dreama Walker" ?>
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< ? $caption[12] = "Moby & Sir Michael Caine" ?>
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< ? $caption[13] = "Paul Sevigny, Cecilia Bonstrom & Thierry Giller" ?>
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Shopping

Otte Clears Out

Otte, one of our all time favorite West Village (& Brooklyn) boutiques is having a last minute sale at their corporate offices. They’re talking racks of Inhabit, See by Chloe, Maloles, Twelfth Street by Cynthia Vincent, Karen Walker, Vanessa Bruno, Dallin Chase and more with everything costing around or under $50. It starts today, in [...]

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Add Raf to the List

Our guesses were off, neither Wang nor Proenza are forging ahead with ad campaigns in these tough economic times – but Raf Simons is. His first ever ad, following the likes of Zac Posen, Rodarte and Derek Lam, will debut in magazines this fall and showcase his eponymous menswear line. He’ll also be opening two [...]

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Beauty

Kanye Makes Perfume

Parlux, the fragrance giant behind scents from Jessica Simpson, Andy Roddick and Paris Hilton, has inked a revolutionary deal with Jay-Z, Rihanna, Kanye West and an unnamed female celebrity (probably Beyonce). They’re partnering with Parlux via Iconic Fragrances LLC., a different fragrance company owned in part by Jay-Z to make their deliciously sweet perfumes. But [...]

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Trivia

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Beauty

Let’s Re-Visit the Tan

After last week’s fake tan furor, I learned that while most of you don’t mind the idea of a fake tan, you really can’t stand the smell. That would be DHA, the chemical that interacts with the skin’s proteins to make you brown, or orange. When the DHA reacts with your skin, the distinct, slightly [...]

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