Fella fashion blogger Lesley Scott is the “New York City-based Editor-in-Chief & Publisher of Fashiontribes.com, five fashion & lifestyle magazines customized by fashion personality or ‘tribe’, a daily blog, podcast, and even the occasional videoblog.” Podcasting daily for the Podcaster News network about the fashion industry, penning a weekly column for the Fashion Designers section of Suite 101,and Blog Editor-at-Large for Glam.com, a popular online fashion & shopping media site with an extensive network of influential fashion, beauty, lifestyle & celebrity blogs —

She must drink as many soy lattes as I do.

Check Fashion Tribes’ shopcast here, and read on as I play Q&A with Lesley.

...continued: Q&A with Lesley Scott, Fashion Tribes Editor

I’ll quote Chantel’s shopcast so you can understand why I dig Ms. Chantel, of the Life and Times of Chantel:

“I know, I know. I have red hair and I’m not supposed to wear too much pink.

All I’m saying is, Mama wants a pair of these!!”

She understands fashion do’s. And doesn’t.

I like ladies who gracefully disregard rules, so I had to play Q&A with Chantel.

...continued: Q&A with Chantel

Gi-Gi’s the genius behind Want Need Have, a fashion blog that reads like a wishlist of mine.

It was when I saw this Kenzie cape on her blog and this Rebecca Taylor coat on her shopcast I had to play Q&A with Gi-Gi.

...continued: Q&A with Gi-Gi of Want Need Have

If you gloss over fashion blogs, you know Shiny Media and its bevvy of bloggettes  - Shoewawa, The Bag Lady,  Catwalk Queen, Trashionista, Kiss and Makeup - are like the Oprah of beauty/fashion blogging: more than dictating ice cool vogue, they’re girlfriends who want to dish with you.

So I had to dish with Gemma Cartwright - shopcast here - “fashion editor for Shiny Media, Europe’s leading new media publishers.” Gemma Cartright “joined Shiny in 2004 to launch Shoewawa.com and now look after and write for most of our women’s titles. I also help present Shiny TV and the One Minute Reviews, and spend lots of time surfing the web for new ideas, new writers and interesting stuff!” 

...continued: Q&A with Gemma Cartwright, Fashion Editor of Shiny Media

I’ve rocked black eyeshadow so long I don’t think my mother would recognize me without my smoky eyes, and Chanel black satin nail polish is the color of the season.

Reasons enough to swim through a black sea of makeup. 

...continued: A Pinch Goth, A Touch Glam: Black Makeup

Maybe you’ve checked Mighty Marce’s Fantabulous! makeup blog, which I discovered via her shopcast, a list of lovely everything from gorgeous MAC Cosmetics | Fluidline stickered “awesome” to body beauty BODYGLIDE / Anti-Friction Skin Formula stickered “superb.”

When I spotted her Look of Love Eye Pencil pick, I knew a woman after my own smoky-eyed heart, I knew -

We had to play Q&A. 

...continued: Q&A with Mighty Marce

Since high school I’ve daily rocked heels, I’ve been obsessed with height: leopard-print pony skin pumps with a 4” stiletto, deadstock 80’s ankle boots with 4½” stiletto, vintage 5” wooden platforms, 6” plastic stripper shoes, etc.

There’s something about a too-tall heel that makes you stand a little straighter, walk a little prouder, and talk a little taller.

So I’m ooh la loving stiletto expert Miss Meghan’s platform manifesto:

“More than Stilettos, more than the Kitten Heel, and much, much more than the sensible Ballet Flat, platforms make you a tower of strength. Tall and majestic, you can now peer above everyone’s head and spot that cab two blocks away (and grab it before the non-platformed rabble below you even see it.) You can pluck items off high shelves with ease, and now men must look up to you, much like the ancient Greek actors who wore elevated platforms to raise themselves up from mere mortal to godlike status…”

Read the rest of the article in the DAILY NEWS, p. 48.

Ooh la love.

I’ve been checking The Ivy - “University Chic” - and though I’m a longtime college grad - I think I earned my English Lit BS last spring - I adore the outfits they make and blog about.

Check this one:

“Here I have taken advantage of the camel pinstripe in the jacket by matching it with the trousers and the skirt. This is a great way to break up a suit. If there is a pattern, like pinstripes or glen plaid, then pull colors from that to make putting together new outfits much easier. The skirt is very trendy, but when paired with the button-down and blazer, it looks very put together. The button down also has a plethora of colors to play with. I took the dusty blue from the shirt and brought it into the footwear. This keeps the look young, fresh, and interesting, rather than sticking with basic black. The second outfit could work without the blazer if you were interviewing at a more casual workplace, but the blazer adds another layer of interest, and makes the outfit look more suit-y. The red heels pop, but still complement the rose top nicely. Sparkly earrings finish the look.”

And shopcasting would add a little sparkly to your blog.

Fashion blog Phoebe Says says:

“Frye boots (or ones like them), to me, are a seasonless staple in a girl’s closet. They can easily be paired with jeans, long skirts, short skirts, shorts, and honestly, most types of bottoms. The Austin Cut Out style from Shopbop are splendidly on sale.”

KRiSTOPHER says:

“Someone has splendid taste, and should totally be shopcasting.”

Super-stylish ThisNext shopcasters productdose are in Vegas as we speak live blogging from this years Magic and Pool Shows.

Magic is the largest fashion apparel trade show in the US. Pool is a smaller show focusing on smaller brands and features a wide range of lifestyle products plus men’s and women’s fashions - the Pool show has become the source to scout the up and coming must-haves from cutting-edge designers.

The guys at productdose are there to catch it all, so make sure to check their site this week for (pre)shopcasts (like this awesome clock from GammaGo) on items you’re sure to see on ThisNext in the not-too-distant future.

At ThisNext, we think all bloggers are rock stars, but relatively few are rally car drivers. Fewer yet are rally car drivers with a mission to rid the world of crap food. Of course, we also accept only the best, so we sense a kindred spirit in Matt Johnston of The Food Ass. By “ass” we’re sure he means his mule-like stubbornness, so we guess you can call us shopping asses. We sat down with Matt for a little ass-to-ass chat.

When you’re not not eating crap, what do you do?
I drive rally cars. No really. That’s how this started. I was so poor for a couple of years paying to race cars all over the country, that all I could afford to eat was ramen noodles, and those 97-cent frozen pizzas. I gained 50 lbs. I’m thinking to myself, “Man, I gotta change this,” and food is the key to having a good life. Then you start looking and learning, and you see that you can make fresh garlic mashed potatoes for 50 cents, and you can make seared tuna and steamed veggies for a couple of dollars. All this really good food so easy, and cheap, why eat crap? You just have to invest a little time, and have some desire to try new things every once and a while.

...continued: Interview: Matt Johnston from The Food Ass

Move over, Iron Chef: Makiko (Maki) Itoh reigns supreme in the food blog world. A native of Tokyo, erstwhile resident of New York and England, she ultimately became an expat in Switzerland, crossroads of Europe. Her blog, i was just really very hungry, is one of the most revered food blogs in the world (and #1 in Switzerland!). Maki graciously took some time out of her busy schedule to tell us a little about gender politics, finding a taste of Japanese amidst the Alps and finding the best shopping in the world.

When you’re not musing on the more delicious things in life, what  do you do?
In my working life I work at a web and forms/application design and development company. In my spare time I like to make things, travel whenever and wherever I can, and browse flea markets and vintage/antique shops.

You’re truly a citizen of the world, born in Tokyo and now in Switzerland via New York and England. How does that global view influence your tastes when it comes to food and products?
It makes me very nostalgic for things from where I used to live  (Japanese stationery! New York bagels!), but also makes me appreciate  the good and unique aspects of where I am. For instance, Switzerland  has some terrific modern design and architecture, and of course the natural beauty is out of this world.

...continued: Interview: Maki Itoh from i was just really very hungry

Famed Los Angeles vintage boutique Decades Inc. has just launched a blog, largely covering their collection -

Think Hermes Birkin bags, vintage Versace, Nelly Furtado’s Decades dress she wore to the Teen Choice Awards, and -

Reworked vintage mink.

Ooh la love.

Feeling a little overfed on all this post-coke Kate Moss mania?

We can dig it, especially since ThisNext is all about discovering the fresh.

Check COACD - Confessions of a Casting Director is a blog on up-and-coming models and break out faces and even new designers:

“The stylists are loving this one. I helped out on the S/S 07 lookbook! Keep an eye out on Valentine, this up and coming designer is a name to remember.”

Blog On the Cusp is just that - it’s the blog for Cusp boutiques and it’s a blog on the cusp of fashion, digging up news on “the front lines of fashion and shopping trends” instead swimming in stale style.

And if they have an post about old Posh and Becks’ latest celeb scent, at least it’s honest:

“We’re not sure how it smells

- But anything with David Beckham’s photo on it is certainly worth a try.”

…But she really needn’t. We’re already in love with her Etsy shop and blog, first time around.

We might think skinny jeans were created by the Devil to torment petite and curvy girls.

Rachel Bilson discovered looking chic, via I Adore Style.

Our Aunt Beep is a fabulous and famous Los Angeles blogger. Tell you something you don’t know? How about that About.com agrees, and named her one of L.A.’s top 8 Social Lifestyle and Celebrity Gossip sites. A flattered Beep had this to say, “How delighted are we to be included in the ranks of such super-bloggers as Defamer, Fishbowl LA, Totally Unauthorized and Curbed LA?”

Beep keeps such posh company! We’re lucky she’ll still gracing the ThisNext Show-and-Tell blog with her eagle eye for great shopcasting.

Shopcasters are shopcasters are shopcasters, by any other name.

Including “Urbanista.”

“Once upon a time there was a group of six girls all living in New York City who spent countless hours asking each other for recommendations, such as “Where should I go to get my Marc Jacobs shoes re-heeled?” or “Does anyone know the best place to get a really great haircut?” After all, it only makes sense: a hip gal is totally going to trust her besties’ advice over Google. That’s when two of these girls got the idea to start Urbanista Online—a rolodex of the top places in New York that will help an urban fashionista fulfill her most basic needs, from furnishing her apartment, to finding an eye doctor, to getting those perfect arches.

In March 2006, the two girls sent out a questionnaire to all of their chicest friends, and suddenly they had over 1,000 recommendations from New York City trendsetters and tastemakers. You need to get the sole of you shoe replaced? A shoe designer told them where to go. You want to be blond? They got hair-coloring advice from a beauty editor. You need to get your jeans hemmed or your Theory suit dry cleaned? A fashion assistant let them in on her secrets. The two girls then narrowed down their list and went on a scouting trip—they wanted to be exceptionally picky as to what places made the final cut. After visiting and researching more than 400 spots, the girls now give their thumbs up to over 200 people and places (and none of the recommendations made the list by paying to be there).”

I smell a match made in heaven, shopcastanistas.

Ooh la love… Like we needed another reason to stay glued to our laptops checking blogs all day.

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Hal’s Blog is Coming Soon

Hal Rubenstein, In Style’s fashion director, has been setting the trends at the magazine since 1998.

Hal has covered the Academy Awards for IN STYLE on Good Morning America as well as the syndicated entertainment news shows Extra, Entertainment Tonight and E! He has also made numerous appearances on Good Morning America, Entertainment Tonight, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The View and The Today Show. Most recently, he has been a fashion correspondent for New York’s Metro TV.

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