marco, Polo.

There is something so chic about a Polo Player hat. It makes me want every day to be a bad hair day. To me, it's class, sophistication, style, and flair can be distinguished anywhere. It's effortless, and that's what I love.

I think this hat should be added to every woman's wardrobe. While Nina Garcia's book The One Hundred definitely gave our closets some insight, I believe she left out one little beacon of classic American style: a Polo Player Hat.

Sarah Jessica Parker to endorse Halson

While carousing Google images of inspirations as to WHY I need to inhabit the gym everyday, I noticed that Sarah Jessica Parker is to be the new face of Halston's Spring 2010 collection. She has done similar campaigns for Gap (remember the Pretty Khaki commercials, and the one about gifts?)and Garnier.

Not that we need to be reminded that SJP is a fashion icon of today and a major asset to any endorsement deal, she might be just what the doctor ordered for Halston, the revived american fashion house of the 1970s. She was spotted wearing a dress from the Halston Heritage Spring 2010 collection on the set of SATC the sequel ....excited aren't we?? Let's just keep our pretty khakis on until May.

the potential in NOVA

Lately, I've noticed that Washington, DC is making fashion more relevant with each day. I looovee it. With events like Fashion Fights Poverty, and various fashion shows raising awarenes to issues like sustainable fashion, DC and it's surrounding areas have become the epicenter of it.

I don't know if you've noticed it, but Tysons Corner Center for one has been undergoing a major facelift for the past seven years. Growing up in this area, I remember Mommy snatching my little 5 year old frame out of my bed at 9 in the morning to go and praise the gods of high-quality fashion at Nordstrom and Bloomingdales. You would think we were going to some kind of church or mosque ..I mean, this woman was serious about her high-quality. (I think that's where I get my affinity for cashmeres and merinos instead of the dreaded cotton blends and names of manufactured fabrics I cannot even pronnounce).


I am going to document this change, revolution, rather, of the Greater Washington Area and most specifically, NOVA (Northern Virginia). I mean, for Tim Gunn to come back here and host fashion shows is something that anyone up on fashion cold appreciate. I have been watching the upscale store openings, sexy store layouts, the outstanding merchandising, and just the way that they -- Tysons Corner and Fair Oaks specifically -- get the public out there to want to spend money in the recession. It's divine. Through glamourGrammour, you can look through my glass and see what I see. So legendary.

look legit in school.

Take a look at Nanette Lepore's Fall 2009 collection featured in the September issue of TeenVogue. Doesn't this remind you so much of Stacey Dash and Alicia Silverstone of Clueless? Is the 90s rearing it's head again??

follow the music.

Everyone always says things like, "music is my soul", or "music makes me lose control", or "music is when people come together .." , to quote Madonna. But for me, discovering new music is also like discovering a new part of me. Another part of me that was lying dormant until this particular song spoke it into existance and said it was OK to come out now!

I simply love this. My favorite part of my job is that while I can discover new fashions, and the way things are created, merchandised, and forced on us (ha ha) ---I can also discover new music. Feist's "My moon, My man" is simply doing it for me right now. I love songs that I can close my eyes on and immediately draw inspiration from, and see a vivid picture of the way I want it to be laid out. I listen to this song about 4-5 times a day, and while it isn't brand new, I can still draw inspiration for my garments to be produced.

My moon, My man makes me think of 80's Power Suits, with serious blazers and shoulder pads ..like masculine, but with an added feminine edge like a ribon, or a diamond encrusted collar. It also reminds me of Acne's Fall 2009 RTW collection. I gain so many inspirations from just existing in this world. It doesn't cost millions of dollars to cultivate brilliance, talent, and well-roundedness. It's recession-proof, so open your eyes!

Sunday's Designer

Rebecca Minkoff: the functional, fashionable, edgy rocker. Rebecca Minkoff is a classic case of following your dreams, as they all are (they're on to something!). As a clothing designer turned handbag designer, she is what celebrites like Alexis Bledel of Gilmore Girls, Blake Lively of Gossip Girl, and even Debra Messing like to carry their junk in. Instead of selling a monochromatic handbag, she sells an experience and a lifestyle. In each bag contains a picture of a boy with their real name and number through how to reach them. The concept of classic style, yet edgy is married beautifully through her designs.

Meet the Morning After Bag, flyy isn't it?

Define: fashion (noun. FAsh-uh n)

"A good design can create form and ideas that haven't been there before." --Zac Posen

Fashion is my boyfriend.

It amazes me of how much power and control Fashion has over the world without being domineering or over-bearing. We give fashion so much say-so in our lives and trust that they make the right descisions for us. It is bigger than political matters and trivial matters alike, because they come and go ..fashion is the pulse in which we can all count on.

This forever changing force is the most elite form of art because it constantly demands designers, models, photographers, and stylists to be on their toes and create even better than their last work. It can be the most simple, tailored piece to the most outlandish Avant Garde creation. Designers know their niche and know their world in which their designs will revel.

Fashion is all of us..from the clothes that we decide to drape on our frames, to express ourselves and align with our various colorful lifestyles. Everyone uses fashion dfferently. We see it as a means to showcase what is going on in our minds and the way we view certain situations that we are put in. Fashion is honestly the thread that binds us together..it has the power to put us in categories, and take us out of them simutaneously. It is who we were, who we are, and who we want to be someday.

I love, praise, and respect Fashion.