Damn you Helen Mirren!
If I’m even half as hot as Helen Mirren when I’m 65, I will consider myself a very lucky gal.
That’s it. That’s all I wanted to say.
Mitchell and Ness for Less Ends Today!
Just in time for the start of Phils season, Mitchell & Ness, purveyors of all that is sportswear will be offering 30 percent off everything in their store. The sale is part of their fan appreciation clearance and in celebration of the brand reaching 15,000 fans on Facebook. Enter code FB15k upon check out: this offer ends at midnight tonight, so get on it! Personally, we’ve got our eye on that vintage twill Phils baseball jacket.
Shoes Glorious Shoes: Be&D
I’m a shoes fanatic. Ask anyone that knows me will tell you that I live for a great shoe! I would sell my first born for an outrageous platform or a quirky stiletto. Right now my budget doesn’t allow me to splurge, but a girl can dream right! The shoes at Be&D are certainly dream-worthy, first-born worthy and anything else I can hawk in order to get my hands on these babies. Feast your eyes on a shoe parade!
Floral Accessories
The calendar says spring, the weather guy says something else. Look forward with some floral accessories. All cute, all under $35, and just what you need to get over this wintry slump. Pick one color from a floral-patterned accessory to accent and keep the rest of your look neutral.
Floral sunglasses, Charlotte Russe, $5.50
Cute update on an ‘80s classic. And they’re cheap, too, so grab two pairs.
River Island floral zip purse, ASOS, $30.48
Grandma’s wallpaper? Bad. Grandma’s wallpaper + pleated clutch + gold accents? Very good.
Ditsy floral tight, Urban Outfitters, $3.99
Wear ‘em with your favorite black dress and boots now, and pair them with a black skirt and neon top when it warms up.
Floral cluster post earrings, Urban Outfitters, $14
These antiqued cluster earrings are small, sparkly, and neutral enough to go with just about anything, day or night.
ASOS embossed floral skinny belt, ASOS, $10.76
If traditional floral isn’t your thing, try it out with this low-key leather belt. The embossed leather is just interesting enough to bump an outfit up a notch.
Street Snaps: The Unknown Gentleman
The thing that has always seemed to set Broad&Market apart from other street style bloggers is that I interview my subject at length. I know why people don’t do this — it takes forever to transcribe any interview over two minutes long, and if you’re trying to snap several people in a day, interviewing them becomes a task. Plus, I’m sure it’s easier for some people to take photos of people than talk to them. It’s a tough job (err, hobby)!
At any rate, here is a gentleman I ran into on the subway not too long ago. Once I was done photographing him, I gave him my card and told him to email me so I could ask him some questions (usually I do the interview on the spot, though). He got on the train. Several days later, he did email me, and I wrote him back. I never got a response.
Here is a man wearing a beret, carrying an oversized shoulder bag, with a scarf casually knotted around his neck. And he isn’t European! Or at least didn’t have sound like one. His bag reminds of so many oversized, ambiguous aspects of Japanese fashion. Not many women even carry around bags of that proportion. I can’t get over how awesome it is. We could speculate all day about his sartorial decisions, or we could’ve heard his own reasoning, if only I’d had the chance to interview him. If only he’d written me back.
Sophmore’s Lookbook Video
Chrissy Miller, the blond DJ-cum-designer-cum-twitter freak behind Sophmore just released a new lookbook video for her latest collection. Though, we can’t really get a feel for the clothes whatsoever in this video, except for the pretty-cool-but-seen-it-so-many-times suspender shirt on Jen Brill. The premise: Kanon Vodka provided the social lube so that Jen Brill, Chloe Sevigny, Cass Bird, Leslie Arfin and friends could play a rousing game of Truth or Dare. Some may find it utterly annoying, some may find it clever, either way, it’s worth seeing what the NY in-crowd are up to nowadays. See it here.
Homegrown Talent: Shavonne DeAnn
Philly is a wealth for independent designers, art school grads and young talent. One such local up and coming designer is Shavonne De Ann. A graduate of Moore College of Art and Design and NJ native, Shavonne is a young woman with a passion for body conscious design mixed with graphic prints and eye catching colors.
Shavonne made a name for herself during New York fashion week when she crashed Lincoln Center with a renegade showcase that caught the attention of June Ambrose and NY magazine.
Shavonne recently launched a successful Kickstarter where she raised over $3,500 toward the production of her Spring/Summer 2011 line. This past weekend she debuted the collection at art gallery Always By Design. In addition Shavonne launched her online store where you can purchase pieces from her collection.
Here are more pics from the Shavonne DeAnn Spring/Summer 2011 collection
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-Fajr Muhammad
Things that make me go mmm…
The world of fashion just can’t help the Anna craze. The woman just seems to have a cloak (of perfectly bobbed blonde hair) hiding the heart inside. Mystery will always propigate intrigue, and if there’s one thing that Anna Wintour knows how to do, it’s create a little intrigue. That’s why I am looking forward to the Wall Street Journal’s April profile on the woman behind American Vogue. As noted by Fashionista, it IS the WSJ and the emphasis will be more on the business of Vogue, but still, I’m chomping at the bit for a little Anna interview because like I said, she knows how to do intrigue and who doesn’t love that?
Would You Wear It? The Madonna ‘Blonde Ambition’ Shoe
Like many others in fashion, kooky Israeli designer Kobi Levi must have a thing for early 90’s Madonna. But he takes his love just a step further than the rest with this shoe he created inspired, quite literally, by the cone-bra clad singer herself. The ‘Blonde Ambition’ shoe features all the iconic details of that infamous Madonna look: from the platinum braided ponytail to the cone toe and mini microphone at the ankle, it’s pretty spot on. But what we want to know is…even if you were Madonna’s biggest fan, would you wear it?
—Kat Blazowski
Image courtesy Kobi Levi via MTVStyle
Italian Vogue petitions against anorexia
According to The Independent, Franca Sozzani, Italian Vogue’s editor-in-chief, is the latest fashion mogul to join the ranks of anti-anorexia campaigning. As noted on her blog, she has started a petition against pro-anorexia web sites and has cited Facebook as a major contributing factor in many girls’ struggle with the disease. And while she claims Facebook as being a major culprit, her actual petition is against sites that focus on encouraging anorexia and offering suggestions on ways to get thinner in various unhealthy ways. For Sozzani’s original blog post click HERE and to sign the petition to shut down pro-anorexic sites click HERE.