Cleaning Up a National Treasure

Cleaning Up a National Treasure
August 14, 2008 by Milan Westin
No, this is not about the movies starring Nicholas Cage. Unfortunately, this is real and actually very sad that we have allowed the Chesapeake Bay, the nation's largest watershed to reach this level of pollution. At 7,000 square miles it supports more than 3,600 speci...Read More

The Celebticians: Obama & Sarkozy

August 1, 2008 by Imadge Mekker
If Paris Hilton started the term celebutante, i.e., short for celebrity / debutante for the uninitiated in entertainment lingo, Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France actually invented a new genre of world leaders – the celebtician, which is as you guess, short of CELEBRITY ...Read More

OMG texting is so expensive

OMG texting is so expensive
July 2, 2008 by Milan Westin
Living here in New York, I don’t think of gas prices the same way I did when I used to live in San Francisco. Still, an interesting news item at Crave mentioned that sending text messages have DOUBLED within one year, the same rate gasoline prices had gone up! I used t...Read More

Barack Obama as a Fashion Icon?

June 26, 2008 by Napster
Move over Balthier, Barack Obama could be the next Fashion Icon After FashionWindows wrote that the fictional hero Balthier of Final Fantasy XII, can easily well be the next fashion muse, Barack Obama enters a new race – the next male fashion icon! Surprising as it mayb...Read More

Balthier the Sky Pirate for Menswear Spring 2009

June 1, 2008 by Napster
Balthier who? A character in the video game Final Fantasy XII, Balthier, the sky pirate plays the part of a debonair young man running away from his past but dons the most fashionable threads in Ivalice, the location where the video game takes place. Why did I...Read More

On Television, Product Placements are not just for Fashion

On Television, Product Placements are not just for Fashion
May 21, 2008 by Napster
With Sex & the City scheduled to hit theaters in a week, I can only imagine the product placements for clothes, accessories and jewelry. Case in point, during the Berlin premiere, Sarah Jessica Parker (photo left) who plays Carrie Bradshaw in the movie was wearing a ...Read More

Is Everyone A Fashion Critic?

Is Everyone A Fashion Critic?
May 18, 2008 by Imadge Mekker
With ‘The Young and the Restless” (“Y&R”) launching an extensive online fashion and lifestyle magazine, www.restlessstyle.com last May 16, the concept of cross-branding across platforms just experienced a major change. In fact, on the Richter scale, I would s...Read More

Andrea Crews Ecofriendly Fashion Activism

Andrea Crews Ecofriendly Fashion Activism
April 16, 2008 by Imadge Mekker
Pigalle, Paris’ red light district is really more touristy and risqué than what it is supposed to be. Yes, there’s Moulin Rouge, already famous before the movie starring Nicole Kidman. And of course, there is Montmarte with the church on top of the hill and also an arti...Read More