Visiting thirteen countries in an hour and a half? Technology has yet to make such instant travel feasible, but it has given birth to an ambitious project in the form of "The Owner," the first film from CollabFeature.

The film is the chronicle of an ostensibly ordinary backpack on an...

We can probably all agree that Halloween is the one time of year that people get a pass to throw aside normal social constraints and let out their inner angel, slut, or monster. Usually this is a harmless and liberating exercise in humor, but in the case of The Gloss...

When was the last time you thought about felt? Most likely, if it didn't come as a pen tip, then the answer is never. Despite holding the distinctive title as the world's oldest fabric -- once essential to human survival and believed by some Mongolian tribes to hold magical properties...

My trip to India may have come Taj Mahal not included, but it never felt like there was a catch. I skipped the major tourist sights and left totally satisfied.

I lived two months on the subcontinent, mostly as an expatriate. I went out to clubs, bars, and restaurants. I...

At first blush, India seems like the gayest country in the world. Step out of the airport and the first thing you'll notice are men holding hands, shoulders brushing as they pass by in their long, dress-like kurtas. If you're foreign, you'll think every man in the country is cruising...

In New York, it's often said it's not what you know, it's who you know, and sometimes, who knows you. The real world isn't like a college admissions office; it's rarely the person with the best credentials that gets an opportunity, but the person with the best connections.

I...

For his second and latest womenswear collection, Tom Ford once again chose to show his clothes to only the most elite group of print editors in his new London showroom. "I don't want to be reviewed," he told the Los Angeles Times. Ford made the statement even more...

On her blog for Vogue Italia, editor in chief Franca Sozzani touched upon a subject that's been whirling around my head for some time: the increasing vulgarity displayed by a large number of fashion magazines. Via NYMag, she writes:

Why is it that the fashion magazines,...

Does the world need a skin care line? "Only if it really works," Florence Sender says in a sizzle video for the new Sephora line, ClickR.

If ClickR sounds to you like something that should be an iPad app rather than a skincare line you apply to your face,...

What age is too young to start getting cosmetic work done? Girls getting nose jobs for their sweet sixteen and breast implants as college graduation gifts have become, if not the norm, commonplace enough where we hardly bat a Latisse-lengthened eyelash.

But what about injectable fillers? Botox, Juvederm, Perlane, etc....

Let me begin by stating that I am not an athletic person. I once joined a gym just to use their tanning bed and don't even own a pair of sweatpants. Up until last month when the David Barton Gym extended me a month free membership, my workouts generally consisted...

For those whose careers revolve around fabric explosions floating down the runway, every Fashion Week is like a family reunion. Industry friends, like far-off aunts and uncles, come together each season in flurries of air kisses, superlative exclamations and champagne toasts.

It's not just a week of flashbulbs, seat assignments...

These days it seems the most en vogue thing you can hear is not, "Don't you love these boots, I bought them at Chanel," but "You won't believe where I got this blouse -- it's from Target!"

With that mentality, I went last week to preview a new "design collection"...

Hip Hop is going through an identity crisis. If it were a person, it would be Wynona Ryder as Susanna Kaysen in "Girl Interrupted," trying to decide if she was crazy or just suffering from teenage ennui.

From the eyes of a fashion editor, Hip Hop is similarly suffering...

A few months ago, the New York Times published an article, "Plan B: Skip College" asking the question, "Is college really necessary?" For most of the fastest growing careers (nurses aids, customer service representatives and store clerks), the answer is no, but what about for the fastest shrinking:...