Life is all about hard decisions, and lately we've been pondering either/or dilemmas like this one: If you had $1,250 to spend on accessories, would you drop it on a versatile royal purple Mulberry bag big enough to carry every single day, or take the cash...

You probably have a business contact/cousin/in-law/"friend" who you don't actually like -- at all -- but you kind of have to get her a gift anyway. We think you should buy her one of these five things, then act a little martyrlike when you find out she didn't...

We've rounded up our favorite affordable gifts for all your friends - no matter what their weird preferences. Here are five of our favorites, one for each hard-to-buy-for friend:

The Friend: Political Junkie
The Gift: A sartorially correct Michelle Obama doll,...

Forget you are what you eat. According to Luxist.com, you are what you carry all day.

We tend to agree -- the type of handbag you carry definitely speaks to your taste, and, sometimes, your personality. The site posted their own bag personality test of sorts today, claiming that...

Seeing a braless celebrity is a little like spotting a shooting star -- it happens more often than you'd think. From Kate Moss to Britney, the minor epidemic spans across celebs of all ages. Luckily, there are lessons in all this.

Below, some of our favorite (unfortunately braless) starlets and...

Alexander Wang's Rocco bag, an embossed-leather duffel with studs all over the bottom, just became "available" for purchase on his site... but it's already sold out.

Barneys already has a waiting list of over 400 for the bag, and Wang...

If you really want to scare the kiddies, consider an Anna Wintour costume on Saturday.

Chances are you already have a floral sheath and oversized sunglasses somewhere.

After that, just find some faux fur and pearls (real or also faux), and...

Yes yes, Halloween has become a national excuse for women to look slutty. What amazes us, though, is the holiday's uncanny ability to take totally totally un-sexy things (Taxis, people. Actual taxi cabs.) and tart them up.

For example ... this "Sexy Cabbie" costume that we kind of...

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are expanding their line The Row to include, to start, four sunglasses styles. This makes sense to us, since the 22-year-old twins are constantly sporting enormous eyewear.

Hot on the heels of the pants vs. not-pants debate, I'm confronted with this vaguely-Hot-Loop-like thing above. Honestly, I don't even know what I'm looking at here. A modern sculpture? Or an orange peel gone awry, as the Daily Mail so...

We asked, our readers answered: we wanted to know whether women would still spend more than $500 on fashion and beauty items - whether it's a coat, jewelry, a handbag or a killer pair of over the knee boots.

Of our 764 respondents, 49.9% said

The temptress leather look is in, big time, and nothing gets that message across better than a dramatic over the knee boot. The problem is, a pair of up-to-there boots can quickly make your innocent little black dress look not quite so innocent. So, here's how we're toning down...

We're at the height of New York Fashion Week now, and while models parade through Manhattan and model-esque editors teetering in 6-inch heels are photographed for the Sartorialist, let's not forget or ignore the others who come with the fashion industry.

These are people who, for better...

The nonstop nature of New York that gets us used to carrying around enough stuff for the next 12 hours (or two days), and we want to know how our handbag philosophies compare to everyone else's: Whether you live in a city, the 'burbs,...

You would think by now hunting down deals online would be second nature. But quite honestly, there are so many bargains to be had, it's tough to keep up with all of them.

Here's our quick guide to sites to bookmark, clubs to join, sale alerts you shouldn't...

We've decided to wrangle the top style and shopping apps for iPhone-toting trendsetters. And, true to our budget-savvy ways, they're all free.

1. Read our review of the app pictured above here.

2. ShopStyle Mobile
According to one self-proclaimed shopping addict,...

We've been testing all manner of summertime beauty fixes around here, and some favorites have emerged. The products below are some of the ones we'd have a hard time living without.

If you're not a fan of the sun or turning orange, we've...

Forget coffee. I woke up yesterday to the arrival of The Zoe Report, the very first email newsletter from stylist/publicity hound Rachel Zoe. GOOP it is not.

In the fashion-and-beauty-focused newsletter's official launch, Zoe went all...

We know everyone is sick of seeing LiLo incessantly photographed in a ratty band t-shirt (style copped from Sam Ronson) and plain black exercise leggings (style copped from 2006.) However, that doesn't mean leggings themselves are a bad thing; they just need to be taken up a notch.

Luckily,...

We first started to notice this last winter - a few brave ladies tucking their jeans into not UGGs, not sleek Tory Burches, but Timberlands. Bona fide steel-toe work boots, like Wolverine would wear.

I wish I'd said something earlier. It...