With both the year and the decade coming to...

Every year we send holiday cards to friends, family, and clients. Some of us wait until the day after Christmas to hit the stores for their after Christmas sales to stock up on Thank You and more Holiday cards for next year.

I vaguely remember the first time I encountered the phrase "is the new." After watching her favorite morning television program, my mom came to me with a monumental style message:

Brown is the new black.

Finally!, I thought. At the midpoint of my painful adolescent sartorial career and as the...

As the aughts draw to a close, it's time to reflect on the best sartorial trends of the past ten years. International retailers such as H&M and Topshop hit the US retail scene, and we also saw the birth of designer diffusion lines and collaborations at Target so successful that...

While the past ten years had its fair share of stylish standouts, it still wasn't enough to counteract all those taut, tan, and toned bare midriffs (dangling navel piercings optional), daisy dukes, monogram handbags, Uggs, trucker hats, and one too many starlets famous for doing nothing. While the above are...

Knowing that this is the time of year when everyone makes a resolution to eat better, and 90% of resolutions fall away after the first week, why not make it easy on yourself? Why not set a fair and attainable...

Have you always wondered how products get in the hands of celebrities? Even if you're not personal friends with them, or don't have friends who are friends with them and generous enough to do you a favor?

It is called "celebrity gifting," and there are many ways in which...

Here come the top 10 lists.

The hot lists of 2009 will invariably reference a few major themes of our year past -- from Michael Jackson to unemployment, with Lady Gaga's masked masquerades riding high on the pop trend wave. One trend is of particular interest to summing up 2009...

What will we remember as the fashion epitome of this decade? The '90s was about grunge and minimalism (hello Kate Moss!); the '80s encompassed over-the-top opulence (shoulder pads, power suits, big gems and even bigger hair); the '70s was an era...

End of the year, end of the decade. Let's not look back, let's look forward. What does the future hold for foodies?

No shirt, no shoes, no problem. As dress codes are stripped away, all restaurants will begin welcoming flip-flops, tank tops, and short shorts. And that's just on the...

Vermouth. Without it, James Bond would never have had a Martini and a Manhattan would be simply whiskey and bitters. Essentially white wine fortified with a neutral grape brandy spirit and infused with herbs and spices, vermouth comes in two main styles: red, which is sweet, and white, which is...

I nurtured Purple Lab, my baby, for way longer than nine months. I felt it kick to get out. I suffered through morning/afternoon/evening sickness. I gained weight. But one early morning, the last week of April, I finally gave birth.

Purple Lab's Huge Lips Skinny Hips shipped to...

As the holiday comes to a close, with visions of red carpets dancing in our heads and the assembling of the ubiquitous year-end top ten film lists, I thought it would be a good time to look at some of the best style moments on film:

Best Sixties Homage Part...

We are leaving for midnight mass in fifteen minutes, and I look like an utter idiot. Standing in front of the mirror in my childhood bedroom, I try to summon the enthusiasm I'd had fifteen minutes prior for what I was sure was the perfect ensemble for my delightfully WASPy...

When we chose projects from the Natural Home arsenal to decorate the Blair House, the president's guest house, we had no idea we were so in tune with the Obama family's ideas. We were all thinking decoupage.

Cathy Horyn's snarky piece in today's NY Times, "Wrapped in Their Identities," about Sarah Palin and Michelle Obama's style, has us Bitches on a Budget thinking. In our usual favorite fashion writer's piece comparing Sarah Palin's style to Michelle Obama's she takes to task Ms. Obama's...