Karl Lagerfeld Cancels Runway Show, Carey Mulligan Covers Vogue October 2010

Filed under: Fashion , Hair , Celebrity , News , Hair Color , Celebrity Hair , Designers & Brands , Celebrity Style Here’s what’s happening around the web this morning: Karl Lagerfeld Swapping Runway for the Web Karl Lagerfeld has announced that his eponymous label will have a ready-to-wear collection sold primarily online in lieu of a runway show during Paris Fashion Week . It’s like we don’t even know who he is anymore. [ WWD ] Carey Mulligan Covers October Vogue Carey Mulligan dons Chanel for Vogue ‘s October 2010 cover

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Karl Lagerfeld Cancels Runway Show, Carey Mulligan Covers Vogue October 2010

Everything Is About How You Feel

Everything in life is about how you feel. Every decision you make in life is based on how you feel. The single motivating power of your entire life is your feelings! All the things you want are motivated by the good feelings they will give you! And how do you receive the good things you want in your

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A response to the “clicktivism” critique

Ben Brandzel insists , online political organizing goes way beyond clicktivism , excerpt : “First, we should be clear about what ‘online organising’ actually means, and it is simply this: people collaborating over the internet to convert whatever resources we can spare into social, economic and political change. These resources include our opinions, votes, time, relationships, material goods, and creative talent

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Salt Dough Halloween Bowl Fillers

Salt dough is a favorite medium of mine. I’ve spent many years making crafts with kids and have made countless cookie sheets full of salt dough shapes. It’s fun, it’s easy, it’s inexpensive

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Twin Nine Patch quilt

Just out of the oven, check out this quilty Moda Bake Shop recipe Twin Nine Patches . Featuring fabric line Arnold’s Attic and a simple nine patch these fraternal twin blocks are not identical and that’s the beauty of them. Getting value differences in a quilt is the key to a good outcome.

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Make a Life Sized Yard Witch for Halloween

Halloween. According to MSN’s Money Central, and this was two years ago mind you: “This year, the National Retail Federation expects Americans to spend a record $5.07 billion on costumes, cards, candy and decorations for the holiday, with the average consumer spending $64.82 compared with $59.06 a year ago.” [ source ] Meg from Mega Spooky is going to help…

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I’m Just a Mom, Not the School Food Police

Houston, we have a problem.  Parents approach me all the time, thanking me up and down for working so hard to improve our school food.  They are tickled pink about our new salad bar (launching this week) and they love that we are bringing in more freshly prepared foods and less  processed junk.  But then

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Exclusive First Look at Lincoln Center Tents, New Home to Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week

Filed under: Fashion , News , Fashion Week Bigger, brighter and better is the promise of the new Lincoln Center home to Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week , and StyleList has snagged the first tour of the premises in the above video. The evening before the official opening by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg , IMG Worldwide senior vice president and managing director Peter Levy led us through Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park , which the company has promised will move New York’s fashion shows firmly into the 21st century. And for those pining for the familiarity of the Bryant Park Tents , where the fashion flock first set up shop in 1993 with 35 shows and closed with over 70 shows during the Fall 2010 season, Lincoln Center’s larger floorplan, bigger venues and additional show spaces signal an obvious improvement over the midtown square

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Feedback Loop Notebook Project

Please take a moment to check out this unique project, which will benefit youth all over the US. Twenty-five leading letterpress printers were asked to create fifty unique notebooks (one example is shown above). They could do whatever they wanted.

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Beauty’s Emerging Green Packaging Trend Bids Goodbye to Plastic Bottles

Filed under: Beauty , News , Makeup , Skin & Body Photo: Getty Images Beauty is beginning to say so long to old-school plastic. Two of the industry’s biggest players — Whole Foods and Procter & Gamble — are passing new regulations for sustainable and recyclable packaging that are causing a growing rumble in the marketplace, where other brands are beginning the shift to using renewable materials. The new Whole Foods regulations go into effect this month, and mandate that suppliers use packaging materials that are easily reused or recycled, are non-toxic, and that they switch from plastic to glass when possible

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Beauty’s Emerging Green Packaging Trend Bids Goodbye to Plastic Bottles

Tips on Selecting the Right Dining Table for Your Home

Furnishing a house is an adventure that everyone must go on once in their lifetime. Whether you are in an apartment or a bungalow, one cannot deny that the right furnishings add a quaint little touch to the house. With the advent of globalization and the open markets, one can get almost any type of furniture in a safe, hassle free and economic manner.

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Should You Invest in an Almirah?

Indian furniture has a very special place in the Indian culture, and you will find many families that have a quite emotional connect with the furniture. Even today, in many rural and semi urban places in India, furniture is made just once in a life time. In such a scenario, it goes without saying that the furniture has several uses, other than just being used to furnish the house and used for sitting or eating on.

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Who Can Benefit by Buying Wholesale Indian Furniture?

The wholesale rates of a product are always lesser than the retail rates of the same product – this is a simple business fact. Almost any product that you would use in your day to day life is available on a wholesale basis, as well as a retail basis, and the market for both of them is quite different.

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Tips to Decide on the Entertainment Cabinet for Your Home

Entertainment cabinets are a very good idea if you intend to keep all your entertainment and room decorations in one place. If you choose the right entertainment cabinet, it will not only add to the ambience of your home, but will also help as a secondary storage compartment, where you will be able to store all the objects that you use daily but do not want scattered all around the house.

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How to Find Wholesale Furniture Dealers

Buying furniture in the wholesale market is beneficial for people like businessmen, builders and people who would like to set up commercial establishments. There are several wholesale furniture dealers, who manufacture and deal in various kinds of Indian and other types of furniture, but finding them at the right time may pose a problem

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Ancient Numidia

The ancient Berber kingdom of Numidia existed between 202 BC and 46 BC in what is now Algeria and part of modern-day Tunisia in North Africa. With the sparkling Mediterranean Sea to its north and the unforgiving Sahara Desert to the south, Numidia had the Roman-ruled province of Mauretania on its western border and the province of Africa, which was also under Roman rule, to the east.

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The constraining role of IP and Patents (2): case study on why Germany overtook England in the 19th century

Did Germany experience rapid industrial expansion in the 19th century due to an absence of copyright law? A German historian argues that the massive proliferation of books, and thus knowledge, laid the foundation for the country’s industrial might. Der Spiegel discusses a book by Eckhard Höffner that shows that a key reason for Germany’s rapid industrial and scientific development in the 19th century was it’s lack of copyright, while at the same time the Copyright law in England hampered the publishing industry and innovation .

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ye olde tymey tuesday – the wartime edition

this is one of my favorite ye olde tymey cookbooks i picked up a few months ago when i was antiquing with megan in santa rosa.  its titled cheese recipes for wartime meals – how to make your cheese go further published in 1943 by (you guessed it) the kraft cheese company. even the cover looks so serious

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Weekly Update – Frank love at the Elkins Estate

Thanks.Frank, an outpouring of love for retired Tyler School of Art painting prof Frank Bramblett , honors a beloved educator and raconteur known for his wit, compassion and deep thinking about art, culture and society. (Full disclosure: In 2006, I co-taught one semester of senior painting studio with Bramblett and Libby Rosof.) Tyler alums put out the call, and works poured in from all over the country, from 35 artists in all, including paintings, sculpture and works on paper from local artists like Anthony Campuzano, Thomas Vance, Austin Lee and Rebecca Saylor Sack and out-of-towners Kelly McRaven (New York) and Trenton Doyle Hancock (Texas), to name a few.

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Eyebrow Implants Give Great Results

For several centuries, men have considered eyes to be the window of one’s soul so this is why the eyebrows have great effect on how people see us. If there are only eyes, the expression of feelings is hard to recognize but the eyebrows can show off all types of emotions by just simply moving them up or down.

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Eyebrow Implants Give Great Results