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Chanel designer, Karl Lagerfeld, claims that it is hypocritical for people to protest wearing furs in a world that eats meat. A PETA spokesperson calls the designer a dinosaur — with outdated thoughts and style. Kira Plattinina’s company is going bankrupt, check out her website for 75% off. Vogue, along with a few other Conde Nast magazines, are facing hard hits when it comes to advertising. Dolce and Gabanna were inspired by the film The Leopard in their most recent collection, which is rich with opulence and jeweled colors. Sample sale sites such as topsecret.com are offering anonymous buying so shopaholics do not need to feel guilty for spending during a recession. Pick up Edward Steichen: In High Fashion, for some inspiring looks at the beginning of fashion photography. A fashion year in review celebrated the return of the supermodels, including Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington.

Want that awesome sporty look? Try no further than the line done by Stella McCartney for Adidas. Special gems include the Fortanima and Salju boots, both extremely stylish cold weather styles. The surprising perk? The Salju boots lace up and also fold down in such a way that make them look very couture like. They have just a tinge of patent leather on the toe, but the rest of the boot is made of canvas, making them a great selection for vegetarians.

She also designed several nice looking jackets that will look awesome on those slopes or just walking down the sidewalk. Even if you never hit the gym, you can still achieve that fresh and sporty look.

I agree.

I am Filipina American, and I have typical Asian hair: jet black, silky, straight. Don’t even try to put a fingerwave up in there because I’ll just wind up with a forehead dripping with Dippity-Do. When my mother was younger, she would get closely cropped hairdos and get a perm in it and honestly, it looks hot. It looks like a loose-curl afro.

Recently I got my hair cut, and I asked one of the women working on my hair whether or not perms were making a comeback. She told me that not many women get perms, and it’s mostly because of all the studies that show what kind of damage a perm can do to hair.

The other woman who worked on my hair however, told me that she specializes in perms and a perm would look amazing on me. Since my hair is so healthy already, it wouldn’t damage my hair that much.

Take note that Cookie, the second stylist, is amazing at what she does and specializes in chemical treatments: color, color correction, perms, straightening.

I’ve been making fun of perms for awhile, but after seeing those vintage shots of my mom in her lil afro, I can’t hate on them too hard.

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Frank Deitsch beat up his wife, kidnapped their son (without a car seat), then called his wife to tell her she’ll never see her son again.

The abducted baby is 1 year old and was last seen wearing a diaper and a Piston’s jersey.

He is believed to be headed to Kentucky. He is in a Cutlass with expired tags. License plate is BLW6780.

There is something very distinct about Frank Deitsch. He is a 56 year old man, and he weights 125 pounds, which is less than what I weigh! I’m surprised that there are no pictures of him on the internet, just the baby — who (let’s face it) looks like millions of other babies.

Call 911 if you have info.

My partner and I don’t exactly go to Church every Sunday. So, instead of doing a baptism, I’ve been looking into Naming Ceremonies for my son.

It just seems like a great way to do something very special for a baby — very similar to a wedding, but the vows you make are for your child. Isn’t that beautiful? And you can also choose a dear friend to be something like a mentor or a role model for your child, very similar to a godparent. I really love this idea and will keep you posted as I discuss it with my baby daddy.

The next generation of 90210 is up on the small screen this fall. Which makes most of us reminisce about the old crew from back in the early 90’s — the love, the fights… the fashion.

One of the best outfits I must say was Donna’s getup in the U4EA episode when that crazy Emily Valentine spikes Brandon’s drink with a drug called “euphoria”. Donna wore over the knee black boots, black hot shorts, a long sleeve scoop neck top and a hot belt. Yay, for the Fly Girl 90’s, I’m so tired of the 80’s and the big leggings comeback.

So, what has happened to the old crew? There are talks of special appearances by Shannen Doherty, Jennie Garth, and Tori Spelling on the “Next Generation”.

Andrea, played by Gabrielle Carteris, unfortunately suffered partial facial paralyzation when during the filming of an attack scene in a movie. She’s blonde now!

Brian Austin Green turned to rap and put out an album called One Stop Carnival, which tanked. Most recently, he was in the Terminator TV show about Sarah Connor.

Jennie Garth and Ian Ziering were both on Dancing with the Stars (but not as partners). I remember when she married the guy from the Lemonheads! Ian has an official myspace page.

Jason Priestley is a big Barenaked Ladies fan and has a really interesting/goofy website.

Luke Perry divorced the model he married (they were married for awhile, I remember reading an article back in the day about how Minnie got his attention by sending him her bra).

Shannen was on Charmed, where Nat (the owner of the Peach Pit) guest starred on a show.

I just read a little bit about the new book about Hugh Hefner, which is a book all about the Playboy mogul’s sexcapades.

That’s right, his sexcapades. Excuse me while I throw up a little in my mouth.

Onwards. It’s mentioned that it is a “shocking” tell-all, and that the author was given access to Hefner’s personal documents in order to pen the book. The word I’m confused about here is “shocking”. What can possibly be “shocking” about the founder of Playboy magazine. Having sex with a man? Nope, not shocking… threesomes? No… pretty normal and not-quirky if you ask me. Sex has been the new adventure for awhile now. I really do not think that anything could shock me about Hugh Hefner’s sex life. Obviously the man has done a lot and has hidden salami many ways and with many people, maybe all at once.

If you want to write a shocking Hefner novel, sex shouldn’t be the angle. If you want a typical Hefner, story however, then you’re going the right route.

So… people hated on Marc Jacobs when he did a fashion 180 — he went from being greasy and hiding in baggy, dirty clothing to having a ripped bod adorned in tattoos and blue hair. Big deal. Regardless of why he made this change (which was being diagosed with ulcerative colits — a condition I wrote about before), don’t hate. He’s eating healthier and exercising. Kudos, bravo. Sure he’s designing, franchising, opening branches in locations that gentrifies an area and ups rent and Pottery Barns.

Fine. The man has colitis! Let him have his faux hawk, he looks good. Dirty is so yester-year, and anyway.

It is now the time of the Eastern Conference Finals in NBA. This used to be a magnificent and fabulous time for me. I would design my work schedule around the play offs, and then go to the bars with nice TVs, beer, and a smoking section to scream and heckle at a screen. This is seriously something I would look forward to with a passion. The more people packed in a place cheering for the Pistons, the better.

Game 3, the Pistons had a home game today and they lost to the Celtics! They handed the Celtics their first away victory in awhile! How insanely SUCKY! I was so upset. I am an ultra die hard fan of the Pistons. No fair weather here, my friend.

This surprises a lot of people because of how rowdy I get even though I am all into fashion. I think that is an unfortunate stereotype! I remember when Carrie and Miranda went to an NBA game on Sex and the City… you know, the episode where Miranda first kisses Richard, played by Blair Underwood! They were too busy talking about how cute the players were. Well, yeah, but they can also ball, and I do have respect for that.

I even have great Pistons outfits, like red headbands, white boots, thigh high socks with red and blue stripes. Being a hot Pistons fan isn’t hard because all you have to do is rock the red and blue. I noticed that their headbands are blue now and I’m not a fan. I’m not sure why they changed it, but red has always had a better bang! At least it’s better than the aquamarine outfits they had a few years ago. Keep the primary colors goin’!

One thing I would love to do is talk to all the Pistons and ask them about their tattoos. NBA tattoos are awesome to me. I’ve actually thought about getting a horse tattoo to celebrate the Pistons, but I have the feeling that I would get my ass kicked for being corny. You know, horsepower.