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My TiVo did a wonderful thing for me today. It recorded the HBO series Elizabeth I as a suggestion. Helen Mirren, Jeremy Irons, and period attire of such magnificence that I have ever seen. Costume designer Mike O’Neill deserves a round of applause and nod of recognition for his impressive skill at making period costuming [...]

Read ideal fashion finds (with an emphasis on frugal) relayed to you by Columbia student Jess T. via CollegeCandy.com.
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The recession is bad news for anyone looking to get a job, save some money or sell a house. But it’s great news for fashionistas! Stores that were once dowdy and just screamed “crazy cat [...]

Maria Pinto, Hart Schaffner Marx, and tie maker Lee Allison are all set to outfit members of Chicago’s Olympic delegation for outfits debuting at this Friday’s International Olympic Committee vote on the 2016 Summer Games. What exact look will Chicago showcase will be unveiled on Friday; however according to Allison as reported in the Associated [...]

In Bright Star, a new film about the poet John Keats, the opening shot is of a needle being threaded and then plunged into a piece of fabric. You don’t see hands, so there’s no sense of scale to the enormous close-ups, which make the needle look like a spear, the thread like heavy cable.
Director [...]