3 Important Style Rules From Lindsay Lohan’s Outfit Disaster:

{1} A bright, happy smile doesn’t save the outfit situation! More: we cannot turn and ignore the pure Fashion Disaster that Lindsay Lohan is putting on display upon her release from the Cliffside Malibu Rehab Center two days ago.

Another important lesson we learned from this fashion case:
{2} matching colors may be important, but too much matching can unbalance the general look.

Third and most important lesson:
{3} do not pair transparent under-the-knee socks with cowboy booties and short dress. Actually: do not wear those transparent socks in no combination under no circumstance. At all.

No, it won’t make you look like a hipster but more like a dumpster. Any doubts? Feel free to check out Miss Lindsay Lohan here and feel how strong the Fashion Disaster case is! (spotted on jj)

… sharing her grace and wit with Net-a-Porter’s The Edit while covering their latest issue. Which I’ve come to appreciate greatly for its fashion focus with different ladies I look up to fashion-wise and other-wise. Because, make no mistake, beauty comes from the inside and style is build by and with character not with loaded credit cards and mindless shopping.

I’ve long admired Iman and I think she’s is and forever will be one of the most fashionable ladies, of exceptional beauty and brains. Not the kind that will build you a NASA robot (which she might as well do if confronted with the task) but the kind that will ensure a peaceful, happy home/living. And that, my dahlings – ask anyone – is sometimes harder to achieve than the said NASA robot! Iman is 58, 5ft 9in and 142pounds. Just in case we have some lovely readers who are passionate about numbers!

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Countless years of tactics and misleading strategies may try to tell you otherwise, but this is the basic truth, my dahlings: advertising is just a way to convince people to take money out of their pockets! This pretty much ruins the advertorial charm, but sometimes we need a quick reminder in order to really appreciate the just value of any given instance or item.

Today’s case is a double advertising incident: Jennifer Garner was appointed the spokesface of MaxMara’s new fall 2013 advertising campaign which focuses on accessories. And more specifically on the JBag. Michelle Williams, on the other hand, keeps on capitalizing her Monroe-fame and partnered up with Louis Vuitton for a new ad campaign, photographed by Peter Lindbergh as you’ll see in the video after the jump.

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(alternative title: Gaga vs. del Rey comeback confrontation countdown) So what is it about these two young ladies who besides sharing the same age (they’re both born in 1986 just two months away) seem to have started a war to determine who’s the fairest of them all? The most talented and most appealing entertainer?

I’m trying to approach this from a fashion-style amateur perspective and not from a musical point of view as my knowledge about their performing talents is just borderline relevant, not being a fan or extensive listener of either of them.

As is the habit nowadays, people are judged after the coat on their backs, their look more than they are from what their innate talents can produce to entertain the crowds. Because nobody has time and patience to see how ‘natural’ works. We have to tweak it, bend it and make it likable on the spot. Flash productivity. How do you do that? By changing the shell. By painting the walls of the same home in a brighter, different color so that people who went by your street and who didn’t stop to look at a white house now they’d just be paralyzed to see your house suddenly turned neon blue! (… we’ll get to Gaga in a sec, jump with me!)

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Here’s the WaterBean: a small gadget that could revolutionize the water consumption habits around the world! As you may know, some water sources are not entirely clean and safe to ingest and so bottled water tends to occupy one of the first positions in a household’s grocery budget.

The WaterBean is a flexible portable filter that you can insert into any plastic bottle, fill it with water, shake, swirl and ta-daam! You’re good to drink! How’s that possible? Well, the activated carbon, derived from coconut husks, the magnesium calcite will be released into the water, purifying it. Isn’t that a neat idea? I would love to try it out and use it, should it prove its efficacy!

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If you think that the Royal Wedding was really something worth mentioning, you haven’t seen the effects of the Royal Baby! Oh, wait, no, it’s #RoyalBaby ! Because, as it was to be expected, the Royal Baby has his own hashtag! Which has generated more than 2Million tweets sending Twitter into inevitable meltdown (at one point, the social media service counted more than 25k tweets/minute!).

But wait, that’s not all! The British troops expressed their joy at the birth announcement in their own manner while one of Britain’s Got Talent’s finalists, Jack Carroll, started cracking jokes at the #RoyalBaby’s expense and got everyone mad. On Twitter, biensur!

There’s (so much) more (including a video after the jump)!

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There’s something about casting a 44yo in advertising campaigns for lingerie. Something daring but oh-so empowering! Especially since the woman in question is not only a flawless model but also an activist and real-life wife and mother!

Christy Turlington advertising career with Calvin Klein started in 1988 and it’s still going strong even as we speak as the new Calvin Klein underwear ad campaign will roll out full speed next month. Expect subtlety and established seduction as it has always been the case with Calvin Klein’s advertising, especially when Christy was involved!

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It’s been a while since we last talked about Kate Moss, right? Well there she goes, in all her legendary glory, wearing just another little black dress with zipped front (is it just me, or La Moss has a thing for zippers? I just have this feeling that she’s a zipper girl. Anywhoo, I digress: ) And – there goes the surprise: Kate Moss wears colorful sandals!

We hardly see Kate Moss wearing anything colorful, let alone this colorful! I mean, I’ve seen nails that were more colorful than Kate Moss’s entire wardrobe! So imagine how wearing a pair of $900 sandals by Christian Louboutin, the Spring Summer 2013 collection can become a social matter! So far, two official events have surprised her pairing the same sandals in two different looks, what do you think made her go for a pop of neon?

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