Dear Pennies, Last week, I had the pleasure of interviewing best selling author and beauty guru, Peter Lamas. Peter Lamas came to New York from Cuba in the early 1960s, and began his career in hair and makeup not too…
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Dear Pennies, I’m participating in a community of bloggers who shout each other out every week. This week, I am shouting out jewelry designer and blogger, Lele. Lele has two blogs, one for her personal views on the world (As…
Dear Pennies, I just wanted to announce two recent LoudPen/de la Pen press mentions. First off, I interviewed Fashion Photographer, Constance Victoria for Issue #10 of Style Sample Magazine. Style Sample is a magazine about independent style all over the world.…
Dear Pennies, On September 9, 2010 my life changed. That day, I attended my first ever Fashion Blogger Conference and my first New York Fashion Week. On the way to the Involving Influence Fashion Blogger Conference, I remember riding the…
Dear Pennies, The last and final runway show at Style.uz Art Week was the General Defile by Dom Stilya which means House of Style. The show featured the top ten designers from Dom Stilya and also Gulnara Karimova’s Guli Collection.…
Dear Pennies, During Style.uz Art Week, I also saw the Festival of National Dress Fashion Show. This fashion show was a collection of 16 collections by 18 local emerging Uzbek designers and the main headliner the Guli Collections by Gulnara…
Dear Pennies, On Wednesday night, I went to the Chocolate Fashion Show held in the Metropolitan Pavilion. The Chocolate Fashion Show is actually an event that’s part of a larger event simply called, The Chocolate Show. The Chocolate Show is…
Dear Pennies, Last Friday, I attended the Japan Fashion Now Symposium at FIT. The symposium ended with a Q&A with FIT’s museum director, Valerie Steele and Japanese fashion designer Hirooka Naoto of the brand h. NAOTO. I decided to dedicate…
Dear Pennies, Check out my tweets from the Japan Fashion Now Symposium which give you an excellent play by play and recap of the Symposium. I’ve also added pics from the slideshows to illustrate the tweets. Also, please follow me…
Dear Pennies, Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the Japan Fashion Now Symposium at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology a.k.a. FIT. The two day symposium featured various authors, curators, scholars, and designers who all specialize in a…
