TBF Media Alert: Gabbing on Fashion with Lesley of FashionTribes.com

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Check out this podcast with me and the lovely Lesley, the fashion powerhouse behind fashiontribes.com....

eLuxury Fall Catalogue is out

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Stunning bags, sexy dresses and chic boots dominate eLuxury’s Fall Catalogue - check it out!

Short Stuff for August 30th

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YouTube users have watched over 9,000 *years* of video (Marketing Vox)

Move around, couch potatos - ESPN to broadcast full college football games via it’s mobile phones (Washington Post)

The Stickest Brands on the web (Clickz)

Take YouTube on your iPod

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According to the Wired Blog, there’s a new app on the scene that lets you rip YouTube videos to play on your iPod, iTunes or PSP. The program, called TubeSock, is sadly, only available for Macs right now, but the possibilities of turning YouTube videos (including live music performances, portions of documentaries available on YouTube, and video series) are endless. Wonder when the copyright stuff will kick in on this one?

GLAM SHOPPING BEAT: Bad Hair Days are But a Bad Memory this Fall Thanks to All the Fab Hats that Complete the Layered Look. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG

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(From left to right: Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta, Louis Vuitton, Burberry Prorsum )

Glam Shopping Beat column for the week of 8/21/06 - by Lesley Scott:

Once frigid temperatures set in, every day can feel like a bad hair day. Fortunately, a key part of fall's layered looks is hats - in all shapes & sizes. Burberry's Christopher Bailey sent out chic little knit berets, while at Bottega, Tomas Maier opted for more structured caps that captured the jaunty feeling of an English driving cap crossed with the volume of a sixties topper. The showstopping, equestrian-bowler-tophats at Balenciaga left many an editor speechless with lust. And for days when wearing a bag over your head seems like the only viable option, Marc Jacobs sent out the next best thing at Louis Vuitton: a super-sized & lampshade-like Inspector Clouseau-style number which literally hides the eyes and skims the top of the nose.

When recreating the look for your own wardrobe, choose hats with interesting shapes or innovative choices in  fabrics, such as hounstooth & or plaid. Hats with historical references feel especially fresh such as the Edwardian age (top hats), bowler hats (19th century), Flapper-era cloches, and, of course, the Pop Art 60s. While the shapes are exuberant, the color palette of the moment is extremely muted: greys, black, earthy greens & murky earthtones, with occasional splashes of lipstick red.

Great hats by Eugenia Kim for fall:

   Chloe Circle Knit Beret

Muffy Herringbone

  Jimmy Driver's Cap

All shopping picks are available through Glam.com.

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(runway photos from Style.com)

How to make it at work

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New rules for a new generation*: because busting your ass is, like, so late-nineties

Don’t be a Stooge on the NYC Subway. “Subway Etiquette” Serves Up All the Myriad Ways to Annoy the Locals, and How to Avoid this Fate. FASHIONTRIBES TRAVEL BLOG

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• Why won’t this person take off her backpack?
• Who thinks it’s okay to lean against the pole & force everyone else to grab the ceiling?
• Does that guy really need all three of those seats?
• And, of course, what is that awful smell?

R.D. Fowler was fed up. Riding the subway during rush has never been an experience anyone would mistake for pleasant, but rudeness is reaching epidemic levels. Every day, the battle for space on the lurching, screeching trains offers up the same set of annoyances and puzzling dilemmas. While most subway riders accept rudeness as an unwanted part of their $2.00 fare, Ms. Fowler decided to do something about it. “I went on Craigslist to vent my anger,” explains Ms. Fowler. “And I asked other people what made them crazy when they rode the trains and buses.” What started with a simple post on an online bulletin board quickly grew into something much bigger. “It definitely struck a nerve,” she says. “I was not alone in noticing that there were some serious subway etiquette problems out there.”

Fowler decided to catalogue and share the responses she had received in Subway Etiquette: The Rules We Should All Know, Especially During Rush Hour. And just what did New Yorkers have to say to their fellow travelers?

• Riders should respect each other’s privacy: “Don’t lean over my shoulder to read my newspaper!”
• The train is not the place for personal grooming: “The vision of flying fingernails is disgusting!”
• Not everyone has the same definition of entertainment: “I hate it when I need to hear the announcements but the original cast of Stomp is banging away on plastic wastebaskets!”
• Hygiene should not be optional: “If you know you’re going to be riding the train, brush your teeth!”

From giving up your seat to a pregnant woman to realizing that other riders might not be thrilled you decided to travel with your bike, backpack, sleeping bag and shopping cart, Subway Etiquette offers an interesting, and often hilarious, look into the daily commute that millions endure everyday. For those who might not realize that they’re part of the problem, she also offers some solid advice on how to remember that you are, after all, riding “public” transportation. But don’t worry. Ms. Fowler isn’t asking New Yorkers to stop being New Yorkers, nor is she trying to take the “rush” out of rush hour. It is the Big Apple, after all; so when your next train pulls in “get out of the way or you will get pushed out of the way.” Available at Amazon.com.

- Lesley Scott

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BagBits vol. XX

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Moni Moni “Eden” Bag | $575.00 | Pre-Order via Adasa

Marc Jacobs Collection Capra Satchel | Capra leather with contrast leather trim | $1,350 | via eLuxury.com

Fendi Wisteria Spy | Taupe textured leather with woven handles and wisteria leather flower | $2540.00 | via Net-A-Porter

Isabella Fiore “Sweet Dreams” Alexia Hobo | Chocolate Brown Leather | $725.00 | Pre-Order via Adasa

Well done, Detective Watson

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Gotta love news like this:

It was a crime of fashion, and a lot more serious than wearing white after Labor Day.

Seguin police were suspicious when the driver of a cargo van that crashed Monday on Interstate 10 started acting nervous when they asked about all those boxes with Chinese writing.

Expecting to find drugs, since I-10 is a popular route for narcotics smugglers between San Antonio and Houston, fashion-conscious Seguin police instead found bogus designer purses, wallets, belts and other swanky accessories valued at $400,000.

Detective Sgt. Maureen Watson said some might be taken in by the Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Fendi, Coach, Christian Dior, Burberry and other merchandise, but it didn’t hold up to close scrutiny from Seguin’s fashion police.

“I love purses, and I hang out in that part of the department stores all the time,” Watson said Tuesday.

“If you examine the purses, the stitching, the materials, are not good quality. They smelled like vinyl, not leather, and when you buy an expensive purse, it’s usually in a cloth bag. These were in paper bags.”

The 21 large boxes contained 782 purses, more than 200 wallets and other items.

The driver, a 40-year-old woman from San Antonio who was traveling with her 15-year-old daughter, told police she was headed to Houston, when another vehicle cut off the van. She overcorrected and the van rolled. The driver and her daughter both sustained minor injuries.

Watson did not identify the two occupants of the van. They were released pending further investigation.

Dear Detective Watson, you are the quintessential purse protector that we need on our forum! via MySA.com.

Overstock.com Watch: Save 40% on a Totally On-Trend Hardware Bag from Dolce & Gabbana, But Please Refrain from Gloating. FASHIONTRIBES FASHION BLOG

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With slick gold hardware, it's a can't miss. Available at Overstock.com.

- Lesley Scott

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