Thirteen and Ten, Both are very good years
DALLAS, Dec 31, 2007 through Jan 1, 2008 / FW/ — Happy New Year! 2008 marks two milestones for FashionWindows – its Newsletter is 10 years old and FashionWindows has been online for 13 years! Officially, FashionWindows has been an online magazine starting in 1997, but before it was FashionWindows, it was actually Sheiglagh’s Store Windows and it called Geocities...
w00t! I’m a locavore and I love coffee art!
Merriam-Webster Dictionary DALLAS, Dec 30, 2007 / FW/ — The title of this article might be incomprehensible and disjointed but they do make sense if you know that three of the words in the sentence have been voted Words of the Year. Every year’s end is a time of lists. As a journalist, I chose ‘Words of the Year’ for my 2007 ‘list’. I write about fashion and...
’27 Dresses’ The Movie: A Sneak Peak
LOS ANGELES, Dec 29, 2007 / FW/ — For those who were lucky enough to snag tickets to the preview of ’27 Dresses’ starring Katherine Heigl last December 27th, you might be wondering if the Knocked Up star was hiding among the 26 other women wearing the film’s one-sheet, which Heigl actually wore in the film. Actually, Heigl was not among them. And quite frankly,...
Welcome 2008 With Bebe Sport & Strawberry Blonde
LOS ANGELES, Dec 28, 2007 / FW/ — Christmas might be over but New Year is just around the corner and on New Year’s Eve, FashionWindows had been invited to attend a very exclusive party featuring a fashion show by Bebe Sport and performance by Angelica Bridges and her troupe Strawberry Blonde. With the glitterati of the music, movie and television industries expected...
Virtual World Marketing: Do You Need To Jump On The Bandwagon?
Second Life DALLAS, Dec 27, 2008 / FW/ — There was a time when ‘virtual world’ just means the internet. But, those days are gone and today, ‘virtual world’ refers to an array of online services that offer users the ability to create their own environment including 3-D characters called avatars. Perhaps, the most well known among them is Second Life. But, Second...
Green Is The New Black In the Advertising World
LOS ANGELES, Dec 27, 2007 / FW/ — Where will we be without advertising? The average American is bombarded by ads 24×7, be it on television, newspapers, magazines or the internet. Hence, it is not surprising that one of the lists that would come out for year’s end is “Best of Ads, Worst of Ads” at the Wall Street Journal. They chose 10 of the best ads of...
The Size Zero Model Issue, CSI Style
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation LOS ANGELES, Dec 26, 2007 / FW/ — Since I’m in the mood of catching up with all the shows I had missed so far, I’ve been watching re-runs of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and was totally surprised that on a 2002 episode entitled ‘The Hunger Artist’, the series actually discussed ‘size zero issue on models.’ Perhaps it is a...
Holiday Greetings 2007
DALLAS, Dec 25, 2007 / FW/ — It has been ten years since FashionWindows became a full-pledged fashion website. From its humble beginnings of featuring store windows, the site grew up to cover the catwalks in the world’s fashion capitals. And although FashionWindows has thrived and prospered during the past decade, it is also time to move on the same way that the world...
Pink Rules In A Dark Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix Movie
Scene from Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix LOS ANGELES, Dec 24, 2007 / FW/ — One great thing about the Christmas holidays is that I can finally get caught up with all the DVDs that came out. And though I saw Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenixon IMAX while I was attending New York Fashion Week, as a Harry Potter fan, I cannot help myself but buy the...
The Internet: The New Luxury Destination
computer keyboard DALLAS, Dec 23, 2007 / FW/ — Several years back, the venerable French fashion house Hermes said, ‘We are so exclusive, our products are not available on the Internet.’ A year later, Hermes opened a website, wherein their scarves were sold. With the new figures coming out, it might be time for Hermes to rethink its strategy and view the Internet...
Zac Posen To Unveil Resort 2008 Collection in Berlin
PARIS, Dec 22, 2007 / — Zac Posen devotees have to cross the Atlantic to see their favorite designer’s Resort 2008 collection. The New York-based designer had confirmed that he would be unveiling his Resort 2008 Collection as the official closing show of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin. Zac Posen is also meeting an old friend from the tents at Bryant Park....
