Claire's Archive

Rumours are swirling that Lady Gaga is getting ready to break into fashion.  As in, actual fashion.  Not those Halloween costumes we find strangely compelling to look at.

Gaga looking surprisingly tame next to Mugler menswear (Paris Fall 2011)

Gaga directed the music for Nicola Formichetti's Mugler debut for menswear in Paris this week, and now some say it's "likely" she'll...

Last week we were crushing on winter skirts but today it's all about what's new for Spring.

Jil Sander, Moschino, Vena Cava

Couture Carrie pulls a few sizzling looks from the Spring/Summer 2011 shows and asks - do you love a long skirt for spring?


DaFashionista, on the other hand, combed the shops last weekend for a pleated pleather skirt and polka dotted top combo from her lust list.

Louis Vuitton has cast its first-ever Asian male spokesmodel: the scrumptious Godfrey Gao.  Here, have a drool:


Gao is a Tiawanese-Canadian actor (holla!), making some commentators wonder if this is Louis Vuitton's strategy to engage the rapidly growing Chinese male demographic in luxury goods.

Sure, maybe.  It certainly engages the female demographic, no?  But on a less shallow...

Should cell phones be allowed on planes?

Oh no, you say.  For safety reasons, you can't...right? Turns out, you'd be wrong.

Many airlines have equipped their airplanes for cell phone use, and the only thing holding passengers back from taking advantage of this technology is the law.  However, as laws often go, they can vary from country to country.  Several Middle Eastern...

Images courtesy of Badgley Mischka (via Styleist)

It was announced back in December that Rumer Willis would be the new face of Badgley Mischka.  Yesterday, we got our first peek at the spreads expected to appear in the March 2011 issues of Vogue, InStyle, and other magazines.  Besides posing in gowns, we can expect to see her in shoes, bags, jewelry and swimwear as well.

She was an...

How many times have I trudged through snowy streets, tired after a long day at work or school and eager for a hot tasty supper but with the disenchanting knowledge that the only meal awaiting me was canned soup and a Pop Tart?  Answer: too many times.

After procrastinating for years, I finally picked up a slow cooker and found out what the fuss was all about.  You know what I'm

With no major holidays in the short-range forecast, our blogger posse is pretending to ignore winter by previewing spring.

Buh-buy Ombré, hello Hair that doesn't look like artfully outgrown roots

BeautyEditor's love affair with ombré is officially over.   The outlook for spring is tone-on-tone natural highlights.

Runway beauty from Ohne Titel, Marc Jacobs (both S/S 2011)

Besides

It's a topic every new parent agonizes over: to vaccinate or not to vaccinate?  A famous 1998 study supposedly linked the common childhood vaccine for Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) to increased rates of autism - a claim that many parents took to heart, perhaps most famously Jenny McCarthy.

While most pediatricians and health authorities insist that the dangers of Measles, Mumps or...