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We tip our hats to Emma Watson
Today we celebrate a little movie magic by checking out Emma Watson’s Oscar de la Renta gown at the premiere of the last Harry Potter movie ever, last week in London. It’s hard to believe that Watson and her male counterparts have been working on the film versions of the Harry Potter books for ten years [...]
Tags: Burberr, celebrities, Emma Watson, Harry Potter, Hermoine Granger, Oscar de la Renta
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Jump Ball, Get It Get It!
My love affair with jumpsuits started as a budding young girl with the movie Grease. I wanted to be the “bad” Olivia Newton John with the black, shiny, skin-tight catsuit, teased hair, heavy makeup, smoking cigarettes and causing a commotion. Here we have Fergie copycatting her, and I can see why… In the 80’s, a [...]
Tags: Alice + Olivia, Aqua, celebrities, Stella McCartney
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Cannes Do Attitude
As you know, dear readers, the DCGF is often loathe to engage in the world of celebrity, unless it will further the cause of Goodwill (I’m still stalking you, Amy Smart, Giselle and Tom…). Why? Because it’s just to out of touch with the world of everyday fashion. Stylists: yawn. Free designer clothing: please?! Red [...]
Tags: Cannes, celebrities, red carpet
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Tooting Our Own Horn
Yeah, we gotta do it sometimes here at Goodwill. Why not share the love? A recent segment on NPR’s “Tell Me More” highlighted ways to think “green” when throwing kid’s birthday parties. Explained Celebrate Green co-author Lynn Colwell, “Take your child on a little shopping adventure to Goodwill or a used store. For all of [...]
Tags: celebrities, Goodwill, npr, thrifting, us weekly
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A Beginner’s Guide
As you have probably heard, seen, talked about, etc., dear readers, this week’s Met Costume Institute Gala – “The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion” (yawn) – produced no shortfall of tragic red carpet fashion. Admittedly, none of us plebeians will ever have to deal with such a monumental experience in front of the world’s discerning [...]
Tags: celebrities, Costume Institute, red carpet
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Ask The Fashionista: You Can’t Always Get What You Want (But You Can Try)
The DCGF received a very specific question via email this week, dear readers, but i think the broader implications are something all of us have struggled with at some time or another: ” I have been searching and searching trying to find [Cheap Monday's] Mega Bottom jeans with no success at all. I was thinking [...]
Tags: Ask The Fashionista, celebrities, Cheap Monday, Moschino
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Under The Sea!
I wasn’t going to do an Oscar fashion wrap, dear readers. I just wasn’t. I mean, everybody else has already done it and probably you’re tired of it by now. But I was going back over the pictures…and I just can’t bite my tongue. There’s an alarming trend afoot on the red carpet right now [...]
Tags: celebrities, dresses, red carpet
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The Beige Globe Awards
I know, I know: It’s the Golden Globe Awards. But if that’s the case, then why was the predominant color of the evening really an absence of color? Call it beige, nude, champagne…whatever you like. But from Demi to Salma to Angelina, there was a whole lot of no color happening. Oops! Except, that is, [...]
Tags: celebrities, dresses, Golden Globes
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An Open Letter To Giselle Bundchen And Tom Brady
Dear Giselle And Tom, Busted! You really think you could just waltz onto page 21 of OK! Magazine looking all “deeply in love” and “charitable toward others” in your Goodwill aprons and the DCGF wouldn’t notice? Did you really think that I, on my sick day off, perched on the couch with a pile of [...]
Tags: celebrities, DC Goodwill, Smiling G, The Fashion of Goodwill
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Oh, Horror of Horrors
So last night, dear readers, I found myself at a Nordstrom private shopping event. You know the drill: anybody who spends a certain amount of money over the course of a year gets invited to shop after hours while sipping crappy chardonnay. And in this economy you don’t have to have spent that much, trust [...]
Tags: celebrities, Ed Hardy, Jessica Simpson, Juicy Couture, Nordstrom, Tory Burch