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...from two in 2006, and reaches a total audience of 250,000. While the flagship Martha Stewart Living magazine features sewing projects for the home, Blueprint is targeted at a younger audience. Fashion editor Katie Hatch's frequently innovative projects, from a swirling microsuede skirt to lace appliqués on a plain, white button-down shirt, are featured in each issue. Stewart calls Hatch over and asks her to show off what she's wearing--a dove gray dress with delicate embroidery that she made in a day. "Many of the staffers at Blueprint make their own clothes--beautiful things...
...months after they began dating, he awoke one day with a calling. Hired by Vineyard Church, he moved with his new wife to their current post in 2003. Bored and lonely, Andrews Googled "pastor's wife" and came upon dozens of websites--most created by older women partial to lace motifs and wheezy background hymns. "I was just not feeling the teddy bears and hearts," says Andrews. She launched her own site, WithPurpose com in 2004 because "I thought there must be others like me." Her dark-lipsticked smile might draw readers in, but her blunt postings about life...
...vine growing on it. I still love her, though. It takes guts to pose with your armpits exposed like that.ANNE HATHAWAYThere is something about Anne Hathaway’s dress—perhaps it’s the combination a large funereal bow and an elaborate white lace train—that makes her look like an overgrown Victorian valentine. I don’t know why she wants to destroy all of the fashion-addict good will she received after her spunky performance in “The Devil Wears Prada,” but apparently she does...
...wander around the capital, Damascus, gives no clues at first. Syrian culture is relatively conservative and this is reflected in what people wear on the streets. But if you know what you're looking for, you'll gradually start to spot it: a window of lace-up basques here, a display of fishnets there, and over there - an eyeful of bras and boas that would put the Playboy Mansion to shame. A lot of local men have a taste for such things because they're "like children," posits the manager of the upper-end Charme lingerie store. "They get bored...
...hours of labor went into handcrafting each garment.One evening dress of silk tulle and ostrich feathers with a hand-beaded bustier and bolero required 980 hours of embroidery alone.Lacroix, another couture icon, is a wise conclusion to the show. His Spanish-inspired collection featuring confections of tulle, sequins, and lace is what haute couture is all about.Boston has never been a fashion Mecca like New York, so the decision of a world-class art institution like the MFA to devote its main space to fashion is significant, as is its move to feature new collections from multiple designers.However, an exhibit...