Humor Chic

Witty, cheeky, brilliant, and VERY fashionable

It’s funny how the fashion flock can sometimes take themselves so seriously.

Add some tongue-in-cheek insider observations and it’s Humor Chic!

aleXsandro Palombo (yes, the a is small, the X is a capital as is the P to represent the Latin symbols for Pax Christi) likes to think of himself as the father of fashion satire.

He has just the right amount of wit and whimsy to poke a very manicured finger right back at the fashion industry and have them smile all the better for it with Humor Chic, the world’s first Daily Society Portrait blog.

Palombo is a global foot soldier (Prada or Dior Homme, I wonder) of vivid illustration with entertaining critiques and social parodies on all that is fashion, culture, society, manners and celebrities.

via Humor Chic fashion satire blog by aleXsandro Palombo | FocusOnStyle.com.

Prettypretty Chairs are pretty wiggy. Hair chairs, wig chairs beauty art as furniture

Hair chairs for your kookiest indulgences

“What shall we do with all this useless beauty?” –D.P. Mc Manus

If you have more wigs than Dolly Parton has gone through in a lifetime, you might just start to want to look at them as potential art rather than pile of beauty roadkill.

I love to look at the obvious and see it in so many different and unique ways that nothing is ever expected, whether it be art or the way are inspired by the ordinary to make to extraordinary.

Furniture designer Dejana Kabiljo of the Viennese design brand, Kabiljo Inc. sees and designs “objects for all of us with little fetishes, bad habits and compulsive actions.” The materials are carefully researched and subdued to a series of experimental processes until they fit into place.

In this case, PrettyPretty experimental stools, poufs and chairs that are like pretty heads to sit and explore.

Dejana portrays them as simple things created for our complex times that are irony-free and celebratory of the nicely regulated erotic allure that surrounds us as it out the customary grammar of desire.

We see these wiggy chairs as pretty darn amazing- something to admire and reflect in a corner of your living room, boudoir, or in a museum.

via Prettypretty Chairs are pretty wiggy. Hair chairs, wig chairs beauty art as furniture | FocusOnStyle.com.

Teeny House Bunny Makes It Big

“Just three little girls, bored with the ordinary, making fantasy out of fabric scraps.” It sounds like the winsome opening to a Zooey Deschanel tune or a Sofia Coppola flick, but it’s actually how the designers behind the vintage-inspired hair accessories brand Teeny House Bunny describe themselves. The three little girls-turned-entrepreneurial women in question are Alexandra Wise, Dyana Nematallah, and Robin Reetz. They met during their senior year at Savannah College of Art and Design, and after dabbling in fashion-type jobs in New York, banded together to pursue their crafty aspirations. The trio began cutting, sewing, and pasting together pieces of fabric and lace and selling their delicate one-off wares on Etsy and Teeny House Bunny (a moniker formed by stringing together their nicknames) was born. The response was huge, but perhaps not as huge as when Paris Hilton picked up one of their pieces during a trunk show at Henri Bendel. Other now-we’ve-made-it moments followed, like when Emma Watson graced the cover of Teen Vogue in their punky purple feathered headband and when the queen of retail cool, Anthropologie, ordered 4,500 of their designs last holiday season. THB’s sophomore collection debuts on its new Web site today, and it doesn’t disappoint. Look for tie-dye chiffon hair twists in colors like absinthe green and speckled white and black that can be doubled up and worn as a glam headband (festival beauty alert), dollhouse teacup bobby pins, chiffon knotted scarves, and organza flower petal pins.

via Beauty Counter blog: Insider tips on beauty products, hair, makeup, skincare, fragrances, spas, and salons.

Spring 2010 Hair and Makeup Trends

From romantic blush to gilded updos, this season’s chicest hair and makeup are straight from a fairy tale

MOST EASYGOING: ROSY CHEEKS

THE LOOK: “Blush adds life to the face,” says makeup artist Pat McGrath, who broke out the rouge backstage at Anna Sui.

SEEN AT: Anna Sui, Diane von Furstenberg, Gucci

DIY: Makeup artist James Kaliardos kept blush high on the cheek bones at DVF: “If it’s low on the face, it’s too old-fashioned.”

TRY WITH: Iridescence. “It brings out cheekbones and makes skin glisten, which is sexy,” Kaliardos says.

MOST REFRESHING: AQUA LINER

THE LOOK: At Nanette Lepore, makeup artist Polly Osmond, inspired by kids drawing with crayons, smudged turquoise pencil under eyes.

SEEN AT: Balenciaga, L.A.M.B.,Nanette Lepore

DIY: Forget about coloring inside the lines. “It’s supposed to be childlike,” Osmond says.

TRY WITH: Teal highlighter. At Balenciaga, P&G Global Creative Director McGrath traded traditional white for blue-green to brighten the inner corners of models’ eyes.

MOST ARTISTIC: EXTREME LASHES

THE LOOK: “Full lashes look too Barbie doll,” says makeup artist Tom Pecheux, who went mod when he sent models down the runway at YSL with strips of fragmented false lashes. For Louis Vuitton, McGrath layered multiple coats of two different CoverGirl mascaras to create intentionally clumped fringe. “Spidery lashes are irresistibly sexy and rebellious,” she says.

SEEN AT: Chado Ralph Rucci, Louis Vuitton, Vivienne Tam, YSL

DIY: Pecheux trimmed a set of M.A.C lashes short and blunt, placing them only along models’ lower lashlines.

TRY WITH: White shadow. For Vuitton, triple coats of mascara gave lashes a batting average that could rival Derek Jeter’s, but it was the white shadow around the eyes that really made them stand out.

BIGGEST PARTIER: NEON NAILS

THE LOOK: Models received an electric shock of color on their fingertips at Zac Posen, where manicurist Deborah Lippmann painted a hot melon shade onto nails.

SEEN AT: Chris Benz, Rag & Bone,Zac Posen,

DIY: Lippmann lightly buffed nails and chose an “extra glossy” topcoat for more reflection.

TRY WITH: White base coat. A coat of bright white under yellow polish at Rag & Bone gave nails a fluorescent glow.

via Spring 2010 Hair and Makeup Trends – ELLE.

Best New Denim Trends…With That Hot Guy from Glee

Girlie gingham, washed-out denim, fringed suede — this season, the West has clearly won. Of course, you don’t want to pull a Dolly Parton, so we show you how to walk the line, with a little help from Glee heartthrob Cory Monteith.

via Cory Monteith Photos – Exclusive Cory Monteith Pics – Cosmopolitan.com.

11 Eco-Friendly Summer Must-Haves

via Eco-Friendly Fashion and Vacation Accessories – Marie Claire.

Coco Sumner Fashion Icon and Musician

COCO SUMNER, daughter of Sting and rising musician talks exclusively to VOGUE.COM on her new found style status and her shopping secrets.

“Someone told me earlier I was becoming a style inspiration and I don’t know why,” Sumner said. “I generally just wear whatever I can find in my cupboard. I don’t really tend to think about it.”

Sumner cites vintage pieces as her guilty pleasure but where does she go for a shopping binge?

“I like lots of vintage places,” she said. “I went to New York quite recently and went on a shopping spree in Opening Ceremony - their stuff is very cool. And my base player Rosie works for a fashion company, so she passes me freebies.”

via Coco Sumner Fashion Icon and Musician (Vogue.com UK).

Anna Wintour Wears Erdem

ANNA WINTOUR is the latest member of the fashion industry to show support for London-based designer Erdem. The famous US Vogue editor was seen wearing one of Erdem’s printed dresses at the Fresh Air Fund Annual Spring Gala held at Cipriani in New York last night.

“It’s thrilling to see Anna Wintour in our dress,” Erdem told us. “She looks great in it and is a wonderful support to us and to so many other designers as well.”

Wintour joins Erdem’s ever-growing roll call of fashion muses which includes Keira Knightley, Ashley Olsen, Sarah Brown and Claudia Schiffer. Erdem has had a successful year, not only having caught the eye of the most stylish fashion leaders, but also having won the British Fashion Council/Vogue’s prestigious Fashion Fund award.

via Anna Wintour Wears Erdem (Vogue.com UK).

A Look At Resort 2011: Yves Saint Laurente

Clearly, on the strength of his 2011 resort efforts, Stefano Pilati is thinking about two iconic moments in the history of Yves Saint Laurent. First, when Pilati came to show his collection for the house at the Consulat Général de France on Fifth Avenue, reigniting the entente cordiale that once existed between Paris and New York when Yves was at the helm of his own house. (When he wanted to launch his Opium scent way back in the seventies, YSL chose the downtown waterfront as his party venue. By all accounts, that night was major.) And second, Pilati looked at the way the 1940s were always in vogue at the house of Saint Laurent back in the day, starting with Monsieur Laurent’s infamous collection of spring 1971. If that one was super controversial in a country still able to remember the raw pain of occupation, Pilati’s vision of the decade was all elegance and charm, with flippy silk dresses with a little volume through the shoulders and a sharply defined waist, a bandeau top with a long skirt, and an exquisite cape-sleeved coat with high-waist wide pants. Loved, too, the use of that thick band that wrapped around the head, a twenty-first-century update on the turban. Now all it needs is a name. Turband anyone? Okay, maybe not.

via Vogue’s Daily Coverage of Fashion, Beauty, Parties and More.

Kristen Stewart’s new long locks: love or hate?

Jaws dropped when Kristen Stewart hit the Twilight Eclipse South Korean premiere last night – not only was she dazzling in an uber-glam minidress, but she debuted a brand new hairstyle to boot.

The actress has patiently been growing out her Joan Jett shag since filming music biopic The Runaways last year, but she’s clearly grown bored of her shoulder-grazing locks, and has added super-long extensions.

KRISTEN’S HAIR & BEAUTY HISTORY

Time will tell whether she sticks with her longer look, but last night she opted for a slicked back ponytail, that swished to her lower back.

via Kristen Stewart’s new long locks: love or hate? | Beauty news | Marie Claire.