Do you ever toot your own horn, and then almost immediately panic – as if what you’ve done might not have been such a good idea? It’s like submitting a resume and then promptly experiencing some sort of terror that you’ll fail at what you’ve just submitted your resume for, or worse – you’ll be [...]
The Heavyweights Edited by Dramatis Personae Fashion’s getting heavier– and I’m not just talking about the rise of supermodels like Crystal Renn. This week we’ve got meaty posts covering ethical topics like the sustainability of bamboo at Awakened Aesthetic while Bonne-Vie covers the the implications of buying items made in China. We’ve got not 1–not [...]
Hi Lovers! It’s time for Links à La Mode, sponsored by the Independent Fashion Bloggers. I’ve also added a few cool things I’ve found this week at the end of the post, because I said so. Edited by Fashion Pulse Daily This week, some of us looked back at icons of the past, such as [...]
Only six more shopping days ’til Christmas! Thankfully, the wholestyle roundups are blissfully free of stress-inducing holiday posts about parties (attending and hosting) and gifts (giving and receiving). Dive into this batch of articles and take some time for you! And as an administrative note, I’ll be out of town December 20th – January 5th, [...]
Wholestyle on the web, this week! Arts & Entertainment Chinashop: The Bunny Museum – A Strange Brew of Rabbit Stew Like a foam pit you used to see in gymnastics or P.E., except it is FILLED WITH THOUSANDS OF BUNNIES The Daily Beast: The New Italian Renaissance (Rachel Wolff) A controversial show celebrate 40 years [...]
HAPPY THANKSGIVING! We couldn’t leave you hanging this week, so we’re bringing you an abbreviated roundup full of fun Thanksgiving-y links. Meanwhile, we’re going to go nap on our respective couches while we wait for this magical Turkey Goodness to happen… Gobble gobble! Food Lifehacker: Use Oats to Make Great Faux-Meat Veggie Burgers The Kitchn: [...]
OMG! *GASP!* It’s published! Click that image to read…. It started a couple months back, when I got an email from Mark Laubenheimer. Mark, a local (Seattle) photographer, takes gorgeous photos of normal people – untouched, unadulterated, using natural light and simple settings. Mark needed a foreword for his newest project, and after stumbling across [...]
Media Literacy Week: Day Five, Wrapup The media literacy articles this week have been designed to open our collective eyes to the hidden messages in the information and ideas that we consume on a daily (even hourly) basis. I sincerely hope that it’s been helpful. I’d like to wrap up with a segueway and an [...]
Media Literacy Week: Day one, definitions This week in Canada is Media Literacy Week, November 2-8th; seven days focused on increasing awareness of the messages carefully constructed in the information we are constantly consuming. While it may be a foreign holiday for most of our readers, we feel that it’s vitally important for people to [...]
Islamic fashion doesn’t come up much in the West, and we don’t usually realize that there’s true style and boatloads of fashion sense that goes into wearing hijab. And yet, there’s never been an exhibition in the Middle East to show off all the amazing fabrics and styles that constantly emerge from the Islamic fashion [...]
