Please. Joan should have made THEM move. Why were they seated next to a legend? The thing is (as I've touched on on other threads about her in the past), Joan is incredibly kind in person. I think she makes horrible jokes about celebrities because it gets her press and press= $, which she is extremely neurotic about.…

Either designer sportswear or evening wear. My entire portfolio is Poiret inspired. In fact, my favorite designers—Worth, Poiret, James, and McQueen—are all aesthetically related and inspired by each other.

I would say it still doesn't matter. When I went to the Poiret exhibit in high school, I saw that my drawings in my notebooks weren't just fantasy, that they actually could be made, and that things I had thought I invented had already been designed by Poiret. That really ignited my interest in fashion design and now…

But we should care because the party raises the funds to exhibit the work of true artists, like Charles James.

Aw, this is filmed right by my school, FIT! I saw the "Danity Kane" girls hanging out before the shoot. I thought they were too dressed up, even for fashion design students. I guess because they're not. And that also means I missed seeing Billy Eichner!!!!!!!

No, of course not. I don't think the US should be "the world's policeman" or go after every single terrorist cell on earth. That's asinine, counterproductive, and impossible. But if American aid can help find 200+ girls who have been missing for almost a month then surely that's a good kind of involvement.

I think the US should get involved because we have the largest and most sophisticated military operation in the world. Any sort of advice, guidance, or equipment the US military can give to the Nigerian government would be of enormous help. The US mission should only be limited to rescuing the young women, since…

There are one or two fashion forecast companies that go 50 years into the future, but they're more about predicting consumer trends, not clothing silhouettes.

In some ways, they weren't too far off. The 1950s was very heavily influenced by Elizabethan style (as filtered through the Victorian era and Dior's New Look.) I guess they thought the 1930s would repeat the styles of the 1830s (hence the huge crinolines)—thank God 1830s fashions will never come back!

I think Artpop is a really strong album, and I still want to support Gaga, even though her persona is getting to be too much. That said, I wish that someone had told her to calm down with her directorial debut. There were 4 songs in one video and the only two that are remotely related our G.U.Y. and Venus (both of…

Present! And, yeah, this is bad. I guess Karl wants the house to be young and relevant so he's showing all of this street inspired and 90s-style clothing, but this collection is truly horrible. At least the print is nice. And this is coming from someone who truly hates Chanel.

It looks like an unfortunate looking gerbil mixed with a rat. Not that there are any unfortunate looking gerbils. They are all beautiful. **Flounces away**

I'm not an animal rights person, but, um, wow, that's a lot of fur and a lot of it is bad. There were some fabulous moments in the collection, like Joan Small's "acid wash" outfit or that print on the skirt paired with the sheer knit top. I see that Kaiser Karl is on a big urban/ athletic wear kick. I hate those two…

I went to visit both the Oscar de la Renta store and the Carolina Herrera store for homework (fashion design student, yay). Both designers have been in the industry for the same amount of time and both are around the same age. But while I found Oscar's work kind of stuffy, I was really impressed, and still am…

That is...strange, but I believe you.

Ugh, mine hurt too. It didn't help that I could not tolerate* to the lube (which I found out later).

I know it's possible, but I thought it was an extremely strange detail to add, in terms of how female sexuality is presented in these books. It's as if the heroine gets to have it both ways: she can be chaste and virginal but the (presumably older reader) doesn't have to relive the awkwardness of her first term.

I took a class in freshman year of college called Reading the Romance. It was fantastic—we went from classic and medieval romances (what we would basically call novels today, although there was a love story component to many of them) all the way up to pick your own modern romance novel and write a short essay about…

Dodai, I would argue that this still isn't a great step forward. The only actress on the cover is Julia Roberts (with someone else's legs) and she's using these wonderful black actors as accessories. Meanwhile, Lupita Nyong'o and Naomie Harris are STILL in the fold. How much better would this cover have been if these…

LOL, how do you think I felt? I had dropped off some packages at her apartment several times but I was never invited up. Sob.