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Today, Housing Works Thrift Shops kicks off its sixth annual Design on a Dime fundraising event, New York City’s most popular interior design benefit event. The event features dozens of room installations by some of the country's most noted designers, including Charlotte Moss, Miles Redd, and Ty Pennington. Tomorrow and Saturday, you can shop the housewares, furniture, and linens in each room Read more
If you're a New Yorker, you may have been lucky enough to catch the Design on a Dime event that finished off this weekend. Over 40 of the world's top interior designers, including Elizabeth Bauer, John Bartlett, David Cafiero (Chloe Sevigny's designer), James Huniford and more, created room vignettes for the event, and furnishings were sold off to visitors at a 40 to 60 percent discount. The Read more
It always feels good to get your shop on at discount, but when it's also for a good cause, you've really got to pat yourself on the back. Design on a Dime, a design charity event which benefits Housing Works, the nation’s largest grassroots AIDS service organization, ends today. New housewares, furniture, linens, and furniture from the room vignettes of more than 40 of the world's top interior Read more
Yes, Halle Berry really is as gorgeous and flawlessly complected in person as she appears on screen. So now that your most pertinent question is answered, let's move on to the good stuff. Halle has served as the global brand ambassador for Revlon for over 10 years, and she's set to launch a campaign for the brand's new ColorStay Whipped Creme foundation (which hits shelves June 1). With Halle's Read more
Victoria Beckham is working on opening her own store — The Cut Michelle Obama hosts G-8 first ladies at White House in style — HuffPost Style Kristen Wiig says "goodbye" to SNL in a peplum minidress — The Daily Beast Shopbop now offers Saturday delivery — Lucky Priscilla Chan married Mark Zuckerberg in a Claire Pettibone wedding dress — Racked Is Africa fashion's next big thing? Read more
Do you have what it takes to buy a home? Consider this exhaustive guide from Kiplinger. Tired of renting? It could be a great time to buy your first home. In many cities, home prices have bottomed, and rents have risen. Mortgage rates are still superlow. In fact, homes haven't been as affordable since 1971. On the downside, in many cities, buyers have fewer homes from which to choose and more Read more
Marion Cotillard is at Cannes this week chatting up her latest movie Rust and Bone. She wore Dior last night for the red carpet premiere of the film, and posed alongside costars Matthias Schoenaerts, young actor Armand Verdure, and director Jacques Audiard. The picture is ready for audiences after Marion and Matthias worked on it together last Fall in the South of France. Marion plays Stéphanie Read more
Spring is a time for sunshine and bright skies, but it's also a time where seasonal storms can wreak havoc on your hair. Between the increasing warmth in the atmosphere, the humidity, and wind, stormy weather is definitely more fun to look at than it is to go out in. If you do need to leave the house, though, there are some uncomplicated ways to keep you from winding up with a bird's nest on top Read more
It's hard enough to remember to put on sunscreen when you leave the house, but now you also need to make sure your sunscreen is safe to use. The Environmental Working Group has just released its 2012 Sunscreen Guide, and in order to make the list, a sunscreen must be free of oxybenzone and retinyl palmitate, not have an SPF above 50, and must be broad spectrum (protects against both UVA and UVB Read more
For 44 years, kids have been racing Hot Wheels cars around their homes, on the sidewalks in front of their houses, and, if they're my kids, down the slides on the playground. Playground play aside, most die-cast car play has been strictly horizontal since that time. Now Hot Wheels is shaking things up — really up! — and moving car play vertical! Hot Wheels Wall Tracks, the company's new line Read more
