Plus Size Fashion
I’m still here. I thought dealing with a sick parent was the hardest emotional blow, but losing a parent…it’s a whole new experience. It’s only been about four months since my mom died, but it simultaneously feels like it just happened and…
This isn’t the first time I’ve fallen in love with a country I never planned to visit. The first time was Iceland, where I had a stop over four years ago on my way to Paris. I spent less than 48 hours there and I was stunned by how much I…
One of the biggest challenges facing plus size fashion is the dearth of brick-and-mortar locations. If I wanted to go shopping in person right now, I’d have as meager amount of options where I could even potentially find something in my…
NYC Pride is one of our favorite times of the year and we headed to Kiehl’s Since 1851 which celebrated with their annual party at their flagship store, honoring The Hetrick-Martin Institute (HMI), an organization devoted to a safe and…
It can be hard to see at first, but sometimes something good can come out of something bad. It can be like a slap, an epiphany flashes through your brain, or it can come on slowly, a gradual realization that something fundamental in you has…
One of the most frustrating things about shopping while plus is the lack of brick-and-mortar stores that actually carry that size range. Well, for one glorious weekend, I’m going to make all your plus size dreams come true… With P.S. BKLYN…
I’ve been attending fashion shows for ten years now, and it’s always exciting to see something I’ve never seen before. Well, Vancouver Fashion Week did that on Thursday, when Christopher the Pig opened one of the Bia Boro runway show. Besides…
Scientists claim that scent is your strongest sense, and the one most tied to memory. You smell baking pie and you’re transported to a memory of your Grandmother, or maybe the smell of old leather-bound books brings you back to your time…
It’s officially summer. That means layer-free dressing, flowy diaphanous fabrics, crop tops, and short shorts…well, at least for some people. So much of this sweltering season seems to be in favor of the skinny set. Add a bit more thickness…
When my Grandmother was a young woman, she plucked her eyebrows clean off in order to draw them back in. With a clean swath of skin, she drew them on thinner and sharper, as was the style at the time. But they never grew back. Not a single…