Archive for the ‘Fashion’ Category
Navidad Gift Idea : Model 271
3:27 pm By Maegan La Mala · Fashion|Iraq War|Politics · Comments Off
21 Dec 2008
While the protagonist of the shoe toss seen round the world, Muntadar al-Zaidi, remains in jail and is by many accounts being tortured, there seems to be more debate as to where the shoe came from and how people can get one.
Some say the shoe is from Lebanon, others say it’s from Iraq, and a Turkish company is claiming it’s model 271 is THE shoe.
Though most shoes commonly available in Iraq are factory-made in China, Mr. Zaidi’s brother dismissed such reports, as well as those claiming the shoes came from Turkey or Lebanon:
“One hundred percent they are Iraqi-made shoes,” Udai al-Zaidi told Reuters. “His shoes are not Chinese, nor Turkish.”
Udai said they came from the Baghdad factory of Iraqi shoemaker Alaa Haddad, viewed as among the country’s best.
Meanwhile, Turkish newspaper Yeni Safak ran a front-page story — with accompanying headline, “Made in Turkey,” — stating that the shoes were consistent with a design by Turkish businessman Ramazan Baydan:
Baydan said he had designed the style in 1999, and orders from Iraq had increased by 100% since the Bush incident.
“If it had hit Bush’s head it wouldn’t have hurt him,” he said of his shoe, apparently referring to the softness of the leather.
Lebanese newspaper as-Safir also ran a front-page story with a photo showing Zaidi during a recent visit to Beirut with the headline, “Did he buy the shoes in Beirut?”
What Latinos Want Michelle Obama to Wear on Innaguration Day
4:44 pm By Maegan La Mala · Fashion|Politics|Women · 1 Comment
4 Dec 2008A few Latino designers have submitted sketches of what their vision for Michelle Obama’s inaugural gown is.
My favorite is this one from Carolina Herrera.
You know that when President Bush wears something it is most definitively a fashion don’t. So I declare ponchos worn by lame duck Republican presidents to be not in style.
Sarah Palin’s New $150 G Style
9:55 am By Maegan La Mala · Controversia|economy|Fashion|Money|US Presidential Race 2008|Women · 2 Comments
22 Oct 2008
Despite Alaskan governor’s excellent record, the Republican National Committee felt that Sarah Palin needed a fashion makeover at a cost of more than $150,000.
The Republican National Committee appears to have spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August.According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing began in early September and included bills from Saks Fifth Avenue in St. Louis and New York for a combined $49,425.74.
The records also document a couple of big-time shopping trips to Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis, including one $75,062.63 spree in early September.
South Central L.A. Farm Site to be Forever 21
9:32 am By Maegan La Mala · Fashion|Labor|Los Angeles|Shopping · Comments Off
19 Aug 2008
The South Central Farm, a 14 acre Los Angeles space used by mostly Latino, immigrant community members, that became the center of controversy when the city took it away from those that worked the land, will be Forever 21, as in the space will be used as a warehouse for the cheap and cheaply made clothing company.
Inspiring a movement and a movie wasn’t enough for L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who supported the farm, has received a nice sum of money from the clothing company with a history of poor labor practices.
He has received nearly $1.3 million in contributions and commitments from Forever 21 and its executives over the past two years for initiatives ranging from tree plantings to his own reelection campaign
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María Celeste Arrarás : Helping Latino Girls Learn the Important Things, Like How to Get Bling’ed
3:00 pm By Maegan La Mala · Celebrities|children|Fashion|Marketing|Shopping|TV|Women · 1 Comment
11 Aug 2008
With my older daughter’s birthday approaching, the search for the perfect gift has begun and what would Latina girls like my daughter do without Al Rojo Vivo‘s María Celeste Arrarás who threw her celeb status as anchor of a news/bochinche show at Telemundo, behind Fisher Price’s Color Me Gemz (TM).
“We Latinas love to look our best all the time,” said Arrarás. “The Color Me Gemz line is great fun — and more. Girls can combine creativity, imagination and self-expression to make jewelry works of art to dress up all their outfits, just like mom!”
The Color Me Gemz collection is a brand new line that allows girls to create their very own fashion-forward jewelry with the touch of a pen. Creating dazzling Color Me Gemz pieces is quick, easy and fun. Girls simply use the included jewel-toned marker pens to color specially designed facets that create the appearance of an actual gemstone so they can sparkle and shine wherever they go.
Girls can choose from four adorable Color Me Gemz sets, including a Necklace Set, Bracelet Set, Belt Set or Decorator Set. They can even create and decorate their own fashion accessories including a purse or hat. Girls can store their Color Me Gemz masterpieces in the new Color Me Gemz Jewelry Box, which can also be gem-ified inside and out.
“Color Me Gemz is more than just a toy. It’s an ideal contemporary activity set, combining two things girls love – arts and crafts and the magic of jewelry,” said Chris Byrne, The Toy Guy(R)(R). “It’s easy and rewarding for kids to use, while inspiring focused creativity and giving girls something they can proudly display as their own creation.”
I Went to Cornell and All I Got was This Sweatshop Made Cap
3:34 pm By Maegan La Mala · Dominican Republic|Fashion|Labor · 1 Comment
7 Aug 2008
Wanna show off some alumni pride? Or how about that cap of your favorite baseball team? If you look at the label of your cap and see that it was made in the Dominican Republic, chances are it was made in a sweatshop.
Sweatshop workers stitch logos into caps for Major League Baseball, the NHL, the NBA and the NFL.
Many college caps are made there, too. One company, BJ&B, for example, manufactures caps for the Universities of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Missouri, Connecticut, Arizona, Louisiana State, Cornell, Northwestern, Penn State, Tulane and Purdue…Here’s how it works: A university licenses its name and logo to American apparel distributors like Nike, Starter, Champion and Reebok, and earns about $1.50 per cap. BJ&B, for example, then pays the worker 8 cents per cap. At that pay rate, a worker takes home $40 for a typical 56-hour work week, as calculated by UNITE, an anti-sweatshop lobbying group. The total cost of making the cap comes out to about $6.08, but consumers pay about $19.95 for the cap.
The good news is that BJ&B workers, thanks in part to universities’ pressuring, formed a union but they are only one sweatshop in a sea of free-trade areas that allow companies located there to be exempt from import fees and income taxes on the backs of workers.
Via / Republica Update
Ay the Hipster Irony (and Racism).
9:08 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Culture|Fashion|Magazines|race|US Presidential Race 2008 · 1 Comment
18 Jul 2008
We’re told to “get a sense of humor” and ironically to “lighten up” when it comes to our reaction as people of color to racist imagery and histories being put up on magazine covers and more recently, on a tee shirt.
When a 25-year-old Manhattan graduate student who was assaulted Tuesday night got dressed that morning, she probably didn’t anticipate that her T-shirt would provoke four teens into shoving her, pulling out her earphones and spitting in her face.
Then again, with a shirt sporting the slogan, “Obama is my slave,” it may have been wise to consider the possibility.
Now she’s suing the $69 shirt’s designer, Apollo Braun, for “all he’s got,” the designer claims.
But the Israeli-born Braun — born Doron Braunshtein — says what allegedly happened to his now-disgruntled customer isn’t his fault — and that his outrageous design reflects not his views but those of “ordinary WASPs.”
Yves Saint Laurent, Fashion Legend Dies
2:14 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Fashion · 2 Comments
2 Jun 2008
French fashion legend, Yves Saint Laurent, aged 71, passed away last night. I wouldn’t normally write about this, except last night, over the phone, my mom, a one time fashion designer, told me with sadness. Apparently, whether we realize it or not, we have Yves Saint Laurent to thank for quite a few things.
From the YSL stable came clothes that we now accept as women’s wear classics: the pantsuit, the peacoat, the blazer, the safari jacket and the tuxedo – as well as evening clothes that were as soft and gentle as the tailoring was sharp and linear.
Via / International Herald Tribune
Damn, Does This Whole Rachel Ray is A Terrorist Thing Mean No Dunkin Donuts Iced Coffee for Me?
1:37 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Controversia|Fashion|Food|Marketing|Media|Shopping · 1 Comment
30 May 2008
Rachel Ray annoys me. Her “simple”, so-called 20 minute recipes and happy happy cooking piss off my struggling to put a Latino meal on the table while blogging and chasing two kids. But I wouldn’t call Rachel Ray a terrorist or that she supports terrorists because she’s wearing an “Arab looking” scarf while selling Dunkin Donuts iced coffee drinks. But conservatives, among them Michelle “I suffer from self-hate ” Malkin, think that the scarf Ms. Ray wore during a DD’s ad:
looked too much like a keffiyeh, what Malkin describes as “the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad.
. And Dunkin Donuts said: ok we’ll pull the ad. Stupid move Dunkin Donuts.
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