Washington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
Every book about developing personal style adamantly declares that money is not a prerequisite for looking swell. Instead, knowledge is the key. Great style comes from being able to look at yourself objectively, noting both assets and flaws -- and without getting bogged down with the imperfection...
Hyscience (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
How else would one expect the Obama-adoring media to "fumble around in the basket of superlatives " as it "oozed over Mrs. Obama at the State Dinner"! Perhaps the best question is just how sick these people can get. They clearly have lost all sense of perspective and independence. Via NewsBusters : [...] In a typically unctuous passage on Wednesday, Washington Post writers Robin...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Tuesday night’s state dinner was yet another occasion for the media to fumble around in the basket of superlatives for the Obamas. In a typically unctuous passage on Wednesday, Washington Post writers Robin Givhan and Roxanne Roberts declared the First Lady had brought sexy glamour back to the capital: The first lady, however, was the star of the show. She glittered in a strapless...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
... cumberband slithered from his waist to the floor. Best Look goes to Speaker Nancy Pelosi who when Robin Givhan asked her "Is your gown Armani?"...Pelosi shot her a disapproving stare and rolled her eyes a bit--i.e. Pelosi to Givhan: Drop Dead. (No answer to Givhan's follow up question which was "What was that look?!") Biggest Celebs: Steven Spielberg...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
... Crest and Right Guard. One Washington reporter who has no qualms asking is apparently WaPo 's Robin Givhan . From tonight's White House pool report on social secretary Desiree Rogers ' arrival: Robin "show off" Givhan, who is standing next to your pooler asked what everyone wanted to ask: "Are you wearing Comme Des Garcons?" "Of course,"...
Althouse (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... a test of willpower." So putting her breasts right under President Clinton's eyes was, in Robin Givhan's opinion , a deliberate political trap. It was so out there when Loren did it. (Photo at the link.) Is it okay to talk about it? Is it okay to talk about the other women who have followed in Loren's bra cups footsteps? Thanks to Robin Givhan for giving me new...
The Tin Man (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Tonight the Obamas are holding their first state dinner, for the prime minister of India. Robin Givhan of the Washington Post has a feature article on how to dress (and how not to dress) for a White House state dinner. This is my favorite part: At a state dinner in 1996, low decolletage wasn’t [...]
英文人行道 et cetera, et cetera (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
... the hyperbolic fashion editor who cried "Think pink!" in "Funny Face." (By Robin Givhan, The Washington Post) fick·le ( fĭk ' əl ) adj. Characterized by erratic changeableness or instability, especially with regard to affections or attachments; capricious. [Middle English fikel , from Old English ficol , deceitful.] fickleness fick ' le·ness...
Mrs. O (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
... every nuanced detail of the dinner and decor has been thoroughly thought through. We enjoyed Robin Givhan's musings on state dinner fashion etiquette for the Washington Post, here , not to mention the video above, which we believe features Politico reporter Nia-Malika Henderson (thanks Ari, for the link). The Huffington Post has a fantastic retrospective look at state dinner fashion...
