If you’re getting a tax return, that is… this yummy leather Valentino bag, which I spotted the other day at OPM, costs more than the average tax return at $2,295. I covet it anyway.
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If you’re getting a tax return, that is… this yummy leather Valentino bag, which I spotted the other day at OPM, costs more than the average tax return at $2,295. I covet it anyway.
Style Editor Melissa Colgan was on Twin Cities Live yesterday afternoon to talk about spring trends. Check out the video as well as shopping information here.
 Here's a fun outtake from our photo shoot for the April issue of Mpls.St.Paul Magazine. Our awesome model, Erica Nego, who also happens to be Miss Minnesota USA (watch her at the Miss USA pageant on April 19), was also the model for our spring fashion photo shoots (which also appear in the April issue).
Here in the office, we’ve been doing a little gabbing about the so-called
“lipstick effect”—it’s
the idea that, in times of trouble, consumers
will continue to treat themselves to small-ticket luxury items, such as
lipstick. Of course, I have no idea whether the lipstick effect is
actually bearing out. Nonetheless, it has inspired me to look for
inexpensive fabulousness
when I shop.
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Our very own style editor, Melissa Colgan, is off working the circuit at New York Fashion Week. She’s very busy attending shows (Rodarte, Tracy Reese). While she’s at it, she’s even filing copy for our April issue! In any case, we were thrilled to receive this snapshot from Katherine Roepke of Roepke Public Relations: Here’s Melissa at the Badgley Mischka runway show.
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 Over lunch, I stopped by my favorite Skyway convenience shop and saw a wonderful stack of Mpls.St.Paul Home magazines on the newsstand. Yes, our latest issue is at newsstands now! If you haven't yet seen it, make sure to grab one.
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 Before I even swallowed the last champagne bubble from my New Year's toast, my mind started obsessively focusing on one thing—spring fashion. As the Style Editor for Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, it is my duty to bring my readers and fellow Twin Citians the very best fashions, presented in two large fashion packages, twice a year. And although I didn't start working on pulling together my shoots until after the New Year, this whole process actually started early last September when I traveled out to Manhattan for Fashion Week. While there, I spent a week going to shows and presentations, reading re-caps, and just wandering the streets, trying to digest and figure out what was going to be big for spring and how those big trends would translate for our readers.
Sadly, I wasn’t equipped to snap pictures . . . Nevertheless, I wanted to give the heads up: I just spotted some fabulous Paul & Joe samples on the racks at Fashion Avenue. Imagine long, flowing spring tops and dresses sure to make you feel as though a reclining, grape-eating Greek goddess.
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 If I see another obnoxious, logo-emblazoned handbag swung over a shoulder in the skyway, I'm going to vomit. I've always taken issue with wearing labels and logos of any type (I am not paid to be an advertisement), but there is something particularly gauche, especially in these times, about an of-the-moment, logo-loaded handbag.
Courtesy of the glorious interwebs: You can sneak various peeks at the Alexander McQueen for Target ad campaign, which stars not a waify model but a ravishing array of vintage Blythe dolls. Needless to say, the Blythe cult is all abuzz. At least one NYC fashion blog is already chattering about the campaign.
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True story! My butch ex-boyfriend just purchased a truckload of high-end handbags off this weird auction site, K-bid.
Ex-boyfriend is a contractor by trade (dirt under his nails, Carhartt
clothes tossed about his apartment)—but of course, he’s currently
looking for secondary income sources, as are the folks now liquidating
their assets on K-bid. He plans to resell the purses on eBay.
 I have a serious obsession with wallpaper. I absolutely cannot wait for the day when I own a little home on a tiny slice of land that I can cover, floor-to-ceiling, in wallpaper. Until then, I must dream. And today my dreams are animated by wallpapers by Hygge & West. The e-shop carries a well-curated selection of design objects, including wallpapers and designs by Minnesota-based artisan Jessica Rust. And one of the site's creators, Aimee, even lives in Minneapolis.
 Jennifer Vervoort-Smith is known for filling her boutique, Soleil Brule (recently relocated from Wayzata to Gaviidae Common), with beautiful home accessories from buying trips to Morocco. Some of the most eye-catching come in small packages—and at fantastically small prices. Video
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