Cottagecore + Coronavirus
Given how difficult life has been since the Coronacrisis started, many people have turned to cottagecore to cope, both in fashion and in home decor. The #cottagecore hashtag is even big on the social media...
Category: fashion
A New Song With an 80s Sound
While music from established people isn’t really our thing, this 80s-ish tune from Daphne Guinness tends to stick in the head, is worth a listen. h/t The Cut
The Death of Retail, Pasadena Edition
The department store that I grew up going to just closed, and it feels like a death in the retail family. Opened as a stand-alone Foley’s in 1962, the store was later expanded, then...
Throwback Thursday: Lena Dunham, SXSW Keynote 2014
I’m just starting to read Lena Dunham’s book “Not That Kind of Girl” and I ran across these pictures from her keynote speech at South By Southwest earlier this year. I couldn’t help noticing...
SXSW Eco: A Social Media Snapshot
As I am still trying to process what I learned at the SXSW Eco Conference, I did a snapshot of the event on Storify. Please click thru view the story! More coverage to come!...
Shopping in the Junior’s Department….(aka…You can go home again!)
When I was in Pasadena earlier this summer, I popped into the Pasadena Town Square Mall with my mother. It’s the mall that was built near my parents house in the early 80’s. If...
Wear For Art Thou, Outfit?
Every Wednesday on Austinist we feature one of our multitude of ridiculously talented writers, writing written things for your eyes to consume. The opinions expressed by the writer are strictly their own, and are...
Celebrate the beauty of just being yourself
Like numerous other women across the globe, I spent July preparing for the “Miss Universe” pageant. As the contestants were practicing keeping a straight face while wearing one of those overspangled, Vegas-inspired “national costumes,”...
