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March | 2011 | Brooklyn Gal
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The BrooklynGal's Facebook page. The BrooklynGal's RSS feed. Put ‘Em On a Pedestal. Is it weird to have a fashion icon? Lately when we peruse the racks at our favorite boutiques in Brooklyn and beyond we find ourselves thinking about key looks perfected by women with stellar style. With her smoky eyes and fearless French flair, Carine Roitfeld. The iconic former editor of French Vogue. Who just signed on to style Barneys New York. British beauty Natascha McElhone. So, a nod to Showtime’s Karen, and.
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The BrooklynGal's Facebook page. The BrooklynGal's RSS feed. Another Side of Coco. As every style-obsessed woman knows, 2011 was the year of the Chanel biography. Having seen the fashion films. Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky. Starring Audrey Tautou as the adorable singer/hatmaker/couturière on the rise, we here at the. Couldn’t resist jumping on the Coco bandwagon yet again. At the moment we’re about halfway through Lisa Chaney’s. Coco Chanel, An Intimate Life. How could it be so? By Justine Picardie or.
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June | 2011 | Brooklyn Gal
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The BrooklynGal's Facebook page. The BrooklynGal's RSS feed. It’s hard to say when it started and when it may end (if ever). Yes, for quite some time now, we here at the. Have been obsessed with dance movies of all stripes. Samba, hip-hop, ballet, modern, jazz it makes no difference to us who’s taking the stage and how they move. If the subject is dance, we’re all over it, especially when we can watch our beloved movies at home, on demand, when no one else is around to guffaw or pass judgment.
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February | 2011 | Brooklyn Gal
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The BrooklynGal's Facebook page. The BrooklynGal's RSS feed. There they were, their somber faces staring out at us from shadowy black-and-white photos in Monday’s edition of The New York Times: four of the six immigrant victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire. We here at the. Have always been fascinated by old-timey New York City so we were quite moved by this haunting NYT article. Sure, we wonder what the fashions on the street were like back in 1911 perhaps bustle. So as we walk the city blocks...
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July | 2011 | Brooklyn Gal
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The BrooklynGal's Facebook page. The BrooklynGal's RSS feed. Brooch, the Subject. First things first: we here at the. Are not necessarily fans of Dita Von Teese, though we do admire her retro moxie, alabaster skin and ink-black tresses. Still, the other day, while we were working out at the gym, we couldn’t help but catch a glimpse of divine Dita on the silent TV screen above. Radiating against her reddish-pink-clad chest, seemed to do all of the talking. As it turned out, that little episode was a repea...
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October | 2011 | Brooklyn Gal
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The BrooklynGal's Facebook page. The BrooklynGal's RSS feed. Who’s Your Goddess? A strange thing happened the other night in Nyack, New York: the Brooklyn Gal. Got into the goddess groove. Goddess on Earth, Portraits of the Divine Feminine. Whether Celtic or Roman, African or Egyptian, the goddesses’ stories transcend the ages, and so do Lisa’s exuberant, life-embracing photos. Her book may be called. But these images are most definitely celestial. Proudly powered by WordPress.
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April | 2011 | Brooklyn Gal
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The BrooklynGal's Facebook page. The BrooklynGal's RSS feed. Lady of the Desert. We recently came across a story by Claudia Roth Pierpont about the Victorian adventuress Freya Stark. In the special April 18 travel issue of The New Yorker. And we must admit, it we have not stopped thinking about this extraordinary woman ever since. How is it possible that we knew nearly nothing about the Dame (yes, she held that lofty title) who lived such an extraordinary life and died at age 100 in 1993? We here at the.
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The BrooklynGal's Facebook page. The BrooklynGal's RSS feed. If Santa Shopped Local. Jas MB black quilted convertible bag at Barneys Co-op. If Santa left his gift buying till the eleventh hour, where oh where would he shop? At some of the. S favorite stores and boutiques in (drumroll) Brooklyn! We bet that he would have no trouble at all fitting a Jas MB black quilted handbag with handles and a detachable shoulder strap from Barneys Co-op. In his own satchel. Bonus: it’s on sale! No thanks. The. True, ou...
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