The Duchess of Cambridge has yet another critic: Dame Vivienne Westwood, one of Britain's most celebrated (and iconoclastic) fashion designers. Westwood, 71, first called out Kate Middleton back in 2011 -- complaining about the royal's eye makeup -- and leveled a new attack on the pregnant 31-year-old over the weekend.
Being a celebrity looks like so much fun-- you get to dress up, wear giant diamond necklaces and have your picture taken. And then people write about how gorgeous you are.
Modeling is typically reserved for the fairest of us all, those waif-like angels who just happen to luck out big time in the gene pool.
For a London modeling agency, however, that old-school convention that models should be good-looking and fit has been tossed off the catwalk and into the litter box.
Ugly Modeling Agency recruits everyone ranging from taxi drivers to little old ladies who want to flaunt their quirks in the spotlight.
Who says being ladylike can't be utterly sexy, too? It certainly wasn't anyone who saw Emma Stone laying claim to one of these creations first, and we hope we're right.
We always admired the fashion sense of the U.S. Postal Service. Mixing light blue with dark blue, pairing high socks with formal shorts -- those are some bold sartorial moves right there.
Lucky for us, the USPS is launching a clothing line.
It is often assumed in today's largely secular society that attending a parochial school will lead to a parochial mind. I think I thought this too, when I entered a Catholic high school. Having only ever known the public school system, I knew only stereotypes and generalizations. There were the same harmless ones -- kids with guitars sitting in prayer circles singing Kumbayah -- and then there were harsher, more dangerous, characterizations of narrow-mindedness that fostered intolerance. I don't know what I believed by the time I started my freshman year.
