Category: Opinions
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Peahen Partners: SOKO Jewelry
Brass Ring Brass Cuff Horn Necklace I’m officially a SOKO Jewelry Ambassador! I’ve featured some pieces from the collection in past blog posts. SOKO distinguishes itself by connecting purchasers directly with artisans from the developing world who handcraft stunning, modern creations that can easily be incorporated into a wardrobe. Buy…
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Feature: A Move from Modern
It’s pre-fall people! I don’t know how serious we can take it as a season that determines trends, but overall I’m sensing big (and needed) a genre shift. Style is being cast once again on a canvas of romanticism, somberness and realism – and it’s trickling over to fashion backdrops and runways. Remember last season’s…
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Upend The Trend: Velvet for Holiday
I’ve been seeing this oft-revisited trend springing up again from the fashion archives for Holiday season. I’m always puzzled by the understated tricks to mastering velvet. It takes fitness. It takes boldness. It takes this list. Velvet can be incorporated perfectly into a wardrobe stocked with this year’s minimal trend that’s still going strong. Following…
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Consciously Curated: The Holiday Gifting Edition
Intervention alert. Am I the only one sick of holiday sale click bait and purging my inbox of all those pesky, deal-but-really-no-deal Cyber Monday emails? Thanks, but no thanks for my free scarf with $300 purchase. There I said it…and I know I’m not the only sane shopper. I was in dire need of a pared down…
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Upend The Trend: Laid-Back Fall Classics
Today I’m starting what will be a recurring feature on The Peahen – Upend The Trend- where I’ll help you defy trends of the moment so you don’t end up looking like a style carbon copy. May I present edition numero uno. Laid-back fall classics have taken on a minimal aesthetic lately. This is thanks in…
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Indie Playlist
Today’s indie snubbers of mainstream are a different brand. They’re a new crop of Warby Parker-wearing, Etsy-loving devout followers of barista culture and the resurgence of record stores. Bottom line? Hipsters.Love.Thrift. But with all this affinity for the second hand, one would assume indie designers would retail at shockingly low price points. Wrong. The latest…
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It’s #PFW, but…
I know we’re in the midst of Paris Fashion Week – and I’m swooning over Balenciaga just as much as you –BUT I’m jet setting to San Juan today so I’ve got sugar-saturated piña coladas and just-as-sweet beach separates on my mind. To celebrate I give you my two must haves for a quick weekend getaway.…