Fab Ad? Sisley Fashion Junkie, 1


Updated 07/17/07 8:54 AM · Posted by FabSugar · 114 comments

Fab Ad? Sisley Fashion Junkie, 1

UPDATE: I have been informed by Sisley's parent company Benetton that these ads are fake. To see the real Sisley fall ad campaign, please visit Sisley.com. Thanks! OK hold up. Sisley has gone too far with this ad. I normally like Sisley's racy and daring ads but this is too much - too in your face! The line of poking fun has crossed over into inappropriate. This ad is part of a series and if Read more

Kate Middleton Pairs a High-Slitted Gown With Jimmy Choos For a Night With William


Updated 05/11/12 8:51 AM · Posted by · 6 comments

Kate Middleton Pictures at Claridges With Prince William

Kate Middleton and her husband Prince William arrived at Claridge's hotel in London last night. She was decked out in a long white gown from Roland Mouret, surely rivaling any of the high fashions seen in NYC at Monday's Met Gala. Kate paired the white dress with a chic pair of sky-high Jimmy Choos. The sandals revealed that Kate has her toes painted a dark berry color! Kate also wore the sandals Read more

Meeting My Sperm Donor


Updated 04/06/12 10:38 PM · Posted by · 2 comments

Meeting Sperm Donor

We're happy to present this story from one of our favorite sites, The Good Men Project. Ben Sommer, conceived through alternative insemination, is a young man now and tells the story of deciding to meet his donor. I grew up in a middle-class home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with two loving parents, both of whom are women. My conception was perhaps the most organized and scientific miracle of Read more

How Some Countries Limit Airbrushed Advertisements


Updated 03/23/12 7:46 AM · Posted by · 1 comment

Anti Airbrushing Campaigns Around the World

Airbrushing and advertising have become synonymous. While Photoshop renders perfect, slender, and flawless-faced images that may sell products or magazine covers, some worry that heavily altered depictions can negatively impact women. The good news is celebrities, companies, and several countries are taking a stand against excessive and unrealistic airbrushing. This week, Israel passed Read more

Sugar Shout Out: See Eva Mendes in 38 of Her Sexiest Editorials


Updated 03/05/12 11:39 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

Sugar Shout Out March 4, 2012

Celebrate Eva Mendes's birthday with her sexiest editorials See Lindsay Lohan as a princess on SNL's Real Housewives of Disney Booze, bras, and husbands: what woman want according to vintage advertising Sleep in longer on workdays with these tips Jessica Alba takes her love of bright colored denim to Paris 10 zesty dishes with stellar sauces How to get Michelle Williams's Oscar makeup look Be a Read more

10 Biggest Spending Excuses and How to Squash Them


Updated 10/11/11 6:23 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

Reasons Why People Spend Money

We're thrilled to present this smart LearnVest story here on Savvy! You’re a clever gal. Which probably means that your mind can have a, well, mind of its own. You can talk yourself into things, out of things, even over things (he always did look kind of lame in his favorite fedora). When your mind is healthy, strong, and on the angelic side of your shoulder, talking you out of overspending, Read more

Bare Escentuals Blindly Casts Its Fall Campaign


Updated 09/21/11 10:19 AM · Posted by · 3 comments

Bare Escentuals Blind Casting Ads

For Bare Escentuals' latest campaign, dubbed Be a Force of Beauty, executive chairman Leslie Blodgett and her team didn't look to celebrity spokesmodels to participate in the brand's ads. In fact, they didn't even look at the models to be featured in the campaign. In an approach pretty much unheard of in traditional advertising standards, the beauty company instead chose to run a blind casting Read more

Giving Vintage Posters a Shot


Updated 05/09/11 11:07 PM · Posted by · 1 comment

Decorating With Vintage Advertising Posters

I've never been a big fan of vintage advertising posters — particularly the reproductions. But after coming across this adorable kitchen corner, I realized maybe it's not so much the poster I have a problem with but the way they're displayed. The sprightly yellow paint and striped and botanical textiles pull out all of the colors from the poster in a sweet and peppy fashion. The scale of the Read more

9 Techies on the Forbes List of 100 Most Powerful Women


Updated 08/25/11 2:54 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

Forbes Most Powerful Women Technology

Forbes's list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women has been released, and we're excited to see quite a few techies in the group. Forbes selects candidates within six categories: billionaires, business, lifestyle (including entertainment and fashion), media, nonprofits, and politics. From those categories, each person is ranked upon three metrics: "dollars, a traditional and social media Read more

Carine Roitfeld Announces Her First Project After Leaving Vogue Paris


Updated 03/24/11 10:01 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

Carine Roitfeld to Style For Barneys' Fall 2011 Campaign and Catalogue 2011-03-24 07:11:17

After much speculation regarding who, what, or where Carine might be heading to after leaving Vogue Paris, Roitfeld has finally announced her next gig as a guest editor, muse, and stylist for Barneys New York's multifaceted Fall 2011 initiative. "For me, Barneys has always been the biggest name in luxury department stores, so to be able to participate in this project with them, and be visible Read more