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Red Carpet Event at TJ Maxx
I don’t know if a red carpet event qualifies as such if it starts at 8am at a discount department store and there is no booze or paparazzi involved… If, however, it means that a corporation spoils the...
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Painfully Hip Design Collective and Agent Ribbons
by Amber Mortensen (co-authored by Rory) When Agent Ribbons (vaudeville outlaws, theatrical bandits, our only hope of making it out of monotony alive…) rolled into torrid Tucson like a three ring...
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Painfully Extraneous: Miranda July
Miranda July cracks me up. Inexplicably, every time. Here’s the “fashion spread” she recently shot for Vice Magazine’s Film Issue, where she morphs, Cindy Sherman-like, into extras in classic films....
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One of these things is not like the other…
We received the following comment today: I’m loving the hair, & I was kinda shocked I found your lovely face in one of my town’s local bar’s flyers other than that I love reading your blog. keep...
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Painfully Fluky: Halloween 2009
So I hadn’t been planning on dressing up for Halloween at all until about 45 minutes before launch time – sometimes it feels like getting dressed up these days qualifies as “work.” By the time I had...
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Painfully Trip: On Tour. Here we go again.
Ah roadtrips. It always surprises me what a sucker I am for the promise of all those endless asphalt ribbons luxuriating ahead of me. All that newness. All that possibility. All that Taco Bell. This is...
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PHDC Painfully Trip: Edie Sedgwick Takes San Francisco
Have you ever had that feeling that life is happening at you? That you’re suddenly caught up in a wave of good news, exciting prospects, turned corners and open doors? I have. How did I possibly manage...
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Check Me Out: Impersonating Edie (…or attempting to)
Last weekend was… as surreal as it gets. Describable in one made-up word: WARHOLMANIA. The Tuscon Museum of Art is now showing an amazing collection of original Andy Warhol screenprints so they wanted...
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Painfully Hip 2011: Spring / Summer Trend Editorial
If you know me, you know how exciting it was for me to put thrift store clothes and seconds-from-the-grave candy apple platforms on a recent Harper’s BAZAAR cover model. Have you ever felt preemptively...
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Glory Be! Painfully Hip for JewelMint
You guys! Kate Bosworth and her stylist have come up with a sweet-as-gold jewelry line called JewelMint, which “gauges your style and recommends a curated collection for you.” Yeah. Nevermind that each...
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