Bobbi Brown Italian Rose Creamy Lip Color; The Search is OVER

Bobbi Brown's Italian Rose Creamy Lip Color
$26

For as long as I can remember, I have purchased a new lipstick nearly every week. Sometimes they're class, sometimes they're mass...but it has all occurred expressively with one goal in mind; to find my HOLY GRAIL lipstick.

It has eluded me until now.  That's more years and more tubes than I care to tally. It required 4 separate shopping trips to find my new love, Bobbi Brown Italian Rose Lip Color.  My usual haunts, Sephora, Saks in Greenwich and Blue Mercury in Rye, were all sold out.  If Bloomingdale's was also going to disappoint me, I swear, the tester might 'accidentally' have ended up in my handbag.

So what is my idea of the "perfect lipstick"???

FC aka Catherine Kallon of Red Carpet Fashion Awards

FC aka Catherine Kallon of Red Carpet Fashion Awards by divadebbi 

Giambattista Valli flower pattern dress, $4,060 / Giambattista Valli collarless coat / 
Jimmy Choo strap sandals, $625 / Anya Hindmarch leather purse / 


The absolutely divine Catherine Kallon,  creator of the uber successful website, Red Carpet Fashion Awards, was in NYC from London for Fashion Week.  Every day, she treated us to an assemblage of irresistibly chic street style. I adore this Giambattista  Valli coat and dress ensemble she wore the other day. 

When I spotted it on her site, where I am a frequent visitor and commentor,  I told her I was inspired to create a Polyvore set to celebrate it. Not surprisingly, hundreds of images from her Red Carpet Fashion Awards are clipped by Polyvore users to incorporate into their fashion sets.  I think it's only fair to give her an homage!

Altuzarra Spring 2015

Altuzarra Spring 2015 by divadebbi 

Joseph Altuzarra's show was one of my absolute faves of the Spring 2015 Fashion Week. Some how he managed to make every look both demure and sexy and as always, thoroughly modern.

Lovefest...

To see the show in it's entirety, click on this link to Style.com. 

Fashion Flash Monday

It's Fashion Flash Monday and my friend Kari, who writes Fab Over Forty  is our host.  Since it's Fashion Week in New York, several in our fabulous group chose to focus on fashion.  Please click here to see what we were up to this week.

I included my link on Pur's Red Wine Mask, something I recently tried and loved.

Enjoy!

xox,
DD

Ralph Rucci Rules

Ralph Rucci Rules by divadebbi 

Mr. Cool delighted his adoring lovelies, Iris Apfel and Carmen Dell 'Orifice in an exquisite Spring 2015 show, that predominantly featured black and white. No one does day and night chic, better than Ralph. Loved it!

All...

xox,
DD

Mad for Plaid

Mad for Plaid by divadebbi featuring low heel ankle boots

Jil Sander cutout dress / Cropped shrug cardigan / Dirty Laundry low heel ankle boots / Jimmy Choo purple tote bag / Hermès black dial watch / Nyx eye shadow, $11 / Philip B clear hair care

Benefit Erase Paste

Benefit Erase Paste
3 shades $26

Usually, any seasonal change is a perfect excuse for me to refresh my cosmetics stash. The odd thing is, that the last two weeks in NY are finally feeling like the summers we are long accustomed to; high humidity, 90 degree temps and late day thunderstorms.  Still,  I'm nothing if not a creature of habit and the calendar does, after all say September.

Sephora beckoned...

I have stayed loyal to two concealers; Tarte Maracula Creaseless Concealer and Amazing Cosmetics Amazing Concealer. These days, concealers are so highly pigmented, that a little goes a very long way.  I might not finish either of these tubes for another two years, but really, who wants to use a product that's as old as a full blown toddler?

Joan Alexandra Molinsky Rosenberg Rivers

Joan Rivers
1933- 2014

"She Had A Great Time"

Joan's wish for her tombstone...and boy, did she.

"Can we tawk???"  Because I bet you are feeling just as badly as I am, about the indomitable Joan River's unexpected passing. Somehow, it just felt like Joan's party was going to continue for a long time to come, and I'm so sorry she will no longer grace this earth, as we know it.

She was a pioneer. She was audacious. She was funny. She loved to work and make people laugh. She laughed at herself. She was brutally honest.  She was a glamazon. She was a wife. She was a mother. She was a grandmother. She was a loving friend.

Oh, and she also made, "Who are you wearing"the most important question ask and answered on the Red Carpet.

She will be long remembered and dearly missed.  Condolences to Melissa, Cooper, those who knew and loved her and all the rest of us.

Rest in Peace Joan. We had a great time too...

xox,
DD

Dior and I at the Newport Film Festival

Two weeks ago, we were in Newport R.I.  I just love it there.  As someone who has had a lifelong attachment to the Hamptons, this picturesque, historic community, has me completely charmed.

Imagined how tickled I was to find out that Frederic Tcheng's latest documentary, Dior and I, was going to be screened outdoors at Doris Duke's famed "cottage" Rough Point.  This is my idea of a perfect night.

Who knew, that as an additional visual feast, the NewportFilm was hosting a, "Chicest Picnic" contest!  I was sure that someone would be snapping better photos than me and that I would be able to Google them later...I'm sure they are living large on someone's Instagram feed. 

You will just have to trust me, that these Peeps went all out, lugging antiques, votives, spectacular flower arrangements, vintage bicycles and linens, enormous velvet tufts, china, porcelain vases, decanters and gorgeous pates and charcuterie.

Some were dressed femininely, no doubt with Dior' as inspiration...

"Chicest Picnic" contest Newport Film Festival

It was a delight!

Fashion Flash Monday

This week Josephine of Chic at Any Age is hosting Fashion Flash. Each week, we strive to give you useful information of beauty,  fashion, wellness and health.

Some of our topics this week included:

• The best uses for Tea Tree Oil
• Our favorite anti-frizz products
• Great budget friendly makeup brushes.

Click here to read about about these and other interesting posts from our savvy group.

Enjoy!

xox,

DD