INDIE REWIND: 10 Stylish Cocktails for New Year’s Eve

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

I have never been one to have discerning taste when booze is involved. Lacking real liquor, I’ve been known to contemplate drinking mouthwash and/or rubbing alcohol just to get ma fix. But this year, I’m feeling all sophisticated-like and so I’ve compiled a list of libations that will at least make you feel classy, even as you’re dry heaving over a toilet at 12:01 come January 1st as your BFF holds back your hair…but not their judgement. Leave the beer at home, kids. This is grown-folk drinking.

INDIE NEWSROOM: Jordache Goes Back in Time…Preview of V’s Liz Taylor Tribute…Love Between the Boroughs

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

- Nigel Barker took time out of his busy America’s Next Top Model judging schedule to shoot 30 Rock‘s Katrina Bowden for Jordache jeans’ first TV ad in 20 years. [Fashionista]

Bookclubbin’: Style Book: Fashionable Inspirations by Elizabeth Walker

Edited by Amanda Gabriele

Great style transcends space and time. From a 19th century Indian colonel in head-to-toe tartan to a 70s supermodel in bright yellow plaid, significant fashion statements will always circle back around. Elizabeth Walker explores this trend phenomenon through historic photographs in her gorgeously-done coffee table staple Style Book: Fashionable Inspirations (Flammarion 2011). If you’re ever wondering how to wear that menswear-inspired suit, vintage fur shawl or those sky-high platforms, let style icons like Diane Keaton, Elton John and Sue Coddington be your guides.

10 Stylish Cocktails for New Year’s Eve

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

I have never been one to have discerning taste when booze is involved. Lacking real liquor, I’ve been known to contemplate drinking mouthwash and/or rubbing alcohol just to get ma fix. But this year, I’m feeling all sophisticated-like and so I’ve compiled a list of libations that will at least make you feel classy, even as you’re dry heaving over a toilet at 12:01 come January 1st as your BFF holds back your hair…but not their judgement.

Joan Collins is Concerned for the Skinny Ladies

Edited by Marissa Moshell, Student

Joan Collins has recently revealed that she’s a bit terrified about the amount of emphasis placed on skinny models and actresses. It scares her that people don’t mind showcasing these people in the spotlight. Collins, who is no stranger to extreme dieting herself, has said that at one point she was eating a mere 850 calories a day in order to snag a movie role. “I know a producer who, when there were two actresses up for the same role, and one was a little heavier about the hips, said, ‘No, she’s too fat’ even though she was much better for the part,”  she says. When asked about her old dieting habits Joan said “Anyone can do it but why should they? Life is too short and food is too good.” Can’t say I disagree.

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Joan Collins Prefers Old School Hollywood Like Me and Other Tasteful Folks

Edited by Amanda Gabriele

My favorite Dynasty actress of all time, Joan Collins, thinks today’s actresses are not as beautiful as they were during the golden age of Hollywood, and I could not agree with you more girlfriend.

Dynasty Domination

Edited by Missa Stumpf, TrendSpotter/ Designer

I have to admit; I was a bit saddened when some of my favorite collections and designers—such as Marc by Marc Jacobs and even Diane Von Furstenberg—showed pieces for Spring 2010 with heavy 80’s flash-back incorporated into them. I’ve never been a big fan of that era, so seeing shoulder pads being accepted as fashionable once again will take some getting used to.

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Patterns you’ve really only seen in reruns of The Cosby Show have suddenly thrown themselves back into major fashion again, along with a kaleidoscope of colors. Beyonce even sported a dress at the MTV Video Music Awards that looked all too much like a dress Joan Collins once wore on the show Dynasty.

So, find your crimper and big, floppy bow and get ready to look like you stepped out of a classic John Hughes movie this upcoming spring.

WTF!?! Joan Collins Hates Current Fashion, But Doesn’t Do Much Better

Edited by Hillary Frazier

Joan Collins told My Fashion Life:

“I was in a few shops in St. Tropez and I found the clothes impossible to wear unless you are a teenager or in your early 20s.  If you are an older woman – and by that I mean 40 plus – there is nothing to wear unless you want to look like a drab old granny and you go to the fuddy-duddy shops where everything is ankle-length and floral print.”

I give Joan props for looking as good as she does at 76, but that collar thing kindof makes her look like a bird.

QUICKLINK: My Fashion Life