Tag Archives: fashion
Four Fashion Lessons from Arabel Alva Rosales
February 18, 2013
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Fashion Week in New York City ended but you can translate fashionable trends into your daily life. To help, we turned to Arabel Alva Rosales, the Co-Founder of Latino Fashion Week. Lesson 1: The Secret to Looking Good is Feeling Good The Read More...
The Dress: What an Indigenous Woman’s Gown Tells Us About Sofía Vergara’s Golden Globe Pick
January 14, 2013
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Magdalena Quinilla Batz is not Sofía Vergara. Odds are she will never strut down the Golden Globes red carpet wearing a Gucci gown. When you look at Magdalena you can almost convince yourself that the red carpet is part of Read More...
TWLC’s Viviana Hurtado Interviews Mary Mary or How I Added Reality Star to My Resume
June 5, 2012
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“Are you in DC this weekend? Urgent call me back.” ¡Ay! This text came on Friday which is my busiest day of the week since it’s when I publish The Wise Latina Club‘s weekly newsletter. Plus it was the last day Read More...
Beauty: Skin (Soul & Brains & Heart) Deep
May 28, 2012
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In the confessional: This is different for me to write and for you to read. No politics. No Election 2012. No civic engagement. The side you know all too well, as my heart beats in every post that aims to Read More...
¿Oscar de la Renta: One of the Few Latinos at the Oscars?
February 23, 2011
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Earlier in February, the title of an article in the New York Times seduced me: “Hollywood’s White Out” declared that the 2011 Academy Awards were so white, they were “blinding” (a similar article in the UK.’s The Independent “The Oscars Read More...
Medieval Instruments of Tortura?
February 15, 2011
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Like our African-American, African, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern sisters, curly-topped Latinas follow the humidity index like entry-level CIA analysts are monitoring the revolutions in the Middle East. Mami has light brown, fine, straight hair, and struggled with not one unruly Read More...
J-LO: Gillette Gams of Gold
February 5, 2011
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Jennifer Lopez is likely the first chica to get insurance on her headline-making bootay (which is something Latinas, particularly Caribeñas never understood. J-LO’s tush is no fuss for us. It’s normál-sized). Now, she’s the first Hispana to be the face Read More...
If You Have an 8 Pack like Rafael Nadal…
January 21, 2011
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Rafael Nadal‘s Team Talking Amongst Themselves: Manager: “Rafa has those dark looks, you know, Federer but with a pulse.” Publicist: “Sí, it’s true. He’s 24, dangerously close to being over the hill. Forget the tweens. They’re into Justin Bieber who Read More...
