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Culture

30 Jun 2019

Blog Roundup

Alexa Chung and Tan France will host “Next In Fashion” on Netflix [Fashionista]
How to Show Respect At Music Festivals [TheFader]
Keanu Reeves Walking to Music [Twitter]
Zoë Kravitz Was Just Trying To Get “Laid” And Got A Fiancé [Nylon] Best headline ever.
Instagram Predicts What It Thinks You Like And Is Likely Wrong [Mashable]

The Best Bars In America, 2019 [Esquire]
My Friends Eats Off the Kids’ Menu To Save Money, Is He Insane? [Mel Magazine]
A Sex Researcher Shares The Number of People Your Brain Can Handle Dating At One Time [Well + Good]
Bustle Digital Group Acquires Nylon [Fashionista]
Nordstrom Joins Forces With Rent the Runway [Fashionista]

Style

06 Apr 2019

Rent the Runway Ventures Into Kid’s Clothing

The popular subscription service announced on Friday that kid’s clothing will now be added as part of their product offerings. Recently valued at over $1 billion, Rent the Runway is keeping up with momentum and expanding their market. The children’s targeted service will allow customers to rent out four pieces at a time and can include any kind of combination of clothing or accessories. These kids are operating on high fashion though and will have their pick of Milly, Marc Jacobs, Fendi and Chloe.

As a child, I could never keep my pieces clean as hard as I tried! If I were to use this service on a little one, it would definitely be for more special occasions. Then again, why rent if you have a washer / dryer? Are we, in general, getting out of hand with subscription services?

“We decided to do kids [clothing] based on the requests and pleas from our subscribers and community,” says Rent the Runway COO Maureen Sullivan. “I think people have realized it’s so impractical to buy your kids more expensive clothing — even though it’s so tempting — based on how infrequently kids get dressed up and how quickly they grow.”

[Source]

Style

15 Nov 2018

Holiday Party Wear 2018

For Love and Lemons Marquee Maxi Dress – $270

Every year, holiday party season always comes up so fast! I’m excited this year to have a true holiday party with my current company and the opportunity to dress up. As soon as I discovered the date, I was off to the races. There are actually so many options this holiday season that I’m swooning over, but the trouble with every year is that I have in my mind what I already want. The hard part of that is that it often times is hard to find where that exists. Since I hold onto that dream of a dress for so long, I often don’t find it and find myself stressing last minute.

This year’s party will be on a Friday – a first for me! It’s also unfortunately the first year where Mandi and I won’t be getting ready together. I’ll be using my new favorite startup Glamsquad for hair and makeup though which I can’t say enough good things about. Lastly, I’ve got a couple of ideas in mind for what I want to wear, but I’m not quite ready to share that yet. What I do know is that I want to stay away from lace if I can and sleeves because we did that last year. If things don’t work out for me, at least I’ve got a post to fall back on.

To get into the spirit of creating this post, I just looked at last years post and am surprised at how much my tastes have changed in the last year. Since my party is earlier, I wanted to start this post early.We’re also going to release it earlier than any other year prior. Enjoy!

Temperley London Mosaico Dress – $1,295

Rent the Runway Weddings

Last week, I wrote a post about how Rent the Runway would be expanding to weddings to include dresses that could be rented for events leading up to the wedding for the bride and bridesmaids. It’s a fantastic idea because most of the time you will never wear your bridesmaid dress more than once and you can successfully avoid the problem that Katherine Heigl had in the film 27 Dresses.

To read more information about what you will be able to find on the site, click here.

05 Jan 2011

Rent the Runway Expands to Weddings

Out of every possible dress in existence for a woman to wear, the one gown that you can never wear twice is your wedding dress. You can’t exactly bust it out of the closet for any appropriately themed party. You can’t wear it to another wedding HOBviously – not even if you get married a second time. Sadly, it is a one-time use gown and it will probably be the most expensive gown you ever buy in your life.

Rent the Runway is a website that lets women rent items currently in fashion slash in season by high fashion designers. Next week, they will be announcing their expansion to bridal gowns, which is much more practical in my opinion especially for those that are trying to save a little. If you think about it, it’s a pretty good deal because it lets you spend more in other places. Unfortunately, I’m the type of girl that loves keepsakes so I would probably want to keep my dress, but I’ve got a long way to go!

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