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The Best of Fashion Week: Must Reads From Around the Net

I’m not at fashion week, but I sure am reading a lot about it! Here are some of the best reports out there.

M.A.C. Cosmetics has been sending out face charts from the shows that they did, such as the one pictured from the Doo.Ri show. If you like those, Temptalia is publishing all of them. Plus, you can can see a real life picture of the look in Beauty Addict’s backstage report.

Estee Lauder hosted a number of top beauty bloggers at the company headquarters, with Bobbie Brown in attendance. Read all about it at Beauty’s Spot, or head over to Makeup Minute for a look at Bobbie Brown’s makeup for the Tory Burch show.

I really love feminine neutral makeup and MAC did a great look for the Vincente Villarin show. See it at Beautiful Makeup Search. Also browse that site for more spring looks.

Everyone talks about the clothes at New York Fashion Week, and the makeup comes in a close second. But what about the shoes? Running in Heels has a must read report on the shoes of fashion week!

Second City Style has an interesting list of celebrities such as Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Jessica Alba, and more who attended only one show.

Finally, for much more, take a look at Inside the Tents.

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Dispatches From New York Fashion Week: Must Read Items

I’m not there, but plenty of others are! And they are all putting out some interesting stuff! Here is roundup of some interesting material and good ways to keep track of all that is New York fashion week.

VP of Makeup Artistry for MAC Cosmetics,Gordon E, twittered this from preparation for one of the shows. That is one heck of a lot of liner!

Want to follow MAC artists as they tweet from fashion weeks around the country? Look in the right sidebar for the live widget of their updates. It is quite fun to follow!

In the meantime, the web has been alive with fashion week reports. Here are a few must read sites:

* Follow the impressions of a plus size woman at New York fashion week in documentary form in On the Plus Side: A Fuller Figured Fashion Week Experience at the Style It Website. This is a must see item! Thanks to the Girl-Woman-Beauty-Brains-Blog for brining it to my attention!

* Glam Blush has so much fashion week coverage that you can be kept in info for quite some time.

* A great site that is aggregating a multitude of blogs and websites covering fashion week is Inside the Tents. From blog posts, to photos, to video, to twitter updates, there is so much content available here that it will make your head swim!

* The Beauty of Life is running some nice posts about the makeup and nails from some of the runway shows. Check out reports from shows such as Rosa Cha (I love the nails!) and Abaete (this one has a great look from Stila Cosmetics).

* Visit Spoiled Pretty’s look at makeup from theBalm backstage at the Julie Haus show. I seriously need to try some of their stuff!

I’ll post up some more must reads early in the week!

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Follow Fashion Week with MAC Cosmetic Senior Artists and Twitter

MAC Cosmetics have set up their senior artists on twitter for micro blogging during New York fashion week and fashion weeks in other cities. If you look down the right sidebar a bit (look below the blogroll), you will see that I have added a widget that will run a feed of their tweets. Note that not all will be twittering from every city, so you might see some blanks. Also there is the Beauty Blog Network fashion week widget, which will run a feed of headlines from network members pertaining to fashion week throughout the Month of September.

Also, if you would like to follow Beauty and Fashion Tech on twitter, I run headline feed updates through the account Carleenp.

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Scenes From September: It is Still Summer and I’m Not Going to New York Fashion Week

Welcome to September, the time of year when it is suddenly OK to wear fall colors and not so OK to be sporting those neon pink summer nails. It is the month where the season has not officially changed, but posts abound about fall trends. To confuse the matter, it is also a month of coverage about what spring will bring, thanks to the presence of fashion week in New York City beginning this week and in other cities later this month.

So with that in mind, what do I plan to cover this week and next? Well, I have a few pink summer nail features planned, a reader giveaway, and some miscellaneous product reviews. Yes, I will cover the fall trends sometime this month, and yes, I will keep a bit of an eye on fashion week news, but mostly I am avoiding both until I reach the end of my denial that summer is officially over in the fashion world. So instead of writing about new trends, I am avoiding the fall trend set by the multitude of websites and blogs that will be covering nothing else for the next few weeks. I’m sure that they will do it quite well and I see no real need to duplicate to the process. Instead, I will read the blogs of my friends who are covering the spectacle that is New York fashion week and perhaps point out a few of the best posts. Meanwhile, I will enjoy my period of extended summer in September.

You see, I am not going to New York Fashion Week, and I am OK with that, perhaps even rather glad of it. Earlier this year, I made conflicting travel plans for something much more amazing to me–a vacation. Initially I regretted that I would miss the opportunity to go to New York, but as time went on, I was able to ponder just what it was that I was missing. There would be no expensive plane fare and no bunking up with several strangers to save a few bucks on an outrageously priced hotel room. I would not get the pleasure of waiting for invitations to shows that might never come, or juggling the ones that came scheduled at the same time. There would be no agony over what to wear or how to behave, and I would not be faced with being treated as a second class citizen because I am a blogger. The more I considered it, the less I cared that I was not going to be there. I don’t even cover fashion extensively–I write about makeup, and it is mostly product reviews at that. Thus, on the whole, the expense of New York fashion week is a bit difficult to defend as a business expense. I might visit the nearby Milwaukee fashion week in October instead.

For those of you dying for some fashion week coverage, the Beauty Blog Network Website is running a widget with a feed of its member’s fashion week headlines. I have also included the widget on Beauty and Fashion Tech.

For a few different angles on fashion week, the following are also particularly good reads:

* From the New York Observer: oh Lowly Blogger? Your Seat’s in the Back. Feel gossipy? Take a look at Jossip’s different take on the matter: Fashion Week vs. The Blogs: Kelly Cutrone Plays Hardball. Yes, Fashion Week definitely has its drama.

* From Slate comes the answers to your burning questions that you were afraid to ask. Check out The Fashion Week FAQ and The Fashion Week FAQ Part II. Slate is full of interesting Fashion Week commentary. For more, simply run a search of the term there.

Finally, lest I appear overly cynical about New York fashion week, I must say that I will truly miss the opportunity to meet some wonderful people who I have connected with online through networks such as Splendicity, The Beauty Blog Network, Total Beauty, and Glam Media–all of whom will be providing online coverage of the events quicker and generally more in depth than the print sources–even if the writers get sent to the back row. I also will miss seeing colleagues whom I have met before, but in the end I am happy knowing that I will enjoy reading their coverage of the events while I search out oysters in Boston and lobster in Maine a week later. Keep an eye out for me, I’ll be the one still wearing summer pink nails.

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M.A.C. Cosmetics Alexander McQueen Collection

MAC Cosmetics Designer Alexander McQueen

OK, so I’m quite sure that most of those reading are not going to do their eyes up as portrayed in the photo. But take a look a that shade. It is gorgeous! It doesn’t even come close to fitting with my ultra neutral style, but I’m trying to think of a way to work it in!

MAC Cosmetics Alexander McQueen Eyeshadow

The look is from the upcoming McQueen collection, a collaboration between designer Alexander McQueen, leading makeup artist Charlotte Tillbury, and MAC Cosmetics. The line consists of items specially blended for the McQueen Autum/Winter 2007 show by Charlotte Tillbury and Terry Barber, MAC’s Director of Makeup Artistry. The collection is available beginning October 11, 2007. That’s today!

You can view the collection, which includes a number of lovely looking items, online at the M.A.C. Cosmetics website. Also, while on the topic on M.A.C., I had the pleasure of watching M.A.C. cosmetics in action backstage before the Gen Art fashion show in Chicago on Tuesday. So watch for a report on that in the next few days!

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