Quote of the Day: February 5

"I'm a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know! Am I alone there? Not really!"

—Leighton Meester, actress/singer, on being judged to NYLON Magazine

Attention Aspiring Fashion Designers!

The recently opened Michigan Fashion Proto (MFP), 1305 S. Cedar St., Ste. 304, has been established for YOU, aiming to provide designers, established businesses and students with a fully functioning pattern and sample room for production and production-management functions. The MFP consists of industrial machinery, professional standard goods and highly skilled workers.

Owner Rebecca Clark, 35, of Okemos has more than 12 years of experience working in New York's fashion district and has worked with such fashionable presences as Vera Wang, Daisy Fuentes and Lori Goldstein.

Clark's Michigan Fashion Proto will be officially introduced to the public through an opening event that will celebrate Michigan's budding fashion industry on Thursday, Feb. 10 at the MFP studio.

Check out the company's website HERE.

Save Up and Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

Starbucks reported in January that they will be raising prices this year (tisk, tisk). As a result, many of us may need to start occasionally skipping that morning latte and what better way to save than with a cool, new piggy bank.

Well, we've found that for you in the Coffee Fund Money Box.

You can purchase the bank for around $8 here.

Quote of the Day: February 3

“…When you tell a kid that’s three years older than you to shove it, you’re going to get your ass beat.”

—Leonardo DiCaprio, actor and environmentalist, on being a punk to Rolling Stone.

"Stop the Water" While Using THIS

According to NYLON Magazine, the new Stop the Water While Using Me line of skin and bath products is designed to do just that: conserve (and save) water.

The line will be released later this year and features toothpastes, shampoos, conditioners and facewashes (among more). Further, each bottle comes equipped with the brand's message (a.k.a. their name) to remind users of the environment and to not be wasteful.

Oh, and they're organic. So the question is:

Where do we sign up?

Crazy or Cool?

We'll let you be the judge of that.

Self-taught photographer Mariel Clayton creates all her work with a 35mm camera...using Barbie as a subject.

That's right: Barbie.

But not just ordinary Barbie, psychopathic Barbie (to be fair, sometimes Barbie doesn't look all that psycho in Clayton's work). Despite finding this art a little bit odd, we couldn't stop flipping through the site to see what Barbie would be doing next. After all, she was our favorite toy as a child.



Anyway, thoughts?

A wonderful feminist spoken word piece

Lauren Zuniga performs a poem for the Oklahoma legislators that are trying so hard to take away women's reproductive rights. The bill in question will require women to receive an ultrasound and listen to the baby's heartbeat before an abortion.







Thanks to Lemon of Choice for telling me about this video!