As anyone who grew up watching the Disney channel in the 90s can tell you, this kids show was critical to the development of children across America.
Oldie-but-goodies
Flashback of the day: Garanimals
Much like a dangerous foreign military excursion, shopping with my mother as an adolescent was a very tricky task.
Since there weren't many employers who were willing to hire a ten-year-old child (Go figure) in my town or provide transportation to said job, if my mom didn't like the glittery tops and printed capris I longed to wear everyday in grade school, then the items probably wouldn't see the light of day inside of my closet.
But, as with any healthy mother/daughter relationship, we always had our battles about fashion -- especially when debating the merits of wearing Khaki pants with blouses. And every time my lovely mother would give in, she would remind me of the days when she went shopping with my grandmother and had no other option than Garanimals. So, I just should just be lucky, blah, blah, blah. You know, the usual parent talk.
I never bothered to actually look up what exactly Garanimals were, but I always assumed they were pretty bad. So imagine my surprise when I saw a commercial advertising the kids wear a couple of weeks ago.
Basically, each animal represents a line within the collection. Each of the distinct animal lines consists of mix and match separates, whose color and style coordinate with any piece within that same animal line.
If the brand was made for adults and the pieces were actually cool aka decent, I would be all for it. It would make last minute dressing a breeze. But then what would be the fun in that?
The day Naomi fell
As we mentioned on Monday, Naomi will be helping the models on Make Me A Supermodel tonight with their runway performances.
Known for her powerful strut, even the mighty Naomi has taken a fall on the catwalk.
In this clip from 1995, watch as Naomi discusses the ordeal with a very excited David Letterman. Yea, it was bad. But we still believe Jessica Stam's fall at Chloe takes the cake. Ouch!
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"Oh, she got freckles."
In the April issue of Vanity Fair, there is an epic 21-page profile of Calvin Klein written by Ingrid Sischy. In short, the fashion designer has been renovating all of his mansions since retiring and handing over the reigns to Francisco Costa.
On those infamous ads for his brand he muses:
“You can see a photograph that Bruce Weber did which said a lot about my life. It was in 1985 for the fragrance Obsession, and [the model] Josie Borain was in it. I was obsessed with her. She was such an interesting woman and not an obvious sexpot, androgynous in a certain way but so fine and classy. In the ads there are arms and hands and all of these body parts all over her. You didn’t know if they were men or women. You didn’t know how many of them there were. But it got your mind going. That was a period of time when sex was everywhere, as were drugs. Not for everyone, of course. I’ve experienced—and I’ve said it before—a lot of my fantasies. I’ve experienced sex with men, with women. I’ve fallen in love with women. I’ve married women. And I have a family. I have experienced lots of things that have influenced my world. I am for good or bad a real example of whatever I’ve put out there. [The imagery] really is a part of me. And it happened because I was either observing or living in a certain way, or desiring to. It’s not something where we tried to say, Well, let’s outdo the other people and see if we can be more outrageous. It was real.”
In this 1992 Calvin Klein underwear commercial, watch a fresh-faced Kate Moss silently dance around a bratty Mark Wahlberg.

