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Hot Products: Chic Hotel Furnishings For Your Home

The Kor Hotel Group has transformed the hotel experience and the world of interior design from a feeling of cold minimalism to one of opulence, luxury, glamour and maximalism. The design visionary behind the chic boutique hotel company, the Kor group and KWID Interiors is Kelly Wearstler. Kelly is the interior designer responsible for infusing her sense of style and glamour into hotels from Beverly Hills to the British West Indies. Kelly Wearstler’s Classic Regency meets Parisian Mod design sensibility has graced hotels, celebrity homes and the newly reopened restaurant at Bergdorf Goodman in New York. Now, anyone…

Hot Blog: Coquette – Digital Style by Natalie Zee

Coquette editor Natalie Zee reports on everything from Marc Jacobs’ new pochette handbag for Louis Vuitton to style inspiration from her chic Shanghaiese grandmother. The Coquette blog is infused with charming stories that bring a sense of personal style to everyday life. One favorite blog posting describes Natalie’s love affair with a special pair of Prada ballet flats. These particular “feel good” flats bring a sense of safety, happiness and memories of the tumultuous tech crash of 2002. Another touching article depicts the glamorous life of Natalie’s grandmother living in 1930’s Shanghai. There are several sepia tone photographs…

Hot Product: Home Cinema Glasses

Going out to the movies can be a hassle.  You have to park, drop $10 on a ticket and sit in a crowded noisy theater.  Movie-lovers put up with the hassle because they like watching movies on the big screen.  Now you can get the similar effect of a movie theater by slipping on a pair of MPGlass 230M glasses by DVico. The MPGlass 230M is a pair of Star Trek looking glasses that when worn will display the effect of watching a 30-inch screen at a 2 meter distance.  There are also mini headphones set in the…

Hot Product: Nike MAXSIGHT Performance Enhancing Contacts

Nike is renowned for inventing new ways to improve and enhance the performance of athletes.  For the past seven years, Nike has partnered with Bausch & Lomb to develop MAXSIGHT, a line of performance enhancing tinted contact lenses.  MAXSIGHT helps athletes by selectively filtering out specific wavelengths of light (including ultraviolet rays) so that the athlete can see sharper images of balls or key visual elements.  This visual performance aid can help baseball players to see a baseball more clearly against the stadium’s cluttered background and aid in reducing the sun’s glare.  MAXSIGHT comes in two tints:  Amber,…

Hot Store: Harputs Market Celebrates Global Fashion Artisans

Wednesday March 23rd marked the official launch of Harputs Market in San Francisco. Models adorned in the latest collections from Yohji Yamamoto, APC, BLESS, and Susan Cianciolo strolled among the gathering of San Francisco’s fashion innovator “it” crowd.  Even Yohji Yamamoto’s 80-year old “Sensei” from the “Bunka Gakuen” art school in Tokyo was in attendance. Harputs market is a collective of hard-to-find products from cutting-edge beauty, accessories, jewelry and fashion brands. The store will continually be reinvented as often as the merchandise changes, creating a different experience with every visit. “The concept for the Harputs Market is a…

Hot Trend:  Crazy for Cupcakes

Before their rise, cupcakes were just another dessert consumed at children’s’ birthday parties.  Then came “Sex and the City”, where Carrie Bradshaw’s cupcake fetish made them a delicacy for stylish SATC fans everywhere. Carrie’s cupcake bakery of choice is Magnolia Bakery, located in the West Village conveniently across the street from Marc Jacobs. Magnolia makes cupcakes the old fashioned way, out of golden sponge cake and topped with a generous swirl of pastel colored ultra buttery, rich vanilla frosting. It’s no wonder lines form around the block as late as midnight. The popularity of Magnolia Bakery is only…

Hot Brand: Heath Ceramics a Mid-Century Artisan Gem

Heath Ceramics had its heyday in the mid-seventies when potter Edith Heath’s dinnerware and tiles were a part of the modern California lifestyle and aesthetic, along with sprawling ranch homes and Sunset Magazine. Today’s revival of mid-century modern design coincides with a new generation of design visionaries at Heath Ceramics. Husband and wife team Robin Petravic and Catherine Bailey purchased Heath in 2003 and set out to revive the ailing brand. Robin and Catherine are committed to preserving Edith Heath’s handcrafted techniques and classic designs and applying new glazes with modern colors. Today’s Heath’s product line includes tableware…

Hot Trend: Inventive Alarm Clocks

Most everyone can relate to the sadistic ring of an alarm clock disturbing a peaceful night’s slumber.  How many times do you repeatedly hit the snooze button before hurling the alarm clock across the room? Today there are many creative solutions which make getting out of bed a lot more fun. The “Sfera” clock dangles from the ceiling above your bed.  Every time you hit the snooze button, it causes the alarm to retract towards the ceiling.  It will continue retracting until you get out of bed to turn it off. For the impossible to wake,…

Fashiontribes Channels Your Inner Style Persona

At Stylehive we are obsessed with emerging trends, and in particular style trends. One website in particular, Styletribes, fuses style, trends and personas. Editor Lesley Scott channels our inner fashion personas:  Fancy Flirt, Global Chic, Downtown Girl, Rock Punk and Afro Love. What makes Fashiontribes so fascinating (and fun!) is that most women are a combination of any one or more of these personas. As an inspiration to women everywhere, each “fashion tribe” is it’s own magazine with editorial lifestyle pieces on fashion, beauty, home décor, travel, kids, pets and entertaining. Another reason to love Fashion Tribes is…

Hot Brands: Cowshed - English Country Organic Luxe

Cowshed is the cult Anglo beauty brand created at the Babington House country estate located in Somerset, England. Cowshed is the namesake luxury spa located on the Babington House grounds. Each bath, body, hair and skin care product is organic and 100% vegetarian. Small batches are hand blended with herbal infusions and essential oils grown at the estate’s botanical farms. In addition to spa products, the range includes Baby Cow gentle bath milk for pregnant women and children and Bullocks Bracing body wash for men.  All Cowshed products are endowed with cheeky names such as “Stroppy Cow”, “Grubby Cow”, and…

Customize Your Kicks

The sneaker sub-culture is exploding with no end in sight.  A New York Times article has dubbed aficionados of artistically enhanced footwear as “sneakerheads”.  According to the article, sneakerheads prefer their sneakers to be unique and expensive. Adidas, Converse, Vans and Nike now offer online customization of your kicks. The most hyped about shoe this spring is the Adidas Adicolor. The Adicolor launched March 18th with the White Series preceding six more color series, each with six styles. Every shoe is comes with a variety of customization tools ranging from magic markers and spray cans to lace jewels…

Fashion Week Hollywood Style

The Los Angeles Mercedes-Benz Fashion week at Smashbox Studios began on March 19th and ended on March 23rd.  LA Fashion Week is the West Coast version of its infamous New York counterpart. The collections brought out the best of LA’s design talent and hoards of celebrities eager for a fashion fix.  Three designers that caught the eye of the media and Hollywood’s finest included Morphine Generation, Octavio Carlin and Jennifer Nicholson. Morphine Generation’s show was an ode to the punk rock generation. The collection included the punk rock’s essential stovepipe jeans in skintight black denim and tees embellished…

Hot Event: Fashion Show at Stylehive\\\\\\\’s Virtual World Headquarters

Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built by its more than 160,000 residents.  These amazingly creative people build everything from spaceships to mansions, but the fashion industry is especially innovative.  Stylehive commissioned Aimee Weber, one of SL’s fashion mavens to build a headquarters for the StyleHive and organize a runway show featuring some of the top talent. Next we needed a couple celebrity judges and we were thrilled when Gina Pell, CEO of Splendora.com - “The Authority on the Fabulous”, and Eric Rice Co-founder, Hipcast.com and Executive Producer of Slackstreet Entertainment came…

Hot Blog: I Want - I Got

Toronto shoppers will be thrilled to discover Anita Clarke’s useful blog, “I Want - I Got”. Anita has always been a lover of the Canadian Fashion Television channel, fashion magazines and of course shoes! A plethora of insider information for powershoppers, “I Want - I Got” lists the must see sample sales (Warehouse Sale at International Center…Mavi and Miss Sixty at one pair for $20!), new product launches (Adidas Adicolor Project launches in Canada), and what items to buy online ($10 tshirts available at Threadless) before they’re sold out. The “I Want - I Got” blog…

Hot Trend: Swimwear Trends for Summer 2006

Spring has arrived and so has the start of the swimwear-shopping season.  Those lazy hazy days of summer are fast approaching, but this season you won’t need to fear the dressing room when shopping for swimsuits.  Designers are coming up with an assortment of attractive swimwear for all shapes and sizes.  Skimpy bikinis no longer define what is sexy.  For Summer 2006 expect to see less skin revealing styles. Also, watch for more tankinis and boy shorts. Tankinis are just as stylish as bikinis, but with added comfort and versatility.  Another popular style is the “monokini” – a…