Happy Labor Day Weekend!

I'm in Miami for the weekend. One of my best friends turns 21 on Monday, so we're celebrating her birthday by staying at a really nice hotel near South Beach and letting the days and nights take us where they will. I hope you all have a great weekend!

By the way, Feather Magazine announced our editors' blog launch on Monday with exclusive coverage of New York Fashion Week, original content written by the editors and behind-the-scenes views of the magazine. Follow us on Twitter to stay on top of everything!

Friday Faves

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I have been so busy this week with work and Feather stuff. I literally spent seven hours straight working from home on Tuesday and I still wasn't done with half the stuff I needed to have done by today. That's why I wrote this post Thursday night and scheduled it ahead of time. Actually, all the posts from today were pre-scheduled. I wrote them whenever I needed a little break from working on magazine stuff.

Don't you love this photo of Nicki Minaj as the Mona Lisa? I saw the actual painting when I was in Paris, but it was really boring and small. First, I don't think that's the real one because it's probably sealed up in some hidden chamber in the Louvre. Second, Leonardo di Vinci also painted the Last Supper and invented machines that would have put the world way ahead in aviation if his journals hadn't been lost for so many years. He's probably rolling over in his grave because we remember him most for such a basic painting.

I'll get off my soap box now.

This .gif gives me life.
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King B showing off her baby bump. I apologize for the unprofessional
freak out I had on the Feather Twitter account during the VMA
black carpet, but I was so surprised and happy for her!
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It was so adorable watching our editorial assistant pick
a photo for the Feather Tumblr, but she did an excellent
job and we got lots of reblogs and likes on this one.
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The Amy Winehouse tribute during the VMAs
reminded me how much I love this song. RIP, Amy.

The Twitter for our big announcement--the official editors' blog for
Feather Magazine. Follow us on Twitter, so you can be the first to read
our blog when it launches on Monday!

New York Style

We're sending out story assignments for Feather today, we just announced our exciting new project and I have work, so I will be super busy all day, but I wanted to blog about this totally outdated feature StyleCaster did in February on the 50 Most Stylish New Yorkers. Those photos of Olivia I posted earlier brought back memories of this. I personally love StyleCaster and I've enjoyed watching it evolve over the past year or so.

These photos are very well done. It's like a yearbook, but everyone came in their best outfit on a good hair day. If I had the time, I'd go through why I love every one of them, but no one would read a post that's a mile long and it would take hours. Instead I'm posted my favorites with the exception of Olivia because I don't want this blog to seem like a huge Olivia Palermo love fest.

Andrew Mukamal

Luigi Tadini

Jenné Lombardo

Kelly Framel

Bonnie Morrison

Timo Weiland

Reece Solomon

Abigail Lorick

Jen Kao

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Style Crush: Olivia Palermo

I was doing the online equivalent of window shopping on the ASOS website when I randomly remembered these photos of Olivia Palermo from their August 2010 online catalog/magazine. I actually bought a cute satchel featured in that issue.

While I didn't really care for her attitude on The City and how she handled herself at Elle sometimes, I can't deny that she's a huge style icon. Her style is what I hope to one day achieve because her clothing always seems comfortable without being too large or making her look like someone's grandmother. If I'm being honest, I fall in both of those negative categories way too often.

The photos were shot in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. It's definitely on my list of places in Brooklyn to live someday (hopefully really soon).

Photos found here.

Muppet Spirit Hoods & Nail Polish? OK!

I was just browsing Refinery29 when I came across the cutest thing ever! Spirit Hoods is making Muppet-themed hoods! Sorry for all the exclamation marks, but I'm elated. There are hoods for fans of Miss Piggy, Kermit, Gonzo and Animal! The hoods coincide with the huge public relations push they're making for the upcoming film co-starring Jason Segal and Amy Adams.

The craziest thing about seeing the Spirit Hoods this afternoon is that I received an email from the Entertainment Editor of Feather this morning about Muppet OPI nail polish she spotted on Racked.com. The polish will be a part of their holiday collection.

Can you guess which one is called Fresh Frog of Bel-Air?

 It's obvious Disney is hoping this will relaunch the franchise after buying the characters in 2004 and basically letting them collect dust in some warehouse or something before they decided on this film. The polish will be priced at $8.50. I haven't seen the hoods up on the site yet, but I'm pretty sure I'll have to take out a loan to afford them.

It's no secret that I'm love with The Muppets, but I'm definitely not the only twenty-something who still loves them. One of my children's literature professors showed a clip of Muppet Treasure Island in class after we read Treasure Island and the entire class begged her to play another clip.

Guess what? The hoods aren't just for kids!

Who's your favorite Muppet?

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Hello? I forgot my mantra.

I saw this Annie Hall print on Katie Amour's site and went immediately to the Etsy shop where she found them. It's one of my favorite romantic comedies of all time. If I could just have this one, I'd be content, but all of them would make me overjoyed. I have a  feeling my bank account may be a decreasing pretty soon and one of these will be in my house.

There's also a print for the quote in the title of this post.

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Nicki Minaj in Glamour

Orange & Blue! Go Gators!

Excuse me while I freak out over these photos of Nicki from Glamour. Yes, I'm a big Nicki fan and I saw her in concert early in the summer. I love these images because they show different sides of her personality. If she wore something like these to the VMAs on Sunday, she would have stayed true to herself and still rocked the black carpet. But anyone who watched the show knows how horribly wrong her outfit choice was. No matter what she wears Nicki is still my favorite female rapper of all time.

FYI: That last line was in my Kanye voice.

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