On This Day In Fashion on the radio!

A few days ago I taped a fun segment for radio show "KUOW Presents" about teen fashion, the bottom-up theory and two films that demonstrate the evolution and growing influence of street style versus designer style. The piece just aired, and it's always kind of wild to listen to the edited down conversation. (There's also nothing weirder then listening to myself talk about teenagers and my students like I'm a hip old lady who's down with "kids these days." I've no doubt that every 13-year-old who is forced to hear this segment while trapped in their parents' car will label me an out-of-touch nerd.) Still, I feel like there's so much more I can say (and clarify, natch) about this topic! Host Jeannie Yandel did an awesome job, as always, catching the core ideas behind the films, as well as my own gushing reaction to one of my favorite films when I was a teenager: Valley Girl.
Click here to listen to us chat about James Dean's cool style in Rebel Without a Cause and how Nicholas Cage stole my 12-year-old heart in Valley Girl.

New stories in Alaska Airlines/Horizon Air magazines

Check out my two articles offering up fun things to see and do in Seattle and the Eastside beginning on page 68 in the current issue of Alaska Airlines/Horizon Air magazines. It's always fun to work with the (local) team at Alaska!

The Basye-Davis Wedding in Seattle Bride!

The issue hit newsstands last month, so I figure it was about time to post it: Todd's and my wedding featured in the upcoming issue of Seattle Bride magazine! This wasn't a shocker, of course. After Todd proposed, one of the first people I called was Rachel Hart, the editor of Seattle magazine and editorial director of all the Seattle-based Tiger Oak publications, and one of my longtime mentors. Rachel has been rooting for a Basye wedding for almost as long as we've been friends, and we both got our wish last August. So I had an inkling she might ask to feature the wedding in Northwest Album, the section that highlights fun, local weddings, and maybe even have me pen the thing, which I happily did. But I had no idea she'd dedicate four pages to it! I feel very honored, and I think art director Alicia Nammacher did an amazing job fitting so many photos into a flattering layout. All the photos are by Cheri Pearl of Cheri Pearl Photography.

I'm featured on Kelley Moore's blog, For the Love of Design, today!

I'm honored to be featured on lifestyle expert Kelley Moore's blog, For the Love of Design. In her Ramblings column, a Q&A with design-centric types, I share my biggest pet peeves, greatest extravagances and how I feel about fashion police. If you don't read a lot of design magazines and are not familiar with Kelley, I suggest you click over to KelleyLMoore.com and spend some time getting to know her work—it's endlessly inspiring.

Credits: Photo by Benjamin Benshneider for the Seattle Times.

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Top On This Day In Fashion Moments in 2010

Is it too soon in the history of On This Day In Fashion to create a top-moments list? And can a top-moments list be such a thing if the items are in no particular order? We’ve been up and running since June 27, but had so much fun over the past six months, and ‘tis the season, after all. I couldn’t let 2010 close without commemorating a few favorite moments, like an On This Day In Fashion six months of Greatest Hits:

Um, we made the cover of Seattle Magazine? Crazy! I still pretty much shake my head in disbelief over this one. I remember on the day I went in to do the shoot for this cover, I had to quickly run off to interview NBA Hall-of-Famer Lenny Wilkens for an unrelated assignment, and I thought to myself: Is this day real, or am I going to wake up soon? I don’t care if it’s narcissistic: This cover will forever hang framed on my office wall!



On This Day In Fashion on the TV! Think of it like an “On This Day In Fashion in Seattle…” segment, in which we homed in on the anniversary of Marc Jacobs for Perry Ellis’s seminal grunge collection, the moment in fashion history when

Ali on the Radio!

I just finished a really fun segment on 94.9-FM's KUOW Presents, about vintage December-released films that offer great take-away fashion. All three films were recently featured on On This Day In Fashion: Morocco (1930), starring Marlene Dietrich and her tuxedo; Saturday Night Fever (1977), starring John Travolta and his 19-year-old polyester-clad ham; and Out of Africa (1985), starring Meryl Streep and her amazing hats.

This is the second time KUOW has hosted On This Day In Fashion, and I don't think I was quite as relaxed as the first time around, but maybe it was just because I love these three films so much. You be the judge. Writers Katrina Ernst and Kristine Lloyd brilliantly wrote the Cinemodes about the films—The New York Times even picked up and linked to Saturday Night Fever (!!)—so big kudos to those writers.

You can listen to the five-minute segment on

Me on the Tee-Vee

Exciting news: Today I did a short fashion segment on Seattle morning show New Day Northwest, to talk about the November anniversary of Marc Jacobs' notorious grunge collection for Perry Ellis in 1992 and the return of grunge style in 2010. I teamed up with the stylistas at Ajentse, representing photographers, stylists and hair and makeup artists, and Heffner Management, the largest modeling agency on the West Coast, to put together a cool segment and fashion show that illustrated the "new grunge," the rebirth of a Northwest style.


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Watch the video above and read all about it On This Day In Fashion.