Slowfashionhouse.com builds a new bathroom

Fashion like food, is now fast. The two main seasons are punctuated by micro-trends and mini-seasons (anyone up for the cruise collection? Me neither). Throwaway design is the name of the game. Don't have something to wear out after work? Never fear. Get it on the high street and chuck it away within weeks. It was only a tenner after all, right? It's the fashion equivalent of fast food.

But there's a slow fashion movement being championed by Dane Rigetta in her virtual department store appropriately named Slowfashionhouse.com. And she's just added a bathroom to her house, making it one of the first of the so-called slow beauty stops online. Sure, there are shops in 3-D where you can browse in a leisurely fashion, but this is the internet is still only such place where you can browse without being accosted by a commission-hungry sales woman and her layout (while foreign and possibly hard to navigate for some) is refreshing.

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LA beauty address book for awards season

Just a Friday quickie here... Vogue.com have published a succinct beauty address book for the awards season. Whether you're attending or simply want to know where to go if on holiday in LA, this list includes some of the best in the business. 

Our favourites from the list:

Neil George Salon
9320 Civic Center Drive
(310) 275-2808
neilgeorgesalon.com

Sonya Dakar Skin Clinic 
9975 Santa Monica Boulevard
(310) 553-7344
sonyadakarskinclinic.com

Anastasia Beverly Hills—Brentwood 
11933 Wilshire Boulevard
(310) 479-8300
anastasia.net

Get the full list here.

Exercise for the brain

'Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself, and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise. This applies even to the more mundane forms of beauty: natural objects, for example, or works of art. What need has true beauty of anything further? Surely none; any more than law, or truth, or kindness, or modesty. Is any of these embellished by praise, or spoiled by censure? Does the emerald lose its beauty for lack of admiration? Does gold, or ivory, or purple? A lyre or a dagger, a rosebud or a sapling?

- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Chew on that during lunch.