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My mother collects rare and first edition books and trolls thrift shops and garage sales to find them. She also has a decor collectibles store on Etsy,  a bookstore on Etsy and a good eye for interesting vintage anything. I should mention that my mother is 78, and shes still keen on supplementing her Social Security.

She gave me my only Dolce & Gabbana bag a few years back   an apple green hobo with nickel hardware way before anyone else I knew had this heavy metal style of bag. Im pretty sure she paid no more than $5. And I loved that bag until I wore it out.

Its my last Dolce & Gabbana anything unless mom gets lucky again.

Six hundred dollars for a T-shirt? I

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ANOTHER FEATHER IN HER CAP: Lady Gaga will follow in the footsteps of Kanye West by embarking on a fashion internship.

Lady Gaga has secured an internship with milliner Philip Treacy.

The fashion-conscious pop star is set to undertake work experience with the hat maker, who created the controversial antler headpiece Princess Beatrice wore to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge William and Catherine’s wedding earlier this year.

Gaga applied for the position by sending her resume to Treacy in 2010 and then approached him directly at his London atelier the day before she won Best International Female artist, Best Breakthrough Act and Best Album for her debut album The Fame at the 2010 BRIT Awards.

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You know, no matter how many anti-microbial, anti-stink treatments they saturate fabrics with, sports clothes still end up stinking sooner rather than later. And not just a little, “throw it in the machine” stink, but more of a “wash it three times straight and it still smells like a bull’s testicles”-type stink. Excessive amounts of sweat and armpit bacteria just make clothes stink forever.

A possible solution: a garment deoderizer that uses ozone to eliminate 97 percent of the bacteria that causes stink in the first place.

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Ever wondered what other women have in their beauty arsenal?  The ELLE beauty team asked a host of celebrities and beauty insiders which products and professionals they couldn’t live without. He Read more…

Phoebe Philo isn’t one of the most outspoken figures in the fashion industry, but she doesn’t need to be: her subdued, straightforward designs for Céline make enough of a statement. The woman who is single-handedly responsible for the revival of the French fashion house (and who can be credited for Chloé’s success after she was named its creative director in 2001) gave a rare interview to The Independent which ran over the weekend.

Although she’s a self-proclaimed interview-hater, she thoroughly discusses how she’s worked to create a brand identity and modern designs that resonate not only with buyers, but with women everywhere. P Read more…