ThisThatBeauty’s Exclusive Coverage of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall/2010: The Sickest Accessories To Hit The Catwalk

The quickest route to a kick ass outfit is ridiculously outstanding accessories. The right statement necklace can instantly and magically transform ye olde LBD into an eye popping show stopper. While clothes, hair and makeup are the first aspects of fashion that come to mind when I think about Fashion Week, accessories are a key [...]

Valentine’s Day Gift Giving: The Robert Verdi Edition

Hey folks — I’m back from Robert Verdi’s too cool for school Valentine’s Day Gift Idea Twitter party. If you’re anything like me and completely void of crazy, sexy, cool, freakum V-Day ideas, fret not. My Jersey broham, Robert Verdi has you covered [and when I say "Jersey" I do not mean it in the [...]

Keeping it French!

Despite the fact the I own enough fancy frocks and scrumptious skirts to fill two closets and a small storage facility in glamorous Edison, New Jersey, my “core wardrobe” consists of a few well appointed pieces. And by “core wardrobe” I mean carefully edited articles that I rely on regularly.
En route to a recent style [...]

Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas From Robert Verdi

Don’t you just love how the holidays immediately roll from one to the next? As soon as you’ve paid down your Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Festivus debt, its time to turn your attention to the holiday d’amore, Valentine’s Day. If you’re anything like moi, year to year you struggle to flex your  creative side and conjure up a gift/experience [...]

Accessorize like Halle Berry

Halle Berry recently appeared on NBC’s Nightly news rocking one hella gorg neck piece. The Fiona Paxton 42″ stunner known as “Sylvie” is hawt hawt hawt! While Halle sported the hand beaded metal patterned necklace in Dark Oxidized Silver, if Ms ThisThatBeauty had an extra $300 to drop I’d definitely be all over Sylvie in Gold.

Ready [...]

Tarina Tarantino: My Earring Crush Du Jour

During Mercedes Benz New York Fashion Week I had the pleasure of attending many lovely events where I was introduced to wonderful new collections, fashions, brands, etc.
While at Robert Verdi’s Luxe Laboratory I was introduced to a designer whose earrings have made me the belle of the ball everywhere I go! Naturally I am inclined [...]

The Hardest Working Necklace In My Jewelry Box..

Earlier this year I reported on the “bib necklace” as one of Spring/Summer’s hottest trends. In the post I mentioned that I got my first taste of the bib necklace about a year prior to the official trendspotting for Spring/Summer 2009.

When I purchased my JCrew bib necklace in early 2008, it pretty much sat in [...]