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A Good Reason To Stay Home

The weekend clearly wasn't long enough for at least a few people. The Daily Obsession and M.I.S.S Crew are both jonesing for some spa time. But since we are all paranoid about the recession these days it just might not be time for a full day of spa indulgence; unless of course you do it at home! The Daily Obsession has a list of products a mile long to get a spa feel at home and M.I.S.S Crew has one powerful tip on our favorite part of the spa day process.

A nice robe, some fuzzy shoes, a decent scrub, and a nice foot bath all sound ideal to us but we sure wish we could find a way to bring a good massage home. And somehow we don't think those "at home massage" devices are going to do the trick on our sore shoulders. They seem to be better at making other body parts sore.

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DVF X Bloggers

The streetwear symbol for collaboration involves combining two names with an "x" as a signifier that two brands joined forces for a creative project. Often it is the collaborations that bring out the best from each side, highlighting the strengths of the players while creating something that is greater than the sum of its parts. It is the "x" factor of unique teams coming together to do something great. It is this spirit of collaboration that inspired us to host a photo shoot with iconic womenswear line Diane Von Furstenberg and the Coutorture community.

Thus it seems fitting that we call the Coutorture community's collaborative photoshoot with Diane Von Furstenberg DVF x Bloggers. After an agonizing process of slimming the potential list of collaborating blogs to ten (though we shot eleven as our intern Maleeha The Shoptometrist got in on the fun) we brought Shopalicious, Fops and Dandies, The Shoptometrist, See Pretty Things, Clothes-Pin, Eyeshadow Government, The Daily Obsession, SheFinds, The Fashion Bomb, The ShoeBlog, and Fashion Indie.

Ten bloggers arrived at Diane Von Furstenberg's 14th Street Meatpacking District store to discover a full crew of professional photographers, models, makeup artists, hair stylists, sales women, publicists, creative directors, and a few interactive agency types from Morpheus Media (the collaboration may have been our idea but Morpheus helped bring it to fruition) ready to help the bloggers play.

And play we did as bloggers dressed, styled, and modeled (and ate and drank) to their hearts content. Every blogger looked fabulous in the diverse number of outfits their educated fashion minds gravitated towards. It was a true testament to the project's aim, to bring the personality of the bloggers to DVF and the integrity (and, we must say, wearability) of the brand to the bloggers.

We hope you will enjoy the results and take the time to peruse the many galleries, write ups, links and Shopstyle Spreads we will be posting through out the next few days to help celebrate this phenomenal creative collaboration.



The Daily Obsession X DVF

The Daily Obsession had one word for our Bloggers X DVF shoot:aaamazing!

Franky we think the Daily Obsession is pretty amazing themselves. Carolyn, the group blog's author, has been an exceptional community member within Coutorture. She and her co-authors helped host a Blog Talk Radio session on teamblogging with us just a few weeks ago. And her community spirit showed right through at the event as she cheered other bloggers on, helped people pick clothing, and even teamed up with The Shoeblog for a two blogger photo! She is a blogger that makes us proud to do what do we do.


It was definitely one of the most unique events I've ever been to and made us bloggers feel really involved and appreciated in the fashion community. Everyone was so professional and friendly and it was really amazing how much effort went into the evening.

As for the clothing- can DVF do any wrong?? Every item that everyone put on looked fantastic! Sometimes when I think I can't wear bright colors or prints, I go to DVF and let her prove me wrong. She truly designs for every woman.

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