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The MATTEL corporation has jumped on the ever-growing Green band wagon with the introduction of Barbie™ BCause. As quoted from MATTEL’s April 1st press release:

“Just in time to celebrate Earth Day in style, Barbie® introduces a collection of eco-friendly accessories for girls... The playful and on-trend Barbie™ BCause collection repurposes excess fabric and trimmings from other Barbie® doll fashions and products which would otherwise be discarded, offering eco-conscious girls a way to make an environmentally-friendly fashion statement with cool, patchwork-style accessories.

Aww, that’s cute. So after all the decades of mass-producing Barbie and her friends with their plastic bodies and man made hair all while not giving a damn, Mattel has decided to give the landfills a break. Thanks, guys! Now little girls everywhere can enjoy patchwork purses made of China factory remnants ridden with glue and other chemicals. It just keeps getting better!

The worst part is that these bags are not cute. They look just like the bags they made us sew for home-ec in the 8th grade. Only mine wasn’t made with dust-laden fabric scraps. My mom took me to House of Fabrics like all the other cool girls.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for eco-consciousness and environmental awareness. I also had a personal collection of almost 100 Barbies by the time I was 10. Just don’t try to fool me with your “Green” trickery; and most importantly, don’t attempt to sell me on it with ugly purses.

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-Camille L.

Project Runway is moving to the Lifetime channel, and I don’t like it.  Bravo is so much classier–well, minus all things Real Housewives–and Lifetime is so “A Mother’s Rage: The Tilly Hanson Story” and “A Father’s Betrayal” or (and this is a REAL one) “But She’s Only 16.” So, just like when your favorite brand starts getting sold at Macy’s, it just feels kind of cheap. Yech.

–Valentina

Good news for Angelinos, Janette Beckman will be signing copies of her book, The Breaks Stylin’ and Profilin’ 1982-1990, in LA this Thursday, April 10th. The event will take place in Beverly Hills from 6-8pm.

If you can’t read it, the flyer says that there will be limited edition photos on display, and (oooooooh!) Malo, one of my fave Mexican restaurants in LA (and that’s saying a lot) is a sponsor. So is Casa Noble Tequila– let’s hope there are samples.

354 N. Beverly Dr., Beverly Hills, 90210

310-274-4300/store-beverly@taschen.com

–Valentina

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Okay. Woh, dudes! Newsflash: Marc Jacobs has an M&M tattoo. I can’t handle that. For one, why would you even get that lameness in the first place, and number two, why would you show that shit off?

I want explanations, and I also want all you Marc worshipers to defend this just like you did the blue hair and camel toe incidents. I don’t think you can!

–Valentina

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