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Does the Devil or an Angel Really Wear Prada?

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Photo via Pinterest I practically live in my rag & bone duds because they are über comfortable and fit my lifestyle at the beach to a tee; however, I never really thought about how this American fashion label made it into my closet until I started watching the realty television series, The Fashion Fund, on the Ovation channel. In 2006, Marcus Wainwright and David Nevelle, the designers behind rag & bone, were only finalists in the Council of Fashion Designers of America's (CFDA) Vogue Fashion Fund; however, the exposure from “The Fund” boosted the brands popularity. And rag & bone is not alone:  Designers such as Proenza Schouler, Doo.ri, Rodarte, Phillip Lim, Alexander Wang, Thom Browne and Public School (just to name a few) have become household names thanks to the endowment that helps to support the next generation of American fashion designers. Thank God for Netflix because I first became aware of the CFDA/ Vogue Fashion Fund in

Hallelujah, ATF has been Born Again!

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Photo Credit: Buzzle.com Well, it has been almost two years to the day since I last posted to my blog All Things Fashionating and, with the New Year ahead, I feel that it is a time for a new beginning.  I’m not a big believer of New Year’s resolutions, but I have resolved to breathe life back into my blog in 2015.  A lot has come to pass over the past two years but, some things never change, and that would be my love of writing and the desire to be creative. It was nice to hang up my hat for a bit and enjoy some time without my wacky self-imposed deadlines.  But, after a while, it also afforded me the opportunity to do a little soul searching and ask myself, where did I want my writing to take me? The easy part of that question is that I knew where I didn’t want it to take me.  As an English major and Journalism minor, I spent my first decade in Los Angeles working as a writer and an editor at a few publications around town.  I worked long hours – including midnight