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VANITYCOMPLEX.COM IS LIVE!

Style is more than the bag you carry.

About Me


We're three New York girls who have launched vanitycomplex.com, a blog about style, pop culture, and anything else that we feel like discussing. We've worked at leading fashion and music magazines as art directors and stylists, and one of us is a professional makeup artist.

We're up! Come visit us at VANITYCOMPLEX.COM

My Interests

style, beauty, rock, politics, art, cooking, pop culture, finding the best stuff out there and helping you out with insider tips and tricks!

I'd like to meet:

The smart, stylish and clever everywhere.

Music:

The Clash, The Smiths, The Cure, Johnny Cash, Joy Division, New Order, Ramones, Depeche Mode, Motorhead, Stones, Dylan, Zeppelin, AFI, Sabbath, Editors, Dusty Springfield, Mastodon, The New Violators, Gnarls Barkley, Husker Du, The White Stripes, Kaiser Chiefs, The Jam, Sisters of Mercy, Patsy Cline, My Chemical Romance, Metallica, Nick Cave, Nick Lowe, Kirsty MacColl, Pixies, Adam Ant, Hole, Arcade Fire, Dolly Parton, Iron Maiden, Fugazi, Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey, Guns N' Roses, The Veils, The Church, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sex Pistols, P.I.L, Public Enemy, Hot Hot Heat, Oasis, NIN, The Stooges, The B-52's, Roxy Music, Talking Heads, The Police, Blondie, Radiohead, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, The Raconteurs, Elvis (Presley & Costello), Roxy Music, Jeff Buckley, X, Iggy Pop, Kate Bush, Cocteau Twins, Cold War Kids, The Cult, The Go-Go's, The Flaming Lips, Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks, Tori Amos, The Faint, Ministry, Bjork, The Libertines, Garbage, L7, The Go! Team, New York Dolls, Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Primal Scream, Hard-Fi, Loretta Lynn, Jay-Z, Joan Jett, The Kinks, Sweet, Patti Smith, Liz Phair, Babes in Toyland, Marilyn Manson, Pet Shop Boys, Pavement, Kasabian, The Pretenders, Marvin Gaye, 8-Bit, Razorlight, The Raveonettes, Social Distortion, Rancid, Dead Can Dance, The Sugarcubes, Nirvana, Velvet Underground, N.W.A, Muse, Psychedelic Furs, Queen, Morningwood, Devo, Concrete Blonde, Loretta Lynn, Dead Kennedys, Sons & Daughters, Bloc Party, John Lennon, Louis XIV

Movies:

The Hunger, Heathers, 24 Hour Party People, The Velvet Goldmine, Blue Velvet, Brazil, The Princess Bride, Thank You for Smoking, Dead Ringers, Fight Club, Trainspotting, Harry Potter, Donnie Darko, The Lost Boys, The Breakfast Club, The Devil Wears Prada, Sleepy Hollow, Pulp Fiction, Dead Poet's Society, Clueless, Mean Girls, La Dolce Vita, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Romeo is Bleeding, Sid & Nancy, Pretty in Pink, Less Than Zero, Basquiat, My Own Private Idaho, Beetlejuice, Best in Show, Fargo, Team America, Goodfellas, Scarface, Body Double, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Raiders Trilogy, Original Star Wars Trilogy, The Misfits, Nightmare before Christmas, A Clockwork Orange, Postcards From the Edge, Better off Dead, Drugstore Cowboy, Stand By Me, Point Break, Near Dark, Miss Potter, Pan's Labyrinth, From Hell, Romancing the Stone, Valley Girl, Snow White, The Fifth Element, The Game, True Romance, Rear Window, Match Point, The Exorcist, The Changeling, Foul Play,Chasing Amy, Lost in Translation, The Dead Zone, History of the World Part I, Blood Simple, The Doors, High Fidelity, Talk Radio, Se7en, Taxi Driver, Fame, Angel Heart, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Sorry Wrong Number, The River's Edge, Butterfield 8, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Kill Bill, Dangerous Liasons, Eternal Sunshine, The Sound of Music, Damage, Being John Malkovich, Mommie Dearest, Scandal, Rude Boy, The Filth and the Fury, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Cold Mountain, The Queen of the Damned, Shallow Grave, Henry & June, Tomb Raider, The Craft, Poison Ivy, The March of the Penguins, Monsters, Inc., Chicago, Slaves of New York, The Silence of the Lambs, Body Heat, The Producers, American Psycho, Breathless, Unfaithful, Halloween, Coal Miner's Daughter

Television:

South Park, 24, Lost, The Daily Show, Colbert Report, CSI, Bill Maher, Dexter,The Riches, Mad Men, Conan, Letterman, Ugly Betty, House, Twin Peaks, Footballers Wives, Hex, Tales From The Darkside, The Black Donnellys, No Reservations, Top Chef, Big Love, The Office, The L Word, 30 Rock, Project Runway, Rescue Me, Reno 911, Weeds, Battlestar Gallactica, The Wire, The West Wing, Adult Swim, Oz, The Shield, Bones, Robot Chicken, Dynasty, Sex and the City, Simpsons, Award Shows, Food Network

Books:

We read: gawker.com, curbed.com, Missbehave, Radar, T, W, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, liner notes, Page Six, comics, Clive Barker, Truman Capote, David Sedaris, Nick Hornby, The Inferno, The Great Gatsby, The Secret History, Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron, Bret Easton Ellis, Maya Angelou, Eric Bogosian, Different Seasons, Wicked, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Carter Beats the Devil, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Historian, Hammer of the Gods, The Nanny Diaries, Hunter S. Thompson, The Killer Inside Me, Play it as it Lays, Bright Lights Big City, And I Don't Want to Live This Life, Girl, Interrupted, The Prophet, Please Kill Me, Harry Potter, Candace Bushnell, The Warhol Diaries, Rimbaud, Murder on the Orient Express, Slaves of New York, The Catcher in the Rye, Neil Gaiman, Jim Carroll, Wuthering Heights, Lolita, Poe, Vonnegut

Heroes:

In no particular order: Dorothy Parker, Robert Smith, Marc Jacobs, Joan Crawford, Christiane Amanpour, Tom Ford, Jane Birkin, Trash and Vaudeville, Stella McCartney, Marianne Faithfull, Alexander McQueen, Anita Pallenberg, Vivienne Westwood, Douglas Little, Stephen Sprouse, Christian Louboutin, Oribe, Miuccia Prada, Mathu Anderson, John Galliano, Frank Miller, Janis Joplin, Frank Gehry, Stevie Nicks, Jon Stewart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Henry Rollins, Tibor Kahlman, Sassy, Johnny Depp, Manolo Blahnik, Patricia Field, Scarlett Johansson, Tim Burton, Amy Heckerling, Zooey & Emily Deschanel, Gucci, Drew Barrymore, Diane Von Furstenberg, Thierry Mugler, Betsey Johnson, Angelina Jolie, Alexander McQueen, Herzog and de Meuron, Peter Zumthor, Jil Sander, Anna Sui, Susan Sarandon, Diane Sawyer, Amy Sedaris, Bob Dylan, excellent cobblers and tailors

My Blog

We’re Baaack!

Hey Gang!After a way too long delay, we're pleased to announce that our website, VanityComplex.com is live!First, we'd like to thank you all for being patient while we got ourselves up and running, an...
Posted by VANITYCOMPLEX.COM IS LIVE! on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:13:00 PST

Nighty, night!

You should brush your teeth, wash your face, and drink water before tucking yourself in at night. This isn't news. But you know, if you come home and and are tempted to skip these things, might I sugg...
Posted by VANITYCOMPLEX.COM IS LIVE! on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:56:00 PST

Ouch!

I was out the other night with Amelia who was out visiting Seattle to see the awesome band Haircuts That Hurt, and do my hair. We were hanging at this marvelous punk bar called The Fun House, enjoyin...
Posted by VANITYCOMPLEX.COM IS LIVE! on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:54:00 PST

Things that leave me speechless...

So I finally caught TMZ on TV last night and have since been searching for a copy of the clip wherein girls outside L.A. nightclubs were asked what year 9/11 took place and NOT ONE of them knew the an...
Posted by VANITYCOMPLEX.COM IS LIVE! on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:15:00 PST

Fall Preview Finale

And Finally&   Kari and I thought it would be fun to devote our last fall preview to some of the trends we're excited about this season.       I think this year I'm finally goin...
Posted by VANITYCOMPLEX.COM IS LIVE! on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 01:04:00 PST

Fall Preview Part Tres

What I'm looking forward to this fallGruesome Death edition!     I really wanted to see A History of Violence when it came out, but as all my closest friends know, I'm a total wimp ...
Posted by VANITYCOMPLEX.COM IS LIVE! on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:59:00 PST

Fall Preview Part Deux

Two bands that I love and unashamedly geek out to have new records coming out this fall:     The Donnas are due to release Bitchin' on September 18. The early reviews I've read once ag...
Posted by VANITYCOMPLEX.COM IS LIVE! on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:41:00 PST

Fall Preview Part 1

Fall is my hands-down favorite time of year; the air is cool and comfortable, I can finally start wearing the chicer and sleeker aspects of my wardrobe and I still feel the restless hopefulness of th...
Posted by VANITYCOMPLEX.COM IS LIVE! on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:00:00 PST

Spy in the House of EWWWWW!!!!!

I realized it had been a couple of weeks since I'd checked in with my favorite gadget geek blog gizmodo.com earlier, so I figured I should have a look. Namely I wanted to know that there hasn't b...
Posted by VANITYCOMPLEX.COM IS LIVE! on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:49:00 PST

My Eyes May Never Recover

I need to stop putting awful ideas out there. Someone is listening, and whoever they are, they hate me, and keep making terrible things happen. Not an hour after I posted the entry below&nbs...
Posted by VANITYCOMPLEX.COM IS LIVE! on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:15:00 PST