Every year of high school, on the last day of the academic year, we sat through an excruciatingly long awards ceremony. My freshman year, at the awards ceremony, I found myself sitting next to a seni...
While many of my friends are jetting off to tropical islands, European countries, or back home for spring break, Im staying in the city, where I intend to eat good food, visit museums, shop, catch up...
So, while Im spending my Valentines Day having intimate relations with my laptop, you may have more exciting raunchy plans (but statistically not likely if you also go to Columbia).Refinery29.com ask...
If youve always wanted to be on the cover of a magazine (and youre between ages 15 - 22 in the United States), you should definitely enter Seventeens Pretty Amazing Real-Girl Cover Contest, sponsored...
Today, I was the last one to leave the office at my internship because I was frantically doing some work to lighten the load for my boss. My eyes were slightly bloodshot, Im quite sure that my eyelin...
I am somewhat of a pack rat and a hoarder, so throughout the years, I have accumulated more clothes than I can fit into my pocket-sized dorm room closet.Luckily, I-ELLA, an invitation-only marketplac...
I attended the press preview of the Gilt Groupe Warehouse Sale tonight, and in between eating e.e. cookies and convincing myself not to purchase a pair of Rick Owens shoes in my size (college campuse...
I sometimes wonder what fashion editors were like back in college. For the most part, I like to imagine that they were always stylish, coiffed, articulate, and experts at walking in five-inch heels. ...
Sometime in my insomniac state last night -- between finishing up a philosophy write-up, convincing myself not to buy a pair of Proenza Schouler boots (verdict: still debating with myself), ranting a...
(Photo Credit -- LuxeMont)Yesterday, someone asked me what my pet peeve is. I thought about how I dont like peeing in public bathrooms or how I dont like when people reply to emails without reading t...
Im obsessed with the British film, An Education, and starring the ever-so-coquettishly-ethereal Carey Mulligan playing smart schoolgirl Jenny -- shes playing Daisy Buchanan in the 2012 adaptation of ...
(Photo Credit -- Sharon Wu)Six months later, I am making a spontaneous return to misscouturable.com -- while maintaining my personal blog at noelduan.com. I didnt even think of returning back here un...
It was last October when I accidentally renewed the domain, misscouturable.com, for two more years. "Well, I guess Ill be obligated to blog until then," I said to myself.But thats not right. ...
I spent the past six weeks in China, where Blogger, Foursquare, Twitter, Tumblr, and Google Documents are blocked. Nonetheless, while my social media life was waning, I was busy experiencing real lif...
Ever since I was a high school student, I had been a fervent admirer of BARE, UC Berkeleys award-winning student fashion magazine. Putting together any magazine, after all, is no easy feat -- from at...
As final examinations come to an end for most of you (I finished yesterday), Karl Lagerfelds new short film, "Remember Now," should be the perfect launch into summer.May you have a few early-...
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his. - Oscar WildeMy mother is not a glamazon with a walk-in closet full of Manolo Blahnik pumps and Givenchy gowns. My...
A couple weeks ago, after a Sunday brunch with high school friends at Riingo in Midtown East, I wandered into the mass pandemonium that was Lord & Taylor on Fifth Avenue. I really should have hea...
(Photo Credit -- Sharon Shum)Thats right. Thats me with some of my heroes in fashion, art, publishing, business, and entertainment: Joe Zee (Creative Director of ELLE), Carol Lim (CEO and Co-Founder ...
I do not usually get this excited over campus fashion events -- and I may be biased because Im organizing the event. Nevertheless, I have been working day and night for weeks on this event, and I wou...
Everyone and their mother (literally) has read the recent article from the New York Times, "Growth of Unpaid Internships May Be Illegal, Officials Say," by Steven Greenhouse. My fellow schoolmates, m...
(Photo Credit -- guestofaguest.com)As you may know, I love Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion journalist and Washington Post Style Editor, Robin Givhan.So it grieves me deeply that I have an important cl...
I refrained from writing anything about my feelings toward Alexander McQueen's death because everyone else has said everything that I want to say.I found out about his death on Twitter, before Anna W...
I was so overwhelmed with Fashion Week this past weekend that academics were the last thing on my mind -- not exactly the model Columbia University student, I admit. I reluctantly decided to skip out...
Lela Rose originally designed bridesmaid dresses, so I expected nothing more than variations of cocktail dresses and other pretty numbers that one could wear to Sunday brunch. I half-expected a cohor...
(Photo Credit -- ELLE Germany)I passed out this morning in the bathroom, prompting me to make the ultimate decision of skipping all shows from the day, from Tracy Reese to Carlos Miele to Alexa Chung...
I found myself sitting in the second row at Twinkle by Wenlan today, close enough to notice which models had acne. I have a weird fascination with models who stumble and models with acne -- mostly ju...
Seokwon Andy Kim and Wonjeong Debbie Yoon, the designers behind Andy & Debb, are a terribly adorable husband-wife duo -- which is fitting, because the collection debuted just in time for Valentin...
The first thing I noticed about being at the Edition Georges Chakra show was that I was one of the youngest ones there. I sat there wondering if I was about to watch a show featuring clothing that my...
Charlotte Ronson is the cool girl-next-door. I have to go to her show someday, I told myself. Amazingly, I received an invite this season -- in addition to a cute swag bag of cosmetics and hair produ...
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