the it lists – fashion & trend blog

What is the best part of being Madonna’s daughter?  Probably 100 things!!!  But this week it’s because you get to own your own clothing line!

Inspired by Lourdes,  Madonna has signed a deal this week to create MG Icon (which stands for Material Girl) to be launched in 200 Macy stores in August 2010.

This is just the start for Pop Icon Madonna. She wants to start in the junior brands and then work her way up.  Material Girl is fast-fashion junior collection that Lourdes will help design that will launch exclusively in August 2010 for the back-to-school season.  It will include footwear, handbags and jewellery and will retail from $12.00 to $40.00!

I wish my mom and I could dress like that!

For those who are missing the infamous Domino magazine . . . meet Lonny Mag.

Designer Michelle Adams and photographer Patrick Cline bring you interior design at its best... online. Lonny Mag is a great source for inspiration for any project.

Its creative influence is versions of London and New York styles fused over well designed pages and beautiful photography.   You can click on any item and be directed right to the supplier.  It also reads like a real magazine even though its only online.  Save’s on stack’s of paper mags in the house!

You gotta fall in love with Gwen Stefani’s Harajuku Lovers Sunshine Cuties ~ new fragrances

These new girls in town not only have new looks, but also new scents to have us falling in love with them just before Valentine’s Day. This is the perfect gift to make your single girlfriend’s happy on this sometimes lonely day.

• Sunshine Cuties Love is a fruity floral
• Sunshine Cuties L’il Angel is a citrus gourmand
• Sunshine Cuties Music is a sensuous floral
• Sunshine Cuties Baby is a dewy floral
• Sunshine Cuties G is a creamy musk

Meet the ladies in stores this February.

How cool is this. The new BlackBerry Messenger 5.0 includes a barcode scan to add contacts to your BlackBerry.

Say you want to add someone’s PIN info, but really how do you write down that PIN when you already have a martini in your free hand? Instead the camera on your ‘Berry scans the barcode of the other blackberry and voila you can add the person to your list!  Your BBM “it” list!

Instead of fumbling over PINs, now you can just scan and continue to have an ongoing convo every minute after that.  BBM just got a lil bit cooler with this new feature – and now we can take advantage of meeting new people faster thanks to blackberry.

Loving your barcode? well you can get a custom tshirt made with your own code on it from BerryBarCode.

This season has been a showcase for dramatic over exaggerated style.  From over-sized jewellery, to structured shoulder pads and spikes, fashion is screaming LOOK AT ME.  The short sleeved coat is an example that fits in quite well with the fantasy and optical illusions trends.

Not to mention the fact that the short sleeve coat, like this one from Comme Les Garcon can also help you showcase your love for long leather gloves ( I know every girl loves the long leather glove c’mon!)….or big chunky sweaters.  Another bonus to the trend is that you don’t have to worry about your thicker tops bunching up at the elbows.

Cropped sleeved coats seem a bit impractical at keeping you warm, but think of all the fun you’ll have coming up with warm contrasts to fill the gap of the killer cut offs.

Sometimes being an “It Girl” all starts with the name.  Something that Carly Pope has a check mark beside.

Nylon Mag shared they do “It Girl” nominations based on a girls’ ability to do virtually nothing except look pretty and be well connected.  Our Nov pick is about the girl from Vancouver that works hard to make it happen.

We truly have a girl crush on her after her most recent role as an edgy Rolling Stone reporter (flirting with dirty Duchovny) on Californication and another fav role as Kris in “Young People Fucking,” (segway: she volunteers for Vancouver Options for Sexual Health). She is also an “It Girl” because she loves coming home and hanging with her friends and being real when she’s not in the LA spotlight.

We’ll be watching for her new show “Day One” on NBC, airing right after the Olympics.

Check out the Lab Mag (click image) feature on Carly Pope!

Cuff bracelets are super hot, a lot of fun and can be worn a variety of ways. They can be used as a signature piece, or worn with other pieces such as slim wire bracelets or chunky rings on the opposite hand to balance your look.

Virgins, Saints & Angels is dedicated to designing jewellery inspired by Goddesses that encourage enlightenment, expression, and creativity. It’s worth almost $300 if it enlightens me, right?  New from Virgins, Saints, & Angels is this luscious Virgin Mother Mary Cuff.

In this piece, tiny Colorado topaz crystals outline Mary, but I adore the beauty of the  etched sacred hearts and crosses.  Click Here to check out ShopStyle they had so many gorgeous ones, you could spend hours admiring them all.

It is always amazing when a great promotion comes together for a cause.  October is Breast Cancer month and the cause itself is already known for its amazing turn out for creative fundraising promotions.

Now thanks to W hotels in LA and San Francisco and Lee Denim and Christina Applegate you can give just by travelling in the month of October.  When you book a room at W you receive Two Cool “Tickled Pink” Cocktails, “I Love Life” T-shirt, and 25% off Lee Denim Gift Card. I love this promotion because you get a cute t-shirt out of the deal and compliments of Christina Applegate’s Foundation and she’s got good style, right?  But a new pair of Lee jeans could make any t-shirt look good.  For more information on travelling for a cause and Share your Heart visit DenimDay.com

Do you want to extend the summer for as long as possible?  Try bleaching your brows.

This fall is full of exciting and crazy new trends from padded shoulders to yes, bleached eye brows.  Make-up trends are my favourite because there are so many lil tweeks to your make- up that can be done.

If you aren’t changing up your colours and I mean your eyebrow colours when I say this, you are not experiencing the true joys of make-up.  Try MAC Brow Set. It will help you lighten the color of your brows and is washable.  It adds shine, helps with grooming and ads tint without flaking or stiffening.  It’s shown here in Girl Boy but check out MAC Cosmetics for other shades and uses.

You can see what a difference it makes on Mary-Kate and Ashley!

Flats!  Funky flats for fall.  Touted to be the shoe of the season: the Oxford. We are not just talking any flats, we are referring to oxfords, brogues, loafers, and jazzy lace-ups!

Forget ballet flats – hello this fall to the good old oxford. The classic version is a solid colored lace-up (think men’s shoes), with a perforated wingtip pattern on the toe. But! we’re feeling the two-tone spectator version with boyfriend jeans.

We love these Steve Madden black and white Merlins you gotta check them out in the black & fushia combo…or even pretty grand in the subtle brown.

Dont’ groan at our pick for this month’s “it” girl. We debated on if this was a sad publicity stunt or pretty damn ballsy. Since we try to be opinionated AND open minded to what beauty and “it” means…Nicole brings you: Carmen Electra

Call me the bad girl out of the writers here on theitlists.com or maybe call me the rocker.  I’m dying for a new look – I’ve been in the bathroom trying to decide if my face is too small for a bald patch.  Sometimes you just see something on someone and you think “it’s just so it!  But you couldn’t possibly pull it off.”

With a wrong choice of a wacky new coat or a wild handbag you can recover from…but from an exposed piece of scalp (not so much).  I wish I had the guts – so let’s not forget that being gutsy is one type of “it girl.”

Want a electric mix of 80’s, vintage, and of easy to wear style?  Think MINKPINK.

It’s a collection of eclectic and trendy clothes that screams girls just wanna have fun, but in a stylish trendy way. The MINKPINK summer collection has funky tube dresses and banging belts.  Even a “wacho jacko” white denim jacket that rocks!

If Canadian girls want exposed zip up dresses and animal print leggings at affordable prices, shopping at Aritzia and Urban Outfitters just got a little more MINK PINK than you think.  They are the first Canadian stores to embrace this Aussie brand and the first 2 stores to deliver you these flirty fall trends.

Haven’t  had the opportunity to head to LA and shop the picks of Ilaria Urbinati at Confederacy?

Ilaria is a long time friend Danny Masterson and they are sharing their high-end celebrity/ street style with you!  They just launched www.shopconfederacy.com and it is the online access of the beautiful Hollywood Bvld store fit with a newsstand tearoom for private fittings and vintage telephone booths as fitting rooms with phones to the front desk.

You won’t get the same unique in store experience online, but you will get access over 100 handpicked designer brands that will never leave you under dressed for any event or occasion.  Join the confederacy of good style shop Confederacy online.

Our fascination with vampires runs deeper than Edward Cullen’s beautiful skin. We are intrigued by the love story of 2 young teens as it parallels the hardships of falling in love at that age to the extreme.

Twilight is a new twist on the same portrayal of hardships that Buffy The Vampire Slayer experienced as a teen to going to school, however Buffy maintained a full class schedule while battling the undead. In this comical video that parallels the two vampire worlds she is onto him and shows Edward that it’s vampire chicks that rule. Edward Cullen isn’t cute enough to escape Buffy TVS’s mission to ‘kick butt’ on evil.