This week on The Fashion Hags we discuss shopping habits and how much work goes on under the surface to get you to part with your hard earned cash.
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But first, what have we been up to?
We share our plans for Halloween costumes (w/ the results below):
Evan w/ friends Mel & David as The Addams Family
Katie as Slash
Abby’s daughter Margot as the cutest lil’ nerd you’ve ever seen!
ALSO:
Abby finally got her shit together and watched the wonder and majesty that is Iris, a documentary on fashion icon Iris Apfel (Available on Netflix!)
A “Fashion Hags” film noir interpretation of Katie’s terrifying encounter with a spider.
Evan and his train w/ Vee and her cleavage @ the Proenza Schouler event at The Room. A very exclusive, very posh, very fashion-y affair which Evan recounts in detail.
One half of Proenza Schouler, Designer Lazaro Hernandez, Evan (ever with the RBF, and the fabulous Vee.
A look from Proenza Schouler’s SS16 collection featured in W Magazine on Actress Jessica Chastain.
Then we get into the topic at hand; shopping habits.
90% of retail sales are attributed to the visual appeal of the store.
Wouldn’t you rather shop here?……
…Than here?!?!
Window displays entice customers into stores and create a sense of fantasy or excitement around the product
Bergdorf Goodman Holiday Window
Holt Renfrew Holiday Window
The virtues of online shopping (including automated delivery of diapers to Abby’s front porch)
And finally our last ( also Abby’s favourite) segment of the podcast: Current Obsessions!
Katie can’t get over how many options there are over at Shoes of Prey:
Evan gives us the 411 on Hey Jude:
And Abby professes her undying love for Les Beehive ❤
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BIG thanks to Dave (who is also his own person) for his editing savvy, Mitch for our theme song, and Kris for our artwork, and to all of you for listening. This is our last episode of 2015 and can’t wait to share more with you in the New Year! We’ll be sure to raise our glasses to you, ’cause you know fashion girls love to drink!
Ta-ta for now, kiss kiss.
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