Female designers of womenswear use their inherent knowledge of what it means to be a woman, but male designers do it with empathy, bravado and a little bit of imagination.

Just as each label has a designer, or a team of designers, they should have at least one person whose sole role is painting a vivid picture of the brand - its history, its outlook, and its future. Brands would do well to employ a staff scribe, separate from the team of quippy copywriters who design sales-oriented marketing copy. 

What Byron Lars, the designer of this dress, and Anthropologie, have quietly managed to do is quite the feat. They have discovered an immortal retail formula that I'm not sure has been achieved since the Dawn of Fast Fashion.

Luckily, it's now easier than ever to avoid these harmful ingredients. Brands like Ava Anderson and M61, started by Bluemercury co-founder Marla Beck, and shops like Follain have banished hundreds of toxins from products they make and carry.

Because staying hydrated doesn't just mean chugging a Gatorade the next morning, I've started using Patchology's FlashPatch eye gels a couple times a week to pack in the hydration — I'll rock one on Sundays, and then again mid-week for a quick pick me up, although you can use them daily. 

Well, you know what they say - home is where the boob rug is. Cold picnic has launched an aptly-named collection of naked rugs, "Private Parts," for non-bashful decor junkies.

"Laser Razor" isn't just fun to say; it's also the shaving tool of the future. Tech start-up Skarp has invented a laser hair removal tool that literally slices hair away for a super smooth and space age-y shave.

Damn Good Face Wash, an all-natural skincare line from Cape May, New Jersey. Get ready for velvety smooth skincare that smells like the granola bars of the gods and that gives dull, sun-damanged and thirsty skin (ahem, guilty!) a supple, bright, and healthy glow that won't quit.

Four of the Kardashian-Jenner siblings have launched apps and websites that require paid membership. Will that mean we'll soon start seeing tumbleweed drifting across social media?

Seven strange things that are totally odd in the real world, but totally acceptable, even commonplace, during the planetary alignment that is NYFW. Because if you weren't immortalized in a street style slideshow, were you really even at NYFW at all?

This is my kind of top; it's got structure, and the silhouette is all about strong shoulders. It's the right length, too. Don't get me wrong, I'm all about crop tops when the mood strikes, but I hate that middle-ground -- too short to tuck in or wear as a crop but too long as to almost infringe on tunic territory. As if! Like Goldilocks' quest for perfection, this tank isn't too short; it isn't too long; it's just right.

In celebration of the still-glorious weather, I practically live in (hey, when I love, I love hard) this Joie sundress that I scored at Nordstrom.

It's still warm out now, but I'm already imagining pairing this with a blazer or layering it under chunky wool sweaters for a pop of color as the temperatures drop. Because that's another great thing about September; the wholehearted, well-meaning belief that cold weather is your fashion friend.

Once, a dear friend said to me - and a group of about a dozen frat boys that cared 0% - "This. Humidity. Is ruining. My hair." I still quote her, with the requisite eye-roll, to this day.

That friend literally couldn't even. But, she wasn't lying. For women with an affinity for wearing their hair down, even the very mention of summertime causes fearful hands to fly up to heads, smoothing real or perceived fly-aways. It's a constant battle against heat, sweat, sea salt, and yes, humidity.

Thanks to “vanity sizing,” the now-common practice of labeling clothing with a smaller numerical or alphabetical size than it actually represents, the act of shopping for clothes can feel like a cross between a game of chance and psychological warfare.

UK favorite FatFace is heading stateside this Fall, so I took my own look from the brand, a lightweight rain jacket,  out for a spin in sometimes sunny, sometimes-pouring rain Florida.

Summer ain't over til it's over, and until then, there's a crazy-short haircuts to be had, crop-tops to wear out, and sun to soak up.

There are few things more grating than when models talk about how they regularly indulge in burgers and pizza. Except when they talk about how hard they have been rallying to bring a different look to the industry. (When they are a size 4, blonde, blue-eyed, thin, and white.)

It was either my mom or someone from Gossip Girl who said something to the effect of "If you're wearing something low-cut up top, go for a longer hemline on bottom and vice versa." This dress does just that, by teasing glimpses of skin but keeping it classy with a full skirt that falls in the most perfect pleats like only Kamali's signature jersey knits can.

Business and bottom lines aside, there has been one constant source of support for the designer -  his mother, Maureen Sternberg. The simple note she posted on Scott Sternberg's now-famous "Fat Lady" post, his final on the brand's instagram, says it all.

Check out these quotes about camo and see if you can guess which of them were spoken by fashion industry personalities or by military personnel. Perhaps there's not such a huge difference between the US Army and the Balmain Army, after all.