Duchess Digest: ‘Tis the Season

With the holiday season officially here with this Black Friday weekend, most of us are thinking about family. Opening gifts around the tree with loved ones, fabulous parties with friends (the family we get to choose) and delicious meals around beautifully set loving dining room tables. And once that commercial on television for the generic [...]

Beat the Black Friday Blues with These Fab Female Online Designers

We say sleep in, let everyone argue over parking spaces and discounted sweaters, and knock out your holiday shopping in minutes from the comfort of your own computer. And while you’re at it, why not support these fabulous female designers?

No Way to Run a Depression

When I heard on “Black Friday”—the current name for the big shopping event on the Friday after Thanksgiving—that a Wal-Mart employee had been trampled to death by a crazed mob hoping to be one of the lucky few to get $500 off on a flat screen high definition TV, I thought: This is no way [...]

Black Friday Ban

Let’s see. As I type this, it’s Black Friday, and a Wal-Mart employee has been trampled to death by a crowd of crazed shoppers and two men are dead after exchanging gunfire at a – wait for it – Toys R Us. If that doesn’t give you pause, I don’t know what will. Look – our love for commercialized holidays [...]