Boutique finds, independent artists and truly unique Valentine’s gifts...it all starts here, and just in the nick of time for the day of love! Here’s my guide as seen on NBC’s Today show, with a few extra bonuses your sweetie will adore.

KIDS: DIY Chalkboard T-Shirts

Ever catch your kids drawing on their clothes? On this shirt they can! Arm them with a chalk marker (included) and allow them to decorate this heart-shaped chalkboard T-shirt. A dampened cloth erases any design, and the shirt can be reused again and again. A discounted price of $25 is being offered through February 9, 2017. Heart design shirt colors include red, hot pink, raspberry and purple, in sizes youth xs - youth xl.

From $25; chalk-of-the-town.com

KIDS: Temporary V-day Tattoos

A love watch? A flock of butterflies? A family of happy hearts? These super cool temporary tattoos designed by the professional artists of Tattly, play up the fun side of the day.

From $5; Tattly.com

KIDS: In My Heart Book

When so many kids receive gifts with a short shelf life, why not give them something that’ll last? This beautifully illustrated book about emotions weaves a tale that can be told year in and out, with a heart-filled center.

$16.95; papyrusonline.com

KIDS: Curated Treat Collections

These treats for little tummies are delightful goodies that are sure to tantalize. My Little Valentine ($40) includes milk chocolate covered animal crackers and a heart-shaped lollipop plus more yums...

while Love You Like XO ($63.50) has lots of chocolate confections and a caramel candy bar, to name a few. Product comes in a tote and includes gift wrap.

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KIDS: Love Hearts Beading Set

This all-inclusive beading set is perfect especially if you’re on the move, and enables kids ages 3 and up to bead to their heart’s content an entire vibrant necklace or bracelet.

$13.95; papyrusonline.com

KIDS: Iron-on Patches, Pins & Accessories

Snazz up your kid’s look with these patches and rhinestone monogram stickers that can be ironed on or added to clothing, backpacks, bags and more to showcase some V-day spirit!

From $1.90; H&M and Justice

DATING/NEWLYWED COUPLE: Shari’s Berries Ombré Cherries

A twist on traditional chocolates, consider these hand-dipped, ombré maraschino cherries. THEN the true test—the race to see who can tie that cherry stem into a knot with her tongue first!

$29.99 (qty. 20); berries.com

DATING/NEWLYWED COUPLE: Honey-Sweetened Caramels

Make your honey sweet on you with fair-trade caramels sweetened naturally by wildflower honey and sprinkled with French sea salt. A portion of sales benefit Project Apis M that supports honeybee colonies: for the lovers that want to support a sweet cause.

$16.95 (qty. 9); moneyonhoney.com

DATING/NEWLYWED COUPLE: Assorted Bangles

The beauty of stackable bangles is the everyday wear-ability, and the giver can buy as many or as few as their budget allows: add on as your relationship grows.

From $38; alexandani.com

DATING/NEWLYWED COUPLE: Personalized Picture Watch

Design your own watch with the cutest or coolest picture of the two of you. Upload your photo, edit, and choose one of three bands: sport ($69.99), gunmetal ($95) or stainless steel ($125). These water-resistant watches are made on demand in San Francisco, and versatile: you can swap bands. Modify can deliver the first 500 watches ordered on 2/7 and are offering 40% off site-wide: select Priority Shipping to get it by Valentine’s Day.

From $42; modifywatches.com

NEWLYWED COUPLE: Turkish Towels

If you’re headed some place warm for winter travel or ready for an upgrade in the bathroom, these soft, stylish Turkish towels wick away moisture, are large and lightweight—perfect for packing for your next island getaway.

Personalization is included in the price. About 15 styles sport V-day like hues of pink, red and white.

$55-85; BaskMiami.com

THE COUPLE OF 20+ YEARS: Roses that Last a Year

You know your love will last, so get flowers that will too…up to a YEAR! Venus et Fleur is delivered in exquisite Parisian style gift boxes and no watering is required. It’s a light dusting of non-toxic wax-based solution that helps preserve the roses in their pristine state, and keeps them fragrant too.

From $39; venusetfleur.com

THE COUPLE OF 20+ YEARS: (PRODUCT)RED Pearls Stretch Classic PJ Set for him or her

Perhaps the one time of year it’s utterly adorbs to synchronize your sleep style is for V-day, and these Bedhead pajamas allow you to do so with a cause, as these are (PRODUCT)RED. Each purchase gives back to Red.org, and specifically a campaign that brings medicine to 50,000 women in need; you can sleep sweetly knowing that.

$78.40 each; bedheadpjs.com

THE COUPLE OF 20+ YEARS: Ready When You Are Mask

This playful City of Love eye mask let’s your lover know when you’re in the mood.

$19.50; PJSalvage.com

THE COUPLE OF 20+ YEARS: Viking Professional Steakhouse 6-Piece Steak Knife Set

These restaurant grade, partially-serated knives will make eating your romantic dinner that much easier! It’s a great gift to upgrade your cutlery and perfect for the couple that loves to cook.

$99.99; bedbathandbeyond.com

THE COUPLE OF 20+ YEARS: Sweet Spot Ice Cream Maker

Love to make sweet treats together? Now you can make your own decadent ice cream, but minus the rock salt and hard work. Simply chill the Sweet Spot in the freezer 24 hours in advance, prep your simple ice cream mixture (the easiest is five basic ingredients) and pour into the Sweet Spot pan for instant ice cream!

$49.99; chefn.com

THE COUPLE OF 20+ YEARS: Artsy Aprons

These exquisite aprons crafted from Japanese denim are long, stylish and hardy with oversized pockets and buckling straps to make you both bosses in the kitchen! (You’ll likely never wear another apron again.)

From $78, HedleyandBennett.com

THE COUPLE OF 20+ YEARS: Wood-Carved Love Message

Send a short love note dedicated to your love in your own handwriting, and woodworker and artist Ali Wood transforms that exact message permanently into wood. Simply choose your wood background and the color of your letters, send in your handwriting sample via her Etsy site, and she takes care of the rest!

Please keep in mind that as she’s but one talented artist and the mother of a newborn, she estimates she can complete approximately 100 orders if placed by 2/7 in time for Valentine’s Day.

$4-5 per letter plus fees; aliwoodcreations.etsy.com

**All prices reflect time of publication in 2017 and are subject to change. Check individual sites for shipping fees to assure delivery by Valentine’s Day 2/14/17.

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“Your outfit is making me uncomfortable.”

I was attempting to have a serious conversation with a friend and co-worker when he verbalized what I’d been physically feeling for the past two days. Why the discomfort? I had a corset wrapped around my mid-section, over my clothes.

Months of research and pondering the trend of corsets over clothing led me to attack this polarizing phenomenon head on. I foolishly pledged to wear a corset over my clothes to both work and play for four days.

My editor and I deemed my first pick of corsets ― a white, theatrical-looking lace-up number with hardware ― too ridiculous to actually wear in the real world. In an attempt to make this look “wearable” for a non-celeb’s everyday activities, I opted for this stretchy Aritzia top, which can be worn as a tube top or in the style of a corset.

I actually felt pretty good on day one, wearing the corset with a vintage Gap button down and skinny black pants. I almost understood the appeal of a piece of clothing that cinches an oversized, boxy top at the waist. That feeling was short-lived, however, lasting only until the first of many times I had to adjust the dang thing as I went about my life. 

Things took a turn on day two. You know how Kim Kardashian wears a giant oversized T-shirt with a corset over it, and it’s somehow a dress?

Yeah, this was not the same.

For starters, it’s winter in New York City, and my commitment to T-shirts as dresses has limits ― there was no way I was going bare-legged in a T, as Kardashian did in August. She also seems to have a vast range of giant shirts at her disposal, but my most oversized T-shirt (that can be seen in public, anyway) is a slightly loose sleep shirt I bought while waiting in line at Franklin Barbecue in Austin, Texas.

No one, and I repeat no one, liked this iteration of the look. My “uncomfortable” friend at work asked if this was for a comedy bit. Another asked “Is that a waist trainer?” One nice colleague said I looked “family reunion chic.” It was also at this time that another colleague started trolling me on chat by sending me Google search pages filled with people wearing cummerbunds. 

That night, at dinner, the stares were rampant. “It’s cute!” a friend reassured me, her voice shaking. “Sure,” I replied, as I drowned my sorrows in overpriced hot sake and adjusted my constricting waistband for a millionth time. 

On day three, in an effort to turn things around, I went full blown Gigi Hadid ― a sentence I’ve said more times than I care to admit. I tried to copy a look I recalled seeing the 21-year-old wear to an event back in October. 

Just try and tell the difference between this supermodel...

And this non-model:

This outfit of black leggings and an Aritzia shirtdress got the most positive reviews from friends and colleagues and stares on the street. It seemed a little more “Is that Gigi Hadid?” and a little less “WTF?” Thanks, Gig!

You may be able to tell by my utterly unamused face below, but by day four I was so sick of the corset that I actually hid it at one point. I was interviewing “Project Runway: All Stars” mentor Joanna Coles in front of a studio audience, and I panicked so hard at the last minute that I zipped this godsend Zara bomber jacket right over it as I made my way to the stage. 

In all honesty, I did feel slightly defeated for having covered it up, but mostly I just uncomfortable: I also had on control top stockings under my J. Jill dress. It was a corset double whammy. 

Four days in, I was feeling suffocated and annoyed. I decided right then and there that this article of clothing is better suited for me as a tube top only. And I’d call this one of many looks we should all leave to the Hadids and Kardashians of the world.

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Some brides want to dress like a pretty princess on their wedding day. Others opt for something a little more rock ‘n’ roll.

Below you’ll find 19 stylish brides who played with contrast by pairing an edgy leather (or faux leather!) jacket with an elegant wedding dress, and looked straight-up stunning doing so.

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This is why we can’t have nice things. 

After putting on a show-stopping 13-minute performance at the Super Bowl on Sunday night, Lady Gaga is speaking out against the cruel body shamers out there who dared to critique her abs rather than her set. 

On Tuesday night, Gaga took to Instagram where she posted a photo of herself from the halftime show wearing sparkly hotpants and a cropped shirt that resembled shoulder pads worn by football players. 

“I heard my body is a topic of conversation so I wanted to say, I’m proud of my body and you should be proud of yours too,” she captioned the photo. “No matter who you are or what you do. I could give you a million reasons why you don’t need to cater to anyone or anything to succeed.”

“Be you, and be relentlessly you,” she added. “That’s the stuff of champions. Thank you so much everyone for supporting me. I love you guys. Xoxo, Gaga”

Of course, this is hardly the first time the singer, who has been open about her struggle with eating disorders in the past, has dealt with body shamers. After a performance on her ArtRave tour in 2014, Gaga hit back at critics who made comments about her weight by Instagraming a black-and-white glamour shot, which she captioned, “Curvy and Proud,” along with an emoji of a pig.

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Of all the mother-daughter lookalikes in Hollywood, none are quite as twinsy as Reese Witherspoon and her 17-year-old daughter, Ava.

Seriously, look at these two. Not only do they look exactly alike, but they dressed alike, wore their hair alike, and even posed alike Tuesday at the Hollywood premiere of “Big Little Lies.” You don’t have to be a Harvard Law School grad to tell them apart, but it is uncanny.

So, just to clear up any confusion, that’s Ava on the left, and her mother on the right. 

Ava ― still on the left! ― looked lovely in a metallic floral mini-dress with a high bow neck and gold pumps. Witherspoon also looked great in a sparkly, short Elie Saab number and black pumps. 

And here is Ava again, seen out in Hollywood last week.

Oh, wait, never mind, that’s Witherspoon in 1993, roughly the same age as her daughter is today.

See? Confusing. 

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With HBO’s “Girls” about to enter its final season, Allison Williams is putting Marnie in the past. 

On Wednesday, the actress revealed a new, bright blonde hairdo (created by hair colorist Aura Friedman) on the cover of Allure. Williams is almost unrecognizable in the stunning photo, which is giving off some major Farrah Fawcett-meets-Elsa-from-“Frozen” vibes.

“I like it!” Williams told Allure. “Especially this blonde ― it feels like it is just a new twist on the same old me. It’s just hair! But it’s fun.”

The 28-year-old also shared a photo of what her new ‘do looks in real life, sans the editing and studio lighting that likely went into the magazine photo shoot. (The icy blonde hue on the cover is definitely lighter than the real shade.)

“Here it is IRL,” the actress wrote in the caption. “Still getting used to it, but I dig it. Thank you [Aura Friedman] and [Rebekah Forecast] for helping me say goodbye to Marnie ― and to [Allure] for the nudge!”

To see more photos from Williams’ shoot, head to Allure. 

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If there is a candy necklace for pigeons, this is definitely it. 

Speculation says that the pigeon in this video, filmed in Yekaterinburg, Russia, ate through the middle of a slice of bread such that it ended up around the bird’s neck. We think this pigeon knows a good look when it sees one.

H/T UPI

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President Donald Trump launched a social media attack from the White House Wednesday against the department store chain Nordstrom, after the retail chain decided this month not to carry his daughter Ivanka Trump’s fashion line.

“My daughter Ivanka has been treated so unfairly by @Nordstrom,” Trump complained on Twitter Wednesday morning. “She is a great person — always pushing me to do the right thing! Terrible!”

Within minutes, @POTUS ― the president’s official White House Twitter account, previously used by President Barack Obama ― retweeted Trump’s complaint, sharing it with 15 million followers.

White House social media accounts like @POTUS are managed by White House staff, and are subject to the Presidential Records Act, which requires that presidential communications be archived. Trump has a separate, personal Twitter account that he also uses. Below is the official presidential account as it appeared Wednesday.

This is not the first time Trump has attacked a company on Twitter. But his previous tirades against companies were, by and large, objections to how corporate policies would affect their employees and taxpayers ― not complaints about how corporate decisions would affect Trump’s own family members. 

Nordstrom said the decision to stop selling Ivanka Trump’s brand was based on its poor sales, not politics.

“In this case, based on the brand’s performance, we’ve decided not to buy it for this season,” the company previously said in a statement. On Wednesday, it noted that “Ivanka was personally informed” of the company’s decision “in early January.”

Every year, Nordstrom cuts around 10 percent of the thousands of brands it stocks. But the president evidently doesn’t believe that poor sales were the driving force behind Nordstrom’s decision. 

According to White House spokesman Sean Spicer, Trump thinks his daughter’s apparel brand was dropped was because “they have a problem with [Trump’s] policies.” 

At a White House briefing Wednesday, Spicer said that for Trump, Nordstrom’s decision amounted to “an attack on his daughter.”

When companies “take out their concern about [Trump’s] actions or his executive orders on members of his family, he has every right to stand up for his family and applaud their business activities,” Spicer told reporters.  

Nordstrom announced its decision to drop Ivanka’s line of career separates a few days after the president signed a highly controversial ban on travel and immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries.

“For someone to take out their concern with his policies on a family member of his is just not acceptable,” Spicer said. 

Spicer did not offer any evidence to support the claim that Nordstrom’s decision was politically motivated and not based on sales. He also refused to address why Trump used public resources ― namely, his official White House Twitter account ― to pursue a personal vendetta on behalf of his adult daughter’s clothing brand.

A spokeswoman for Ivanka Trump’s clothing line declined to comment on the president’s tweets, or on Nordstrom’s business decision.

White House ethics experts were quick to point out that it’s unprecedented for a sitting president to attack a public company because of a business deal it had with one of his children. Former Obama White House ethics czar Norm Eisen called Trump’s tweet “outrageous” Wednesday, and offered to help Nordstrom sue the president. 

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Ashley Graham saw her December British Vogue cover and raised it one new cover of American Vogue. But this time, she’s joined by a few special guests.

Graham posed alongside Kendall Jenner, Gigi Hadid, Adwoa Aboah, Liu Wen, Vittoria Ceretti and Imaan Hammam for the glossy’s March 2017 cover. They are, according to Vogue, the models who are “democratizing fashion.”

How are they doing that, you might ask?

We can cite their connection with legions of followers on social media as well as Graham’s ability to shatter stereotypes and speak to women about body positivity. Vogue also writes that “each of these cover girls proudly inhabits her own particular gorgeousness in her own particular way. Together they represent a seismic social shift: The new beauty norm is no norm. And fashion, the industry that – yes – has historically done much to enforce beauty codes, is joining the movement, ¡Viva La Revolucion! All are welcome. Anything goes.”

If you find it a bit of a reach that Vogue is helping drive the democratization of fashion, you’re not alone. The magazine is not exactly known for relatable content, and revolutions are not made by putting some of the world’s most beautiful women ― all of whom are a similar age and all but one of whom are of similar size ― on a single cover.

But there is diversity there. And it comes on a day when Graham also released her latest collection and ad with Swimsuitsforall, featuring “a beautiful group of women – non-models and some local ladies from San Juan,” according to a press release. The company said the ad was made to encourage “women of all shapes, ages and background to come together and celebrate their unique womanhood.”

Two moves to a more diverse fashion world in one day? We’ll take it. 

Head to Vogue, which hits newsstands Feb. 21, to read the entire story. 

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Just days after Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom stopped carrying Ivanka Trump’s products, another major retail chain appears to be distancing itself from her brand, too. 

T.J. Maxx and Marshalls employees were instructed in a note from their company last week to stop featuring Ivanka Trump merchandise in stores and to throw away Ivanka Trump signage, The New York Times reported Wednesday. 

The report landed shortly after President Donald Trump made waves by attacking Nordstrom in a tweet Wednesday morning, claiming his daughter had been “treated so unfairly by @Nordstrom... Terrible!” 

Statements from Nordstrom and Neiman Marcus said decisions were based on a lack of sales, and a spokeswoman from the TJX Companies cited “a number of factors” for the decision to stop featuring Ivanka Trump products.

“From time to time, we communicate with our stores about how to handle merchandise,” spokeswoman Doreen Thompson said in an e-mail to The Huffington Post. “The communication we sent instructed stores to mix this line of merchandise into our racks, not remove it from the sales floor.”

Thompson’s statement doesn’t address why employees were also instructed to trash signage bearing the brand’s name, as the Times reported and a T.J. Maxx employee confirmed to HuffPost. Thompson did not immediately respond to additional questions. 

Shannon Coulter is calling this development yet another victory for her #GrabYourWallet boycott of stores that do business with the Trump family. So far, outlets including Shoes.com and Jet have also dumped Trump products. 

Coulter challenged Trump about his Twitter activity on Wednesday, asking if he was “going to Tweet angrily at @tjmaxx now too? Maybe during your next security briefing?”

We can only hope the answer is “no.” 

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Good girl gone green! 

Rihanna switched up her usual look for what appears to be a green wig during a photoshoot in New York City Tuesday. The look is reportedly part of an upcoming spread for Paper magazine. 

Stylist Farren Fucci posted photos and video from the shoot, which show Rihanna in a long green wig and a colorful $4,250 dress from Proenza Schouler. 

The singer also wore a green wig back in 2014 for her second Viva Glam MAC collaboration. This new green shade is much darker (and less polished) than her previous look: 

The 28-year-old singer was also seen rocking purple hair and a long red jacket for the shoot. Paper has yet to provide any juicy details, but we do know this: We can’t wait to see the final product. 

The same night Rihanna was photographed roaming around NYC in a grey camouflage jacket and pants paired with a hoodie and sparkly heels:  

Now we’re just forced to wait until the shoot comes out! 

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A Kansas City mom is going viral because of her strong reaction to learning the sex of her unborn baby.

On Sunday, blogger Egreis Gjergjani posted a video from her “gender reveal” party on Instagram. Egreis and her husband Jeremy ― who have two sons, ages 1 and 3 ― cut into a cake and found that the frosting was pink for a baby girl. 

As the video shows, the expectant mom was floored ... literally.

Egreis’ Instagram video has been viewed nearly 700,000 times. 

She told The Huffington Post she and her husband weren’t planning to have any more children after their “two amazing sons,” and this third pregnancy was a total surprise.

“Since I’ve had two boys so far, I genuinely did not think I would have a girl,” the mom said. “I even started a children’s couture line, Itty Bitty Toes, that specializes in handmade dresses for little girls. It was my way of experiencing what having a little girl would be like.”

Learning that she would soon have a “mini me” to dress in her designs was “an unbelievable feeling,”  she added.

Egreis posted two other videos from the party. One shows the moment before the big reveal and the other shows a prank her friend played on her. Egreis and her husband thought they were going to learn the sex of their baby with a balloon reveal, but it turns out the balloons were pink and blue. 

“My best friend is evil lol,” the mom wrote in the video caption.

Egreis, who is originally from Albania, is due in June. She said she’s been touched by the kind comments from strangers who watched her big reveal video. 

“So many of them have shared tears of joy with me,” she said. “That’s the beauty of humanity. To be able to relate to another human being, without ever knowing them, simply because you can feel the happiness through a video.”

Egreis has enjoyed re-watching the video and looking at her son George’s reaction. “He knows mommy is having a baby but had no idea really what was going on,” she explained. “He just thought we were celebrating something with cake ... I laugh when I see George’s face the entire time. He’s just so confused, wondering what is wrong with the cake!”

Ultimately, Egreis says the source of her joy is simple “To be able to carry a child is a blessing, she said, adding, “That initial discovery of your child’s gender is an amazing feeling. It doesn’t matter if it is boy or girl, just that initial moment of knowing what you’re going to have makes it all so real.”

H/T PopSugar

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Attention significant others of the world: Not every girl wants (or expects) you to shell out the big bucks for some corny diamond-encrusted, heart-shaped jewelry.

In fact, we know quite a few girlfriends who would much prefer something a little less cookie-cutter. Below, 16 unconventional Valentine’s Day jewelry ideas for the sassy lady in your life: 

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Whether President Donald Trump wears a bathrobe while watching TV in the White House has been a bone of contention this week.

On Tuesday, his press secretary Sean Spicer vehemently dismissed a report that first surfaced in a New York Times article as “fake news,” adding that he didn’t think Trump even owned a bathrobe.

What is clear, however, is that Trump has worn a bathrobe on at least one occasion in the past, as this old photograph shows:

And after the image resurfaced alongside several others this week, Reddit users were quick to adapt it.

Via an almighty Photoshop battle, they’ve reimagined Trump in a hip-hop music video, in the reflection of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s sunglasses and on a fabric conditioner bottle.

Here are some of the best posts we’ve seen so far:

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Well, this is certainly an exciting way to kick off Fashion Month: A full-page ad in the New York Times is demanding more diversity in fashion. 

“Fashion she can’t wear is becoming a bit unfashionable,” declares the ad, calling out the many designers and retailers who don’t make or carry extended sizes despite the fact that the average American woman is a size 16-18.

The timely ad came courtesy of Dia & Co., a clothing start up that delivers subscription clothing and styling services to women size 14 and above. It’s no coincidence its placement in the Style section occurs on the first day of New York Fashion Week. 

The ad was published as part of the company’s new #movefashionforward campaign, which “aims to shift the ongoing conversation on size inclusivity from talk to action,” according to a press release. The ad notes there are “100 million plus-size women in this country. The time has come for real inclusivity.” 

A January 2017 poll commissioned by Dia & Co. of 1,500 self-identified plus-size adult women who are not customers of the service revealed that 78 percent would be willing to spend more money on plus-size clothes if more designers offered the sizing, and 72 percent don’t believe that clothes are designed with the average woman in mind. 

The ad is a bold move sure to at least be seen by industry insiders at fashion week. That should include Kate Spade, Tommy Hilfiger, Kenneth Cole and Diane Von Furstenburg, who were identified in the poll as designers from whom the women were most interested in seeing extended sizes.

Your move, designers. 

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White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway defended President Donald Trump attacking Nordstrom for dropping his daughter’s fashion line, telling Americans on Thursday to “go buy Ivanka’s stuff.”

Trump had gone after Nordstrom the day before, complaining that the store had stopped selling his daughter’s merchandise and that she “has been treated so unfairly.” His tweet about the subject, which was soon retweeted by the official White House Twitter account, immediately raised further ethical concerns about Trump’s presidency and his family’s businesses.

Conway essentially turned her Thursday morning appearance on Fox News into an infomercial, defending Ivanka Trump as “an incredibly creative, talented woman” and talking about buying the brand’s products. 

“I do find it ironic that you have got some executives all over the internet bragging about what they have done to her and her line, and yet, they are using the most prominent woman in Donald Trump’s, you know, most prominent his daughter, using her, who has been a champion for women empowerment of women in the workplace, to get to him,” Conway said. “I think people could see through that. Go buy Ivanka’s stuff! I hate shopping, and I will go get some myself today.”

“It is just a wonderful line. I own some of it,” she added. “I fully, I’m going to give a free commercial here. Go buy it today, everybody. You can find it online.”

In doing so, Conway may have violated a rule stating that federal officials cannot use public office to sell products.

“An employee shall not use or permit the use of his Government position or title or any authority associated with his public office to endorse any product, service or enterprise,” the law states. 

The Trump administration has refused to address the numerous conflicts of interest that create the appearance that the president and his family could profit from his position.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Wednesday sidestepped questions about the ethics of Trump’s statement, claiming it was justified because Nordstrom’s decision to pull Ivanka Trump’s merchandise was “a direct attack on his policies in her name” and that the president “has every right to stand up for his family.”

Nordstrom has said that the decision to drop the fashion line was related to low sales, not in protest of the Trump administration’s policies.

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Some pictures say a thousand words. Others say 10 incredibly powerful ones.

Actress Kathreen Khavari attended the Hollywood premiere of her HBO miniseries “Big Little Lies” on Tuesday, wearing a dress painted with the words, “My Iranian immigrant mother teaches your kids how to read.”

Iran, from which Khavari says she immigrated “as a fetus,” is one of seven nations named in President Donald Trump’s travel ban. Khavari’s parents immigrated through Scotland to the U.S., she wrote on Instagram, adding the tags “#noban #nowall #fucktrump #tbt.” 

Her premiere dress was “brought to you by the threat of a fascist America,” she wrote, noting that “acrylic paint looks great on clothes.”

Khavari’s Instagram shows more of her political activism via clothing. Here she is wearing what looks like the same handwritten font on a shirt at the Women’s March in Los Angeles in January:

And here she is later that same month, wearing a “Muslim White Male Registry” T-shirt. She said in the comments that she made it herself. 

Khavari joins the likes of Kerry Washington and Simon Helberg in making their voices and opinions heard on the red carpet. We have a feeling there’s plenty more where this came from. 

We’ve reached out to Khavari for comment; this post may be updated. 

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Scarlett Johansson knows how to stand out.

The 32-year-old actress looked sharp in a black pantsuit with a plunging white neckline at the amfAR gala in New York City Wednesday. Johansson kept her makeup and accessories simple and let her 16-carat Harry Winston earrings do all the talking: 

Johansson and Donatella Versace were both honored for their work with HIV/AIDS at the gala. 

“I’ve actually never had the pleasure of meeting Donatella in person, although I’ve worn several of her pieces before [to events] and she’s very soulful,” Johansson told Women’s Wear Daily. “She’s a very soulful person. This is the first time I’ve ever met her. Isn’t that funny?”

Many other celebs and models turned up for the event at Cipriani Wall Street, including Adriana Lima, Iman, Alessandra Ambrosio, Victoria Justice, Paris Hilton and more. Check out all their gorgeous looks below: 

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After seeing his newborn grandson’s monthly growth photos, this hilarious grandpa wanted to get in on the action.

Every month, Mary Beth Valuk has been embroidering her son Luke’s age onto onesies to document his first year in a photo collage.

“My dad has said to me for some time that he wanted a matching one for his birthday, so he and Luke could take a picture,” Mary Beth told The Huffington Post.

So, when her father, Bob Graham, turned 57 this week, she granted his wish.

Mary Beth sent a photo of “Grampy” and Luke in their matching embroidered outfits to her husband, Matt, who posted the photo on Reddit.

“I thought it was hilarious,” he told HuffPost. “I showed all my co-workers, and they got a good laugh, too. I threw it up on Reddit on a lark before I went to sleep and woke up and it had a bunch of upvotes, so other people clearly thought it was funny too.”

Matt said he hopes people get a laugh out of the photo and that they appreciate his wife’s creativity.

According to the Valuks, Bob has been enjoying his Reddit stardom. Said Matt, “Grampy said he’s ‘blowing up like a Samsung phone’ and loved the fact he was ‘internet famous’ for a day.”

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