Recently I was clicking through some of the Met Gala’s best looks (because that’s what people do when they’re waiting for a meeting to start…don’t they?) and came across Rachel McAdams’ name. (Yes, I am just that late to catching up on […]

I’ve always thought that photography is the perfect way to capture a moment as perfectly as it can be. When I was a senior in college, I forced myself to stay up until the designated 2am window when I could begin to […]

I will be the first to admit: fashion is an investment. Sure, we’ve all been sucked into buying those $2 tank tops and $5 sale tops during one clearance event or another and walked out of the store thinking “Yes!  Deal of […]

A handful of years ago, I was studying the History of Decorative Art and Design through a program based at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York.  The spring of my first year there the museum was preparing for a big […]

Let’s face it: there’s really nothing more attractive than a perfectly tailored anything—a dress, a suit, a blouse, pair of pants.  When it comes to tailoring, Giorgio Armani is perhaps the best of all, and we all know it.  After all, he’s […]

I am perhaps one of the least makeup-minded people I know. I have friends who have veritable arsenals of products—little pots of this and little tubes of that and crazy contraptions meant to enhance this or curl that—and who spend a lot […]

Founded in 1968, the Anne Klein label is most-known for its sportswear—in the early 1970s the company came out with a mix-and-match line that quickly changed how designers (and consumers) looked at sportswear. Not exactly known for taking risks in the world […]

Sometimes fashion is about what’s new and hot, and sometimes it’s about the underdog. Sometimes it’s about the seasoned designer, sometimes it’s about the newcomer, and sometimes—like today’s profile—it’s about the comeback kid. Gemma Kahng was born and raised in South Korea. […]

Issey Miyake is perhaps one of the designers that has best been able to join together the world of East and West. Born in 1938 in Hiroshima, Japan, Miyake studied graphic design at Tokyo’s Tama Art University, where he first started designing […]

If there’s one thing in fashion we here at Rice and Beans Vintage love nothing more than to wax poetic on, it is absolutely, utterly, and completely on the subject of Vintage Chanel handbags. They are eternally fashionable, always in style, and […]