Kevin Lennox

The vitaminwater zero project continues.  This time I finally get up close and personal with the three founders of the fantastic website urbanmamas.  Olivia, Hau and Sarah are each brilliant, busy ladies who have three kids apiece, and still find time to create this website/blog that is a super useful resource for tons of other mamas in the area.  I seriously don't know how they do it all.

However, as you will see from the video, one thing that has lapsed a bit in their lives is each mama's respective style quotient, which makes sense.  As devoted moms, these women always put their kids first, which is as it should be, but that does not mean they should never take time for themselves to feel pretty or pulled together.  I am a firm believer that occasionally making yourself feel good as a individual, makes you a better person and in turn a better, more fulfilled parent.

I'm not saying long days at the spa, or countless afternoons on shopping sprees, but as I mention in these videos, just making small little decisions to better yourself each day can have a huge chain reaction effect.  So sit back, get comfortable, and watch 10 minutes of my brilliance that of course starts out with the most fashionable reference in all the land:  A Turducken.

Recently I was asked to be on AM Northwest again to talk about Lands' End great back to school clothing for kids.  If you're a faithful reader/watcher of my blog, you know I've talked about a lot of Lands' End gear, but this is the first time I've ever talked about it in one of their stores.  It was actually a much easier experience than I thought it would be.

We filmed the segment at the Lands' End store in Sears at Washington Square a few days in advance of it airing, so we at least had the benefit of doing a couple of takes to get it right.  Surprisingly we had very little issues with shoppers messing up the segment, although one take was ruined by a little girl standing running into the shot, but what are you gonna do?

Anyway, all went well, and the kids seriously looked adorable.  Especially Breanna in that trench at the end.  I mean a ruffled trench coat for a seven year old?  Ridiculous... in a good way.

A local gay publication in Portland called Just Out very kindly asked me to be a fashion columnist for their publication.  The behind the scenes is I am good friends with one of their regular contributors, the fabulous Daniel Borgen aka Lady About Town, and he convinced them they needed fashion and I was the person to give it to them.  D-Borgen is always a stand up chap like that.

At first I was reticent to say the least.  Not only am I not a trained writer in the slightest, but I am good friends with some really wonderful, and truly talented, professional writers, which makes me worry I will be devaluing them by daring to claim myself a columnist. Especially from my dear friend Nan, a breezily brilliant, and always witty writer in NYC.  She's the real deal when it comes to fashion commentary.  What would this peerless peer think?

Ultimately I decided, "Why not?"  I've been slowly building my fashion brand in the Rose City in as many diverse ways as possible, and this would just be another feather in my fashionable chapeau.  So, it's with this disclaimer, I present to you my first piece as a columnist (that's right I used the term)- Advice On Fashion: A Disclaimer.

This week I went to Dave Scott's house out in Mo-La-Lla, and boy is that a drive.  Fortunately Dave and his wife Mary were very welcoming, especially while I was ripping Dave's closet apart.  Well, not so much ripping, but I did go over the good, the bad and the pleated with him to help re-direct his style sensibility.  To be honest Dave's closet was not as bad as I had feared, but there were some not so cute pieces as you'll see in the video.  Hope you find it fun and perhaps informative.  Next up will be our fabulous shopping trip to Banana Republic, the quintessential bastion of business casual.

The first part of this project has started!  KINK FM is moving offices, and their new building has a strict business casual policy.  Now, I think for a lot of people this wouldn't be a big deal, but keep in mind these are DJ's we're talking about here, and DJ's in the Northwest no less.  Sheila is fabulous 100% all of the time, so she doesn't need help, but her co-host Dave Scott.....  uh......  not quite so fab.  As you can see from this video of our first meeting, I have some work to do.  Check it out, my closet intervention is up next.  Had to go out to Molalla for that one.  And yes, Molalla is as remote as it sounds.