April's W&W10 Partner: GEMS

GEMS (Girls' Educational and Mentoring Services) "mission is to empower girls and young women, ages 12–24, who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking to exit the commercial sex industry and develop to their full potential. GEMS is committed to ending commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking of children by changing individual lives, transforming public perception, and revolutionizing the systems and policies that impact sexually exploited youth." (Extracted from their vision & mission page, here.)

Ending commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking is something we feel passionate about here at The Wise and Wearfores. We're also art admirers and supporters of creative expression, especially when it's used to give people a voice that are otherwise voiceless to share their experiences. So when we saw GEMS art book: Breaking the Silence we knew it was a unique way to support them as our W&W10 partner for April.

Reasons to own a bike...

Spring's here and if you live in a big city your love for bikes is being awakened. Mine definitely has! I've been thinking about buying a bike for the past couple of weeks and I'm usually pleasantly surprised whenever I see someone stylishly rolling past me on their bike. So as if I needed more reasons to want a bike I stumbled upon Downtown from Behind.

Here's a sneak peek at their fashion and bike photo collection...

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Spring is here!

The air has changed. Days are longer. The sun is playing more and we love the way things wake up again for Spring, including our creativity & longings for inspiration. So we're putting together a list of must read blogs about fashion, food, etc. Stay tuned!

As we've been putting this together, this little cutey made its way into my inbox, so I just had to share!

(image from FellowFellow, please click to check it out)

"Durch die blume" means "through the flowers" in German. So take some time to stroll through the flowers this Spring. We know we will!

London FW 2012

(Mary Katrantzou)

Any thoughts on London Fashion Week?

Sneakers at NYFW

I spotted these sneaker wedges on a Nylon feature about street style at NYFW. My mind did a double take. Are sneaker wedges making a come back? Love them or loathe them. Let us know.

We can't decide which NYFW show is our favorite. So we wanted to know which ones yours. Leave us a comment and tell us why your fave show is swoon worthy.

Take a peek at Refinery 29's 10 favorites...