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Go! Run, don’t walk! Today is the day… The one and only Manolo sample sale. If you’re reading this over your morning coffee, you may already be too late! The masses have already gathered. If you’re just arriving now, you’ll see that the early birds probably have different colored tickets from yours and that can’t be a good thing. Do you have the patience to wait it out? Did your boss really believe that excuse (cough, cough) you gave over the phone? Sick? Try sick with anxiety! Is someone in that room scooping up every last pair in your size? Is everyone else a size 36 too?? Read the rest of this entry »

Victoria’s Secret Swim 2011 Push-Up Collection. Featuring model Candice Swanepoel.

The first TV ad for the Chloé Perfume ( Eau de Parfum ) Read the rest of this entry »

I’m starting the countdown now. The Saks flagship store on Fifth Avenue is opening a whole new shoe floor in August! That’s 8,500 square feet of shopping heaven — a 35% expansion from the current shoe department — so vast that it is getting its own zip code and commemorative stamps. (Gimmicky I know…) It’s as exciting as when Harvey Nicks finally opened a shoe department in the late ’90s, just as I was moving from London, I should note. Can you imagine, Harvey Nicks with without its fabulous shoes? Even though I couldn’t complain about the shoes I bought at Harrods and Selfridges, I still am filled with regret when I think about how I was deprived all those years before… Read the rest of this entry »

The typically more daring and edgier designers showed pretty tame and mellow collections for Fall 2011. Aside from Chalayan’s LED-operated, light-up dress, Yohji’s LV logo knock-off and twirling skirts, and Margiela’s extreme 80’s silhouettes, the usual in-your-face designers seemed a tad bit lethargic this season.

-Queen of the avant garde, Comme des Garcons’ Rei Kawakubo told Style.com that she is “tired of mundane, everyday fashion.” Since when was she ever a conformist? CDG’s show started with adorable, light, springy(?), dresses in lilac, pink and grey with tiny baby dresses sewn onto their fronts. Others had puffy flowers and bows sewn on them. Her long caridigans were also great. Not so great were the shirts and skirts with creepy hands attached. That certainly is not mundane! Read the rest of this entry »