Archive for the ‘FASHION’ Category

I know people who won’t shop sales thinking: If I didn’t like it enough to buy it when it was expensive, I shouldn’t clutter up my life with it now, just cause its cheap. AND, also, the good stuff doesn’t go on sale.

Eh, I don’t agree.

I scored both these shoes on MAJOR MAJOR sale in the post holiday sale bonanza. Who cares if its winter and they are LAST SEASON? My rule for sale buying is get something either so basic it transcends seasons and time (In addition to scoring both of these, I also found Jil Sander trousers for around $100 bucks and a white button down from The Row for 75+++off) or something so fun and trendy that you just wouldn’t spend a serious amount of money on it, but for a good price you’d do it.

Another good idea is to buy things ahead of time for your kids in a size bigger for the next year, like winter coats and cashmere sweaters. You can also stockpile bathing suits at the end of summer…

Follow my rules of 1. Boring and Basic, or 2. Cheap & Cheerful and sale shopping will be very rewarding!

Enter: Reed Krakoff pony hair mules and Dries van Noten orange, blue, python, tortoise shell concoction. And I realize they are essentially the same shoe just different colors and textures.

I don’t know why I inexplicably dislike Reed Krakoff, the man, even though I like the things he makes… You can read my comprehensive  report (not really) on him and see photos of his house and art collection HERE.

As for the Dries, I really wish I had the ones with the orange lucite heel… and while these are really a fall shoe, I’m not cool enough to wear them how they were worn on the runway with black and white zebra striped socks (HERE), so I’ll just save them for warmer weather. Like here on my vacation.

Im only blogging because my husband is watching an NFL Award show! WTF is this? I’m like Miranda on her honeymoon when she just can turn off her brain. Ok, now I’m turning off. Going to read Kelly Cutrone’s book. I’ll report back.

Have a great weekend, and enjoy the Super Bowl!

 

 

Now, I’m by no means a fashion blogger, but I wanted to post this shot, cause I hit upon outfit bliss here. It was a glorious 60 degrees in NYC this week, so I got to bust out my shrunken vintage brown leather jacket (it was literally $80 downtown and its a dead ringer for this Balenciaga motorcycle jacket, in fact mine is a little cooler.)

The white jeans are by Rag & Bone and they are sort of waxy, which kind of makes them less see-through to things like cellulite. Ive actually never worn white jeans before this, now I’m hooked. The belt came with a pair of Zara trousers, the briefcase-y bag is Lanvin and the shirt is Madewell.

Do you ever hit upon outfit bliss and then wear the same thing on and off for days straight? Cause I do. And this is one of those.

I’m off on a little family vaca this week, but I have everything all planned out in advance. So don’t worry. Sketch42 will be up and running!

Have a great weekend!

Do you believe I take pictures of random middle aged tourists walking the streets of New York? Cause I do. This dude has probably had this thing since his first job out of college.

If its brown and its leather, lord knows I like it. 

 

I’ll be back with more posting later, this was just a little tidbit to keep you happy until I think of something good to write about. Even I get stumped sometimes. Some ideas: I could post new paintings, thoughts on the NYIGF, new clothes I score on sale, ummmm, another sneak peek at Bachelor pad, thoughts on RHOBH recap (although my opinions are so strong on the matter I don’t know if you want to hear them!), my new obsession with Downton Abbey…Blogging is like having a little term paper due every morning at 6 am. You do the best work when you plan ahead (naturally) but there are some days when you are just scrambling at 1 am. I schedule my posts from the night before, I know some of you think I wake up at 6 am to blog. Not even close. The truth is I’m still up at 2 writing it for the next day!

Ok, your turn, give me some ideas people.

 

In my previous post, I included two photos that I found on a random tumblr with no way to trace them…. A reader informed me they were from the Wildfox look books and that I should check em out because I would LOVE the photos. Um, yea… I DO!

The brand was created by childhood girlfriends Emily Faulstich and Kimberly Gordon, all grown up, and inspired by sleepovers, fairies, dreams, vintage t-shirts… The LA based girls thought the world of fashion “has gotten really serious in the world of fashion, and it was time for a change!”

While I’m not really the fairies, diaries and sleepovers kinda girl, I do love these photos. They are so fun, and just so LA, in a good way. If I weren’t the NYC bitch that I am, I would totally be a California hippie chick, granola as all get out…

How fun? I would love to see more interior design shot in fun ways like this… like Selby-esque but with less crap everywhere… If it were up to me, every interior shot would have a person in it, and not just a prim decorator or homeowner  posing casually (no disrespect, I’ve been that person!) but cool photographs… with fashion and humor, edge and sex appeal. I get that the point of design magazines is to show us the space, but with all the close cropped vignette photos out there, one would think we could branch out a bit and maybe spice it up a bit.

Visit Wildfox HERE.

 

 

Yesterday I snapped a few shots of my friend Claudy of C&C Closet Concierge hailing a cab… That suede raspberry PS1 is heavenly. Also love the scarf, which apparently she bought on the street… Note the fingerless gloves, a must have for iPhone users. Check out her daily style picks HERE. 

Life in NYC… Hailing a cab in a light drizzle, while the world whirs by…. A part of me wishes that cab wasn’t in the picture so it could have just been her with the buses and cars blurring past… OH well… Im still learning… bear with me!