Archive for January 2010
Pink Perfection – P!nk Steals the Grammy Show
Gawd, I just love P!nk and she sure put on the show to end all shows at the 2010 Grammy Awards. This production is, to put it mildly, PHENOMENAL! You go gurl, I love your no fear attitude, you so rock and you always do it with style!
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Armani Prive Spring/Summer 2010: Pure Elegance
Armani, sublimely elegant and beautiful as always. I die for the sleek pearl white gown, it is divine. The silver jacket and pants… perfection. There was a lavender gown close to the end of the show that was also gorgeous but it unfortunately doesn’t appear in this video. Tina Turner puts in an appearance and she’s as HAUTE as ever!
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Elegant and Useful Embroidered Chinese Silk!
We just got in a shipment of most divine Chinese silk jewelry rolls in a brand new design. You gotta check these out, the embroidery on them is just gorgeous!
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Givenchy Does Paris, Loses Self
I’m torn on this one, I liked half of it and though I didn’t really dislike any of it, I wasn’t exactly wild about it either. I do love all the purple gowns, especially the dark royal purple with the sequined bodice, and the lavender one that follows with the uber-ruffled hem is a lot of fun.
I don’t like the new trend of wide ruffles down the sides of a dress (Chloë Sevigny wore a similar Valentino to the Golden Globes and I hated it). They put me in mind of those carnival games where you throw a softball at a stuffed “thing” with feathers around the edges meant to fool you into thinking the target is bigger than it is. The dresses accomplish the same thing, and in this case just as at the carnival, the loser is just about everyone who chooses to play the game.
In my opinion, there’s not much in this collection elegant enough to be worthy of Audrey Hepburn. They’ve lost the essence of Givenchy that we all know and love.
Filed under: Style
Art Appreciation 101: Haute Couture
Abe Gurko of the Huffington Post certainly doesn’t understand Haute Couture and its value as artistic expression. After reading this article I was inclined to leave a comment, which I thought I’d also share here to help out those who just don’t “get it.”
“Haute Couture is the art of fashion, not the function. Few wear Haute Couture, even among those who can afford it… it influences fashion trends rather than defining them. Just as you don’t need to own a Picasso to admire Picasso’s art, neither do you need to own a Dior gown to admire Galliano’s art. Art can be defined in many ways and exists in many forms, and each has its own intrinsic value as “art,” whether it be created from metal, the written word, oil paint or textiles. Those who choose to live their life without appreciating art in all its many manifestations deny themselves a very large part of the simple enjoyment of living.”
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The Little Black Dress Turns Silver at Chanel
A snippet of the Chanel walk at Paris Fashion Week. Love the silvers and dove gray, especially the silver legs! And I love Karl, who is my favorite fashion icon of all time. He’s the perfect king to reign over the fashion world, a mythical character that even the wildest imagination couldn’t conjur.
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The Value of Testing Your Shopping Cart (or “DSW SUCKS”)
So, I’ve got a splitting headache between working on the site and inhaling enamel fumes, so I decide I need to take “the cure.” My cure? Shopping of course! Duh!
I wanted to try somewhere new so I traipsed on over to DSW (you’ll have to find it yourself, I will not link to them) because I’ve never shopped there and we’re getting into “Boot Sale Season.” I figured I might be able to pick up a few goodies I could review on the site for you guys.
So, I spend some time checking out every pair of boots on the site, and of course take a gander at the handbags. When I figure I’ve used up all the “free time” I can allow myself to get away with, I trim my $1000 cart (which included a killer pair of booties of which there was *one* pair left… in MY size!) down to $300 or so (no reason to go nuts on a first-time experience) and proceed to check out. I fill everything out as I have five million times before and the cart throws me an error. This particular error *really* puzzles me so I recheck everything to make sure I didn’t typo something (maybe I’m still buzzed from the fumes). Everything looks fine.
I click. Error.
I check AGAIN. Everything IS fine. ABSOLUTELY PERFECT.
I click. Error.
Well now. Apparently PA has seceded from the U.S. and nobody told me. At least that’s what DSW insists… my simple address at which I’ve lived for six years and used in umpteenthousand shopping carts is not a U.S. address. News to me! Maybe I’d better alert the Philadelphia Inquirer, I’m sure it will be news to them as well.
Might want to do something as simple as testing your cart, DSW. This stupidity not only lost you a sale, it earned you some really bad press, which I will be sharing with my Twitter peeps as soon I post this.
My time is precious to me, much too precious to be wasted by a lame website that can’t be bothered to play by “Site Building 101″ rules. So, dear readers, I suggest you don’t take the chance of wasting yours either… shop somewhere else! ANYWHERE else!
Now… anybody know where I can get a pair of these cute Steve Madden booties in a 8.5? Anywhere other than DSW, of course.
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