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You can say it’s cute. It sure is but at the same time it’s just DUMP.I would even say this is more ridiculous than Victoria Beckham’s pink dress.
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Chanel launched their Pre-Fall collection last week in London. And let me say that this is a huge improvement comparing to their Spring/Summer collection this year.
Check out the entire collection here.
Moët & Chandon’s SoHo “Boutique Moët” - a store where consumers can have a bottle of champagne personalised with Swarovski crystals. It opened on Saturday, December 1, and will run on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays through December 30. Consumers can bring a pre-purchased bottle of Moët here (the boutique itself doesn’t sell any champagne) and have it customized it with a message (up to seven characters for $30). The bottles can then be picked up within two days, or can be delivered anywhere in Manhattan by messenger.
It’s hard to keep the Christmas spirit up when you go shopping in central London. I had to divide my gift-hunting between a few adventurous trips. Not only because of the fact that I had a list of 20 gifts to buy but also due to the enormous crowds everywhere. Fortunately unlike in America (sorry Keisha!) people do not go crazy in the shops here and so far there were no fatalities.
Being proud for doing well and sticking to the budget I decided to reward myself with some pretty underwear. Sadly I think I did it about 3 times this week which was 2 times more than I was supposed to and does not look too good on my credit card statement.
I think it’s time I confessed. I’m addicted to pretty underwear however kicking the habit is NOT on my New-Years-Resolution list. Not for 2008. Staying within the budget on the other hand ….
I’m not a fan of their plaid items or logo shirts, but I love Burberry trench coats.
Not this one though…
You can have this beauty for $7,147.00 USD at NeimanMarcus.com. Such a bargain!
Among the bright colours on offer for spring, fuchsia stands out as the must-have for shoes - breaking up autumn’s ubiquitous grey. From Jimmy Choo to Christian Lacroix (seen here) this unique shade of pink will add a festive accent.
Gail Sorronda, Spring-Summer 2008.
I’m loving these from Erin Fetherston.
“Silver matte sequins embroidered on a fitted hand-knit merino wool cap. 100%”
As a Polish citizen I feel entitled and to some point obliged to write this post. I am still suffering severe trauma after what I saw tonight in a bar in East London.
Stereotypical Polish girl abroad:
painfully blond hair (sometimes with black highlights)
ridiculously short skirt (preferably black)
super tight fitting top (ideally transparent)
white pointy high heel boots with fur and glitter
Too much make up, too much alcohol, not enough brain cells.
I’m ashamed. Ashamed to a point where I refuse to post a picture.
I design websites professionally. I don’t claim to be born for design, but 50 to 60 hours a week in the design groove gives me an understanding for it, and I have a good sense of what’s contemporary, and can therefore tend to output work that is right for now.
It’s accepted wisdom that those who design, and those who do business, don’t always see eye-to-eye. One may want X, the other Y. Whether the designer gets his/her X or Y by project’s end usually depends on how strong the designer is; how committed to his/her creation he/she is, OR, how much carte blanche the businessperson has committed to giving; how much the businessperson trusts the designer, or how little the businessperson trusts their own sense of taste (rare!).
(I once worked on a project where a senior director gave us his colour opinions, which varied quite a lot from the palette preferred by the designers. But as he was a director, we moved towards his colour choice, and up a cul-de-sac… only to learn afterwards that the director in question was colourblind.)
So, I had such a clash of designer v business this week, and the finished product isn’t to anyone’s liking. I proposed my design, it was rejected, and another proffered by client, which I initially rejected, but… because I’m not the paymaster, I felt I had to accept and produce (my bad!). So, though I’ve had a good week on the whole, in terms of new business, getting through backlog, and producing some nice stuff, this has left my week tarnished, as I sit here on this Friday evening, blogging about it all. (Yes, I’m going out for a few beers later!)
But I now sense a change. That change manifested itself at about 7pm on Thursday evening, when in pitching a new project to an existing client, I stipulated along with such mainstays as: client provides text, client responsible for staff photographs etc; the new, never-before-seen in any pitch I’ve issued stipulation: that I be given artistic autonomy, that I be allowed to make the call on what’s right and wrong. Sure, if I’m making such a fuck-up that it’s irreparable later, do tell me; but if it’s about the density of the background shading in the 10 pixel square area behind the letter P, then you’re micromanaging the work, I’m being paid as a monkey-do, and you’re forgetting to manage your own day-to-day.
This was a departure. It was also a bloody relief. Now, my client has yet to respond, I may be told to PFO given that they’re about to spend X thousand on this venture, with my design fronting the whole thing, but here’s hoping they don’t, and that for me this is a new dawn.
Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola has rolled out this beauty, a snip at just under US$7,000. She’s become a big name of late, creating designs for big-name-industry types like Kartell, B&B Italia and Alessi and Morosso.
