Carven / Resort 2012

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Maison de Carven, more than just mildly obsessed. Someone at Carven got into my head Being John Malkovitch style…. Bows on all shoes, floral crowns and braided hair do’s, 60s inspired baby doll dresses and suits… Are you kidding me?? #mylife  Uhh P.S. I’d LOVE to go back in time to the 1960s and bring Mia Farrow some pieces from this collection.

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D.I.Y.: Minx Manicure from Sephora by O.P.I.

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The Minx manicure is what started my whole diy nail insanity! You know Minx, worn by avid fans such as Katy Perry, Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Eve, Megan Fox, Mariah Carrey, Blake Lively, Fergie, etc…. A few weeks ago, I went to Extremedy’s nail salon, in West Hollywood, for a professional Minx mani. While I was happy with the results, I knew I could do the same thing myself – Cut to a few days later when I randomly go into Sephora and see that they teamed up with Minx and Opi to make the same sorta thing. Click to Continue Reading

PFW 2011: Givenchy, Balmain, Dior, OH MY!

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This last week at Paris Fashion Week, Fall/Winter 2011 has definitely been one for the books !

Cha cha cha changesss

Balmain

• Where were you last Thursday? I was en route to get lunch with my bffer Sabrina and will always remember that day as the day I heard my god/hero, Balmain’s Christope Decarnin, left in office one day in January and never returned.  On the way to lunch I read that he was in a mental hospital, which i’m not going to lie devastated me ! I was probably not enjoyable to eat with (Sorry Sabrina!), as I was hooked to Twitter, reading tweets and opinions on why/how Christophe did not show up to his Balmain F/W 2011 show.  We later found out that dear Christophe had just been released from the hospital, most likely due to depression and exhaustion.

Dior

• Everyone has heard this by now: John Galliano was suspended, then fired for making racist anti-semite remarks on film. Click to Continue Reading

The Knock Off Report Vol. 3

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Knock (off)?! Knock (off)?! Who’s there? Steve Madden, Louboutin, House of Harlow and more!

Dear readers!
Your favorite secret agent, MOI, is back with investigation #3! (#1 can be found here and #2 can be found here).

Where there is a knock off, I WILL find it! Kisses my poodles!

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Lauren Click to Continue Reading

Trend Report: Rain Boots

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NOT YOUR GRANDMOTHER‘S RAIN BOOTS !

Rain boots are everywhere these days, but not just your average run of the mill rain boots, fashionable, comfy, and wearable rain boots! (Um hello, motorcycle and riding rain boots, count me in!) Here are my pics for the chicest rain boots for 2010 -

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Trend Report: Best Cross Body and Shoulder Bags of 2010/2011

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Trend Report: Cross Body slash Shoulder Bags – July 26th, 2010. It all started with the hipsters … (Well it actually started with the Chanel 2.55 flap bag 70 years ago, but that’s another story) …

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How Christian Louboutin got his groove back

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Call me Lauren Bradshaw, as Carrie and I have so much in common we could be sisters, besides the fact that I have never liked Manolo Blahnik !

It is NO secret that I have a major shoe obsession, from the age of 5 on my dad told me I was going to be the American Imelda Marcos.  (*Imelda Marcos was the wife of Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines.  She owned over 3,000 pairs of shoes.)

I would like to think of myself as a shoe collector, rather than a shoe hoarder, as a family member accused me of being last week.  All shoes are equal opportunity with me: If you were to look in my closet, I have shoes ranging from 2$ (from Singapore) to over a thousand.

I don’t know why I love shoes so much?  Shoes just… make me happy !  They always fit and most times look amazing, one can turn a simple black dress or a more plain outfit into something extraordinary with just the right shoe, they give me extra height, which I need desperately as I am 5’3″ (My saying to my mom who calls my shoes “Puerto Rican fence climbers”, = the higher the better !), and they are just plain fun.

For a long time, Mr. Louboutin was my go to shoe designer, but then I feel he had down time (like Marc Jacobs did before and after rehab).  I had no choice but to look to other shoe designers, such as Miu Miu, Givenchy, Charlotte Olympia, Alexander Wang, Dolce Vita, YSL, Zara, Fendi, Nicholas Kirkwood, etc, because the Loubie shoe selection was just not doing it for me.

Another reason why I haven’t been down with the Loubies, is that while I have been guilty of spending 800-900$ for a pair of shoes, I don’t want to spend over 1,000$, for a pair of shoes that will get ruined.  It has been ironic to me that during one of our worst economic depressions, the price of shoes has gone up to some designers charging 1800-2200$ per pair of shoes.  I.E: I have no interest to buy a pair of mediocre heels, that don’t excite me or give me dreams for 1,200$.

Finally, after a year or so, I do believe that Christian Louboutin, the god of shoes, has got his grove back, like Stella :-)

And yes, the following shoes are proven to induce rapid heart beat, temporary change in blood pressure, and lucid dreams !

*I fear I might need, not want, the above pink spikey heels.

The Knock Off Report vol. 2: Knock (off), Knock (off), Who’s there? Dolce Vita, Chloe, Marc Jacobs and more!

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Dear Readers,

Your favorite secret agent, MOI, is back with investigation #2! (#1 can be found here) … Where there is a knock off, I WILL find it!

Kisses my poodles,
Lauren Click to Continue Reading

The Knock Off Report vol. 1: Knock (off), Knock (off), Who’s there? Balmain, Chloe, Alexander Wang and more!

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Knock Knock

Whose there?

Jeffrey

Jeffrey who?

Jeffrey Campbell, I copied your designs!

This whole post is dedicated to my cousin, Katie. If it hadn’t been for her sending me a picture of Jeffrey Campbell shoes she wanted, I would of never looked at his website and have total DEJA VU from other designers shoes.

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Celebrity Style: Where did Ciara and Rihanna in Givenchy and Viktor & Rolf

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Ciara and Rihanna at the 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards – Salute To Icons Honoring Doug Morris held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 30, 2010 in Beverly Hills

 

Spring 2010 Couture Givenchy Lara Stone

 

Spring 2010 Ready-to-Wear Viktor & Rolf Aminata Niaria

 

 

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Truffles on the Web: Karl Lagerfeld’s new hotel, Tavi’s hat at Fashion Week

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TRUFFLES OF NEWS:

Ms. Gevinson, age 13.

♥ @Grazia_live took this picture at the Dior Spring Summer 2010 haute couture fashion show, this last Monday, January 25th, 2010 and twitter to Grazia readers worldwide: “not happy to watch couture through 13 year old Tavi’s hat”. Tavi defended herself on her blog saying: “I had no intentions of blocking the views of people behind me but it didn’t block any views-I’m SHORT, so watching the show behind me would be like watching it through a regular-sized adult, but better, because adult heads do not have holes in them. Other than the stinky cheese man, from that one book, from like, second grade, or something. My dad was sitting next to the Grazia writer that tweeted this picture and said there shouldn’t have been any problems in seeing the clothes, but I’m pretty sure she or he was joking, anyway?”.

Birthdays today: Grace Fernandez, Daisy Lowe (daughter of Pearl Lowe and Gavin Rosdale, Moses Farrow, Lisa Love (Editor of Teen Vogue), Narcisco Rodriguez, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Steve Wynn (Hotel Mogul), and my grandpa, Edward Longley.

This weeks couture lineup in Paris, France has so far been:

January 25th – Alexis Mabille, Anne Valerie Hash, Christian Dior

January 26th – Armani Prive, Chanel, Givenchy

January 27th – Ellie Saab, Valentino, Jean Paul Gaultier

♥ The Victoria & Albert museum is hosting an exhibit on Grace Kelly with Van Cleef & Arpels. Grace’s dresses and jewels from 1960 and 1970 will be on display from April 17th 2010- September 26th 2010.

♥ Awww Ugly Betty has been cancelled :(

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen announced Tuesday that they’ll be putting on their first-ever fashion show next month, but that isn’t their only big story this week. The Row’s new Web site went live today. Created in collaboration with Matthew Daniel Siskin of designedmemory, the interactive design studio behind Chris Benz, Genevieve Jones, and Albertus Swanepoel’s sites, the new therow.com is as subtly cool as one of the designer sisters’ $250 Supima cotton jersey short-sleeved T-shirts. In fact, the site’s different backgrounds are full-frame images of fabrics from the collection. It’s not set up for e-commerce just yet, but the Olsens assure us that it will be by late summer, in time to sell their Fall collection. MK and Ashley get techy with us below. – Style.com

♥ Frida Giannini, Gucci, has announced that she wants to start a couture collection for Gucci, but in Milan, not Paris.

♥ Want to know what Obama’s plans are for the US? Tune into the State of the Union address tonight.

Karl Lagerfeld is apparently building something on an island in Dubai, and to make this situation more weird, Victoria Beckham might be designing a hotel for this island. Dubai has an island that is fashion themed called, Isla Moda… interesting. Armani is opening its first design hotel in Dubai March 18th and Ellie Saab plans t open his hotel next year (part of the Tiger Woods Dubai resort, Al Ruwaya), this is so weird to me ! What will it be called? Lager Land, Karl Kove, Lake Lagerfeld?

Nick Knight, owner of ShowStudio.com , will be working with Rodarte and Alexander Wang for Fashion Week 2010 in Nyc February during Feb. Nick was the man responsible for Alexander Mcqueen’s backdrop during his alien-ish show during Spring Summer 2010 fashion show.

♥ There will be a big tribute to Michael Jackson this Sunday at the Grammys. Michael’s kids are rumored to show up for this.

♥ Santa Barbara native, Cameron Douglas, 31, son of Michael Douglas, confessed to dealing coke and meth last year in NYC. He is looking at a minimum of 10 years in jail.

Movie Premiers tonight in LA: When In Rome, starring Kristen Bell and Josh Duahamel and Edge of Darkness starring Mel Gibson.

♥ Fashion Indie blogger’s friends abroad in Italy have found Coca-Cola bottles inprinted with Missoni’s design.

Independent.co.uk

Fashionista.com

Fashionindie.com/coca-cola-wears-missoni-in-florence-italy/

Trend Report: Celebs Sport Spikes

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Fashion takes a dangerous turn !

Spikes are appearing everywhere these days! I am not sure how I feel about this trend yet, but I do not suggest wearing anything too spiky or dangerous in public :)

 

Looks from Winter 2009

Looks from Winter 2009

who wears spikes

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Men of Style: Los Angeles Winter 2010

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Elliot Hans Johnson, L.A. native and designer of Literature Noir, with wife Kaya leaving Maestro's in Beverly Hills - Alexander 'Silver Fox' Davis

Elliot Hans Johnson

 
Occupation: Owner of Literature Noir
Birth Place: Turlock, CA, grew up in Los Angeles
Living in: West Hollywood
High school: West Mark, Los Angeles
Favorite accessory: Gloves
Fashion influences: Film noir

Q: What are you currently most excited about for fall/winter?
A: Camel colored wool pea coat by Doir Homme with black leather driving gloves

Q: When was the last time you wore a suit – and who made it?
A: Nov 27 09, Doir Homme, for MOCA 30th anniversary party

Q: Favorite designers?
A: Hedi Slimane (old designer for Doir Homme) Click to Continue Reading