Diesel Sample Sale!

Diesel's having a sample sale! Men's and women's, denim (uh, duh), accessories (I LOVE their accessories -- I almost can't enter the store because I'm that into their sporty extras and neon heels and stuff), Diesel Black Gold, swimwear.

WHEN: Thursday June 2 & Friday, June 3
             12 - 2pm & 4 - 6pm

WHERE: 220 West 19th Street, 2nd floor (New York!)

Huzzah! More ways to spend money!

Forever In Search Of Leopard Print

My affinity for leopard print pants has gone from casual to fully committed.

Not only did I purchase these leopard print harem pants recently:

($24, ShopNastyGal.com)

... And not a second too soon, because I don't know if you heard, but within two seconds it went from "pleasantly spring-esque" to "ancient Egypt-hot" here in New York, so these were the perfect alternative to shorts, which everyone knows suck.


... But I also just bought the leopard print chiffon pants I blogged about and threatened to buy.

Which brings me to the third (and, let's be honest, probably not the final) pair of leopard print pants I recently spotted (harrr -- get it? spotted?) and will probably buy:

I went to the Forever 21 fall editor's preview and got way into this chick's leopard print pants. (WAIT. I didn't mean like I PHYSICALLY got into them. I didn't sexually, nor did I PUT them on, because let's be real -- I couldn't actually fit into that model's pants. That's why they're on her.) They're kinda almost leggings and not quite harem pants. The fact that they're not too tight keep them from looking too "hubba hubba" hookery.

(I'll let you guess which photo was professionally shot and which was taken by me on my BlackBerry, by the way. The suspense is probably killing you right now, isn't it?)

When she was pregnant with me, my mother probably didn't ever pat her belly and think "I'll bet my little unborn daughter will some day be physically unable to restrain herself from buying leopard print pants!" But, things don't always turn out as planned!

Court Sample Sale!

One of my favorite l'il boutiques, Court, is having a sample sale! So if you're stay-cayzing up in NYC for Memorial Day weekend, go check out good deals on Pamela Love (LOVE!), 80%20, Sophomore, Samantha Pleet and more.

Friday May 27
12-8pm
178 Mulberry St.

Run and tell dat!

Stop Me Oh Stop Me... Before I Buy These Leopard Print Chiffon Pants

($60, Play Me Jeans, Karmaloop)

Despite the fact that these leopard print pants might make me look like an extra in the live-action version of "Aladdin" that hasn't been made yet, but owncare. They look sooo comfortable. Stop me oh oh oh stop me... before I buy them.

What do you think, Morrissey?

What's that? You don't have the time to advise me re: these pants?...

... Because you have a cat on your head? Well I'll take that as a ringing endorsement.

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Leopard Print Flatforms Are Happening, And I'm Okay With That

($78, Ego & Greed, Karmaloop)

Flatforms are very much a thing right now. Not for me personally, because I have the world's flattest feet (right over here boys -- ooh, not all at once!), though I do wonder if a flatform and a flat foot cancel each other out in the way that two negatives equal a positive.

Anyway, I'm into these Ego & Greed leopard print flatforms. They're so delightfully '60s. They're like straight out of Goldie Hawn's wardrobe in "Laugh In." And who wouldn't want her wardrobe? She dressed like a walking collage.

 

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to paint on myself.

HIT UP THIS SWEET SAMPLE SALE! OR ELSE!

 

Guys, Kate Moss and her nips IMPLORE YOU to go check out Archetype Showroom's sample sale. I went last year and SHUT. IT. DOWN. Go if just for the LNA alone. Run, don't walk!

Brands:
HOLY TEE
I R O
LNA
QUAIL
THE REFORMATION
SPRING & CLIFTON
WON HUNDRED
YMC

When/where:
Thursday, May 19th & Friday, May 20th
10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, May 21st
12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Archetype Showroom & Gallery
676 Broadway, 2nd Floor
New York, New York 10012
(between Great Jones & Bond)

Also, check out the lobby of the building -- it was painted by Keith Haring (a thing like that is hard to miss), and the Keith Haring Foundation is located in that building too. The spirit of that kind of found art being kept alive in New York is inspiring.

 

Keith Haring with Grace Jones!!

PLEASE Stop Making Sneaker Heels Happen

($137, Ash, Asos.com)

People! HOW many more eyeballs need to be senselessly scorned before someone TAKES A STAND and DOES something about sneaker heels? STOP the war on good taste! (Disclosure: I once owned a pair of sneaker heels in like 2000, back when it was okay to dress like a Spice Girl and NO ONE KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT FASHION. I thought I was a bad-ass. But I EDUCATED myself. I realized I WAS NOT, in fact a bad-ass. And I NEVER repeated the mistakes of my past.)


Do your part to end sneaker heels forEVER. Sign this petition to put an end to this crime against fashion.

Seneca Rising's Junction Tunic Is En Vogue Loungey-Sexy

($167, Seneca Rising)

This Seneca Rising Junction tunic is just so dreamy and drapey and like loungey, lived-in, lazy-afternoon, slightly-crunk-off-rosé sexy. It feels the way En Vogue's "Giving Him Something He Can Feel" sounds, you know?

LOFT Is Basically GIVING IT Away

For a while now I've been writing about LOFT and how they've totally turned the store around in the past few years. Years ago I'd thought of it as like "meh" momwear (granted, at the time I was dressing like a Spice Girl with like silver eye shadow, cropped tanks with the Union Jack flag and some crazy Gaga-esque hot pink crinkle skirts and other monstrosities, so what did I know?), but they've truly stepped it up with on-point designs -- I can't you the number of jaws I've had to retrieve from the floor when ladies be askin' where my super-soft chambray shirt or black silk ankle-length pants or black motorcycle jeans with ankle zippers and I tell them LOFT. Anyway. LOFT = get involved. Great silky grown-up-but-not-stuffy blouses and EXCELLENT dressy dress pants that aren't mom pants at redick prices because they're NEVER not having a sale. Speaking of which, LOFT is having a MEGA sale today, Saturday, May 14. It's their Summer Style Event, and basically, you get 30% off of your ENTIRE purchase, and get a $25 savings card for every $50 you save. Yahiknowright? Get on that.

 

Also, if you have NO intention of leaving your house today -- and I get that -- you can save 30% online with promo code MAYSE14E AND you can also enter LOFT’s “My Perfect Summer Getaway” sweepstakes for the chance to win a trip to Mexico, NEW Mexico, Maine or... why not... Minnesota. (Hey, a vacation's a vacation), and other stuff like a $1,000 LOFT gift card (that's a LOT of silk blouses).

Enter by liking LOFT on Facebook.

($69.50, LOFT)

CRAZY cute wide-legged flare sailor jeans! Looks like they're sold out in all but size 16 (BECAUSE THEY'RE THAT CUTE -- EVERYBODY WANTED THEM!) -- but hopefully they'll restock them. Also, if you're a size 16 and you love these flares, then you're in luck.

(49.99, LOFT)

Someone call the cuteness police and ARREST this jacket on grounds of being TOO PERFECT for spring. Look at that collar! The fun drawstrings! BREAKIN' THE LAW!

+ Disclaimer: LOFT generously sent me a gift card.

One of These Things Is notLike the Other

The post seems to have disappeared, but Sugar Rock Catwalk recently discovered a striking similarity between some pretty damn ubiquitous Dolce Vita wedges (that's the DV version, the "Pali") and Target's Mossimo "Pilar" sandals. Interesting. Looks like Dolce Vita's not the only brand with whom they're, uh, taking the collaboration a little further.

Last spring Target had what I thought was a pretty cool collection by Cynthia Vincent. Unlike with Dolce Vita, they don't have the brand's shoes in stores right now, but check this out:

Cynthia Vincent "Roma" gladiator wedges, a pair I recently admired on the feet of a coworker and then web-stalked. They're amazing.

Annnnnnnd, exhibit B:



Mossimo "Priya" wedges.

Pretty blatant, I'd say.

For the record, I still want the CV version.

I'm Truly Not Mad At Rachel McAdams' Wackadoo Marchesa Dress!!!

(Credit: EPA/ DailyMail)

So much cognitive dissonance happening here with Rachel McAdams' Marchesa dress at the Cannes premiere of her new movie, Midnight in Paris. On one hand, it reminds me of the flocked Baroque couch that my grandma gave us when I was little and ended up in the basement. (The couch ended up in the basement. I did not as it smelled like mildew down there.)

On the other hand... it's fucking unapologetically rad. I don't even care that from the side it hung with all of the sartorial aplomb of a Jostens graduation gown. It's totally fussy, completely unsexy, but fully fantastic. You go, Glen Coco!

Is This Not The MOST Perfect Envelope Clutch?

($19.98, Aldo)

How perfect is this cute little polka dot clutch? It's kinda '80s, but the brown leather trim keeps it from looking like '80s overkill in a "Saved-By-The-Bell"-theme-song sorta way. Or, more recently, in a Lady Gaga's "Edge Of Glory" sorta way.

You're Cordially Invited To The Wedding Of These Leopard-Print Oxfords

($250, Tibi.com)

Welcome to the marriage of two of my dearest loves: leopard print and menswear-inspired Oxford shoes. I see no reason why these two should not be bound together in holy matrimony. By the power vested in me by the state of New York and by the blogger platform, I now pronounce these leopard-print Oxfords FUCKING AMAZING.

FASHION CHALLENGE! Jon Hamm Vs These Phillip Lim Sandals

Okay WRAP YOUR MIND AROUND THIS!

WHAT is hotter? These 3.1 Phillip Lim suede and snakeskin sandals on a wood platform:

($670, 3.1 Phillip Lim, Shopbop.com)

OR...

This outrageously paroxysmic photo of "Mad Men"'s Jon Hamm?

 

And you can only pick ONE! It's almost a trick question because NOTHING is hotter than Jon Hamm, but the heels are kinda also doing it for me. 

HOMAHGAH! I NEED THESE NEEDLEPOINT HORSE LOAFERS!

Jesus. In the immortal words of Lil Kim, "Puffy, hold me down, baby!"

($147, By Paige, ByPaige.com)

HOLD ME, SOMEONE. ANYONE. I love a horse like I love a cat, and I ALSO love needlepoint, and it's all happening at once, and I'm really overwhelmed. This is like finding a four-leaf clover and rubbing it and a genie pops out and gives you three wishes so you wish for world peace, no more disease, no more tacky sublimated shirts, and finally the genie goes "you've asked for very excellent things, so you get a bonus wish!" And you wish for the most perfect pair of shoes in the world, and he snaps his blue fingers and these needlepoint horse shoes appear. They're by By Paige, and they're hand-stitched!!! Miracles? I believes in them.

($147, By Paige, ByPaige.com)

Not one but TWO foxes? Huh-dorable.

($147, By Paige, ByPaige.com)

Looove a red lobster.

LOOOve a blue crab.

"I'm In a Wedding" Shoes

Are you in the wedding party? Did your bride friend request you wear metallic shoes? Is the ceremony being held outside? Here is what you wear:

Seychelles "Greatest Hits" wedges in pewter, $80-ish.

DONE.

Handbag HOTNESS: Katherine Kwei Is Like To Die

You say Prada or Fendi or Celine or whatever, I say Katherine Kwei. The Chinese-American New York handbag designer is single-handedly responsible for making some of the most visually interesting handbags on the market. Take a looksee below, won't you?

Katherine Kwei's tell-tale trademark is her use of Chinese knotting, which makes for a bag with -- believe it or not -- depth and intrigue. Not just like "oh that's pretty" kinds of bags. Bags that are like "woah... that's actually interesting." And ohh the tactile joys -- you've quite literally got to get your hands on one of her bags to experience the indulgent pursuit of just coming into tactile contact with knotted leather. Oy. Heavenly.


LOOK at that handiwork. And enmeshed with gorgeous off-whites and silvers is about the only way I can think of to make a bright orange bag go from "OMG-MY-EYES-GET-IT-OFF-OF-ME" to "yes indeed."

($1820, Katherine Kwei, KatherineKwei.com)

The Leila bag is a pretty bag for a pretty penny, but in the world of luxury bags, it's almost a steal. (Is that sad or bad or wrong?) Also, you can get 20% off through May 8 with keyword "mothersday." Thanks, moms!

($600, Katherine Kwei, KatherineKwei.com)

The almost too-perfect Donna sling bag in orange batik. It's like Coachella in the form of a gorgeous handbag.

(Disclosure: I was gifted a bag.)

I CAN'T With These Orange Leopard-Print Patent Leather Opening Ceremony Wedges

($730, Opening Ceremony)

Opening Ceremony's Margo wedges are SO wild they should be safely contained in a cage. In a zoo. Where people charge admission to go gape at and take photos of them. 

The silk dyed lace-up ties make these feel more high-fashion, less Trash & Vaudeville creeper central (though don't get me wrong -- there's a time and a place for Trash & Vaudeville). It's like Marc Jacobs and Brian Atwood had a baby and Diane Von Furstenberg was the surrogate.

+ Wear them with:
* White V-neck tee
* Black circle skirt
* Crazy rad chunky necklace
* Conviction