January 19th, 2008 by admin
We love it when people send us what they, in turn, love because frankly, we’re running out. We’re about to be saluting windmills or something. Actually, we do love windmills, so whatever. In any case, if you have a suggestion for any random thing on this earth, possibly tangentially related to fashion or consumer-y things, and we would be delighted to share it with everyone else. Especially, we’re thinking, jewelry-type items.
Anyhoo:
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January 19th, 2008 by admin
It’s with mixed emotions that I bring you Lancome’s Spring 2008 collection, L.U.C.I (Luminescent. Colorless. Color. Intelligence.)
Why is this such a bittersweet moment? While the products are beautiful, L.U.C.I. is Gucci Westman’s last collection for Lancome. It just makes me a little wistful…Gucci was one of my first interviews the first time I covered New York Fashion Week, and I always enjoyed seeing her at work every season. She has a real ability to connect with designers, which always resulted in a “look” that was a perfect match for the collection’s aesthetic and the designer’s inspirations.
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January 19th, 2008 by admin
![Selected Stafford Ties Sales up to 50% [Metro Style Men]](http://citypeoplefashion.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/137892.jpg)
JCPenny.com is now having sales up to 50% off for assorted Stafford ties.
The Stafford series offers a wide collection of ties ranging from silk, preppy, satin, and paisley print ties for any occasion. These attractive ties add a professional feel to any outfit with solid or stripped ties in bold and energetic colors.
Available stocks in JCPenny included a numbers of Spring-friendly colors with a few in bold red, light green, dark blue and even pink.
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January 19th, 2008 by admin
![<i>Against Happiness</i>: Why Can’t Grownups Be Emo? [Melancholy And The Infinite Badness]](http://citypeoplefashion.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/137884.jpg)
Remember how “depression” used to be called “melancholy”? Well, Eric G. Wilson just wrote a book called Against Happiness that aims to return “melancholia” to the public lexicon, and basically bring back sadness and its “integral place in the great rhythm of the cosmos.” It is sort of like anti-self-help. Oooh, new genre title: “self-pity”? “self-flagellate”? Neither really do it justice. Anyway, the key is saying “fuck you” to happiness. Joy is okay, but like with carbs on the South Beach it’s got to be the right kind of joy, such as: “that unbearable exuberance that suddenly emerges from long suffering” or “that hard-earned tranquillity that comes from long meditation on the world’s sorrows.” Meanwhile, you must throw out your self-help books and seratonics and commence basking, dwelling and reveling in the cruel radiance of whatever. Here’s how he explains the difference between what he advocates and clinical depression:
Depression (as I see it, at least) causes apathy in the face of this unease, lethargy approaching total paralysis, an inability to feel much of anything one way or another. In contrast, melancholia generates a deep feeling in regard to this same anxiety, a turbulence of heart that results in an active questioning of the status quo, a perpetual longing to create new ways of being and seeing.
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January 19th, 2008 by admin
Mineral makeup and chocolate - well, how about that?
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January 19th, 2008 by admin
We think it might be three months since we finished a book. This is not a good thing. We’ve been busy. Er, watching Prison Break. You know how it is. We are, obviously, pro-reading, but we have a problem committing to books. We have a problem committing to everything. (Cities, recipes, etc.) But we have been ashamed of ourselves, and inspired by the exceptionally brilliant site Book a Week With Jen (check it out!) and we are going to try our best to live up to her ideal. At least until February. We are going to be traveling a bit next week so hopefully we will spend it reading instead of coming up with creative ways to explain to our landlord why our rent is six(!) weeks late.
Anyhoo! Enough of that. Our entire problem with books (broadly speaking) is that when we get stuck on one, we tend to refuse to move on to the next one. (We are glad, though, that we have this habit with books rather than boyfriends.) This has been the situation since November with Out of Africa. But we think we’ve cracked it. We bought it on the way to Kenya, and went to her house (that’s it, above.) Now we are reading her book. It’s all weird. But how could we not love a book with this:
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January 19th, 2008 by admin
Cardigans. These are what make wearing summer dresses in January okay. We are finding, though, that too many of ours are heavy, and then too bulky beneath the coats, and so we are looking for the slightly thinner ones. Not least because we seem to be unable to turn off the Tahiti-like heat in our apartment. Again.
Anyway: This is pretty much exactly what we have been looking for. Unisex tri-blend cardigan, $40
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January 19th, 2008 by admin
Has it really come to this? Are consumers’ homes so overrun with iPods that Griffin’s $70 PowerDock is now a necessity? Seems so. Four iPods can charge simultaneously in a dosado of swirling volts and amperes… eureka! Griffin’s newly announced 2008 lineup also includes updated iTrips, RoadTrip, PowerJolt and PowerBlock (or PowerDuo for combining that AC/Car charging), and more. But Griffin, a $30 iPhone case made of cork… seriously?
[Via Mobile Tech Review]
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January 19th, 2008 by admin
When my older son was born, the Anya Hindmarch portrait bags were all the rage among the new mommy set. I never understood the trend, why wear your kid’s face on your purse? Though I got one for my mom, the grandma, and she loved it.
Well, at Jimmy Choo, they think someone wants to wear faces on their bag…stranger’s faces to boot.
If you ask me, I think it’s just creepy to walk around with these blankly staring women on your bag, looking all Stepford Wives, with their seemingly hand colored eye makeup. It looks like some ugly 70s wallpaper..only it would have had mylar, and been relegated to a powder room…now that I think about it, better to have Fembots staring at you from a bag than while in the restroom…
The bag is coated canvas on the outside, and suede on the inside, with leather handles, and gold tone accents. It is $975, and you can get on the pre-order list right now at Saks.
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