New No.6 clogs for Fall

Just launched on the No.6 site today.

House of style: was seriously my favorite thing ever

I used to have multiple VHS tapes with episodes of MTV's House of Style on them. My favorite episode featured Kate Moss as a cherubic teenager debuting in the fashion industry. After just watching the documentary on MTV that came out a couple days ago, I realized that I had more than a couple segments memorized: Naomi Campbell and her zit cream, John Galliano's first runway show, and Duran Duran shopping at Sears. 

Of course, more apparent were the perennial episodes not even mentioned! Liv Tyler back to school shopping and my favorite Kate Moss show in which she says that all she wants later in life is "babies, lots of babies" and how she didn't get to know Marky Mark when they did the Calvin ad together because "he had his posse there." They also failed to mentioned the entire grunge trend and how Marc Jacobs launched that with his line for Perry Ellis in 1993. And how the thrift shopping wasn't house of style being deferential to their midwestern audience's budget but had more to do with grunge. And that to find that grunge look, you had to go to a thrift store. Thrifting was the trend.

How funny that Sofia Coppola looks like she hasn't aged a day, not even one day. No fair.


Not sure what the "new" house of style will bring. I would like to like it but I am skeptical. Now I am waiting for a revival of the "FT" Fashion Television show on CNN that I also used to record on VHS.

Steven Alan handbags

it's hard not to lust after these... simple. and affordable. and VERY similar to that Sofia Coppola by LV bag that is so completely not affordable.

The Camilla bag is a doctor-style bag with a strap that is extendable. It is $425 and comes in black, tan and a great olive green with black trim.

The Adelaide bag is sort of like two small clutches together. I don't love the style but in the black/green combo with tan straps, it's nice. it's $395.

 The iPhone sling, as it's called, is only $85 and holds your phone plus some cash, cards and maybe keys. I really like how utilitarian it is.

Katie Holmes: divorce street style

Before the whole Tom and Katie divorce announcement, I'd been seeing paparazzi shots of Holmes and daughter Suri almost daily on the streets of NYC. I always click on the Katie Holmes pics, not because I'm the greatest fan of hers but more because she is a big fan of Isabel Marant. And is really only second to Kate Bosworth in terms of the amount of Isabel Marant she is seen sporting. So when I heard the news of her divorce, I instantly thought of how she'd looked the past two weeks and aside from her cute summer outfits, she looked, well...happy.  Good for you, Katie.

 Note: all photos are from June 2012 but pre-divorce announcement

Totokaelo's new location and "wall o' shoes"

Totokaelo is one of my favorite boutiques from the days it was called plain old "Impulse". This Seattle establishment has always had some of the best styling of any online boutique as well as an amazingly wide assortment, especially in shoes (every style and color of No6, Rachel Comey and Dieppa Restrepo out there.)
Now they have moved to a new and MUCH larger location in Capitol Hill. Word is they will soon be carrying home effects as well as men's, starting spring 2013, in addition to continuing to stock great women's. I can't wait to head up to Seattle to check it out.

Givenchy virginia gladiator sandal

Can't stop coveting these lovely $700 gladiator sandals by Givenchy. Available in black, copper metallic and off-white at Barneys and mytheresa.

GQ on The Sartorialist Scott Schuman

"Obviously that insecurity isn't unique to fashion people—the nagging sense that we're weird and flawed and broken, and the impulse to hide that from the world at all costs by wearing the right thing, is one of the most basic things you and I and Schuman have in common as humans lucky enough to not have to worry about things like survival. And if Schuman, in his photographs, doesn't try to cut through that, if he makes himself a participant in his subjects' self-concealment, an accomplice, if he actually embroiders the lie by creating an imaginary world where it can live—well, look, you can see that as cowardly or you can see it as humane."

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