I had an initial idea for an adorbs and elaborate Pocohontis get up, but I think I am scrapping that to be an 80’s Jazzercise instructor (thank you to American Apparel for a cute cheap solution). Pictures TK!!
Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t trade my grad school experience in FOR THE WORLD, but I wonder if I would have ended up in the same place without it? My introspection was prompted by a young journalist wanting to apply and asking for my “sagacious” advice… damn that word makes me feel old…
I can’t belive it has taken me this long to upload my photos from my trip almost four months ago. My life changed almost instantly after I came back. I’m not sure if it was the much needed perspective on life I got, or if it was who I went with (SM and I became close friends after that trip) or just realizing the world is bigger than NYC but it marked an important transition in the “summer of Hitha.”
This is a picture of the Hotel de Crillon. SM and I started out at the Plaza Athenee and then switched over here on Saturday. We shared the room, so we nicknamed this portion of the trip “Camp Crillion.”
“Camp Crillion.” Notice how close our beds were. SM and I totally felt like we were in camp. Hence, the name.
I always judge a hotel room by the bathroom, and ours did not dissapoint. Annick Goutal did a line of Mardragore soaps, lotions, etc. specifically for the Crillion. And p.s., Mandragore is my signature scent! I was SO psyched!!
SM and I took a TON of long walk and talks in Paris. This buidling was on the way to one of our favorite restaurants, L’Avenue, which was down the street from the Plaza Athenee on Avenue Montaigne. This day and this walk in particular is on my list of top ten most amazing days ever. I’ve been thinking about it a lot especially in the last two weeks from hell.
More pictures from our walk and talk on our way to Ave. Montaigne.
OK, this is not the BEST picture of the Eiffel Tower, but at least I took it!!
How did I overbook myself for this evening?? I need to be in four places all at the same time. Ugh. I think it’s time to get an assistant.
Figures right when I want to upload all of my pictures we run into technical difficulties. While my team tries to fix the problem (thank you to the fab. Chris Rivera the best web exec. producer EVER) I’ll grace you my other musings.
With the peeps at Best Buy. Those geniuses figured out a way for me to download my pictures from my camera to my computer!! Um yeah. 4 years of pictures. Here we go…
The awesome Danica Lo posted these songs on her blog right after Paris Fashion Week and I thought it was so genius of her, I had to re-blog. You know when you walk away from a presentation and inevitably one of the songs you just heard is stuck in your head? Well, here is a list of those songs specified by each designer presentation!
- “Everybody’s Weird” by Deus @ Maison Martin Margiela
- “Oh My Gosh” by Man Like Me @ Jean-Charles de Castelbajac
- “Paris is Burning” by Ladyhawke @ Chanel
- “Gonna Get Along Without You Now” by Viola Wills @ Lanvin
- “Heavenly Peach Blanket” by Monkey @ Balenciaga
- “Borderline” by Madonna @ Balmain
- “I Know Your Boyfriend Hates Me” by Annie @ Jeremy Scott
- “Everybody” by Martin Solveig @ Christian Dior
- “Jolly Joker (Supermayer Remix)” by Alter Ego @ Karl Lagerfeld
- “Goodbye Horses” by Q Lazzarus @ Gareth Pugh
- “Tic Toc” by Busy Signal @ Stella McCartney
- “In a State (DFA remix)” by Unkle @ Yves Saint Laurent
- “Nino Rota” by Fellini Roma @ Miu Miu
The amazing and gorgeous Sarah Mary (who also took the fab pictures) invited me out for a night o’ CMJ fun on Tuesday night. Emphasis on the word “fun.” For way too long my definition of fun was doing the NY Times crossword, watching “Meet the Press” or organizing my music files. But over the past couple of months, real fun came back to my life. I started laughing again. I started not to take things too seriously. I was going to see bands. Good ones. It was like my old life came back and my God was I happy to see it. This is a picture of me hangin’ out in the DJ booth with Johnny Marr of The Smiths (my favorite band EVER) and Modest Mouse fame. He was rollin’ out the tunes for the Spin magazine party at Beauty Bar. It’s one of those pictures you look at when you are a little sad or down and think “yeah, I can and will have that kind of fun again.” P.S. the shirt I am wearing is by Karen Zambos!
I know I look cool, calm and collected, but on the inside I was ready to pass out being so close to JM. EEEK!!!
Me: OMG This song is AMAZING. Who is this? They are gonna be HUGE. Wow I am loving!!
Emma: This is Modest Mouse Hitha.
Me: Oh.
Desperate times call for desperate measures and discount stores like Century 21, Loehmann’s even Daffy’s (if you are in the city) are great sources of off priced clothes. If you are national, my favorite off price store by far is TJ Maxx although Marshall’s isn’t too shabby either (because they have Prada and Miu Miu marked WAY down)
