2005 March » Bunnyshop

Winter: Over It

03.18.2005

March: the endless month of crap weather and drunk people in green sweaters. Not down with it. So instead of going outside, where there is either rain or clouds or drunk people in green sweaters, we stay inside, on orbitz.com, trying to find ourselves a ticket to Hawaii. But until then, we endorse mail-order Hawaii — through the online home of ABC Stores, which is to Hawaii what Rite Aid :: Manhattan.

- Ridiculously retro and adorable “Sweet Kealoha Wiggly Hulla” dolls. $7.99

- Kukui nut necklaces: A statement necklace for the cost of a Frappuccino. Or less, depending on the whip cream situation. Seriously, Prada has something almost exactly like this for about 250X the price. $6.99

- A “plumeria floral hair pick” that looks cuter than it sounds. Easy-peasy Island-girl allure. Very Celine spring ’04. $4.99

- These hand \ body lotions are like the anti-Kiehl’s. Not that we don’t love Kiehl’s, we do, but sometimes the sheer usefulness of it all drives us a little nuts. These just look a little more produced by some guy in a garage with a color label-printer, rather than a brand, huh? And strangely enough, that appeals to us right now. Like, not everything has to be generated by this hyper-sleek design brain? Coconut mango, Coconut guava, Pikake Jasime and Plumeria scents. $15.99

Today’s Top Fashion Headlines

03.17.2005

- Bijou Philips goes pop and Alex Wek goes splat! Models! Ha! The irony is that all this happened at the LA fashion week’s runway-show pimping of the new PlayStation Portable, which we’ve heard from those in the know (read: v close gamer) that this is the most amazing thing since the iPod. We have no idea if that’s true, but … Alex Wek goes splat! Ha!

- Truth be told, we we never SATC girls, except for the clothes. The clothes we’d sleep with. The men were annoying. The ladies were … sigh. But we have always loved the idea of SJP as a fashion icon: It’s like, are you serious? The Square Pegs girl? With that nose? Have you seen the pilot SATC, with the pre-glam SJP, and the awful hair, and all that? It’s proof that miracles happen, as long as there is a steady supply of Jimmy Choos and personal trainers. Bunnyshop loves nothing more than self-invention, and SJP is it. This is all why we are a little sad to hear Page Six report that the Gap has ditched SJP for 17-year-old British singer Joss Stone. We feel like we’re a 55-year-old mom and our husband — whom, to be frank, represented a bit of a compromise — is leaving us for his marketing intern.

In apparently related news, Joss Stone’s Janis Joplin medley with Melissa Etheridge is the #1 single on iTunes this afternoon.

- The debut of Bono’s wife’s fashion line, “Edun” — exclusively at Saks. Each pair of jeans is inscribed with the line: “We carry the story of the people who make our clothes around with us.” Like our new knit hat that some coked-up Williamsburg hipster made so crappily it started unravelling two days after we bought it. We’d like to think her story involves puking all over her Prada handbag.

Aggravating Gadget of the Week

03.14.2005

Diane von Furstenberg = annoying. Diane von Furstenberg cell phones from Samsung = Extremely. Un. Necessary.

Here is a quote from the site hawking the phones, concerning the schwag-fest where celebrities pimped themselves for a free phone \\ drinks \\ appetizers: “VIPs and young Hollywood abound [sic] flocked to the Lounge at Astra West in Los Angeles and to Henri Bendels in New York to get a sneak peak at the ‘couture’ phone.” That doesn’t even make any sense. Abound? What? Translation: “We gave people with tons of money free shit so it’ll show up in Us Weekly and convince you to, you know, spend your own cash that you actually earned, probably doing something extremely un-glamorous involving paper cuts and Xeroxing, on this ridiculously ugly phone.” Barf!

Buy This Now: Luxe Jewels Kits

03.11.2005

Keeping with this week’s DIY theme — DIY blackberry-tuna fish mousse, DIY Alice Temperley dresses — we bring you DIY jewelry from designer Maya Brenner. Maya Brenner makes beautiful, precise little things, but Bunnyshop is not so modest that she has never thought she could, perhaps, become top jewelry design person. Also astronaut, web designer, and Olympic swimmer. But first things first, and our jewelry design career will begin with Ms. Brenner’s Luxe Jewels kit. And this! Perfect for St. Patrick’s Day: Swarovski crystal and sterling silver charm bracelets. The skill level is beginner, the tools required are needle-nose pliers and wire cutters, the cost involved is $40. Next: astronaut classes!

Join Us In Our Quest: The Karl Lagerfeld Diet

03.10.2005

Here is an excerpt from the forthcoming Karl Lagerfeld Diet book.

Q: Do you ever find yourself thinking about certain foods you used to love, such as truffle sandwiches?
Lagerfeld: No.

Q: I notice that you are smiling. Why?
L: You see, I used to like the hot dogs and the crepes from the street vendors….

How could we not join in this great insanity? Today marks the first day of the Karl Lagerfeld diet for Bunnyshop. This is approximately eight weeks prior to the book’s official US release, so we will have excellent commentary for our fellow book-buyers by then. Anyone else who wishes to accompany us on a journey filled with life, laughter, and tuna-blackberry mousse pies, let us know and we’ll make sure you have all the information you need.

Commercial Break: Banana Republic

03.09.2005

Full disclosure: Bunnyshop has, in her wallet, a Banana Republic Luxe card. She is such a sucker for buying things at astronomical interest rates that the providers of this credit card upgraded her to a “Luxe” card, a.k.a. the “Easily Influenced” card. So she likes Banana Republic. So very much. What she does not like, very much at all, is their barfy new ad campaign, littering all of her spring fashion magazines. Blah, blah, he couldn’t speak French, but whatever? He ate oysters, blah blah? They’re almost as bad as the yuppie asswipe festival that is the Claire Forlani one that kept interrupting Project Runway. Yuppie bought his yuppie girlfriend plane tickets! Whoo! Barf. Barf. Barf. Even that revolting tooth something one, where the girl can’t stop talking about the “pink in the sink” [vomit] isn’t quite as revolting.

We Want to Be: Alice Temperley

03.07.2005

It’s not that we want to be British and dress Kate Winslet, exactly — it’s that we want to make loads of money doing something our grandmother does! Namely, crochet!

We’ve seen this Alice Temperley dress in half a dozen magazines. It’s excellent. And it’s crocheted. Which, as we mentioned, is a skill our grandmother has mastered. Which means we could likely master it as well. Which is why the today’s purchase is:

You know how much the AT dress retails for? A lot. We’re convinced we’re about three weeks of intensive work (with this helpful book) away from mastering the craft. Now, crochet will likely be added to the many other vocations we’ve [briefly] explored, like stained glass and cooking employing methods other than microwaving. But hope: it springs eternal, and we know it’s possible that we, too, could be crochet masters, make gorgeous dresses, sell them for thousands of dollars, and pay off our student loans. (And buy a Saab convertible.) Dare to dream, no?

Buy This Now: Sex Stars of ’76

03.04.2005

Surely somebody has to have a dirty younger brother who’d be ecstatic to receive this limited-edition t-shirt designed by the endlessly hip design team of Tobias Wong and Ju$t Another Rich Kid. Paint-by-numbers Playboy bunnies! On a gold-on-black t-shirt! What could we possibly add to that? $65.

Reader Question! Metallic Hobos

03.03.2005

Proof we have readers, and questions — a terribly exciting mix!

Anyway, the question:
dear god talk me out of a sequin gold hobo bag.

Well, the question we will extrapolate from this, er, statement is:

What are some very exciting metallic hobo bags?

That is a question we are delighted to answer! We think metallic hobos are just the right amount of metallic — like a little bit of gold sandal peeking out under jeans.

Our top five selections. We must say we looked at possibly 3,000,000 we thought were just … a little much.

Jana Feifer spring hobos. Available in bazillion colors, but we’re drawing the line at green metallic. We’re still a little scared of that. But this is v. Studio 54 without also being overly coked up. Far and away our favorite — we’re totally into the mesh. $196.

These were advertised alongside a picture of Hilary Duff holding something similar. We will not hold that against the bag. “Leatherette” exterior but what do you expect for $29.95?

G-Series from Cole Haan. Love the subdued white leather trim and quilting. $225.

Okay, we’re definitely including this more as a talking point than a … suggestion, per se. Question: Could the Juicy brand be any more annoying? If the words were stripped off this metallic green bag, would we like it more? $255.

Store Adored: Maleeka Sami

03.02.2005

Here is the thing about writing about a store we recommend to our many readers, of many nations, including the Brooklyn nation: It helps to provide, say, an address, or a telephone number, or perhaps the correct spelling of the boutique. So it is with a certain amount of hesitation that we recommend the Maleeka Sami boutique on Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue. We hesitate not because of their stock, which is genius. We hesitate because we are not entirely sure how to find it.

There is supposed to be a website at maleekasami.com, which appears not to be. The store is somewhere on Atlantic Avenue, between Fourth Avenue and Court Street, which BK fans will know is a span of approximately three-quarters of a mile. (We can say with confidence, however, that it is on the north side of the street.) And there’s no phone number listing in directory assistance.

If it weren’t snowing, BS would just walk down there and solve these many mysteries … but it snows. So we will just talk about our favorite piece! The Lorelei eelskin clutch — so sleek, so smooth, so green, and so on sale! $110 from $180.

Everything in the story is brilliantly colorful — Indian couture. The walls are red, or pink. There are lots of sequins. We can’t believe it hasn’t already appeared in Lucky. It probably will be soon, so get there quick before all the super sale items have disappeared.

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