Do you love … a boy? Who lives, perhaps … in Williamsburg? And does he, occasionally, celebrate his birth? Girls who love boys who think they are hipsters face an annual gift-buying crisis: What does the hipster want? He already has his Smiths albums, and his vintage clothing, and he still has eight issues left on his subscription to Vice. May we suggest: Ju$t Another Rich Kid’s Iron Maiden World Tour t-shirt. First of all, it’s heavy metal, which terrified him in middle school but he can now, with suitable irony and distance, enjoy. For God’s sake, it looks like they plucked the t-shirt model off the L train. Plus, it’s limited edition, and we all know hipsters love little more than having something their other hipsters don’t. $55
06.22.2005
Those French cows: Hermes blocks Oprah’s entrance to their Parisian boutique, says Page Six, because the store had been “having a problem with North Africans lately.” People, she could have bought your entire country with her pocket change.
06.21.2005
Since their “Team Aniston” and “Team Jolie” t-shirts are on back-order until Saturday, we’re left to enjoy White Trash Charms’ other products — namely, the charms themselves, which the website goes at great, endless, repetitive lengths to make clear have been worn by everyone from Justin Timberlake to Janet Jackson. (Now there’s a curious combination.) But they are still cool, in a Eurotrash stylist-hip hop star sort of way, though we’re a little over the hair pick design (worn by Eve! Britney Murphy! Pink!).
We do like, from left to right, roughly, the trophy chick necklace ($110 for gold vermeil), the “Hard Core” apple irony necklace ($50), and the crushed Budweiser necklace ($255 for gold vermeil).
Plus, we really like the Wonka-ready Gold Ticket charm necklace, as we are so freaking excited about the new movie. $97 or $187, depending if your appetite is Charlie-sized or Veruca Salt-sized. Speaking of: How funny is it that Violet Beauregard’s mom is wearing what appears to be a Juicy Couture tracksuit in this picture from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
06.18.2005
In London’s Evening Standard newspaper: “Katie Says Yes in Gay Paree.” Subtle, much?
Moving on: Did you think her dress for the Batman Begins premiere was kind of ugly? We did. Blame Indian designer Ritu Beri, who told the Hindustan Times that “I thought anything that is too ethnic — a sari for instance — wouldn’t suit the occasion. So I kept the elements of ethnicity out of my creations this time.” Nice way to sublimate your cultural identity! But hey, we’d let our monkey play an organ anyday, right along with our spaghetti and meatballs and our Sopranos DVDs.
06.18.2005
What we love about summer: Everything. But. The. Goddamn. Weddings. We read in the New York Times today that 40% of all marriages end in divorce. A wedding invitation? It’s a bill with a nicer paper stock. A bill for things you will not enjoy, unless your idea of enjoyment is a hotel room in the middle of Rhode Island, or the rental car you needed because trains do not, apparently, serve the middle of Rhode Island, or a present you will give to someone else. In a year. Because etiquette says that’s okay, and we would rather spend the money, in the short term, on Diet Coke and Wheat Thins.
Bitter. We are so, so bitter. But this is what happens when you’ve already attended three weddings that last ushered in marriages that lasted less than a year. We say: Get married, and have the wedding a year later. Now that would be something to celebrate.
Unfortunately, we’re not going to say no to a wedding invitation, because as bitter as we are, we’ve always had a soft spot for buffet dinners. And as they apparently demand a wardrobe better than denim (though what is really better than denim, we don’t know), our selection of (mostly) floral halter-top dresses, perfectly suitable for your casual summer wedding.
As well as being festive wedding wear, this $360 BCBG rainbow halter would be the perfect, thematically-appropriate thing to wear to the Gay Pride Parade. Let us note here that during last year’s parade, we made the piss-poor decision of attempting to go into Manhattan to retrieve some cupcakes from Magnolia Bakery, and ran smack into the packed sidewalks of people watching it. And in order to get to the cupcakes, we had to push our way through the crowd. All we’re saying about that is that we were forced to brush against a sweaty man wearing nothing but a leather thong, and it took us blocks to find a packet of those antiseptic hand wipes.
We love Eva Franco dresses — so much that we took the time to put in the coding so that we’d italicize “love.” A new crop of them just landed at bluefly, and this was our favorite — only $129!
We’re so opposed to idea of Princess von Furstenberg whatever that we occasionally find ourselves overlooking her very nice dresses, including this one. $298
This very cool halter dress is from one of our very favorite online stores, Satine. It’s Desanka, and, as they say, it’s a little bit halter, and a little bit goddess, if goddess involved that nice kelly green color. $436
And finally, Pucci for people who can’t afford Pucci, this Laundry halter dress takes care of your print fix on a budget. $215
06.17.2005
There’s only one mirror in our apartment, which is in our bathroom, above the sink, which means to see any below-chest section of our body, we need to stand on the toilet. Obviously, this situation cannot stand, which is why we went to go buy our very first mirror. We were going to cheese out and buy this perfectly nice one from Anthropologie (below) — but then we discovered these clever ones from The Design Can. How could we pass up a mirror with a hawk on it?
Alternately you can go the safe-but-boring route with the $125 etched mirorr from Anthro. Pussy.
First, we saw this picture of a Society for Rational Dress romper in the Village Voice, and since we’re obsessed with SFRD, we think: Wow, we should really do a story on rompers — rompers, jumpsuits with shorts, whatever. Because that is pretty cool.
Next, we looked all over the Web for a place to buy the SFRD romper, which was impossible. We’re thinking, whatever, we’ll revisit.
Then we stumble over this This. Like that CSI episode about the man who was killed while wearing a diaper. Ickickickickick.
We gave it one last chance and searched under “fashion romper.” This is what we found next:
Honestly, we don’t know which was more disgusting, this or the adult baby playpen.
Silver romper, $74.95
06.17.2005
Are these ultra-strappy boots from L.A. label Society for Rational Dress the new Uggs? If so: We must buy them now, before Kate Moss wears them and we hate them.
La Voleuse must be the coolest independent label on the planet. Their hand-painted shoes were cool enough — but now you can order custom versions, with your choice of shoe color, design, and — the best part — song lyric of your choice. So if for some reason you’re not down with the Smiths (“Sweetness I was only joking”) or Dolly Parton (“Pour yourself a cup of ambition”), you could supply your own verse — say, Maroon 5. Or not. It’s up to you. And it’s only $111 dollars, including shipping. A more than reasonable selection.
Following, our roundtop of other ballet shoes we like almost, but not as much, as La Voleuse:
These Sigerson Morrisons are totally boring and prim and exactly the ones we’d wear every single day of the week. Also available in a very ballet-ish pink. $365
Someday we’re going to be sick of [Marc by] Marc Jacobs shoes, but today is not that day. Purple velvet ballet slippers. It’s what you expect the actors in those annoying NY Times commercials are wearing. Something that goes with expensive denim and smugness. $200
These Hollywould ballet slippers have an ankle ribbon, and they’re probably even better in the gold version. Where were these when SJP was filming the SATC episodes with the Russian? $215
Tsumori Chisato is one of those hyper-cool Japanese designers that Gwen Stefani creams herself over. That girl has a lot of style, but we fucking hate that “Hollaback Girl” song. So: support Tsumori Chisato. Burn “Hollaback Girl.” Black leather flat with scalloped toe, $295
These Anthropologie Lucky Penny Flats are a little tweak of ballet slippers and look a little more substantial. Plus, there’s a little bit of a heel, always a bonus for a munchkin and for avoiding nasty city puddles. $395
06.14.2005
We love few things more than going to the Home Depot store under the BQE and buying a gallon of paint. We have started to paint many rooms, and succeeded in finishing none of them. Our ex-roommates really loved this, especially when we tried to paint the living room without a ladder, leaving a two-foot band around the tops of the walls undone. Then our friend Amie suggested we pay a painter. She bought paint, gave the painter $60, and then she had nice, new walls. We bought the paint, spent $60 on magazines and chocolate, and had pissed off roommates.
This is just to say hiring (cheap) professionals is a good thing, and possibly all that’s standing between us and a chandelier, which we really, really want. Mostly because the one our apartment came with cost like $15 and is constantly threatening to fall on top of our head while we’re doign something innocent, like watching The Bourne Identity on Cinemax, and it’s going to fall and kill us and by the time the police come, it’ll be late enough that there’s Skinemax on the TV and the newspaper headlines will be about a girl killed by her piss-poor chandelier while watching porn. Summary: Chandeliers, good. Professional help, good. Skinemax, bad.
Our favorite, the Belle Chandelier, for $1400. We’re sure we can defer those student loans a few more years.
This is a total masterpiece. Maybe we could buy this instead of a car, or a house. Rody Grauman’s “85 Lamps,” from mossonline.com, $2090. Don’t worry, they get cheaper.
The Norm 69 from Conran is so right for the ski chalet we will one day own. $145
Another Tord Boontje favorite: his Midsummer lighting thing. Is it a chandelier? A garland? We have no idea. Still love it. $75
We could live without the electric candles in the middle — cheesy, forever cheesy — but we’re down with the Murano glass fruit trinkets. It’s like a charm bracelet in chandelier form. The Venetian Fruit Glass Chandelier, $1000
A swell, budget entry from Urban. If it’s anything like the unravelling t-shirt we just bought a few weeks ago, those pieces are going to start dropping to the floor, but we’ll enjoy it while it lasts. Though it fails the Skinemax-protection issue. The Two-Toned Beaded Brass Chandelier, $98
