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Crochet: It’s Everywhere

02.21.2006

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Really: Everywhere. Try watching 20 art students learn to crochet. This is something we have recently witnessed. It’s sort of like teaching cats to knit. It’s just not happening.

Still, we love crochet. And, for the third time, it’s everywhere, not just in Alice Temperley dresses. (Above, from net-a-porter.com.) It’s in furniture, like this Marcel Wanders crochet table, which is held up, apparently, by epoxy. And magic. Honestly, it’s amazing:

We don’t know why we should be so offended by its price when we’re dedicating half of our space this week to $1000+ handbags, but we are. Tss. Marcel Wanders Crochet table (large), $1945

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But back to the clothes. A.P.C. Fucking love A.P.C. And their website is shockingly functional and friendly. We see how this crochet-neck dress might look a little dowdy here, but with the right presentation it’d be absolutely dreamy. A.P.C. Dress with Crocheted Neckline, $163

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And then this is a Sass & Bide crocheted bikini. When we were angry high school students, we tried to learn how to crochet and make bikinis, so as to redistribute the wealth of the skinny, annoying girls we hated. This failed, sadly. We’ve moved on. This is very hot-Raquel Welch to us.$203

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We know. We’re a little on the border about this, but it’ll look adorable with all those menswear-y shorts they’re forcing down our throats this spring. Anna Sui crochet panel top, $144

And okay, we know it’s impossible to see, but there’s an adorable crocheted cardigan over that bizarre, poufy top. From BCBG, $158. No sales on the site, so it’s off to the mall if you’re into it. (And really, it’s cuter than the picture. Annoyingly.)

The Dreamiest Bags of the Spring: Day 2

02.21.2006

Dior always gives us such a headache: It’s so French, so fashion-y, it always feels like just too much to us. Too Giselle, too coke-snorting. Here we will break to say that we were in a class the other day, when someone in the class lifted his finger to his nose to mime someone doing coke, but not in the way most people we know do it, which is to say like they have never done it in their lives. This person did it like he has done it many, many times before, and it totally freaked us out.

That is the world of Dior for us. It makes us feel like we are from a suburb, and that we never want to leave that suburb. But then: that whole moth-light thing. We love this. Dior’s Medium Gaucho Saddle Bag, $1410

The Dreamiest Bags of the Spring: A Week-Long Extravaganza

02.20.2006

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The sad truth is that we only have eyes for the Mulberry Roxanne (in chocolate, please, someone who wants us to be his or her best friend.) The Mulberry Roxanne is, unhappily, our obsessive crush. And what do you do when your obsessive crush does not love you back? Besides make little voodoo dolls from their hair? Er, not us, but this friend of our friend? Maybe you would have a few one-night stands. With, in this case, a series a spring handbags. Love the one you’re with, etc. It’s not that these bags are any less spectacular: Indeed, we decree them the Bags of the Season. It’s that because we are not obsessively in love with them, we’re a little take it or leave it about them, which is a tragically accurate rendering of our human relationships, too.

Anyhoo, our favorite spring bags, day one. Since we can’t have the Roxanne, we might trade for the Elgin. You know, it’d be buying us dinner and treating us super nicely, but we’d be thinking about the Roxanne the whole time.

We’re not totally sure where this anthropomorphosis with the bags comes from. The Elgin from Mulberry. Soon, but not quite yet, also available in pink. About $950

A Project Runway Salute to Kara Janx

02.17.2006

Okay so seriously, we thought Kara was a little hit or miss until the end of Project Runway. But then we thought she good pretty good, with Santino’s Madras outfit and her floristry one, before totally sucking on the last one. But from looking at the runway exits from the PR fashion week shows, she had us convinced that she was one of the three finalists—Santino’s collection looked totally phoned in, but Kara’s looked bright and poppy. Santino’s looked like something he put together after a stop by Jo-Ann’s Fabrics.

Kara’s collection, though, fooled us into thinking she’d made the cut. Yeah, there were some clunkers (the tiered thing: what the fuck?) but Kara clearly took the judges seriously when they told her to work with color and texture. (Like with Michael Kors’ mini-diatribe about how the (self-made) dress
she was wearing was cuter than the one she’d made for Iman. It’s like, ugh, go work on your collection for Macy’s, will you?) So: yay, Kara! It’s like, the whole tent still saw her work. It’s nearly as good a spot as the other two non-winners, no?

Buy These Now, See Them On Sienna Soon Enough

02.16.2006

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There could be a futures market (er, whatever that is) in guessing what Sienna Miller will wear next. These are our votes. Sort of like that commercial where the Yuppie dad is all ignoring his teenage daughter until he realizes that he can hit her up for stock suggestions. Without the depressing overtones.

Honestly, we’ve been bitterly disappointed with Kooba bags in the past. The Kooba Sienna is adorable but tiny, much like its titular inspiration. And unlike ingenues, tiny handbags are not, in our opinion, good things. Neither, really, are tiny ingenues, but we don’t want to confuse the issue, or ourselves. Kooba Sienna: too small. Sienna Miller: possibly the right size. Kooba Lucy: wonderful! $595

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And next, the white leather wedge boots. We’re really not entirely feeling the snakeskin embossing (tss, snakes) but we are totally feeling the white boots. These will follow the Livs, mark our words.

Loeffler Randall Matilde boots, $675

And okay, our hearts still belong to the Roxanne, we’re boring like that, but the Chloe Edith is turning our head a bit. We’re not proud of ourselves, but … topstitching! $1275. This is one of those terrible bags we’d end up justifying by saying to ourselves, over and over, "You’d totally have that forever." Curses. Why can we not outthink a handbag?

Hello, And Nice To Meet You

02.15.2006

We are always interested in discovering how people find us in this extremely isolated corner of the Internet. This week is no exception. Our favorite Google searches that somehow landed some very disappointed would-be readers here:

1. "peed her swimsuit"
Cannot imagine what this is about.
2. "mini bunny purchasing"
Feeling quite concerned for the bunnies about to be purchased.
3. "sexy estonian girls"
They’re everywhere! However, we can offer only a Latvian.
4. "sass and bide dress paris hilton champagne spill"
Self-explanatory
6. "nipple fashion week"
So happy to be able to comply with this at long last! (Above, from Temperley. Very S Miller, no?)

Happy V-Day From Marc Jacobs

02.14.2006

Because what we enjoy in our holiday window decorations are some vaguely—or even explicitly—pornographic t-shirt references.

The Unbearable Porn-iness of Tom Ford

02.13.2006

You know how sometimes, like, a trucker will win $100 million PowerBall, and then he goes and builds himself a gold castle and rents a crew of mice to sing lullabies as he goes to sleep on his mattress made of kiwi bird feathers? Yes? This is sort of like Tom Ford, and what he did to the new issue of Vanity Fair. He made it his own, insane, porn-addicted playground. Er, we preferred the hand-buffed triplets.

Sienna Miller looks 15 years older and totally uninteresting here.

Compare and contrast to the current, and so much better, Interview cover. Just boring and tarty. We didn’t need to see Topher Grace peering between some girl’s hyperextended legs, either.

Our Favorite PR Looks

02.13.2006

From the Project Runway finalist (+ decoy) show! Yay and tss, in equal measure:

ARGH swoon beautiful. Especially on the right. Daniel V.

Santino. Not as exciting as we’d hoped. Lacking, in other words, the Auf Wiedersehen panties.

Kara: Er, the left has quite a lovely shape. But the right … we can say that this would not be a flattering look for us. Or, indeed, other humanoid shapes.

Chloe: Well, it doesn’t get our blood racing, whatever that means. But it wins the wearability contest.

Tss. The whole thing makes us nostalgic for a little bit of Jay McC.

The Project Runway Final Three

02.10.2006

We have no, no, no, no inside source on this. Sadly. But: We’ll eat our hats if it’s not Chloe, Daniel, and Santino. Kara has been really good lately, but she started out very hit \\ miss — plus there’s no way Breck boy Daniel is going out, Chloe’s won a challenge and Santino, personality disorder aside, is the "talent" of the group. Though, of course, that didn’t stop Austin from getting knocked out … if we remember correctly, at this stage. Let’s say Chloe’s Kara Saun (the quiet, steady, but not exuberant talent), Daniel’s Jay (though we must say we thought Jay had more to say) and Kara06 is this year’s Wendy, without the anger management problem. Dissenting views?

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