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- All we are talking about today is the contest contest contest contest! People, we are being entirely serious when we say we are absolutely confident—all we know is that if we were entering this contest, we would be pleased at our odds. We’re offering one more last-minute extension: Monday 9 a.m., do or die. $1000!

- Tara Reid is officially the new spirit of Sundance, which is why we are glad we are writing this from Mexico.

- Why did no one at Vogue notice the way in which Renee Zellweger appears to be giving birth to a small rabbit on its cover?

- We love t-shirts!

- And of course, if you click on any of the ads to the left or right, you will absolutely make our day(s).

In today’s Reader Mailbag:

Yesterday you had a Maya Brenner necklace of California. Does she do one for New Jersey?

Amazingly this was also a question we have been asking ourselves, and hurrah! The answer is yes. We went to her website and saw a category for states, and we were a little like, “Really? All the states?” And then we saw it was just a few of them, like Louisiana and Texas and Florida, and then we were getting a little irritated, like, “What? New Jersey’s not good enough for you?” But victory! There is one, and it is lovely. We only wish there was one for New York as well. Born Jersey, forever Jersey, is what we like to say, however. Maya Brenner NJ necklace, $200

01.25.2007

We have always loved the Doe store in SF. Mostly in the way that you walk around and you’re like, “Everything’s cute, and I need to buy it all, and maybe I need a new job to do that.” We remember we once went to our friend Nicole’s house, and she had this new DKNY duvet cover, and we coveted it so much that we were all, “We are totally getting a real job as soon as we get back to New York.” We didn’t, and our duvet currently lacks a cover, though this is as much a product of indecision as anything else. Anyway: Doe. Full of things that will you can buy for yourself, and thus avoid the problems of coveting the things your friends have.

This may be the only situation in which we will be able to encourage plant life to grow. Flower in a Can, $6.50

We remember seeing this in France and being like, “Urgh, we absolutely must have lovely liquid hand soap!” and then being like, “Dummy, you do not want to carry about two pounds of hand soap that you could buy for less in Brooklyn.” The point stands. Of course we are still washing our hands with littel bars of hotel soap, which, as we are typing it, is revealing itself as possibly not the biggest problem ever encountered. (We like the fig and the grapefruit, for what that’s worth.) La Compagnie de Provence liquid hand soap, $18

We still love Tord Boontje, even if he is Mr. Target now. We wonder if before he did those ads if he was like, “Am I selling out?” We love the idea of weird rich Dutch designers being all conflicted. We prefer the plate on the lower right-hand corner. Tord Boontje serving platter, $58.

This dress is totally fitting in with our surety that every new dress these days is being made in denim. Even if this is cotton. You know what we mean. Mimo Nellore dress, $172

We are not from California, and thus will not buy this necklace. If we were, however, we would, and we would love it. Maya Brenner silver California necklace, $70. Also available in gold, $150

We also love Bonnie Heart Clyde, and their new embroidered slippers. We are really feeling the love this morning, which has got to be directly related to the fact that we got to the airport so early that we were like, “Is the airport closed?” because it was so deserted. And now here is a question: Would it be possible to view a little video piece of random, real-life people hugging at an airport and not be immediately reminded of Love, Acutally? We don’t think so, but we may try. BHC embroidered slippers, $128

Maybe we are being totally daft, but we don’t remember being able to see online webcasts of the couture shows before. Are we losing our minds? It is 5:41 a.m. in San Francisco, and we did that thing where the alarm went off at 4:37 and were like, “Why are on earth would we do that?” before shutting it off and going back to sleep. And then realizing the SuperShuttle was due in eight minutes.

We remember we spent one very apparently motionless September doing nothing but watching that fashion channel on Time Warner cable, which played the Marc Jacobs show over and over and over, and that was sort of annoying but we enjoyed the fact that we knew the collection inside and out. (However far that knowledge got us. Er, not so far.) But then we moved, to cities with less extensive cable selections. We have not spent such a September since.

Anyway: Giorgio Armani’s “Prive” couture show is online. We think that is fairly exciting. Not as exciting as finding a twenty-dollar bill on the street, but more exciting than finding a pot pie in the freezer. Most exciting for us: the headwear. We require a turban, stat! And yay, internet democracy!

01.25.2007

What we love about couture is that it’s like, fine, okay, that’s couture, but from a distance it looks like an underfed high schooler from Jerry Springer who’s sleeping with her brother and her mom’s boyfriend. And just was like, “Leopard! Love it!”

01.24.2007

This dress makes us so happy, because it is so: layer over jeans for winter, layer over bikini for summer! We are going to buy this, and we are going to wear it every single day of the week. Oh, summer! You cannot get here soon enough. C&C California Sela dress, $84

We’re not sure if we’ve just been really bad sleuths at this or what, but we have been unable to find Cheap Monday jeans on sale—er, that is to say, available—in the US anywhere, until today, when we found them at La Garconne. We love La Garconne but it is very, very pricey. This, however, makes it even more exciting when Cheap Monday jeans are, in fact, relatively cheap, and only just above Gap-jean price levels! These are, by the way, the jeans we bought in London after returning something else so that we would be able to afford them. We love them.

They look better on, is what we’re saying having seen this photo. Cheap Monday raw denim jeans, $65

ETA: We are dummies, and they also have them at Ron Herman, same price, but also in black.

This Sundance was the first Sundance we spent in the constant company of another person. This is because even though our wonderful, wonderful, future-president friend Kevin always goes, we are press and he is not and so we are always like, “See you at Pizza Hut,” which is, indeed, our favorite Park City eating establishment, but we only ever get to spend that Pizza Hut time with him, which is like five minutes with him, and that sucks. This year, anyway, our friend was similarly credentialed, and we found ourselves not suffering from our usual allergy to other people. He did, once, however, call us “quite fashion-y,” which we found outrageous, as, and we said this, we were wearing a t-shirt on which we had just spilled all this guacamole, and we had just put our ten-year-old J. Crew hoodie over it to cover the guacamole. And then like an hour later we would spill half a glass of wine over both.

Which brings us, quite circuitously, to the question of t-shirts, and how wonderful they are, and how we need more of them, for wearing after we spill things on the other ones. And, more to the point, these are all by independent designers, rather than the people who will eventually rip them off.

Pillow fight! But with birds. Fair enough. Pillow fight t-shirt, $30

Of course we love the bunny t-shirt. Our upper half, personally speaking, is not quite so ripped. Bunny t-shirt from Hardboiled, $29

We love Morris & Essex, not least because we imagine they are named for the very famous and wonderful New Jersey Transit line. Birdflower tee, $32

Generally we avoid any sort of t-shirt that references LA in it (at least, and especially, if it comes from Kitson) but we sort of like this one. Los Angeles tee, was $38, now $20

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Not cheap, but that’s embroidery, not screen-printing, so, once more, fair enough. Ubernaturalistica tee, $75

Because we have, so recently, been so cold: Rebecca Beeson’s black stretch thermal v-neck top, was $65, now $29.69. Warm. Not ugly. An unusual combination.

01.23.2007

Well, we’re wrapping it up here for our shortest Sundance trip ever. You know it’s time to go home when you’re waiting in line for the bathroom and have the pleasure of hearing some idiot explain to her friend how her strategy, for gaining entrance into some bar where Sienna Miller was, resembled, in its finest points, “a military invasion of Baghdad.” Ugh. Ugh. We’re sure they had so much in common. Like the bombs, say. Or maybe the Uggs.

We only saw one movie we liked, and it was about these gangsters from Manchester, and it was like a real-life The Wire (a useful comparison since everyone was like, “The What”? when we made it) only the chief gangster was totally amazing and there’s this moment when the documentary maker, with whom we are now madly in love for his bravery and documentary-making, is like, “I sense there’s a touch of the lavendar to you” which was apparently a way of asking this gangster if he’s gay, and all we could think of was poor Vito in The Sopranos but no one in Manchester seems to mind very much, which can only be a good thing. Even if he does kill people, etc. And then there’s this other moment where the director asks the gangster’s equally gangster brother if he’s killed anyone, and the gangster brother is like shaking his head no but laughing so hard he can barely keep his shit together. A Very British Gangster. So so so so so much more entertaining than Tara Reid, who was apparently right next to us in the T Mobile Lounge but equally apparently out of our line of sight. Can you imagine? Our heart does, in fact, go on, even having missed the lovely Tara Reid. And the director, Donal MacIntyre, is our new hero.

We are skipping over the rest of our Sundance stories, including the one where we almost almost almost told the woman in front of us in line on the plane, who was really taking her time to put her luggage overhead, to “please tuck it in” or something equally not-veiled obnoxious, and we truly and literally thank God that we did not, because when she did sit down, it became clear she was actually a nun. Narrowly averted disaster, etc., though we are sure we lose points just for complaining about her in our head before the clerical reveal. And we will also say that it was our most-fun Sundance yet, even though we really hated most of the movies we saw (including the one where the girl pees on her boyfriend).

This is the sweater we wished we had with us. Hoodies! So useful, what with the zip and everything. Vince thermal hoodie, $135