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Memorial Auction For Kim Family

It is rare that we hope we will not be able to afford something, but here's hoping the bids in the auction benefiting James Kim's family go up to the stratosphere. Nearly everything in the auction is adorable, and we recognize some of the artists \ designers behind it from Kati Kim's Doe boutique on Haight Street, which has always been one of our favorite stores in the city and, apropos of nothing, always seems to be the first place to get Nylon in SF.

Our favorite, by the way, is this collection of paper goods from the suitably named Good on Paper. Current eBay auction bid: $163.50

The Topshop Salute Continues

Our favorite Topshop items: the shoes. Maybe the dresses, but otherwise the shoes. Glitter! Love glitter. Glitter peep court shoe, about $170

And the shippable-to-the-US not-quite-equivalent: TOPSHOP BLACK LEATHER SLAM SHOES SIZE 4, current bid $9.49. Ooh, these shoes are lovely. And much cheaper than $170.

Say It Ain't So, Jane

Disturbing news from London: "[Topshop lead designer Jane] Shepherdson, widely seen as central to Topshop’s success, resigned unexpectedly. The abruptness of her move prompted reports that she had quit because [guest Topshop designer Kate] Moss was trespassing on her fiefdom." Okay, so that is way too many brackets in one sentence, but still. We do not like change. We really do not like change when it affects our very favorite store, and the woman in charge of it all. We freely recognize the fact that Kate Moss is a global style icon, etc., but designer? Maybe, maybe not. Er, probably not. We are praying this is not the twilight of Topshop. Supermodels ruin everything.

In honor of Topshop, these are just a few of the things we would want to buy right this very minute, if we could. We limited it to coats and dresses, just because we couldn't let the list get too unwieldy. And then for all of us America-bound shoppers, we added a few eBay purchases. It's not the same, but at the moment, it's the best we've got. By the way, we can't link directly to the items, so FYI on that.

Isn't this dress just beautiful? One shot, all of our holiday-party-dress buying done. Silk dress, about $120

The color of this dress is so weird—they call it ginger—but it's so Mia Farrow-’60s we love it. Don't miss the detailing ’round the neck. Shift dress, about $70

It's like a normal trench coat, just 1000X better. Riding trench coat, about $280

Ditto. It's like your ordinary black coat but the big cowl neck just makes it so much nicer. Oh, Topshop. Belted cowl coat, about $150

And like this, this is totally the jacket we're buying when we get back to London. It's like a totally normal jacket but with a cute D-ring belt and the nice narrow shape. If Kate Moss has ruined this for us, we will never forgive her. Honestly. Drop belt parka, about $105

Now okay, there are 57 pages of Topshop to sift through on eBay, nevermind the "Top Shop" ones.

Love this! This is also a really smart photo. What a nice background color. TOPSHOP LARGE yellow faux LEATHER handbag bag NEW 06, current bid $14.05

Love this, too. It's all, "Wear me with skinny jeans." Photos of clothing on your hardwood floors: It's a global phenomenon. MUSTARD 60s Short SWING Jacket UK8 by TOPSHOP NEW, current bid $13.29

From the seller's listing: "Your friends will adore the unique way that this bag fastens. As you can see from the second picture you slip the leather shoulder strap back through the body of the bag......it's simply To Die For!!" Worthy of the capitalization, really. NEW TOPSHOP WASHED LEATHER VINTAGE SLOUCH SHOULDER BAG, current bid $19.65

What Happens When You Type "Nicole Richie" Into eBay

We wrote the first draft of this (we know, you're like: drafts? really? are you sure?) on an airplane, and it was full of complaining, about how our last weekend trip home on an airplane somehow segued into seven-day extravaganza unexpectedly included a trip to Los Angeles to interview a hip-hop star who (a) canceled the morning after we got there, or six hours before the interview, and (b) would wait ten more days to speak with us. We are guessing that it took her these ten days to figure out how to answer all of our questions with a single syllable. God love her, she figured it out.

But now we are off the plane, and we are finding it more difficult to complain. Really, we are feeling quite positive. Positively. Whatever. You know what? We love waitressing. It's like playing the lottery, every 15 minutes. And Nicole Richie! We understand it now, the Nicole Richie thing. Subtract the famous dad and you have at least some semblance of a self-made starlet. It's not exactly a self-made woman, but it's a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny step in the right direction. We would like to go two ways with this: One, if you live in the same sort of cave (plane-shaped) that we do, buy the Pink "Stupid Girls" video on iTunes (sometimes we have to rewind and rewind the part where she's like, 'What happened to the dreams of a girl president? She's dancing in the video next to 50 Cent.' That cracks us up. The first time we heard it we were all, "Did she just say '"Pull my hair and fuck me" girl'?) And let's take a look at how people are selling Nicole Richie on eBay. Nobody's selling Pink. We are pretty sure that is good news for Pink.

This is really what sums it all up for us. ********PARIS HILTON & NICOLE RICHIE CD CLOCK ********* (with GOLD COLOURED HANDS WITH A GOLD SECOND FINGER). Yeah. This is pretty much it.
End time: Apr-30-06 11:12:34 PDT
Buy it now price: $6.24

TEENAGE MILLIONAIRE T-Shirt (S) seen on nicole richie
Honestly, we thoroughly object to these "Teenage Millionaire" t-shirts, unless (a) if it's not true or (b) you made your money yourself, without help from mommy + daddy. And preferably because you discovered a cancer vaccine, not because you wore a bikini on the cover of Maxim.
End time: Apr-27-06 11:13:15 PDT

SKINNY JOES JEANS SIZE 28 NICOLE RICHIE
Joe's Jeans. From the seller: "Nicole Richie has a pair of these very jeans and if you love her style, you will love these jeans!" We're sure that's true. Have we talked about Rachel Zoe is designing her own line of accessories?
Current bid: $20.54
End time: Apr-26-06 01:27:18 PDT

Okay, we have to say that this collage really does more to put us off the oversized sunglasses thing than a thousand ... er, whatever else would dissuade us from wearing them. It's like birth control for oversized sunglasses.

Of course, if you're not convinced, there's these BIG 70's 80's VINTAGE BOHO NICOLE RICHIE MKA SUNGLASSES. Offered without comment.

Or these, identical to Nicole Richie oversized vintage sunglasses. OK, we actually sort of like these.
End time: Apr-28-06 05:31:46 PDT
Current bid: $1.76

What You Get When You Type "Kate Moss" Into eBay

Well, you don't get cocaine, which is sort of what expected. You get instead clothing you can only fit into if do cocaine. Or have anorexia. We endorse neither. In fact, we were recently quizzed, in a classroom full of people oh so much younger than us, and when the teacher asked who had never done drugs, we raised our hand. We were the only one. Besides the TA. Humiliating. Always, always humiliating, but that's what you get when you go back to school when you should be popping out some babies, like apparently the whole goddamn world. All we want is a little refugee baby like Angelina Jolie, who is, in fact, older than us, possibly in 5-15 years.

This was supposed to be about Kate Moss.

1. This is a 50's VINTAGE STYLE POLKA DOT DRESS! SEEN ON KATE MOSS!. Also "SO GWEN!" Really? Actually, we quite like this dress.

2.DRESS KNITTED V TRENDY AS SEEN ON KATE MOSS. NAVY-8-12. Hmm. V trendy? Really? It looks a little handmade, actually, not in an entirely positive way. It does, however, prove the point of putting a random style icon's name into your eBay listing, as it's currently going for $80.

3. Vintage Kate Moss low cut black waistcoat 12 sold out. This would really be a lot better if the picture was a little better. Or if the waistcoat was a little better. We just can't get past the double-breastedness of waistcoats. Like this one.

4. Now these, these are actually excellent. BNWT SASS & BIDE MISFITS BLACK 28/10 SKINNY KATE MOSS. Don't you kind of feel like models who do coke to stay skinny are sort of like baseball players who take steroids? They're fucking up the playing field for all of us.

We mention this only because it is so heinous. Heinous like having sex with a crackhead heinous. What could that possibly be like, we wonder? Dirty, we bet. Not in a remotely positive way. But anyway, what the fuck is this, this BNWT UGG PINK SHEARLING MESSENGER BAG SO KATE MOSS? Holy shit, it looks like a giant pink sheep pouch, and then what, you take this outside? Shocking. Unbelievable. Bizarre. But "so Kate Moss"? The problem with talking about Kate Moss now is that it's impossible, because she's just this punchline, even though — seriously, what is it, 97% of the fashion industry does coke? And embraces hypocrisy? But she, even on her worst, got-screwed-by-a-crackhead-all-night, did-coke-all-day, days, is a style icon, and would never, ever touch this bag.

Paris Hilton might, however.

Angelina Jolie on the cover of Marie Claire

When we were seven years old, we had an overnight Girl Scout trip to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, and our leader (who also happened to be our mother) had the idea to outfit all 15 of us in matching green fluourescent sweatshirts, so she could stop maurading scouts and corral them from a distance. These sweatshirts would have shown up on Soviet spy satellites, so hideously, electrically green they were — in fact, they were just about the color of the new Marie Claire cover.

First, we thought, that is a really heinous color combination, fluourescent pea green and that magenta-pink — but maybe they needed to work with the light-lime green dress on Angelina Jolie in a creative way. Then we saw the (relatively) untouched Marie Claire UK cover, which is the same shot without the Photoshop color-control on the dress. So they colored the dress to go along with the heinous color combination? Err ... whatever. Maybe the "Prostitution Gives Me Power" story will make up for it.

In any case, we felt a little bad for Gilles Mendel, whose J. Mendel dress she's wearing. If you were "the furrier to the young and fabulous," would you want Marie Claire turning your dress green? Well, we wouldn't, but who knows, maybe he was there with a bucket and some green Manic Panic dye.

By the way, in a world where even the hottest woman on the planet needs to be Photoshopped, no wonder there is a market for (a) eating disorder camps, (b) therapists, and (c) Botox. Seriously. The average woman isn't even comparing herself to Angelina Jolie. She's comparing herself to an android. She might as well be comparing herself to the tooth fairy, because neither the tooth fairy nor the woman on the cover of this magazine actually exist. God.

We will content ourselves with the UK Marie Claire cover and these nice pictures of J. Mendel's fall fur pieces from style.com. We don't think we need to come up with a policy on fur until we have collected enough waitressing tips to be able to afford that bubble coat. Otherwise, you can find a J. Mendel boutique at Bergdorf Goodman or buy a "J. MENDEL Shaved MINK Top/Vest OUTRAGEOUS wOw" on eBay for $1250.

eBay Search of the Week: Sienna

Oh, eBay. It's like some sort of Jetsons device, where you type in the name of the girl you want to dress like and all these options pop up. Or, in this case of searching for "Sienna," all these naff gypsy skirts and international-coin belts (in "Genuine leather and REAL international coins," in case you expected, say, vinyl, and fake international coins, or possibly out-of-circulation coins, or what we have no idea). Oh, Sienna Miller. Seriously, what do you do when you walk out the door and you see people who've been mean to you wearing cowboy boots and gypsy skirts and big leather bags?

And now, the best "Sienna" searches on eBay:

SIENNA FAVES CHLOE BEADED RAINDROPS BRACELET BAG
Currently: $636.35
We love Chloe so much — this dress in particular. At first, we thought this bracelet bag was just okay — but since it's one of Sienna's faves, it must be pretty awesome! We're so stupid; Sienna's so smart.

KOOBA SIENNA LUGGAGE HANDBAG NWT AUTHENTIC!!!
Currently: No bids; starting price $649.99
For girls who want handbags nobody else has ... look elsewhere. But at least when someone else correctly name-checks it, you'll be able to say, "Isn't it great? It's a Sienna NWT authentic!"

Authentic LANVIN Bronze Top £340 VERY SIENNA/KATE
Currently: $127.62
Lanvin is so great. And to think — it's equally Sienna AND Kate. Sienna's marrying Jude Law, Kate's marrying crackhead Pete Doherty. Why can't Jessica Simpson go out with a crackhead? British people are so lucky.

LARGE BALENCIAGA BLACK LE DIX MESSENGER BAG Sienna BN
Currently: $54.74
Have we mentioned we want to get married in Balenciaga? Not the bag. A dress. You know, the thing is, we'll totally cop to being annoyed and jealous and exceptionally aggravated by certain non-deserving pop stars \\ young celebrities — coke-snorting, crash-dieters with tremendously big boobs, we mean, barf. But we just can't muster any resentment for Sienna Miller. Are we going soft? Or is it the fact that she's still off the radar in the U.S? Maybe it's the fact that even if she's marrying Jude Law (who, sorry, just doesn't do it for us), she can still get pushed off a film so Tom Cruise — in yet another awesome display of his heterosexuality — can muscle her out for new promotional girlfriend Katie Holmes.

Boho BOOBTUBE Sz 10-12 Sienna Hippy Peasant Chic BNWT
Currently: $12.94
We can't help it — we like this Hippy Peasant Chic BOOBTUBE. We actually thought it was Missoni on first glance. As the title suggests, you need a decent boob-area to wear it, but we like the slinky \ trashy vibe.

Vintage Guess Leather Shirt Jacket Brown Boho Sienna
Currently: $1.80
Okay, say what you won't — and we certainly don't mean to encourage that unique-to-L.A. hipsters rockabilly look. But this is a whole lot of shirt for $1.80.