If you’ve been one of the faithfuls at my blog, you know by now that my tradition is to mark each year with a series of photos showcasing some of my favorite accessories from my own closet. Five is just a number to some, but it marks a huge milestone for me, a commitment-phobe. Year 5 also means moving beyond …
Reindeer, Anyone?
In Australia I passed up on emu and ostrich, in South Africa I said no thanks to kudu, and more recently in Morocco I could not be talked into breaking my 22+ year streak of not eating meat for a camel burger. But sometimes, when the road takes me to signs like this one in Stockholm, I really wish I …
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Chanel Clutch With Chain
So in yesterday’s entry I struck out with the Kusama bag, but around every defeat there is victory waiting to happen. This has always been one of my mottos in life, and in the fashion context it’s no different. Now I’ve blogged endlessly about my love of a certain company that makes quilted bags, but there’s one iconic Chanel flap …
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Yayoi Kusama
One of the perks of being on the road is lucking into popup stores or roving exhibits. At the Printemps department store in Paris there was one such fun and, if I may say so, wacky show for the collaboration between Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama and Louis Vuitton. It was right up my alley…full of polka dots, bright colors, and …
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Waiting For Godot
Take two hyper workaholic-shopaholic girls, throw them together during one of the more frenzied weeks in Paris, and what do you get? To tell you the truth, that could have been a very bad scenario given that SL and I were traveling together for 72 hours without ever having met in person before. But as it happily turned out, we …