Current Obsession: Lace-up Booties

Am I in need of a 12-step program?

Favorites? Hard to pick. I like 'em all. Current go to: All Saints work-boots. Second to those - grey suede Proenza Schouler booties. My heart skipped a beat when I found them in NY. Most recent addition: Zara black suede wedge booties. Great for beating around the city or office when Proenza's are too much (c'est possible?) Oldies but goodies: grey patent Dries Van Noten wedges. They get better as the seasons pass. Ones that require the most thought in the morning: Haider Ackerman tall boys. I'm not giving up on them quite yet - but I unfortunately wear them the least. That's it. First step is recognition that you have a problem right? xx

Feeling Purple

Still in recovery mode. Had a mad, whirlwind trip to NYC for the weekend. What can I say? Kind of felt like I was stalking Olivier Zahm? Kept expecting to bump into him at The Standard (no such luck). Couldn't quite figure out the elusive Boom Boom Room or Avenue though. Anyone? Are they for realz? Do commoners ever get in? Someone has to give me the 411.

Oh ya - 2 words - Proenza booties. Will post. Promise.

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Fashion Week Favorite

Sure you might say there's no challenge in dressing when the sky's the limit... but honestly there's too many examples au contraire to list, that you have to give Vanessa Traina a little credit. She looks more comfortable in Givenchy than most people in H&M. And for that she's a Fashion Week Favorite.

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The Uniform

If you didn't know it already... this is the uniform. Booties and legs, legs and booties. Giovanna is so convinced that she felt the need to put ankle warmers on top of her shoes to look like booties. See? Told you.

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Nevermind

Nostalgia for the 90's. Who ever thought there would be a moment for it? But here we are referencing Kurt Cobain as though his notoriety wasn't for nought. And although I really should have had enough the first time around... apparently I haven't. Here I am craving the same plaid, stripes, leopard and boots that could only have happened (concurrently) - after the 80's.

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Sasha Pivovarova

Somehow you get the feeling that her staying power is connected to something deeper than her devine face. Fierce fashion, style, sense-of-self. You can't buy that, contrive that, act that.

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Top 5 Picks for Spring 10

In no particular order. My top personal picks for Spring 2010. What you and I will want to be wearing - and what all fashion eds will be maxing out on Jak & Jil in approximately 4 months. Grr.

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Riccardo Tisci The Great

My edit of Spring 2010 fashion week may be a little extreme - and it's not that I didn't see plenty of lovely things - as I'm sure you all have too. But really let's cut to the chase. Favorite show after 4 weeks of shows has got to be Riccardo Tisci's for Givenchy. If I was an heir to a romance-novel-book-fortune, oil princess, or excessively, independently, wealthy - I would have been sitting front row ordering up EVERY SINGLE ITEM. Yes I know - rather extreme. But that's how I role. And if that was my lot in life - I would probably wear it everyday like a bit of a billboard (perhaps forgoing the silly hats) and then I'd do it all over again next season. Such would be my devotion.

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