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Another Look

So continuing with the black/beige theme and rather warm weather, I’m featuring another casual look in today’s entry: ivory herringbone linen JCrew pants, Allsaints Spitalfields black top with leather harness, and Chanel camellia slides and mini “Bubble Quilt” flap… I’m currently mad for Allsaints Spitalfields, a chain started in the UK–here’s one of its London locations: But regardless of the …

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Carmageddon

Remember how the world was “supposed” to end last month…but we’re still here? Well, something worse is actually happening to LA this weekend. It’s Carmageddon. That’s right, this weekend the already congested 405 freeway will close some of its sections on the Westside for infrastructure improvements. Pity the poor souls who booked their vacations months ago and who will now …

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The Gatekeeper

Last night I was reading an old (2010) article in Vogue about how the retail industry would have to adapt not just to an online presence but more specifically to reaching customers via their smart phones. That tiny mobile device is now the ultimate gatekeeper to a buyer’s wallet. How timely that I read this–albeit 9 months later–because earlier this …

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4th Of July

I love the 4th of July because even the moniker “Independence Day” is such a call to action. The legacy of this young country that I now embrace as my own is that we get to take freedom as a given. Every day that we wake up, freedom awaits us. There’s no greater luxury than that. Not that it should …

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So Wrong

This is so wrong…am I right? But is it wrong that I got almost all the permutations from this collection, or is it wrong that I didn’t get all of them :D? In my defense, I will probably make very good use out of all these shoes for a long time, and the fact that they match pretty much everything …