For some time now Karl Lagerfeld would design a fantastic Metiers d’Art collection each year. Some of the more memorable seasons included Paris-Londres, Paris-Shanghai, and Paris-Monte Carlo; the most recent one was Paris-Dallas. Aesthetically my favorite is a tie between Paris-Byzance and Paris-Bombay. Completely over the top yet so irresistible. But the one season that stands out prominently in my …
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Croc K32/Look 3
I’m a relatively late/slow adapter of Instagram, and I can’t say I’m quite the addict of it like everyone warned me I’d become. After a while the sensory overload dulls all my senses and the eye candy begins to feel like a buffet that’s no longer palatable. However, what I do find helpful is how creative and clever some people …
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New Eyes
I don’t have particularly bad vision, if you don’t count the whole night blindness symptoms and astigmatism stuff, not to mention the reading glasses issue. Though that’s just another excuse for me to collect Chanel frames–hey, aging has to have some upside, right? But right around when allergies get really awful, which is basically 70% of the year for me …
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ODJ: May Day
I’ve been in Europe for over a week now, lugging my herbal tea pouches (to be taken 3x a day along with the 12 herbal horse pills) from place to place: Knock on wood, but so far I’ve not been harassed by customs for these funky smelling teas, which still taste like muddy water after the fifteenth day, and I …
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ODJ 250
Are you tired of seeing my mug here all the time lately? I am, too, but preparing for a protracted upcoming trip has made it a bit challenging to blog too frequently these days, so these ODJs have been more or less a substitute for writing. Now speaking of long trips, I always seem to get into a rut of …