Online shopping sites - finds of the week

Hey Feather,
You know, I really miss our shopping trips. I actually love shopping by myself, but you are the only one who really knows my style and what will suit me. Anyway, lately I haven't even felt like shopping or even window shopping, until tonight. So since I can't physically show you things I want to buy or wish I could buy, here are some items I've found online this week.

First up from www.mywardrobe.com
A Tara Jarmon Dress, Terry de Havilland heels and a black leather link bracelet by CC Skye.


Next, www.brownsfashion.com
Chloe sweater, Balenciega wide leg pants and Christian Louboutin No Barre Shoes

And finally from www.eluxury.com
D&G Dolce & GabbanaTote, Emilio Pucci Dress and Dior pumps.


Thats my window shopping fix out of the way. I don't have to battle the crowds tomorrow. I think I'll stay home and read instead.
X Zephyr

Trend Hunch: Sheer Clothing. Lindsay, Cheryl or Katie?

Hey Zeph
I don't really need to describe this one, suffice to say that lately I randomly find myself more and more desirous of a sheer cardigan, a sheer sweater and a sheer scarf, and 'round here feelings like that are what we call another 'trend hunch'.
I don't however want to look like Miss April in a late nineties Playboy calendar and it's so easy to mistake see-through for sheer and look slutty instead of edgy. So, everybody should repeat, mantra-style: see-through is not sheer. see-through is not sheer. see-through is not sheer. She sells seashells... wait... what?
Anyway, anything not too tight, that makes an outfit look warm and cosy will work. That's right, I'm loving sheer as a Winter trend and nothing more, and as we all know showing skin in winter is embarrasing, so that should help.
Here are some pics for you - three beautiful women wear sheer, only one gets it right. Can you guess who?

Ok it was a trick, not really any of them. But Katie Holmes is almost there, I would kill for that sweater right now, I just wouldn't be branding my bra through it.

xxF

P.S Katie, what's your address... I'll lend you a superthin-strapped tank?


Hey Feather,
We may live oceans apart these days, but we are definately still on the same wave length. I too am totally loving the sheer look. I'm glad you covered the sheer does not equal see - through thing. So true. And I have to agree, Katie Holmes is the only one on target here.

x Zeph.

Spotted: Les Beckhams rep

Saw Posh Spice's sister outside the Bond St entrance of Sotheby's London today - could Les Beckhams be planning to snap up some Damien Hirst?
xF

Does Art = Money? Prepare yourselves, Damien Hirst is back at Sotheby's London

Spotted again and again: Damien Hirst outside Sotheby's St. George St entrance looking waaay too much like his mate Bono.

Hey Zephyr!
Here's a joke for you...
Q: What's the difference between Bono and God?
A: God doesn't walk around pretending to be Bono. hee hee!

And here's my reworked version of that joke...
Q: What's the difference between Damien Hirst and Bono?
A: Bono doesn't walk around trying to be Damien Hirst. ha ha!

It's just a day or so until Sotheby's here in London opens its doors and lets visitors in to see the Beautiful Inside My Head Forever exhibition of works by Damien Hirst that will be sold by auction on September 15 & 16, 2008.

The Sept/Oct 2008 Sotheby's Preview magazine comes with a supplement (it looks like a mini version of the mag) advertising the Hirst sale rather shamelessly under the thin guise of talking about the use of gold and diamonds in some of his new works. Hirst is quoted in the supplement saying "I love how Warhol used 'diamond dust' that was just crushed glass..." Of course you do, Damien, of course you do. What else do you love about Warhol, oh his entire career...really?
Anyway, I shouldn't really quote him because he's just a different - articulate - person in print and we might get something wrong...

Preview is also 'reporting' - as so many media outlets often do - that Hirst is going to stop making some of his signature-style works, specifically the spin and butterfly paintings. Yer right. The publicity generated by saying so then not doing so is the only certainty here - it's kept Hirst in his circa-2001 Prada shades thus far.

People of London: Go to Sotheby's September 5-14, it's FREE, it's the closest many of you will get to this art before it is snapped up for the collections of the rich and famous, and you will witness art history - or is that art-market history? - in the making.




Sotheby's is not just for the snooty, even though they dominate the halls. Some of the works look so amazing in person, especially the 'stained glass windows' made of luminous (Preview copy and slimey Sotheby's experts' word) butterfly wings. Anyway, no visitor will be dissapointed. Some of the pieces (as in the case of the zebra-in-a-tank) I found expensive and sad, like me. Hirst is definitely striking certain chords.

xx F

Look of the Week.

Hey Feather,
I've picked out my favorite look for the week, and it'sEva Mendes in Sydey at the 30 Days of Fashion & Beauty Luanch.
I really like Eva, she always looks amazing. She has a killer toned legs and that incredible brown skin. I've read an interview where she says she excercies heaps so she can still eat the food likes, hence the non-waif but totally fit result. It seems I am often admiring her outfit choices and this one is no different.



Here she is wearing a John Rocha dress. But it's the shoes I adore. i'm desperate to find a similar pair before I head off on my holiday in November. The Cobweb cuff is cool too.

So what's your fave look of the week Feather?


Hey Zeph
Yer Eva Mendes is cool and always looks great, but I don't get her... is she va-va-voom or is she down-to-earth or what, what's her 'thing'? Maybe she's just happy to be a regular person, so she doesn't act out a personality for the general public to cling to - against the wishes of her PR team, if so.
Also, don't you already have those shoes? I swear you do, but they are lovely.
So when you asked me my favourite look of the week I thought oh no, do I be honest or do I be cool? Of course I'm going to be honest, it is only for the week after all...
It's Reese Witherspoon, in Brazil to speak out against Domentic Violence for the UN Development Fund for Women. I love the shoes, the dress is an oldie but one that's still going strong on the high street and I love navy-blue, and she looks amazing - better than I've seen her in a while.
Here are some pics from JustJared.com:


xx F