MARC JACOBS. CHECK PLEASE!!!

HEYY FASHIONISTAS!!!!! soooo its been a little bit since I've blogged I;ve just been busy researching new projects and new ideas and concepts, I've came ot a conclusion what keeps me sane all day.....reading loads of fashion magazines, if you come in contact w/ me throughout my day you WILL see the latest ELLE, VOGUE or BAZZAR, to be a trendspotter you need to keep up!!! 24/7. I've researched the newest trends that is a definite KEEP can u guess??....CHECK PLEASE.... yup, It's PLAID, where all mad about plaid!!! from Spencer Pratt to the guy who tattoos Rihannas next tattoo, plaid is here to stay!!!!! let me show ya.... Marc Jacobs ready to wear line.....

and yes its all about that PLAID!!

REDBULL & MY SKIRT

SO I PICKED UP A FAB SKIRT TODAY IT WAS A WHITE MINI WHICH I PLAN TO MAKE A VERY VINTAGE OUTFIT WITH, IAM CURRENTLY VERY TIRED SO I WILL ADD PICS TOMMOROW I HAD OT MANY PREDBULLS AND NOW IAM CRASHED, I ALSO SEEN SOME AMAZINGGGG BUYS TODAY WHICH INCLUDE MY TOPIC I WILL TALK ABOUT WHEN I ADD TO THIS BLOG WHICH IS SILK PANTS/JUMPSUITS/SHORTS. YOU WILL FALL IN LOVE UNTIL THAN. NIGHT FASHIONISTAS.

NO NO, A FASHIONISTA CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT STARBUCKS OKAYYYYYY THANKK YOU.

Starbucks, once considered the innovator of the take-away coffee market, is no stranger to falling sales lately. Does this mean it can reinvent itself as a unique brand rather than mass market co-conspirator of globalisation?
The Seattle coffee chain said earlier this week it is planning to shut 61 of its 85 stores in Australia. From 3 August, only people in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane will be able to buy Starbucks’ lattes, frappucinos and espressos.
Starbucks first opened in Australia in 2000 but faced a tough road ahead as the great land down under was still finding its café culture feet.
Founder Howard Schultz said the decision to close the stores was part of a plan to revitalise the chain that is struggling as the US economy slows.
He said that while the decision represented business challenges unique to the Australian market, it didn’t reflect the strong state of Starbucks business in countries outside of the US.
However, earlier this year Starbucks chief executive Jim Donald was asked to leave the company after six years in response to falling sales.
Shultz took over the role in a bid to lead the group towards recovery, saying that staff and customers had become bureaucratic and that customer service needed improving.
Starbucks has been struggling in the US as consumers hit by the slowdown have cut back their spending on expensive coffee. Rising dairy prices have also raised costs.
There has also been increased competition with the likes of Dunkin’ Donuts and McDonald’s introducing their own lines of gourmet coffee with half the price tag.
In the first three months of the year, Starbucks’ profits fell 28 per cent. The coffee chain giant said conditions had been especially bad in California and Florida, which account for one-third of its US revenue and have been hit hard by the housing market slump.
So how much faith do consumers have in their everyday brands?
You’d be hard pushed to walk around London for ten minutes and not stroll past a Starbucks coffee house. We’ve been inundated by these cafes and now it seems that the strategy was a little misguided.
Yes it is convenient to never have to look too far for a Starbucks, but if the brand is good enough people will seek it out.
Starbucks reinvented coffee - it made walking around with a paper cup trendy and fashionable and my suspicions are that the brand hasn’t failed yet. Perhaps its just in need of a new strategy because no matter what time of day it is, my local Starbucks is always full. So maybe the coffee chain should pay attention to the customers it already has, and ease up on needing to be every where for every one. Perhaps it could get a little of its prestigiousness back.
Celebrities love Starbucks and as long as they continue to be seen with the white and green cups the brand will always have a good reputation. But celebrities like their brands to be expensive and unique and those who follow celebrity trends like to to feel like one also. So perhaps Starbucks could really hang on to that thought - it may be slipping, but it is still cool and perfectly redeemable and even if some stores continue to shut, there will be those who seek it out.

CHANELS mobile art nyc/tokyo...CARRIE BRADSHAWS BAG AND BELT

I'VE LITERALLY HAD DREAMS ABOUT HOW MUCH I ACTUALLY LOVE THE CHANLE 2.55 BAG ITS CLASSIC ITS POWERFUL IT HAS SO MUCH MEANING TO IT THE MOSE FAMOUS WOMAN CARRY IT MARY KATE KATE MOSS, TO THE BEST MARILYN AND SOPHIA AND OF COURSE "COCO" CHANEL PAIRING THE CHANLE BAG WIT ANY, ALMOST ANY OUTFIT GIVES IT TASTE A BIKER JACKET WITH DARK DENIM JEANS AND A CHANLE BAG CAN IT GET ANY BETTER??...A CREAM COLORED FUR JACKET WITH BLACK LEGGINGS N A CHANEL BAG WITH GOLD ROPES IS JUST SIMPLY PRICELESS, AND OF COURSE MY FAVORITE.....CARRIE BRADSHAW IN THAT HOT PINK DRESS AND HER SILVER CHANEL TOT PAIRED WITH THE STUDDED BELT( PIC SHOWN BELOW) UGHHH I LOVE LOVE IT LOVE IT!, BUT NOW I CANT FOR GET LILY IN THE MOVIE SHES ONLY 4 AND ALREADY A FASHIONISTA AT THE DINER WHERE THE GIRLS TALK SEX AND TALK ABOUT HOW MUCH THEY LOVEEE TO COLOR, YES WE KNOW SAMANTHA...LITTLE LILY CARRIES THE CHANEL TWEED BAG WITH ALL THAT BEING SAID I DONT NEED TO CONVINCE YOU ANYMORE ON WHY THIS IS WHY I'D RATHER HAVE A CHANEL BAG MORE THAN A MAN.

WELLL THIS HAS TO BE MY FAVORITE TOPIC CHANLE MOBILE ART WHICH CAME TO BRYANT PARK NYC THIS NOVEMBER AND LET ME TELL YOU... IT WAS AMZING IT GAVE PEOPLE TO SEE THE ARTWORK BEHING THE CHANEL CLASSIC TIMELESS 2.55 BAG.......

A few months back, we told you about Chanel’s Mobile Art Museum, a traveling pavillion made to house art exhibits, and we’re excited to say that last week it touched down in Tokyo, Japan. The museum houses original works paying homage to the iconic Chanel quilted purse and includes works by: Blue Noses, Daniel Buren, David Leventhal, Fabrice Hyber, Leandro Erlich, Lee Bul, Loris Cecchini, Michael Lin, Nobuyoshi Araki, Pierre & Gilles, Sophie Calle, Soju Tao, Stephen Shore, Subodh Gupta, Sylvie Fleury, Tabaimo, Wim Delvoye, Yang Fudong, Yoko Ono, and Y. Z. Kami. The most important work of the show however is the actual museum designed by Zaha Hadid. The museum looks like it’s touched down from outer space and is very curvy, and features a loop design. It’s the first travelling museum of its kind. Future stops for the museum include New York, London, Moscow and Paris. If you are in one of these cities, or are close to one, this is a definite must see!

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... Karl Lagerfeld's spiritual home?
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the company's iconic 2.55 quilted bag, Chanel has built a Zaha Hadid-designed torus-shaped exhibition hall in the middle of Central Park's Rumsey Playfield. The space-age exhibition hall, open to the public by a free-ticketing system, houses 18 handbag-inspired installations by international artists including Sylvie Fleury, David Levinthal, Yang Fudong and Michael Lin.
PHOTOS: Chanel's Mobile Art Pavilion
Conceived as a collaboration between Chanel's creative director Karl Lagerfeld and Pritzker Prize-winning architect Hadid, the Chanel Mobile Art Pavilion arrived in New York freshly reassembled from its previous stints in Tokyo and Hong Kong. After New York, it will travel to London, Moscow and Paris.
Lagerfeld, the brand's iconic living-legend designer, arrived in New York yesterday and is expected to attend tonight's opening celebration cocktail party along with Hadid and other art-world VIPs.
When visiting the pavillion, guests are equipped with guided audio-tour headsets programmed with a 35-minute semi-narrative commentary by husky-voiced French actress and vocalist Jeanne Moreau.
The installations range from the surreal - Korean artist Lee Bul's "Light Years" lumpy sculptural installation is topped with a montage of leather and chains - to the cleverly charming - Swiss artist Sylvie Fleury's "Crystal Custom Commando" is a video installation played on the mirror of a larger-than life Chanel powder compact propped up inside a king-bed-sized replica 2.55 handbag.
Argentina's Leandro Erlich's "Le Trottoir" video installation is a cyclically-changing stunning and solemn Parisian cityscape reflected in a puddle on black asphalt ground.
One especially hilarious set-up - "Fifty Years After our Common Era, or Handbags' Revolt" by Russian art collective Blue Noses - features stacks of plain cardboard boxes within each of which are projected films of naked women of all sizes chasing after, bodyboarding on, and beating each over the heads with Chanel handbags.
The Chanel 2.55 handbag was first unveiled by Coco Chanel - who designed the bag for her own use - in February 1955. Its popularity is often attributed to its compact elegance and novel design features - the purse has several secret compartments. Over the past 50 years, the iconic quilt-and-chain shape has graced the arms and shoulders of celebrities all over the world - in recent years it's become a favorite of Mischa Barton, Victoria Beckham, Ashley Tisdale and Mary-Kate Olsen. The bag is priced from $1,795 up to $31,500 for limited-collectors-editions at Chanel stores.
The Chanel Mobile Art Pavilion is free and open to the public by a reservation-ticket system through Nov. 9. Though all 23,000 advance tickets were claimed online within hours of becoming available, a limited number of same-day tickets are available at the on-location box office starting Wednesday.

FASHION TRIVIA

Jeanne Lanvin fashion designerBorn: 1867
Jeanne Lanvin was famous for creating the unfitted, chemise-style flapper dress. She first designed the loose, flowing dress for her little daughter, and when its freshness and simplicity was admired by women of all ages, she adapted the design for adults. Lanvin was also known for using beautiful, subtle pinks and blues that were inspired by her own magnificent collection of oil paintings. Her House of Lanvin, the oldest of all Paris fashion houses, set the standard for fashion in the 1920s. Died: 1946

Every one in awhile im going to throw in a few FASHION TRIVIA only the true fashionistas will be able to answer;]

THIGH HIGHS

OK SO THIS IS WHAT I CALL STREET CHIC I LOVE THIS GIRL! HER THIGH HIGHS ARE TOTALLY ON POINT! THIGH HIGHS ARE NOT FOR THE SCHOOL GIRL LOOK ANYMORE BUT FOR THE FASHIONISTA!, I LOVE HOW SHE PICKED A DARK COLOR A BRIGHT CLORE WOULD OF CAUSED ME TO SCREAM CHEESY:/ THE FLORAL PRINTS IN THE DRESS ARE ALREADY ENOUGH AND THE FLATS ARE CUTE BUT PERSONALLY I WOULD OF CHOSE A HEEL AFTER ALL I CANT WALK IN FLATS. THE LAYERING ITEM THAT EXCITES ME MORE THAN THAKOONS NEW SHOE COLLECTION IS THE LIGHT WASH DENIM VEST, IT LETS US KNOW SHES GOING FOR A BOHO/MARYKATE LOOK SHE LOOK BRILLIANT!

FASHION A+

FASHION NEWS: MILAN
GREAT SCOTGlasgow-born designer Jonathan Saunders' star is on the rise, propelled by his wonderfully soft yet architectural spring collection for the old Italian label Pollini, which hired him as head designer for this year. Sexy shoes were designed by Brit sensation Nicholas Kirkwood. pollini.com
SPORTY SPICEPuma has designed two styles of sky-high platform heels for Italian shoe label Sergio Rossi. The beauty of the pairing? They're ready for action, with foot-friendly rubber soles.sergiorossi.com
BUY NOWProceeds from Gucci's new white Tattoo Heart Collection go to UNICEF and its work in sub-Saharan Africa. How big is your heart? gucci.com

"THE SHOE" Fashion Trendsetting class. OCT 2008

RODARTES COLLECTION 2008.


PROBABLY MY SEASONS MUST SHOE THIS SEASON IS THIS PAIR FROM RODARTE IT SCREAMS ME!2008-2009 IS ABOUT BEING BOLD THIS SEASON IS ABOUT COLOR, TEXTURE PATTERN, AND MIXING DIFFERENT ELEMENST OF STYLE TOGETHER ITS ABOUT ADDING MORE BOLDNESS TO YOUR OUTFIT THIS SEASONS SHOE IS DEFINITLY NOT FLAT, 2008 WANTS THE HIGHEST HEEL! THE MOST DECORATE TO SOME IT UP EVERY FASHIONISTA NEEDS THAT "IT" SHOE SO WEATHER YOU INVEST IN A PAIR OF PIERRE HARDYS, A PAIR OF EMILIO PUCCI'S AS LONG AS ITS BOLD AND SAYS WHO YOU ARE THAN YOU ARE SET! ONLY A TRUE FASHIONSTA WOULD HAVE TO ADD IN THE CHLOE BUCKET BAG;] WITH A PAIR OF MUI MUI THIGH HIGHS.