Is the world pretty again?

Today I learned that Jonathan Adler was commissioned by Mattel to design a real-life 3,500-square-foot mansion overlooking the Pacific Ocean for Barbie. The doll! This is the best news I’ve heard for a very long time and it makes me believe that times are great again. All this for Barbie’s 50th birthday – 50 really? After the celebration (a party I’d sell my soul be at) the decor will be transferred to Palms Casino Resort in Vegas to decorate a Barbie Suite that can be rented out for parties. Now, thats’ what I’m talking about for my next birthday. Adler is also going to launch a Barbie interior collection in his stores this fall. After hearing about this fantastic news which translated to my ears as “recession is over” I stepped outside to see if the sky was bluer when I noticed a woman in full length fur with a large 2.55 metallic Chanel on her shoulder (she looked like she came off the Dynasty set) walking down 5th Avenue – IN SEATTLE! Is everything good again or am I dreaming? Can we go back to shopping and dining without feeling funny in our stomach as if we stole the change from our dad’s pocket? If the answer is no things are still depressing and stop thinking about selling your stocks for 1/10th of the purchase price to buy the new Halston tie-die ethnic hobo. I’d say: It's Friday I'm tired take me to the Barbie house on Malibu and get me the new glass slippers from Margiela – please!

– it’s the Balmain girl...

Are you in Paris – or are you at least watching what’s going on in Paris? I’m waiting with breath to see Lanvin, the love of my life as well as what Galliano is doing for Dior this fall. I’m a Dior girl having a love affair with Lanvin and partying with Marc Jacobs (as well as few other endeavors with few additional members of the fashion world). You could say that I’m classic, feminine with a slightly corky twist and sometimes just a little too much. Today, there’s a new girl on the block – it’s the Balmain girl and I want to be her. She’s fearless, sexy, sharp, has no time for bull#%$& and she rocks the new 80’s like it’s never been rocked. Look at her – don’t you want to be her?

Does Marni make you swoon?

I love Marni. It makes me feel artistically happy and grateful for being a girl. The Fall '09 collection is très fantastique. My favorite look is exit 51 – flower power. The ultimate European girl who can dress up for anything and nothing. Consuelo Castiglioni's jewelry only gets more exciting every season and it’s timeless art. Once you touch and try on her jewelry pieces there’s no way you'll go home empty handed, if you do you’ll cry your self to sleep. The Marni girl wears colorful tights - not sure if I can pull the tights off, but I wear my Marni shifts bare legged or with a sold opaque. There's something about patterned or colored tights that makes me feel a little sausage-like. I am however working on my legs and so if results come to my the way God intended we’re doing the tights! I’ll keep you looped in...

Hot pink Marc

Being a fashion girl it can be très difficile to live in the moment. Spring is barely here and I can't wait for fall - what a shame. I wish I could look forward to spring and summer, but I'm a bit over it I have to say. Spring'09 was beautiful and passionate and très chic, but it was so long ago and now that we've seen Marc for fall'09 - it's hard to wait. My favorite pieces from his fall collection were the purple cocktail dress with a bubble skirt and a zipper detail at the waist and that hot hot pink long sleeve number, but most importantly that one sleeve black ribbon dress that screams "slap me around and wrap me up as a present" I'm fou about it!

Oh so happy!

When I first came across Lisa Perry and her Mod dresses in an article in Domino magazine I was intrigued. Her style wasn't only fun but very clean and cohesive and when I say clean I don't mean minimalistic but stylized with a clean concept. From her dresses to her home everything seemed to be so true to its origin. I loved her home. I loved the idea of her dresses - and everything that came from her in that article wasn't only fun but so unique and simply smart. I didn't necessarily see myself wearing her dresses but I appreciated them. This was a woman who was so incredibly true to her style and passion that her world reminded me of the movie Down With Love, with Renee Zellweger.
The following year Lisa launched her line in Seattle and I am now completely smitten. Once I met her in person I was inspired and when I touched the fabric of her dresses, and saw how she wears her them I had nothing left but to purchase a couple. I got the Swing dress in Kelly green and the Pucker Up in red. The swing dress I try to wear just like how Lisa wears it over a black tapered pant and a strappy Jimmy Choo (I've yet to get that Martin Margiela plexi wedge heel), and the Pucker Up is a perfect cocktail dress, but there's more to it then just how to wear Lisa's dresses, it's how a girl feels in them - just so happy!

Halston is here

There have been a couple of very expensive trips to Paris in my life where I've searched the city for the perfect iconic vintage pieces i.e. Dior, Schiaparelli and Balenciaga. I can't say that these trips were successful, but I took home a Lanvin shirtdress from the 70's in one trip and a Yves Saint Laurent coat in the other. In the mid-nineties several women in Manhattan were searching for the perfect vintage Halston jersey dress. Only a handful of them succeeded in that search, and several women were left out in the cold with a broken heart. The women that neither desire a second hand dress nor have the accessibility to a perfectly conditioned vintage couture often pre-order their runway pieces. If a woman sets her mind on a certain item of clothing there's is no peace in her mind until that item is resting in her closet. Whether she'll actually wear it or not. If she wants it - she shall get it. On the other hand, when there is a certain piece from a different era on a woman's mind it's not as simple and when a fashion house is part of our history there isn't much hope. How many Schiaparelli coats are out there - One? Unfortunately, there's no way to find out and I have given up the idea of the perfect vintage couture piece. However what we do know is that Halston is back. Every single woman that never got her vintage jersey and all the others that do not wear vintage can unite and celebrate that impossible chic Halston jersey. Not only are we getting the jersey back, but also shirtdresses, high waisted boot-cut pants, long skirts, and beautiful cashmere separates and all of it is very Halston. A brand new Halston!

Downtown Seattle

When you live in a city like Seattle Washington, you don't often see super chic women on the streets, but I know that they're here. The reason I do know is that in the midst of downtown we have Barneys, Louis Vuitton, Nordstrom, Escada, Jeri Rice and more, and someone is keeping these high-end retailers in business, other than me (I can only do so much). Barneys is selling Dries Van Noten and Prada and the Nordstrom across the street offers everything from Marni to Chanel; Balenciaga and Yves Saint Laurent. I am one of these women that shop all over the place, when I travel, and in Seattle - during sales, and I buy these few "must have" pieces of the season as soon as they ship. I love shopping when there's a bit of a buzz going on. When everyone is happy because Marc Jacobs didn't use neon in his collection and Lanvin looks fabulous and there's lounge music and champagne, but every time I go shopping in these chic places here in Seattle I never see a chic lady, the sales people are half dead and no one offers me a glass of wine. And when I go out to lunch at the Oceanaire or Barolo with my colleagues I am too busy to eat looking for that Marni girl and the girl that wears Chanel with her vintage but I can't find her. Where is she - where are they? Could it be that women of Seattle don't know how to wear their Prada or Dries and so when you spot them you don't recognize it because it looks like they're wearing Anne Taylor? Should I just be happy with the fact that I'm one of the chicest women in this city and run with it? Unfortunately I don't - I'm too much of a sister-hood girl and that's why I want my ladies to chic-it up. Come on girls you have to learn how to wear your Balenciaga and celebrate your chicness, and for those who are over 30 and are still carrying Coach wearing L.A.M.B or shopping at Urban Outfitters you have a long way to go. So I say, ladies in Seattle arm yourselves with your hot pieces that you own and never wear, learn how to wear it, or start shopping! Then and only then we can call out that ass of a mayor we have here and have him close down and stop building the peep-show and strip-bar holes around town and elevate ourselves with chicness. I mean what else are all that haute couture and chic condos for if we keep saying yes to slutty businesses and sad outfits walking around our very own downtown of Seattle.