lunch meeting at Centro Vinoteca. dinner at this place in TriBeCa where supposedly the pizza is great. i don’t really wanna mention the restaurant by name though, cuz it turned out to kinda suck. i mean, on the one hand, maybe people would like to know there’s a place in TriBeCa that will give you a whole free margarita pie for "happy hour." on the other hand, i’d feel bad if i were the one responsible for the googlies just coughing up how awful the rest of the food is (the margarita pizza is okay) for all their prospective patrons for all eternity.
sooo, if you’d like to know where the free pizza is, just translate "Five" Trattoria into Italian. woop there it is.
these aren’t really rain boots; they’re patent leather, not rubber. so i really only wear them in the drizzles. and technically this isn’t a rain jacket, it’s a windbreaker (i stole it from sweetie). it’s reversible, so it’s pretty neat, but i highly doubt it’s waterproof.
jacket: Rick Owens Lilies, 2009 | pants: Geld Iaz, 2002 | t-shirt: RLX Ralph Lauren, 2010 | bag: Yves St Laurent, 2008 | eyewear: vendor, 2004 | hat: Milsa, 2010
dinner at Kittichai to pre-sample their new Spring "Happy Hour" dinner special (50% off all bottles of wine – officially starting May 2nd). yea, life is rough.
i must say there are two things i’m starting to get really really really sick of. rain, and the color black.
o wait sorry, that’s way too shallow and fashiony sounding. what i really should say is: there are two things i’m starting to get really really really sick of: Climate Change, and the bleak and grim pervasive despondency persistently manifested in my quotidien sartorial selections.
[ ha ha ha ahaa uggh i’m a style blogger shoot me now ]
dinner at Gusto Ristorante e Bar Americano with Zainab Jah and Danai Gurira. (remember when Zainab Jah was a badassed rifle-toting hottie in The New York Times? i just love that photo.)
"friends & family" pre-opening drinks at Teatro aka Theater Bar.
jacket: Maurice Jones for Geld Iaz, 1997 | pants: RLX Ralph Lauren, 2009 | eyewear: Chanel, 2004
yes this jacket is the black version of the brown "safari" jacket i wore the other day. i got them both in 1997 when a tailor named Maurice Jones brought wholesale samples he’d made to Geld Iaz. i’d talked him down to about 40% of what he’d asked and agreed to buy the two samples to see if they garnered any interest with my clients. then i kinda forgot about them, and i never heard from Maurice Jones ever again. his buttons were a tad ugly so i removed them all and replaced the three front buttons with much nicer ones and ended up just keeping them both for myself.
jacket: Maurice Jones for Geld Iaz, 1997 | dress: Geld Iaz, 2002 | rain/sun hat: Tilley, 2011 | bag: Luba J, 2005
i knew it was going to rain (again) today. i love my new rain hat. apparently it’s "guaranteed for life!" and "insured against loss," whatever the hell that means.