jacket: Levi’s, 2000 | top (underneath): Geld Iaz, 2008 | skirt: Geld Iaz, 1998 | boots: Donna Karan, 1996
lunch meeting at The Bowery Hotel. early drinks at Saxon + Parole. dinner at Miss Lily’s.
t-shirt: H&M, 2011 | pants: Geld Iaz, 2003 | shoes: Charles Jourdan, 2000 | eyewear: Yves St Laurent, 2008
69°!
hey, if you’ve ever been a street vendor then you would totally understand a compulsive obsession with the weather and the necessity to be perfectly primed for shifts in the temperature at incremental absolute degrees.
i.e., yes there were people sporting NorthFace puffies and shearling Uggs out there on the very same day, but it’s their problem they looked ridiculous and were sweating like animals— not mine.
jacket: Valentino, 2011
♪♪ "… it’s the most wonnnderful tiiime of the yeeear…" ♪♪
sale time!
now, depending on how closely you’ve ben paying attention all these years (and umm, yah sorry– but you would’ve had to have been paying very very close attention) you might understand that i have not been a fan of Valentino since the ouster of Valentino Garavani and the departure of Graziano de Boni, and i mean reeeally NOT. A. FAN.
but this? it’s a BASQUIAT. on a JACKET. covered in PAILLETTES. it’s like it was made for me. (not to mention the métier. beautiful.) i just couldn’t resist.
but! i do take a lot of consolation in knowing i paid nowhere near its retail price, i’d actually wager there’s no way in hell it garnered any profit whatsoever.
:)