Top Off.

Best for cocktails and ensembles. 

The finishing touch is sometimes the most important part.

My Obsession.

Balenciaga Arena Espadrilles $935 at Barneys

My Obsession.

Isabel Marant Suede and Leather Knee-High Boots at Net-A-Porter

Art ENVI

A shameless cross-promotional plug of the new ENVI Shoes Spring 2011 lookbook- featuring illustrations by Jennifer Guzman of the Jeffrey Campbell "White Line" being sold online... soon. What do you think? I have to say they are pretty rad!

Window Washer

ENVI Shoes, the online shoe retailer I blog for has a brick-and-mortar location in Baltimore as well. Our Art Director, Thea, concocted this highly elaborate and whimsical window display for the store featuring our pre-spring shoe collections. Lots of pastels, soft textures and love pink! I helped with the making of the puff balls- ok, so I made five highly disfigured wads of tissue paper- and aided in the placement and logistical work. I think the window turned out lovely, AND just in time for Valentine's Day!

Lookbook.

Some of you may know that I am a part time fashion blogger for an up-and-coming online retailer ENVI Shoes. (Ahem, shamless plug.) Some of you may not. Anywho, a couple of weeks ago we enlisted the extremely good looks of model Paige Creighton to be the face of our first ever lookbook for Spring 2011! We were focusing on the capsule collection from Jeffrey Campbell, PINK ROCK, and the finished product was très chic.

 Here are a few snap shots of the finished product... View the entire lookbook on ENVI's blog.

**All photos courtesy of ENVI Shoes

Wedgie

I am lusting after quite a few pairs of wedges for spring. They are such a practical heel for any occasion, from everyday errand running to shakin' your thang on the dance floor. My Cynthia Vincent for Target wedges (an amazing thrift purchase last spring, at $29.99 a pop I should have bought 20 pairs!) are sadly on their last leg. That's what pleather does to you... makes you think you're invincible, then WHAM! Shoes are falling apart like last years Christmas tree.

Anyone of these will be a sufficient replacement to mend the deep hole in my heart closet. Obvi, the Chloe's are my fave!

Christian Louboutin "Chus" wedge $455 at Barneys

Chloe "Two-Piece" wedge $895 at Barneys

YSL "Tweed Platform" wedge $695 at Barneys

Alexander Wang "Kasia Whipstitch" wedge $550 at Shopbop

Jean Michael Casbat "Ashanti" platform wedge $295 at Shopbop

Lone Ranger

Check this out... A lone Prada "store" in the Lone-Star state of Texas, situated just on the outskirts of the town of Marfa on Route 90. The store is actually an art installation, sans customers or sales people, and consisting of only 20 left-foot shoes and 6 handbags from the Fall/Winter 2005 collection- the same season this installment was resurrected. German artists Elmgree and Dragset built the installation as a "pop architectural land art project", designed to weather the elements and serve as a sort of fashion time capsule. but without much of a plan for longevity. I read that although the building has proper structural support the building materials are all environmentally friendly and biodegradable, and will allow the structure to eventually "melt" into the surrounding landscape with time. I would love to roadtrip and see this lonely, and extremely random ode to fashion before it's too late. Anyone own an RV? Or maybe I'll just have one shipped from Snail Trail across the pond.



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