Posts with tag designer clothing

Famous, funky, favorite Soho lifestyle boutique Kirna Zabete has opened up shop online. Now you can scope out the goods from designer to décor from the comfort of home. Just think, all that money you'll save on your plane ticket to New York can be spent on high end designer duds like Lanvin, Alexander Wang, Giambattista Valli, Nina Ricci and Thakoon. Plus dogs, babies, and beginners are all welcome to the online boutique.

And as the Kirna Zabete saying goes, you'll "leave looking lovely." *sigh* We love this place.

Sarah Jessica Parker comes across as such an honest, down-to-earth woman. You know, aside from the fact that she wears amazingly expensive designer clothing everyday and mixes and matches as she pleases.

In a recent interview with Access Hollywood, SJP, wearing a Martin Margiela black sleeveless mini and looking amazing, she talks about how she treats all her high-end threads.

You've seen her. She's the one in line two customers in front of you at the grocery store wearing this season's Diane von Furstenberg wrap dress, a matching pair of Manolos, carrying whatever It bag hasn't even hit the stores yet, and hair swept up without a strand out of place. She's one of those women. All-too-perfect, all the time.

Or maybe you haven't seen her because those women wouldn't even do their own grocery shopping anyway.

Either way, whether you've actually witnessed this type of woman, or she exists in your imagination, you're making fun of her, because these days, according to a story in the Washington Post prompted by the movie "Nanny Diaries," being too perfectly dressed is "seen as shorthand for self-absorption, vapidness and thoughtlessness."

What do you think? Is being perfectly polished something fearless, or now faux pas?

While doing some...err...research a few days ago, I came across an article in US Weekly magazine comparing designer duds to their lower priced counterparts. Always on the lookout for a good bargain, I took a closer look. There were some good and bad comparisons; sometimes designer outfits seem to be truly worth the high price and sometimes they just don't. Usually if it looks expensive, it probably is. Occasionally, however, you come across a designer who is willing to do a lower priced line for a major retailer, but the quality of production stays close to the same. In other words, it looks expensive, but it's not!

One such designer (covered in Styledash here) is Behnaz Sarafpour. Sarafpour has produced a less expensive version of her designer line for Target, and while not every piece will fit your fancy, some of the items are purely delicious.

Still not convinced? Let's play the US Weekly game. I'll show you two dresses and you can decide which is easier on your wallet.





















Have you figured it out? The purple dress is Behnaz Sarafpour for Target, priced at $44.99. the cream dress is Diane vonFurstenburg, priced at $365.00.

I recently read an article in Wired News that discussed at length our increasingly online culture. The article focused mostly upon how technology has affected dating and other interpersonal relationships, but what I (of course) immediately began thinking about was how the Internet has affected shopping.

I have an almost sickeningly stereotypical storyline. I'm that girl who always loved clothes, had a limited clothing allowance while growing up, went to college with an "emergency" credit card, and singlehandedly bankrolled Arden B and Nordstrom's shoe department for a couple of years. Thankfully, the evil credit card companies have some ethical standards federal regulations and don't can't give astronomical credit limits to 18 year olds, or I would still be paying off those bills.

However, I cannot imagine the damage I could have done had I been given the kind of unlimited access to the information superhighway available to today's consumers. Upon typing "credit card for students" into Google, I get 7,520,000 results in 0.14 seconds. A search for "designer brand online shopping" yields 3,570,000 pages.

Yikes.

Once upon a time, I worked at a law firm as a legal assistant. The job was a relatively misguided attempt to determine whether or not I wanted to attend law school (I didn't) and to provide me with a chance to live in the same town as my boyfriend and decide whether or not I wanted to marry him (I did).

Anyway, I was mostly bored, answering the phone and trying to avoid filing duties, but I will never consider the job a loss. The reason, you might have guessed, has nothing to do with career ambitions and everything to do with Marc Jacobs. One of the law clerks who worked at the firm with me was the perfect combination of fashion savvy and financially flexibility. She wore the most amazing designer clothes nearly every day, but nothing ever made as big of an impression on my little fashion-starved heart than the day she walked in wearing a new Marc Jacobs jacket.

The minute she came through the door, I vowed that somehow, someday, I would own a Marc Jacobs jacket. Now, that day has not yet arrived (and as I type this is about 75 degrees outside so I guess I'm not in dire need) but I have not stopped searching for the perfect coat.

This Marc by Marc Jacobs jacket is perfect. Knee-length and double-breasted with button detail, welt pockets, and a vented back, and it's made of a super luxe solid wool felt. As shopbop.com so aptly put it, "If this coat doesn't have us loving the mod trend, nothing will."

The jacket is available at shopbop.com for $548.