Confessions of a Fashion Fanatic: Sleeping Beauty

Confessions of a Fashion Fanatic

The daily chronicle of a fashion-and-beauty obsessed, style-writing, pseudo-Angeleno who made her way from the Great White North to La-La Land -- otherwise known as Los Angeles, California -- and back again. Till the next big city calls out her name, that is.

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I'm a Vancouverite who moonlighted as an Angeleno. My momma is the best in the entire world, and I'll argue you hoarse on that one. I've been in love only once in my life. The East Coast calls me but the West Coast is in my blood. Social butterflies -- and party animals -- are a great species. Fashion and writing will be the death of me, but what a way to go. Carine Roitfeld is fabulous. I would die a painful death if art, design, photography, fashion, music and dancing did not exist. Always kind of wondered why Smurfette was the only girl in town. I can't draw. Absolutely believe everything happens for a reason. I feel so lucky to have the girlfriends that I do. I'm a total sun baby. Think I might be a workaholic. I may have slight road rage. Ice cream and hockey are religions. I buy too many glossy magazines. Nothing beats someone with a killer sense of humor. Chivalry is really not dead. I'm a victim of minor vertigo and a serious lead foot. Always up for meeting people from paths different than mine and crossing paths with old friends. At the very end of it all, I want to be able to look back and say: Yeah, I sure lived a damn good life.

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Monday, March 05, 2007

Sleeping Beauty

Everyone needs their beauty sleep.

This means the whole 8 hours, comfy sleepwear, a great mattress, a sleek bed frame and a set of luxurious sheets (preferably 1500 thread count in sateen Egyptian cotton, but that's a little ways away).

Founded by Caressa Allen, Luxury Lab is the perfect place for slightly off-kilter bedspreads. It's artsy, graphic and a little humorous, with linen titles such as "Just Like Heaven" (angel wings), "Phoenix Rising" (of course, the phoenix), "Elegant Mayhem" (skulls and black chandeliers), "Let Friendship Begin" (the claddagh ring) and "Your Best Shot" (archers).

The sheets are made in 300 thread count in 100% Egyptian cotton, meaning it's waaaaay softer than Charmin makes claim. All the graphics and print are crafted in India, where local artisans color dye the sheets with water-based hues. Luxury Lab is a "go green!" company, their vision being to promote the global economy and to use eco-conscious materials.

Luxury Lab makes the world better for you, for me and for bedtime.

I'm Lovin' it: These Chanel outfits from the Fall 2007 RTW collection! No designer in the world does tweeds better than Kaiser Karl.

* My Fall 2007 RTW dream outfit! Now to make friends with Karl Lagerfeld...

I'm Over it: The Fall 2007 RTW collection from Chloe. This label is known by, built upon and loved for the Phoebe Philo philosophy: pretty, vintage and girly free spirit. After Philo's departure (which brought more than one tear to my eyes), Melim Andersson is now the chosen one, after a long hard search for Chloe's design successor. Some pieces showed traces of the brand's old aesthetic, but more often than not the clothes reflected the Scandanavian design vision: clear-cut square shapes, a little off somewhere. We'll have to wait and see what the future holds for Andersson -- maybe this is just Chloe, now all grown up.

Artist of the Day: Brazilian electronica artist Gui Boratto. If you love Junior Boys or Booka Shade, you will absolutely fall head over heels for this artist and his album "Chromophobia". After working in advertising and architecture, Boratto finally went down the path of music production by working on tracks for other musicians, before concentrating on his own in 2005. The trippy tracks are released by German techno giant Kompakt and are doing a live European tour this year. So if you happen to be on that side of the world come summer, make sure to make a Boratto pit stop.