Confessions of a Fashion Fanatic: So Cool.

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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Wednesday, May 06, 2009

So Cool.

Sarah Watson, an art student at the University of Central Lancashire, pulled a David Copperfield and made an old school Czech Skoda Fabia car disappear.

She did it with creativity and a little bit of paint, though, not some bogus hocus-pocus.

The artistic process took about three weeks, and is really one of the coolest arty creations I've seen thus far this year.

If only dear Watson could make my parking tickets vamoose, too.

I'm Lovin' it: There were a lot of short hemlines at the Costume Institute gala at the Met in New York last night. Apparently it was a request from co-chair Marc Jacobs to trade long gowns for short club dresses -- and the throngs complied, naturally! How adorable was Leighton Meester in runway Louis Vuitton?!

I'm Over it: I keep on eating Steph A.'s lemon birthday cake! Knew I shouldn't have taken the leftovers home.

Track of the Day: A back-and-forth email exchange with Trini making fun of late 80s/early 90s hip hop duo Kid 'n' Play led me to think of what old school music I kinda missed. Then I thought of "Freak Like Me" by Adina Howard. Classic 90s R&B jam. Fo' sho.