Confessions of a Fashion Fanatic: Core Values. LV 2010.

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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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Core Values. LV 2010.

This morning I was sent a teaser ad photo -- and some behind-the-scenes black and white candids -- for the new Louis Vuitton Core Values campaign for 2010.

Last year, the Core Values campaign starred a mish-mash of famous figures, like Mikhail Gorbachev, Francis Ford and Sofia Coppola, Keith Richards, Buzz Aldrin and Catherine Deneuve.

For 2010, well-known (and currently bankrupt?) Conde Nast-owned photographer Annie Leibovitz and the elegant, dashing former ballet dancer and Studio 54 regular-turned-actor Mikhail Baryshnikov are the stars, posing in Leibovitz's New York studio.

The tag line? "The journey of a star, captured in a flash."

* Note: I couldn't upload the black and white candids because the ones sent are corrupt. Sorry!

I'm Lovin' it: Daria! As in Werbowy. In the new Balenciaga campaign.

I'm Over it: Runny nose.

Music of the Day: I'm INSANELY obsessed with the OLN travel show Departures, which is going to be airing its third season this coming March. It stars Scott Wilson and Justin Lukach, a pair of twenty-something, regular (and kind of cute) guys who travel the globe from Antarctica to Zambia to Cambodia and more, documenting their personal journey with their third musketeer, Gemini-winning cameraman Andre Dupuis. The shots and editing are gorgeous, and their journey is very human, funny and touchingly emotional.

And the soundtrack is amazing, too, like Buddha Bar meets Thievery Corporation.