Confessions of a Fashion Fanatic: Happy Friday! Just One Teaspoon, Please.

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.

: Name: Haute Hippie; Location: Everywhere and anywhere

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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Friday, July 16, 2010

Happy Friday! Just One Teaspoon, Please.

This (very) sunny Friday seems like a perfect day for sitting back and thinking about all the things in my life I'm thankful for, so here are a few, in no particular order:

My family and my friends, who are all the most awesome, loving and supportive people I know. Every which one of them. (Cheesy is okay on TGIF, right?)

The makers of the Hipstamic iPhone app, for affording me the ability to take all the artsy, cool photographs I want for a one-time price of $1.99, instead of an SLR price of $1,199.

Refinery29, for consistently being one of the best fashion blogs out there. You're unbiased and always en pointe.

Lionel Richie, for creating this song.

Liberte Yogurt and Island Farms Ice Cream, for being the geniuses behind my lunch today.

Australia, for being home to One Teaspoon.

Yasmin A. of Ybrands recently brought this label from Down Under to my attention, and I've been unable to stop flipping through the look book PDF she sent me since then. There's always something a little rough, tumble and edgy about Aussies brands, even through any feminine details and accoutrements. It's almost a little unexpected, like a sartorial Sixth Sense twist.

It was very, very difficult for me to curate it all down to a few key looks for your viewing pleasure, but just take this image overload as a sign of my enthusiasm.

Besos!
Haute Hippie