Gwyneth Paltrow's blog

Its called GOOP [wtf, you ask?] I'm a little skeptical, but its quite pretty. 

This photo confirms it

Garance Dore's blog is officially cooler than the Sartorialist's. 

[Yes -  I said it!]

Regina Spektor on cool

"...it is just exhausting to be cool... it takes a commitment to this thing that will drain you. Cool people, to me, have to be so consistently cool. Because that's what it is: it's a matrix and you can't break it because one uncool thing and every goes [she gasps] and it shatters the virtual world you have built."

I still think she's pretty cool. Love that photo. 

Chloe in Chloe

Love the scalloped edges & length of the jacket

That's a really big bag

[Taken from the sea of shoes blog]

One day I will buy a pair of Chanel shoes

And I will look as cool as Alexa Chung. That's the plan. 

Latest fav blog

theselby.com

Check out the homes of interesting people from Manhattan, London, Paris, Brooklyn, LA, Sydney etc. I particularly like this post on Colette, this one of Erin Wasson's NYC loft and Julia Roitfeld's home in sweet NYC. 

Everybody loves Marcus

And why wouldn't you? I've got my tickets lined up. Tickets are available from the Opera House website. Cheapies for the Under 27s...

Leigh Lezark

Check out her Style.com slideshow here... She makes me want to become a DJ [despite lack of musical talent and/or skill]

New York High Line

In New York recently, the "Highline" opened. An elevated park, the Highline runs from the Meatpacking District up the West Side to 34th street. Historically, the Highline moved freight around NYC. 

Today, the park is owned by the City of New York City and hosts community programs including design and gardening workshops and family days.   

Style.com have posted a slideshow of High Line street style.

Destination shopping

A [very stylish] friend of mine recently bought a Hermes scarf in Paris. 

I absolutely love the idea of buying something you love in a place you love. That Tiffany necklace is more special more you bought in on 5th Avenue. Because it was so easy to pretend to be Audrey Hepburn standing outside Tiffanys eating your breakfast. 

Purchasing "investment" pieces is about more than just the item. Its about the experience. Its about walking into Chanel on 31 Rue Cambon, practicing your [extremely poor] French on the sales girl [lady?], buying [admittedly] one of the less expensive items in the shop [interlocking c's earrings], handing over the credit card and being given a little white folded Chanel card in return. Slightly puzzled [surely they would be packaged in a bag at least?] you walk out of the shop and down the street. You look into the little package - there are no earrings - just a piece of paper. 

Realisation dawns - the pretty white Chanel card contained only the receipt! Your earrings were still inside being wrapped.  Embarrassed, you scoot back inside to be greeted with  a lovingly wrapped pair of earrings. They are encased in tissue paper, placed inside a little white Chanel box, which is tied with Chanel ribbon, then placed delicately inside a white Chanel carry bag [tied with Chanel ribbon, of course] and finished artfully with a signature white camellia. 

You will always remember your first Chanel. 

Things I love about New York

4. Tasti-d-lite

Because every ice cream flavour should be a variation on either a) Oreos or b) peanut butter.

Its only fair. 

Mummy when I grow up

I want to be Dree Hemingway...

Dree, (great-grandaughter of Ernest) seems to be popping up everywhere lately. The epitome of the "It" girl methinks.