Red Alert: Customize Your Own Louboutins

So I was definitely caught off guard with my workload at school this semester. So I have to limit my long posts for times when... just when I can.

For now I am going to hit you with some short and sweet posts ( I know you love those).

I just read this article in this cool magazine called Departures about this great, great idea of allowing people to have custom made Louboutins.


No, you are not mistake, CUSTOM MADE. Apparently at his France atelier, Madame Herbert is there to take appointments for brides to get their own custom Loub's. The place is called Minuit Moins 7 and it is located on the famous Rue Jean-Jacques Rosseau, the same street that houses all of high fashion's hot spots in Paris.

This shop has everything you need to make any shoe your little heart desires. Not a bride, not a problem. As long as you have the money, you can get the shoes.

Notice I have yet to mention the price. Well, that's because it's a little steep. The Initial mold of the foot starts at $3,400 and the total costs depends on how elaborate you want your shoes to look. But I have to say, if you have the money to invest, it's well worth it. Not only to you have a lower risk of DYING in your heels because they are made especially for you, but you also get a chance for Mr. Louboutin himself to help you come up with an idea for your special shoes.


I am going to start saving my pennies now!

The Infamous: Mark Fast !

28 year old Canadian designer Mark Fast just recently did the unthinkable and sent plus sized models down the runway. Don't be ridiculous, these ladies were US size 8-12. But really... all this press over these women who are still below the average size of American women, which is a size 14.


Not only was the press going crazy over the models, but his staff ( creative director and stylist) apparently walked out on him. Really? You are going to walk out on a revolutionary moment in fashion? Well he kind of needed them because, well, there were some wardrobe problems.

I mean these girls were very pretty women, honestly, I rather see these girls with curves like mine, than girls that only 10% of the world looks like.

When I become a designer, whether people like it or not, my models will have real bodies. What good is a garment if it only looks good on models? We are the ones buying, so we need to know how we are going to look in it. I want to feel like that with all my favorite designers, but sadly that's not the case.


Even though his dresses could have fit his models a wee bit better, Mark Fast still made an effort that many designers would believe to be taboo. I love the effort that he put in to diversify the runway, and I look forward to his next collection when I am sure he will make the clothes fit these models better, but I mean what can he do, his staff left him right before the show. I think he made a great first effort.

It's the thought that counts right?

I also spotted a lot of racial diversity on his runway. I mean he went above and beyond with this one huh?


"It's time for a rebellion against safeness. It's exciting to be a designer now."

Also, Also, Also!!! Mark is going to do a line for Top Shop! All the publicity sure did pay off huh?

Can't Wait to check it out!

Here are some of his other models:

Response to Kanye West Styles Amber Rose For Elle Magazine

I know, I know, I know the guy we are loving to hate right now, Kanye and his girl, the one we are all for some reason in love with, Amber Rose.

Ok see now Celebrities, yall can't just do anything you want. These pictures do bring down the taste in this magazine. I mean this is not King Magazine. There is a different between tasteful nudity and what is being done here.



I am pretty disappointed because he did pick a FEW good pieces, but I mean come on, like Joe Zee didn't stop this?

There stock, to me, is plummeting.

Like Here is last month's cover:


And here is the sexiest picture she took on the inside:


Miley's Cover :


Her sexiest photo:


Now look at the Black Vogue's Sexiest Photos:
ok and maybe this :


Seriously the camera angles could have not shot head on her Vaginal area or her butt and it would have added a little more class,but this is just ridic. I mean we can also infer our own thoughts from her topless activities on the beach with Kanye and her Lip Service Radio Talk Show appearances.

I am sure Kanye had good intentions but I can not get down with this in Elle. I even read that Kanye tried to get her in a gown but she wasn't feeling that. I mean she wore a wrap dress to the MET... that's her South Philly roots there.
Like, honestly. The focal point is not the clothes any more. Maybe you are trying to like copy this Rihanna shoot :
Rihanna has some nudie pictures in her closet too.

( not that I really like that shoot anymore than Amber's).

Remember, it's about the clothes people, let's get back to the basics, appreciating the people who know what they are doing and not those that earned their status elsewhere!

I appreciate Joe Zee and I love his work, don't get me wrong, but I do have a problem with his.... how do I say this... heavy interest in celebrity collaborations/fraternization which may cause the magazine to suffer. I mean he has entered onto The City when DVF decided to pull out... that should say something when the president of the CFDA decides reality tv is not the way to go. I mean... there is a reason that Anna Wintour hasn't done reality tv and doesn't usually "hang-out" with entertainment celebrities.

The Recap: Fashion's Night Out

ATTENTION: YOU MUST CLICK THE IMAGE TO SEE THE ENTIRE THING. I AM WORKING ON THIS PROBLEM.

I know I have been gone forever. But I have been super super busy with the beginning of school, shopping for classes and textbooks, meetings, and the most important event of all Fashion’s Night Out, which I am going to tell you ALLL about right now.

So I am on the 5 o’clock bus to New York, because of course I had class, and there is a lot of traffic and it starts to rain, which I am dreading because I forgot my umbrella. Thank goodness we get there and it is not raining.

I didn’t get to NY until 7:45pm, so I needed to do a quick edit to my itinerary I crossed off everything except Bergdorf Goodman where I had to see Andrea Leon Talley.

So I catch the F train and get down to 5^th avenue and the place is buzzing. I have never seen New York like this. People weren’t rushing to work or rushing anywhere but to the next store to see the festivities. People are dressed up in their best, most fashion forward clothing. Men in ball gowns, ladies in feathers and African style face paint, just the works!

So I get to Bergdorf’s and the line is wrapped around the building. So of course I am more than happy to wait because I have to get it, have to. So while I am standing in line I get the pleasure of standing behind two models and their friends. Hearing them complain about waiting kind of ruffled my feathers because I would do almost anything just to be apart of this whole experience and they just seemed ungrateful.

So while they were babbling on and on I see Yeohlee Tang. Now you cannot miss her tinsel-like grey hair anywhere. I am absolutely stunned to see not only a designer I wrote about, but also a designer period. So I do the whole fan thing and I am like “ oh –my-god Yeohlee, hi I love you” and she is like “hi.” In a really sweet way of course. So I am so happy that I saw her I forgot to get a picture, which sucks. So after she leaves I try to turn around and talk about it to the girls behind me and of course they don’t even know who she is, no one did. I am just stunned. Who are these people that do not know Yoehlee, she is like a celebrity to me.

Anyways while I was waiting in line I took these pictures of the window displays at Bergdorf. They are just as amazing as I told you about in my previous post right?

So I finally get in and there is a huge push and shove thing going on. The guards on the outside are much, much nicer than the ones inside; they are kind of dealing with us like we are criminals for wanting to come in the store. “ Hurry up, keep moving, do not stop,” they shouted the whole time. The elastic in my shirt even broke trying to fight for myself through the crowd.

Come to find out the crowd was for Rachel Zoe. People were dying to get pictures of and with her. Here is what I got

Ok so I get out of the rut and I am walking around Bergdorf, mind you I have never been there, and I was just shocked at the stuff I saw. I mean I wanted two of everything that was in that store. It was amazing. It made me feel like a celebrity to even look at all the diamonds and Dior.

After a brief crowd break, the thickness begins to pick up and it’s to see Andre Leon host a game show. I finally push my way through the crowd to get a few shots.

Now I so wish I was 100 lbs at this moment because I would be able to fit in these small spaces in order to get better pictures. I mean I just felt like I was blocking everyone and I could not get anywhere.

Anyways after that I did a little more strolling around the store, in love with the décor. I definitely was underdressed with slacks and a shirt… I needed a gown to be in there.

So as I am about to leave I see a camera filming an ultra skinny girl in cheetah print so I went over to see what was going on. There were no crowds until someone shouted “Nicky Hilton.” Then people began to scurry over. Here are my attempts of a shot of her …. I finally got one at the end.

she even brushed my arm when she walked by …. Omg … lol

I have to say standing amongst the models and fashion enthusiasts I will never forget the smell. The stench resembled that of breath that you get when you haven’t eaten in a really long time ( what I like to call hungry breath), coffee and cigarettes. Typical… very typical.

So I get outside and the line is even longer and the guards are telling people that the celebs were all gone so there was no point n coming in, and he was right because Victoria Beckam came as quick as she arrived, as did RZ.

So I wonder around looking at everyone seeing who I thought was famous, but it was too hard to pin point because everyone was dressed so nice. I usually gage important people by who is dressed the best but in the fashion world, they may not really work.

So I head to YSL because I love him and their clothes. There are no celebs there but the champagne was flowing and they were not carding people. I didn’t drink of course, because I was working lol ( this blog is work).

YSL had a cool DJ and they had a raffle for a purse, which I wish I would win. I even saw a Hermes bag in real life and it was HUGE! The guy who wore it was WORKING IT. Look at the accessories!

After that I head to COACH and see people drawing on purses which was cool, but again, no celebs and the crowd was kind of dry.

Juicy was pretty crowded but I needed to move forward so I just took a picture of the outside.

Escada, who is in the whole financially, had a cute window display of live models that were actually eating pizza and drinking water. I was pinched by an old lady who told me to write my number on a piece of paper and hold it up the window, because after all, we were in New York. Lol silly lady.

Chanel was pretty dry also. I mean I do not want to custom make a $3,000 plus purse. They also didn’t allow pictures. YOU SUCK!

So I was strolling to the less crowded part of the 5^th avenue shopping area and I see that PRADA was closed with a police officer standing guard… umm wtf. Why are you guys closed. You suck.

Around the corner was Tiffany’s, which had outdoor carpet. Mind you, it was raining off and on all night. They were giving away lemonade and coffee.

Over all I think that this was an event that was pretty well executed. I think it was a good idea to get people involved in something that is kind of similar to the all-exclusive fashion week. I mean if I cant be under the tents watching the models, I rather have them elbow me in the back to get champagne at YSL right ? ehhh

I heard about a bunch of stores that had very successful turnouts because they had a wide amount of celebrity appearances. I think this was an important aspect of the whole night. I walked by stores that had little to no customers, the sales people were even sitting down chatting because they didn’t make the effort to bring in celebrities. Example: Club Monaco

Some stores said they would have run way shows, but definitely only have a screen projecting what one might call a “fashion show” lame!

I didn’t get to experience as much as a I wanted because I was late but I think I got the feel for it. I appreciated seeing the people who made clothes and put them together much more than actual entertainers or celebrities. The rush of being surrounded by such great minds really made me excited about my field of interest.

Here are some suggestions for a better Fashion’s Night Out next year:

• I do wish that some stores actually had sales on merchandise for the night because I definitely would have bought something, and people would have brought more.
• I also wish there were like RSVP lists in order to control the crowd
• I think there def should have been a dress code because it just seemed insane what some people thought was a good idea to wear.
• I think there should have been designated busses or shuttles taking people to certain stores so that they wouldn’t waste time trying to walk or getting lost.
• I think celebrities should be in every store and they should take shifts so that every store had at least one celeb at all times.

FNO Shirts need to be sold EVERYWHERE !

I absolutely loved this night, it made me want to be a New Yorker so bad. I hope that next time I go I will be able to go under the tents the next day.

FNO was such a success. I am so grateful for Anna and Michael for putting it all together. I mean it was kind of like I went to heave for like 2 hours. Running to catch the bus home that I almost missed doesn’t even matter to me.

Well I hope this inspires you all to attend next year. Because there def. will be a next year!

Love ya !