Styleblog http://www.stylebayarea.com/styleblog/ fashion, culture and style in the San Francisco Bay Area. en Copyright 2009 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:34:20 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Style Bits of the Day

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You know how I'd wear hat like this? With hardly anything on underneath. If you're going to wear an arctic explorer's hat, you might as well draw attention to it by wearing a really slinky dress with no coat on over it. Open toed gladiator heels would be a nice touch too. It's like wearing a fur coat in the summer - unnecessary, excessive, and completely required. What's that man doing in the picture below btw? I think he's looking for his Mischa Lampert hat.

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These handbag cakes are all the masterwork of San Francisco based cake designer, Debbie, of Debbie Does Cakes. I wonder if the title of her company is a veiled reference to Debbie Does Dallas. If it is, I love this all the more. Her handbag cakes are the most delicious and stylish looking cakes I've ever seen. Her cakes are all done by Debbie herself, and she meets with clients to design each individual treat. Her cakes are priced per specific commission and start at around $200. Not bad for a Chanel cake, if you consider how much an actual Chanel bag costs! If you don't want to fork over $200 plus for a cake, why not try a cupcake? She does those too, and they're $2 each, with an additional $1.50 per design. Sounds like a reasonable deal to me! I think I'll be calling Debbie up next time I have a birthday bash. Maybe she can whip me up a sugar shoe. What's a sugar shoe, you might wonder? Look below. Scrumptious.

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Trendhunter has put me onto these RGB glasses that can be whatever color you want them to be. Neato! They're clear plastic sunglasses that you can fill with colorful water-based inks to coordinate them with whatever outfit you happen to be wearing that day. Fill them up with the ink or alcohol of your choice!


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The above are images from Steven Klein's shoot with Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. These images are beautiful and tell an interesting story. Mainly, the story is that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are two of the most beautiful people to ever grace planet Earth.
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Subversive Jewelry makes it way too easy to go crazy with the online shopping, because their online store comes equipped with the option to buy via PayPal. The pretty bauble above is yours - only a $520 click away! Unfortunately I can't spend $520 on shoes, let alone a necklace, but the thought is nice. All of Subversive Jewelry's pieces are archived on the site so it's nice to go have a look see, even if you don't plan to buy anything. Justin Giunta is the design mastermind behind Subversive Jewelry, and jewelry-making isn't the only thing he's good at. Take a look at his paintings and design here.
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The Vintage Hotline is one of my favorite Ebay stores. So much so that I even model for them in exchange for free clothes from time to time. Everything is hand-selected by Rachel and Zach, the co-owners, and they travel across America to find their goods. And their clothing is SO reasonably priced. While most vintage stores on Ebay sell their stuff for $40-$60, bidding starts at $10 for everything on The Vintage Hotline. I loves.



Love love love. If you are a fan of vintage clothing, click click click. And don't forget to add them on MySpace!
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Free Gold Watch's "Best Friends" tee! So cute! Free Gold Watch is a San Francisco t-shirt label. Check their site to see where it's available.
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Baggu's reusable shopping bags are the perfect way to be eco-friendly and extremely hip at the same time. These bags are so cute and versatile - and inexpensive at the same time! For $8, you get a bag and a pouch, and they come in a bunch of different, cute colors. One Baggu holds what 2-3 plastic grocery bags hold, and they're made of rip-stop Nylon so they're way stronger. Also, WAY WAY cuter. Shop for them here!

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I am in love with Rich-in-Craft's antler bag, named the "Folie a Deux" bag. The bags are 100% wool with a silk lining, and the antlers are polyurethane and glass, made from a mold custom made by the desigers themselves. Rich-in-Craft is co-owned by L.A. designers, Tiffani Anne Williams and Parker Todd Brooks. The Folie-a-Deux bag is their first design available to the public. Only 36 of these bags have been made! Extraordinarily lovely.


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Band of Outsiders is one of my favorite lines. Their pieces are classic with a twist - amazing staples that are versatile, unique, and interesting. Somehow, Band of Outsiders makes preppy cool again.



While their menswear is what got Band of Outsiders famous, I especially love Boy by Band of Outsiders, their womenswear line. These clothes are for low maintenance, high cool chicks like Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams, both of whom lended their faces to the line. Below, Michelle Williams looking super in Boy.

  ]]> http://www.stylebayarea.com/styleblog/2008/10/inside-band-of-outsiders.html http://www.stylebayarea.com/styleblog/2008/10/inside-band-of-outsiders.html labels Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:06:22 -0800 Style Bits of the Day This is why the Sex and the City movie is not at all like real life. Cuz your feet are a size 13. Jezebel.

Discover the amazing style of designer Peter Horstein. Fashionindie.

NY Mag has Spencer Pratt's phone number. Wanna play "dial the douche"? The Cut.

Is Gerard Butler really Anna Wintour's "obsession"? Fashionologie.

Angelina Jolie talks about Brad in a new W Magazine cover and article. Gag. Just Jared.

COACD's top 10 new faces of SS2009. COACD.

Why Japanese women don't get fat. Huffington Post.

Scarlett Johansson's fugly new Cosmo Girl cover. Go Fug Yourself. ]]> http://www.stylebayarea.com/styleblog/2008/10/style-bits-of-the-day-1.html http://www.stylebayarea.com/styleblog/2008/10/style-bits-of-the-day-1.html news Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:01:02 -0800 Go shop at the new Edun pop-up store in Azalea, yesterday
Edun has a pop-up store in SF in one of my favorite Hayes Valley boutiques: Azalea! Some history behind the brand: Edun was started by U2's Bono and his wife, Ali Hewson. Edun is a socially conscious fashion label that uses environmentally sound manufacturing techniques and donates 15% of all proceeds to charity. It exists also to provide employment for people in developing regions, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa, by using the fair trade business model. Anyway, point of the story: Edun makes really cute clothes, it's a ethical company, and they'll be selling stuff at Azalea until the 20th of October. Get you there, lady! Below, a video of Ali from Nylon TV, talking about Edun. Enjoy.

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Who says fashion doesn't have a uniform? Because they lied. There's a uniform, and it's ALL black. I could stare at these photos from Jak & Jil all day.
 

Will it hurry up and get cold already? I want to wear a black coat, black scarf, black skirt, black blouse, black purse, black nailpolish, black underwear, black tights, black stiletto boots, and a soul as black as night! San Francisco may be a city of perpetual spring, but it's October already, and fall is all about the color black. Now, memo to the sun: you are just too damn sunny here in SF. Go away already. You don't match with my existential crisis and my black Louboutins.


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