Imaginary Buyer: An Edie Parker x Goop Clutch for Mrs. Pacman

Dear Cong. Manny, get this for Mrs. P.

Gwyneth Paltrow's growing online-based lifestyle empire GOOP, "asked Edie Parker to designe(d) a duo of hip-hop-themed clutches."

The results are PAC / BIGGIE (to the masses, they are Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls AKA Notorious B.I.G) and HOV / SHADY (mainstream-ly known as Jay-Z and Eminem).

The Flavia clutch (picture above) is "done in pearlescent, pool-blueacrylic and emblazoned with “Biggie” in white on one side, and “Pac” in red on the other" and retails for $ 1, 695.00.

Still saving for this namesake bag

Uhm, still figuring out how to save for this particular namesake branded bag.

Question: If you can have a murse christened after a celebrity, what would it be?

Answer: No hard-thinking anything, Louis Vuitton's SC bag (naturalmente)!

Not only is it named after the film-maker, Sofia Coppola herself teamed up with LV in 2010 and came up with a  duffel-shape bag  that bears her initials.

Since it's Throwback Thursday (hey!), here's my draft in one of my many ~blogs~ from a couple of years ago:

Reading the November issue of Preview (with KC Concepcion in sultry form amidst what looks like her Midnight in Paree on its cover), albeit a borrowed copy from K, I saw it again: the day bag by Sofia Coppola for Louis Vuitton, hence called ultimately the SC bag. The news: the filmmaker-Marc Jacobs gal pal is back with her namesake calf leather bag in an old and a new sizes and colored with her one-off favorite shade with a different-hued edges for her coup with her favorite Paris department store. 

The first encounter: it was an article in April issue of Preview magazine (on the cover: the olive-skinned vamp then-college senior Isabelle Daza) where I had my eyes fixed (and my heart skipped a beat) for the first time on a bag. 

Prior to that encounter, I had told my college girl friends, many times, the details of how my kind of bag would be like :

• shoulder straps for carrying it like a gym bag or to just sling the bag over my shoulders like a book bag

• handle so I can also carry it like a la Doña or Serena van der Woodsen

• something I can stash all my things in

• looks luxe

I couldn't find department store versions of what I dreamt up. That was circa 07-08 when the world wasn't that much into social media yet compared to the ruckus/hoolabaloo in this new decade. 

First available in 2009, the city bag has been the realization of Sofia Coppola's dream LV bag.

LVoe at first sight

 

Call it a Sofia foresight. Some time later, I saw modest copycats (with a little tweak here or there) of the bag in various online shops.

Since then the SC bag has seen light in different sizes (for one, in Small or PM for petite modele) and delectable colors.

This year, the filmmaker collaborated with her favorite Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche with a special edition SC bag: a version in calfskin leather that comes in two sizes (PM, and the new smaller one, BB) and in cobalt blue and  trimmed with florescent fuchsia.

Yet I still cannot cough up $$$MyMotherIsAScamQueen.

Hey, blue or black?

K, back to screening "Dior and I". 

Birkin vs. Birkin

Jane Birkin, the namesake of the elusive bag by luxury giant Hermès, 


pleaded the use of her name on croc Birkins be suspended until the issue of crocodile farming for luxury bag-making , as per video presented by pro-animal rights group PETA, is resolved.

Hermès was swift on the defense, noting, 

".. that this farm does not belong to them and that the crocodile skins supplied are not for the fabrication of Birkin bags,”

In giving more light to the story, Vanessa Friedman of The New York Times clarifies:

"... the crisis is entirely exaggerated. First, Ms. Birkin’s statement said that she had asked only that Hermès rename the crocodile bag — not all handbags that bear her name, which come in a variety of skins, including calfskin — and then only until the supplier could be properly vetted.

Beyond that, she can’t actually legally compel Hermès to change the name. Hugh Devlin, a lawyer at Withers LLP in London who specializes in the fashion sector, said Hermès trademarked the name in 1997 and can thus use it as the company sees fit.

Guess the name shall remain so. To have a bag named after you -- though most commonly now the practice is on a first-name basis, ain't it grand?

P.S. Her Birkin (or perhaps one of her many) has since been auctioned to benefit Red Cross efforts in Japan.

Neutral Nation

Our favourite neutral colours , namely: sable, navy and grey,


As worn by our favourite guys from the United Kingdom during the the X-Men franchise's outing in the recent San Diego Comic Con:

Nicholas Hoult (England)


James McAvoy (Scotland)

The two-some with GoT's Sophie Turner

Michael Fassbender (his mother is from Northern Ireland)

Micro-trending: short-sleeved Summer suit

Dazed Digital reports the unavoidable pop culture and fashion influence to the Hermit Kingdom, North Korea. 

And this photo was in the essay.

Photo by Shane Horan (YPT)

Short-sleeved suit is happening: Acne Studios Spring 2016 offering is a cuffed-sleeved version, casually-styled.

GQ is cautious:

Now, we’ve been relatively accustomed to the short-suit for a while thanks to Thom Browne, but this is territory that will take some careful consideration before we can get on board. 

The trick, as with every suits, is in the fabric and fit. How the sleeves fall and its length mean everything.

Ultimately, the men's magazine's Jake Woolf offers a GQ-fied solution, wear it

for a casual weekend look: with a striped T-shirt and white canvas sneakers.

Speaking of Calvin Harris

Here are two grabbed photos from the super-DJ's Instagram of him making pa-cute with who could be his #RL #twinning other half, DJ Burns (:

 

These two give a new-level meaning to "brothers from different mothers", agree?



Can you even tell which is which?

Why don't you date a DJ?

Imagine the party whenever you want, or the music when you are his source of post-loudness solitude. Get, get, Awww!

Selena Gomez and DJ Zedd were rumored to be dating or more like Are They or Aren't They?;

and then there's her BFF Taylor Swift power-ful coupling with DJ Calvin Harris.

Ah, Why couldn't you be more jealz of Taylor Swift?

Lo and behold, his boyf's second steamy stint for Emporio Armani #CalvinHarrisforEA!

Or as Jezebel.com proclaims, Calvin Harris' Bulge Was Professionally Photographed Again

Tay be like, Get, get, Awww!

Scruffy set

Prior to his attention-grabbing photos (read: ridiculous man-package print) earlier this 2015, the music producer whose real name is Adam Richard Wiles has holistically come a long way into becoming a hot property DJ. (Daily Mail U.K. investigates.."

ME AND IRV IN JUMPIN JAKS DUMFRIES 2002 LOOKING FUCKING FANTASTIC #SCOTLAND #LIFE #IRV #LEGEND pic.twitter.com/L7Y9PWy6pN

— Calvin Harris (@CalvinHarris) July 28, 2015

Never forget where you came from.

SONAw I come to you

.. with the State of the Nation Address (SoNA) look of Heart Evangelista -- her first major government event outing as Mrs. Escudero --

Senator @SayChiz and wife @heart021485 in #SONA2015. pic.twitter.com/U3JAx6sOc4

— Chiz News Alert (@ChizNewsAlert) July 27, 2015

which was unfortunately snubbed in local media outfits' many a Top 5 Best-Dressed List.

The indomitable Inno Sotto designed the avant-bland terno with chiffon-concocted drama on its butterfly sleeves.

How could we not Facebook-like it?

But the more important question is, after PNOY, who should be the next rightful person to address the mamamayang Pilipino?

Norm-Kore (ugh)

Everybody is entitled to say or see things they want. There are media personalities which can either make bwiset you or relieve some stress out of system. That's why I like-like-like Kim Kardashian because seeing her in the webz often makes me smile. Probably that is also her effect on mother Anna Wintour. I also think Kim K. is a very smart grown-ass businesswoman. (That, or her tandem with momager Kris Jenner is solidly economic.)

Fashionista.com reports WHY KIM KARDASHIAN'S 'VOGUE' SPAIN EDITORIAL IS HER BEST EVEr. 

It resonates on me, to see her with barely-there make-up and dressed normally-ish, albeit stripped-down for editorial's sake.

"In the editorial by Theo Wenner, Kardashian is very minimally made up (her Instagram claims there was "no" makeup, but one can never be sure that's true) and styled by Stevie Dance in, well, normal clothes: vintage Levi's, sweatshirts, New Balance sneakers, full-coverage cotton underwear, pajamas and a Mickey Mouse t-shirt.."

In fairness. 

Let's Get Political: Greek Debt Crisis

Actually, this is commercial muna.



Don't you think the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is a demi-god?

Throwback: His Achilles-haired university days



Everybody has a dose of daddy issues.