I drew this on November 19th, 2005, as soon as I got the magazine. Vanity Fair is always out a month or so in advance. I’ve posted it here in hopes that Kate Moss, my favorite supermodel, who I’m following on Twitter, will see it. I hope she likes it. I hope you all like it too.
I went to San Diego in February of this year and fell in love with the shopping facilities they have. Every store I’ve ever heard of was within a ten mile radius, and some I’d never heard of. The only thing I didn’t like was that the guard stopped me from taking pictures in one of the corridors of the Fashion Valley Center. I was so excited to see a Betsey Johnson store that I had to take a picture of it. He stopped me right after, but he didn’t make me erase the pics, so here it is…
The pictures are of such bad quality because I’m using my cell phone until I can get a new camera. Hey, it’s a poor girl’s blog:)….here are some other pictures of what Fashion Valley Center looks like:
There were more then 200 shops. There was Tiffany & Co., Rolex, Sephora, MAC Cosmetics, Nordstrom, Saks Fifth Ave, and many more. I wanted to go into the Louis Vuitton store, but I took five steps in, saw the bags in cases as if they were jewelry, and took five steps right back out of the store.
I loved San Diego. The trolley was convenient and the route I rode had plenty of places to stop and shop.
There was another shopping center close by that had an Off 5th (Saks Fifth Avenue Outlet) store where these $350.00 Dior shades were on sale for 80 percent off, which would have been $70. They had the nerve to have a red sticker on them and they were down to – brace yourself – $26.95! There are subtle scratches along the edge of the lens, and I had to clean off the sticky tag glue. But they’re authentic and they were the big bargain and highlight of my trip! Wow! Aren’t they cute?
I stayed in the store for over two hours trying to pick the best pair for me. There were so many to choose from. There was something sticky on one of the arms, from the tag, and a small mark on the edge of the lens. I guess that’s why they were marked down so much. I don’t care, they look cute and they’re authentic.
This is the hotel where we (editors of the Southern News) stayed during our trip, which was for a collegiate journalism convention. It was such a nice experience.
If I weren’t so busy with convention activities, I would have gotten better pictures. Sorry.
Some people can pull off big hair very well and some people can’t. Candace Jones is one of the people who can. I loved her hair so much when I saw her on the bus that I had to share with my blogger friends.
In this photo, Jones is holding a vintage bag she said belongs to her grandmother. The 24-year-old said she’s been in the fashion industry for over eight years and is the previous owner of a boutique. Jones said she moved to CT recently from New York.
I just cannot get over the hair…it’s adorable. I love big hair, but I think one has to show a certain level of confidence and comfortability in order to pull off the look. Jones does just that.
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