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Here’s your chance to go buckwild: the semi-annual APC sale which as always offers up a respectable 50% off the season’s collection, has commenced today. I am always grateful for it.

What Matt might call a “warm up” may be an illustration sprint of sorts for us mere mortals. A very nice interpretation indeed; it truly captures the coquettish.  I’m really enjoying the personal renditions of the Facehunter and Sartorialist photographs.

Eat drink and be merry.

Georgina Goodman’s Naja shoes make me dream of blue oceans, a tropical breeze, and the warm sun. A work of art as much as a pair of shoes:

Naja combines rare fish skin with fur and the finest calf leather. Like anything utterly fantastic, she shouldn’t really exist, being utterly commercially unviable and almost impossible to construct. Only the finest factory in Italy can undertake this type of technical challenge and Naja is the exquisite result. Lovingly hand made in Bolognia she is a show stopper, she draws all the attention in the room and makes the world stop spinning. Hello.

I’m not a kooky shoes person. To me, these definitely aren’t over the top; they’re utterly beautiful.

Boxing day shopping sucks - the panicked frenzy of shoppers, crappy deals, personal space issues, common changing rooms. I ask why? Why, since some online boutiques have dropped their sales already -and the others will follow imminently?

Aloharag: limited time 50% off sale from now until Dec 22;

RevolveClothing: 25% off with coupon “apologies” ’til Xmas;

F-Troupe: as mentioned before, 40% off;

Seven: save up to 50%;
Scorah Pattullo: beautiful footwear at 50% off;

…in purple, of logarithms, and holidays.

(illustrations by Lynsey McCafferty and Matthew Forsythe)

Since a great deal of partying is likely to be done in this dress, a bit of pre/after care will be in order as sequins will inevitably be lost. To avoid a glorious sprinkle of gold trailing you wherever you may go, I am told that a light all-over spritz of hairspray is effective in combatting sequin loss. Perhaps this is a widely known fact already, but I’ve never owned a sequined garment before so this is news to me.

Even with Xmas gifts secured for the friends and family, ’tis the season of giving to others and not oneself. And yet, the F-Troupe A/W shoe, boot, and sneaker sale is on now! Maybe it’s not too late to add these and these to my wishlist for Santa.

(via nytimes)

Isn’t that an oxymoron? If bags made of lacquered natural fibres priced at $855 and seen hither and thither on the street aren’t status symbols, then I don’t know what is. They are, however “very high quality luggage“…

Socks have long been underappreciated until recently. Gone are the days of scorn at the unslightly sock, where now wearing them with your fanciest shoes is widely embraced. Now that tall boots have become a necessity with the sub zero temps, having something of the sock persuasion peek out of the tops of them has become an interesting option. The bleak nature of grey and cold weather at this time of year makes me grinchy, but I wonder perhaps: can Hansel and Basel socks help bring holiday cheer? (The knee patch ones in particular).