Knitting

So i’m in LA, trying to take everything in while I am here, before going back to gotham. Found this amazing store. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. I figure if I put it in caps with dashes in between you’ll see how great it is. I would have bolded it but that might have been too much.

Anyway…

Suss Design is such a great store. Most of the clothes in the store are handknit. As a caveat, I don’t knit, but I love the aesthetic behind the clothes. Located on Beverly Boulevard, this store lets you get your wicker basket and begin shopping, and that’s what I did. There are amazing knit patterns, knit kits, knitting supplies and a variety of accessories. You can also go to a knitting class, get knitting dvds and knitter’s hand cream. I want to move the store to NY…NOW.

Address in LA:
7350 Beverly Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Update
Joy! One of our astute readers says that Suss Design has a store in NYC.

Address in NY
281 Lafayette Street between Houston and Prince
New York, NY

drama

OK, this has nothing to do with fashion at all today.

You know what I find most disturbing? Friendships and Relationships. I personally don’t have many friends and limit my relationships because I have been screwed with them one to many times. When a relationship ends, when does it end? If the other person tells you they want nothing to do with you, why get mad if they think that something is going on with someone else?

Can a pair of ex’s be friends? I have remained friends with people I have dated but not long-term relationships. What’s the point? All the messy weird feelings just got all worked up again. Especially when they can do whatever and get pissed if you do something. Same as friends when you think someone is there for you and they are clearly not. Most of my friends can’t see past themselves, but they are quite entertaining- I mean isn’t always entertaining to see someone more messed up then you?

Maybe we need an ask the relationship expert section. Get on it Sam!!

-M

Shhhhh!!!!

What’s more fashionable than protecting ourselves? Trojan has a new line just for us! Of course there are the condoms, but there is also an entire intimate line. Massage gel and oils, cleansing clothes, and yes a vibrating ring. Hopefully the new line will make ladies a little less shy about purchasing and carrying condoms. Hey don’t leave it up to the guys-and at least you can have a little fun with these.

Undercover Condoms

Dutch at the edge of design

Went to see an interesting exhibit a couple of days ago at FIT called Dutch at the edge of Design. It’s an amalgam of fashion and textiles from the Netherlands. It features designs from Viktor & Rolf, Marcel Wanders, Nicolette Brunklaus and many others. The exhibit vaguely notes that Dutch designers are unlike their European and American counterparts in that they rarely conform to “traditional” market demands and refrain from commercialism. The exhibit features 75 examples of Dutch fashion spread over 30 designers. It’s definitely a different look at fashion. You can see the European influence but definitely not the same old, same old from the London-Milan-Paris crowd.

Info:

FIT Museum
Tues - Fri Noon - 8pm ,
Saturday 10am - 5pm. Closed Sundays,
Southwest corner of Seventh Avenue at 27th Street
NYC
212 217.5800

We don’t like this, not even for $422

Somehow, someway, someone thought they could charge the public $422 for this coat. Yes, the designer is Bob Marley’s daughter, yes we loved Bob, but you have to draw the line somewhere and $422 is that somewhere.

The nerve…