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Flats Made for Cinderella
Repetto Vog Slingbacks, $295 - Opening Ceremony
Of course this whispery pair of open toe ballet flats comes from none other than 60+ year old French shoemakers, Repetto.
I'm dreaming of slipping them on with a full skirt, prancing over to La Duree, and ordering a mix of rose and pistachio macarons to enjoy on the Seine.
Oh la la!
Menu Poetry
I've never had a Cronut. Or a Milk and Cookie Shot. Call me crazy, but I just haven't ever found myself intrigued enough about Dominique Ansel's pastry wizardry to justify the calorie situation. Until now.
Shoutout to Eater for directing my attention to Unlimited Possibilities, an "after-hours dessert tasting counter" at DA's newest venture, Dominique Ansel Kitchen.
Just look at this menu, and tell me it's not pure, beautiful, delicious poetry...
Reservation for one, please.
FUNK-IFY YOUR WALLS
While exploring the countless cool happenings of NYCxDESIGN (going on now), I came across Flavor Paper, a Brooklyn Heights-based wallpaper company that set up shop in a former parking garage, and thought I might as well share being that I just spent the past fifty minutes procrastinating on their site.
From a paint-by-numbers sailboat to Murakami-esque floral motif, Flavor Paper's wild and quirky designs are destined to make even the most generic, parquet-floored, Ikea-filled apartment come alive.
Now can someone just please buy our apartment so I can go decor-crazy someplace new?!
Fuschia Eyelashes, Anyone?
Make Up Forever Eyelashes - Strip (courtesy of Sephora)
The other day while waiting to pay for some Whole Foods essentials (avocado, cauliflower, Soothing Caramel Tea), my husband called my attention to someone in the yellow line. I honestly don't know how I hadn't seen her myself: this woman was sporting the most insane, lush, glittering fuschia false lashes. In plain broad daylight.
And believe it or not, instead of appearing totally wacky, they looked AMAZING.
Since then, I've had my eye on this more subdued version by Make Up Forever.
I love how they're quietly wild, and offer a different way to play the multi-color hair game that's all the rage this season.
So don't be surprised if next time you see me, I'm batting my eyelashes in flashes of pink, pink, pink.
Basically the Best Show Ever: Married At First Sight
Photo courtesy of FYI.
If you haven't yet seen Married at First Sight on burgeoning network FYI, you are 100% missing out on the second season of what's easily the best show on TV.
The premise: a team that includes a relationship therapist, sex therapist, and spiritual counselor comb through a sea of NYC-area applicants to eventually determine three matches who have agreed to get hitched as perfect strangers, at first sight.
We follow the couples from wedding prep and anxieties, to the altar where they initially meet, to their wedding reception alongside just as stunned family and friends, then away on the honeymoon, and through the next month of living together.
And I thought Homeland was addicting...
It is beyond intriguing to watch these people navigate dating/marriage/living together/loving simultaneously. And seriously, god bless.
Word of the Week: Orgiastic
Image courtesy of Vogue.com.
I don't care what anyone thinks: I love the New York Times Style section. Call it pretentious. Behind (#missedit). Even irrelevant.
Whatever.
It's made my Thursdays and Sundays that much more magical for as long as I can remember, and will certainly continue to do so.
That's why this week, I'm giving it a shoutout for introducing me to a funny new word in a funny new way:
Orgiastic (adjective): Of or resembling an orgy.
Mr. NY Times Style writer, Guy Trebay, you are officially ballsy (pun intended!!!) for taking this baby out of the bedroom and into a reference about year's upcoming Met Ball:
“When the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art debuts its latest exhibition, “China: Through the Looking Glass,” at its annual wingding on May 4, the event will be covered in orgiastic fashion by the global news media and treated by locals with the excitement country bumpkins once evinced when an elephant sauntered down Main Street with a sign announcing that the circus had come to town.””
HOLLA.