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September 22, 2009

A Little Housekeeping

Filed under: Suck it,Tech Stuff — Miss Plumcake @ 3:53 pm

So we’ve upgraded to the new edition of WordPress here at Big Girl Headquarters and y’all, it’s going to kill me. My attitude towards technology generally falls somewhere between “huh?” and “O IT IS A WITCH, BURN IT!”

I was the last person on earth to start texting and although I’ve grown to love it –I’m not a phone person– it filled me with fiery ire when people first started sending me message BECAUSE I HAVE A PHONE RIGHT HERE SO JUST &*^% CALL ME OKAY so please be patient while I figure out how this newfangled wizardry works.

Also: I’m going to be on vacation from October 8th to the 22nd. During that time I will not be available. Instead I will be here:

a little beach house on an isolated dune in an undisclosed location on the Atlantic coast where my activities will include lolling around in my underpants, listening to my shiny new J.S. Bach: Complete Works for Organ boxed set and trying to get away from all the damnable people who so liberally coat the pork chops of my life with the crushed cornflakes of their lunacy.

I also fully plan on deleting what I’m sure will be no fewer than the 2000 emails most of them from deposed Nigerian princes, so if you’ve got a question, comment or whatevs,  email me now or hold your peace until Halloween because there’s no WAY I’m wading through that garbage just so I can get the one email asking me for a pair of wide-calf boots made from the eyelashes of baby ocelots for under twenty dollars.

I’ll do my best to post our regular features in advance so you really shouldn’t notice a disturbance in the force as far as content goes, but you might notice a slight wonkyness with the comments. Don’t worry, all shall be resolved when I return.

Gin and Tonics,

Plumcake

Fashion Week Round Up: Narciso Rodriguez, Mulberry, Max Azria, Matthew Ames, Marc by Marc

Filed under: Fashion Week — Miss Plumcake @ 3:00 pm

Narciso Rodriguez: I’ve never just loved what he does, although I guess I get it. I bet I’d like it a lot more if I could see it in person, but on the runway although I want to like it –I love playing with volume and cutting and shape– it leaves me cold. Mark my words though, Mrs. O is going to show up in that gray sheath (look 23) by this time next year.

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 Mulberry: Hyper-twee 80’s redux. Some cute and wearable pieces buried deep (DEEP) below ruffle tiered skirts and crimped hair.

Max Azria: Donna Karan slasher film (doo dah, doo dah) but less blood, more beige. With this, BCBG and Herve Leger, does this make Azria the poor man’s Lagerfeld? I really want a cage skirt now.

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 Matthew Ames: Is he Miyake? Loose, flowing, interestingly cut. Not a fan of the Issey homage, but it has its place and the color? Fab.

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Although someone might want to tell Miss Tangerine that Preparation H isn’t taken orally. Geeze.

Marc by Marc Jacobs: Marc Jacobs is a genius. This show is not.

Daily Kick: these are a few of my favorite things

Filed under: The Daily Kick — Miss Plumcake @ 7:00 am

bleeding hearts
Emporio Armani heels in pink, blue and black
peonies
Azalea japonica

Who needs whiskers on kittens when you have bleeding hearts, Emporio Armani heelsicon, peonies and azaleas?

September 21, 2009

Fashion Week Round Up: Vera Wang, Tibi, Temperley of London and Rodarte.

Filed under: Fashion Week — Miss Plumcake @ 3:00 pm

Vera Wang: My favorite thing about Wang is I get to say “Wang”. Other than that? Meh. Black, messy, uninspiring.  Incredible jewelry though.

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Tibi: If that sullen girl from My So Called Life spent the summer with the Golden Girls, this is what she’d wear until Blanche slapped some sense into her. Hated it.

Temperley of London: I always think I dislike Alice Temperley because she reminds me of makeup artist and fellow Brit Charlotte Tilbury whom I dislike for a very good reason I can’t remember right now, and then I’m surprised when I see a Temperley show and don’t hate everything. True, she does tend towards costumey, and in the wrong hands this collection could go Circus Burlesque (which is less than ideal) but I dig the pattern and stripes, and we all know I’m a total tramp for a turban, top hat (full size, please) and tailored jacket.

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Rodarte: The Sisters Mulleavy do tribal Highland grunge by way of the Thunderdome. Which isn’t to say I didn’t like it.

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Philosophy:  Floaty, young and Creamsicle sweet. I hated the lip-print conceit that permeated nearly all the dresses, but I do like the ice cream man jackets and sherbet stripes of the earlier looks.

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The Monday Hotness: Johnny Castle edition

Filed under: Movies,The Monday Hotness — Miss Plumcake @ 12:07 pm

Patrick Swayze, as hoofer with a heart of gold Johnny Castle catapulted my entire generation boy crazy girls into puberty with what might be THE single greatest chick flicks in the history of time, Dirty Dancing. I think I saw it when I was in 5th grade when a friend of mine stole her older sister’s VHS copy of Dirty Dancing (this is the same girl who also got a copy of Madonna’s Truth or Dare which we saw in SIXTH grade, one of her parents was the ambassador from Portugal or something, I can’t remember.)

Anyhoodle, it’s been years and years since I’ve seen it because I’m afraid I’d be embarrassed at my old self for loving it so much since I’m now Entirely Too Cool for chick flicks, and I think I’d just be sad that poor Jennifer Grey got such a bad nose job.

BUT that does nothing to diminish the Eternal Hotness of Patrick Swayze who was never hotter than he was in this movie. Remember, the mambo isn’t the cha cha. The mambo starts on two.

How to wear a t-shirt

Oh Romeo

the mambo

ticklish?

C’mere loverboy!

The lift

golly.

time of my life

The Daily Kick: It’s Monday, Darlings

Filed under: Flats,Shoes,The Daily Kick — Miss Plumcake @ 7:00 am

Step out in style!

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Suspira flats from Juan Antonio Lopez


Suspira flats by Juan Antonio Lopez .

September 20, 2009

Twistie’s Sunday Caption Madness: The Fungal Edition

Filed under: Twistie's Sunday Caption Madness — Twistie @ 11:28 am

Hello young caption lovers, wherever you are. It’s time once again to play Twistie’s Sunday Caption Madness! You all know how this works. I present you with a picture that’s simply crying out for a good caption or twenty. You hit me with your best shots via the comments function. Then, next saturday I declare a winner and we all go out for pizza…in a completely virtual way. Are we ready? Good! Then we’ll begin. Gigantic Mexican Mushroom Ready…set…snark!

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