http://www.somelikeithaute.com A blog about fashion, shoes and shopping Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:15:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sorry, everyone, for the disappearing trick. Things have been a little crazy, especially since... wait for it... book number two is underway! Stay tuned for more on that front, but for now consider Some Like It Haute on hiatus. Until we meet again -- and never fear, there will be ... http://www.somelikeithaute.com/2008/01/20/on-hiatus/ We now return you to your usual programming after a week's vacation. Well, I'm not sure if you can really call a vacation a vacation when it consists of spending 11 hours every day in a veritable sweat shop! But I took a week off from work to take an ... http://www.somelikeithaute.com/2007/07/24/blood-sweat-and-a-second-degree-burn/ My Fourth of July was overcast and chilly... how was yours? But honestly I didn't mind -- with only one day off, in the middle of the week at that, I wasn't going anywhere. I was discombobulated enough. I kept thinking it was Sunday... I decided to partake in some indoor ... http://www.somelikeithaute.com/2007/07/10/ysl-not/ I've had this fantasy for a while now. When I win the lottery and can retire early (like 30 years early), I want to open an arts and crafts shop, where people can sit around for hours, knit, make jewelry, needlepoint, whatever, chat, drink coffee... I'd be there to help ... http://www.somelikeithaute.com/2007/06/26/craftwerk/ I gotta wear shades. Summer is here! And recently realized, while in the Caribbean, far too belatedly, that the Fendi sunglasses I bought last season really don't shade my eyes from the sun. (They do look fabulous but... those light green lenses don't do much.) These Oliver Peoples Harlot sunglasses would ... http://www.somelikeithaute.com/2007/06/20/the-futures-so-bright/ It's a miracle! After two days of using Blinc Kiss Me Mascara, I'm happy to report that I've had great results. No more raccoon eyes. . . mostly. After a long-overdue trip to the gym -- brought on by the despair I felt after getting my wedding album and realizing ... http://www.somelikeithaute.com/2007/06/15/lashing-out-part-2/ There are dark circles, and then there are dark circles. True, I don't sleep enough, and it shows on my face, right under my eyes. But beyond the bags under my eyes I've long suffered from the dreaded racoon eye syndrome. It's so bad that a facialist once told ... http://www.somelikeithaute.com/2007/06/12/lashing-out/ Yup, the first round of designer markdowns has begun at Saks, Neimans, Bergdorfs et al... And yes, I have partaken... I found these Prada peeptoes at Saks -- but in the most gorgeous blush-colored crocodile... so beautiful I almost cried (especially when I saw how much they were, even at ... http://www.somelikeithaute.com/2007/06/06/come-sale-away/ I was never one to follow the "no white before Memorial Day" rule -- especially since I grew up in Texas, where summer often started not long after Valentine's Day. But Memorial Day is just behind us, and I'm headed for a week in the Caribbean. Which makes me think ... http://www.somelikeithaute.com/2007/05/29/summer-whites/ I'm starting the countdown now. The Saks flagship store on Fifth Avenue is opening a whole new shoe floor in August! That's 8,500 square feet of shopping heaven -- a 35% expansion from the current shoe department -- so vast that it is getting its own zip code and commemorative ... http://www.somelikeithaute.com/2007/05/23/music-to-my-feet/