Shoes of the Week: Lanvin

Loving the new Lanvin shoes! There are many-many that I love at the moment... these mary-jane booties (pictured in Anthracite) are neatly-designed and practical. I can see getting so much use out of these, and loving them every time. Plus that heel seems very well-balanced -- I don't know, the new chunky triangular heels look really nice but they are often set too far back for my foot. It's definitely a problem.

I couldn't resist posting these as well, though... on the Marie Antoinette end of things, here are two delightfully decadent pumps which I would love to own:

(excuse the sheisty image quality; images courtesy of Barneys.com) I particularly enjoy the strass detail on both heels. Put a little shimmer in your step.

The Want List: Temperate Tuesday

The Want List: vol. 1 (04/21/09) by myoubi featuring Catherine Malandrino tops

4 items I'm obsessed with lately:

1. Clown-collar blouses -- I couldn't find many good examples on Polyvore, but the grey Catherine Malandrino top shows it best: a simple, slim-fit blouse with a wide circular ruffle like on a clown's costume at the neck. I think they're wacky and delicate at the same time.

2. Winklepickers -- I am obsessed. I must have a pair of these super-pointy-toed men's boots. I am thinking black suede chelsea boots with a cuban heel and a long elegant toe...

3. Statement ring -- have been looking for a nice, large, shiny ring for a while. Any of these would suit my purposes: casual and dressy and unusual at once.

4. Striped blazer -- unfortunately I came to this one two years too late. All of the striped blazers now make one look like a comic book convict.

Shoe of the Week:

I'm not very adventurous when it comes to footwear: give me black and buckles and a stiletto heel and I'm over the moon. These Manolos are perfect. Unfortunately the heel on Manolos tends to be set slightly too far back for me, but we can dream...

Sirens: new Agent Provocateur Collection is out

actually it's been out for a while. It was so boring that I almost didn't want to write about it.

I was really impressed with the Witches collection -- it was fantastic -- and the Pirates collection also had some very nice pieces. The Virgins collection was a bit of a letdown, although the lovely expanded bridal collection (Brides of Odysseus) almost made up for it. But the new Sirens collection is not really very seductive to me. Yes, it's spring going into summer, and that means a lighter, more playful tone -- but there are ways to make that sexy, and then there's... most of this.

My favourite line from the collection (besides the return of the Dita Playsuit, which I loooove) is Mae. The shape of this bra is very flattering to smaller busts:

and while normally I'm against the whole existence of yellow, it's brave of AP to do an entire line in goldenrod (Jodie):

But most of this collection is stuff AP has done a million times before, and what is new, isn't necessarily fresh. Kathleen is tough to wear, and runs dangerously close to looking cheap; Denise is pretty enough, but we see something like this in almost every AP collection. On the whole, I'm not excited.

Fortunately, my local AP still has this set in stock from January:

Awesome Find: DVF Lizzy Skirt

Heathers is one of my favourite movies. The first time I saw it, I fell in love with the skirt Winona Ryder wears in this scene with JD:

A high-waisted black pencil skirt with suspenders -- gorgeous! I've been looking for one for so long, but never found one that I quite liked. Then through Doe Deere Blogazine I happened upon Beacon Vintage, and saw this glorious thing:

The Lizzy skirt, by Diane von Furstenburg.  Exactly what I'd been looking for! And it was in my size!

I'll post pictures as soon as it arrives. But in the meantime, I leave you with this:

Super Fabulous

It's huge. It's ostentatious. It's vulgar. I love it.

Loree Rodkin yellow gold and diamond fleur de lis ring, available at Browns Fashion.

New York New York

I saw these great Moschino mary-janes at Barneys and fell a little in love. Here's what I would love to wear while clomping around New York: