Loving J.Crew Socks and Tights for Fall

     

 

   

  

     

   

        

It arrived!!

My J. Crew Catalogue arrived today!! Liya is beautiful and did a fabulous job. The spring/summer collection is gorgeous, as usual. The cardigans, cashmere, satin, sequins, embellished tees and pearls sophisticated girly glam that J. Crew has come to be known for. I want this sweater, this top, these shorts in dark ochre and this blazer in pink, this skirt, and this dress. And these sneaks. I tell myself every season, “Self, there’s nothing at J. Crew that you like. It all looks the same!” And then the catalogue arrives, and I tear out all of the pages with the stuff on them that I want, and carry them around in my planner, and look at them every day until I can’t stand it anymore (or they go on sale) and break down and buy them. Piece by piece.  I know. Grrr. I sound obsessed.

I got my first sweater from J. Crew when I was in high school. It was orange. I loved it so much, and so I was extremely upset when I washed it and it shrunk. I was also in denial. I kept on to it and even took it to college with me. I think it was around that time the J. Crew went into sort of a hiatus, and, well kinda fell off. So I was so thrilled when they reinvented themselves just in time for me to start working (rather than going to college and wearing jeans) for a living! I filled my wardrobe with J. Crew pieces. And to know that I have something in common with Michelle Obama! We shop at the same store! I have that sweater! Eek!

P.S. My new Zoya nail polish also arrived today!! yay me!

Making History: Model Liya Kebede Partners with J. Crew

In good news of the day. Etheopian supermodel Liya Kebede  will be the first model to be featured exclusively, cover to cover, for the  J. Crew catalogue. What is more, the company will also carry pieces of Liya’s own line of hand-made children’s clothing collection known as Lemlem (means “to bloom”) , as part of their children’s Crewcuts line. All the pieces are made by hand in Ethiopia. -Source