I did nothing today and still got paidTumblr (3.0; @chanello)http://chanello.tumblr.com/<img src="http://6.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuq2j1nLbI1qzo4gmo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>After a lovely lunch at Spruce, we perused the shoppes along the way.  See TO DIE FOR jacket below.  This street is awesome not only because it has Susan Boutique- home of Lanvin & Marni & Junya & Comme, but it has a….</p> <p>RIBBON SHOPPE!</p> <p>Its like days of yore.  Like Little Women or Jane Austen times.</p>http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/285428101http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/285428101Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:52:13 -0500<img src="http://22.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuq26xR4PT1qzo4gmo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>OMFG.  I LOVE LOVE LOVE this jacket.</p> <p>Marni.  Mink.  Female Mink.</p> <p>I D-I-E.</p> <p>Dear Santa, God, Easter Bunny, Jesus, Allah and the Tooth Fairy,<br/>I promise to be a good girl forever and ever if you would magically place this baby on me forever and ever.</p> <p>Sometimes you know when something is made for you when you put it on and it already feels like its yours….</p> <p>or not.   A steal at 5k…@ Susan in SF.  Another benefit of living in SF—all those hippies frown upon fur.  Can u imagine this baby on the sales floor for more than an hour @ Barneys NY?!</p>http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/285417823http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/285417823Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:44:57 -0500<img src="http://11.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kui9dcIblX1qzo4gmo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>@ the japanese beauty clinic right now, fixing the roots. (my hair could not pass off as the cool ombré look going on now…). My head feels like someone rubbed all those peppers into my scalp. Ugh no hair washing for a week at Least!</p>http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/279298827http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/279298827Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:38:30 -0500<img src="http://17.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kufk1xziEo1qzo4gmo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The ONLY BENEFIT from living in SF…how truly unfashionable people leave the best and brightest withering beneath the hot lights of Nordstrom (which I used to think it was the better endowed older sister to Macy’s but it’s different out West).</p> <p>Nicholas Kirkwood at 40% off — size 38.5 blue suede peeps at $454.</p> <p><img src="http://media.onsugar.com/files/ons2/333/3338059/45_2009/7d6423727343742c_bcbg2.jpg"/></p> <p>Oh and the BCBG Wedge “Mendel” booties - Sea of Shoes Jane has em and Fashiontoast also for 50% off.  Call the BCBG in San Fran.  They have em in a size 37 and 36 for $250.</p> <p>Maybe SF isnt such a terrible place to live…</p>http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/277359745http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/277359745Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:37:09 -0500<img src="http://3.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuf04uSoJG1qzo4gmo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Chanello the spy</p>http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/276918601http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/276918601Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:26:47 -0500<img src="http://15.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kubuuuRQml1qzo4gmo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>They say changing wallets can change your fortune…I hope this re-issue of a Chanel wallet—I lost one already—will change my current unemployed situation!</p>http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/274485126http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/274485126Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:39:59 -0500<img src="http://1.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kua3kxKUC91qzo4gmo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Why I love him: he made us a pillow fort out of the uncomfortablely stylish chairs.</p>http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/273059789http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/273059789Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:53:15 -0500<img src="http://11.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ku5s3m9cr41qzo4gmo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Guess what’s for dinner…</p>http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/269773859http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/269773859Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:54:50 -0500<img src="http://9.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ku5pswe3b71qzo4gmo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Have you seen Fantastic Mr. Fox?  Because you should.  It really is kinda fantastic.</p> <p>This picture reminds me of the movie.  Nothing says wild animal than stuffing your carefully applied made up face with Hubert Keller’s crap-tastically over-priced Foie Burger while wearing Proenza (hey what can I say I love the line’s downtown vibe but with uptown craftmanship —which while I love A.Wang, it lacks the craftsmanship…) & Chanel.</p>http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/269720078http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/269720078Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:05:19 -0500<img src="http://10.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ku5p66cebx1qzo4gmo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Yippie!  My second closet/home is finally restored to it’s proper form!</p> <p>And just in time for 1st markdown.</p> <p>I thought A/W 2009 and Pre-Fall were excellent collections for investment pieces…but then again, Chanel RTW is always full of iconic time testers.</p>http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/269705961http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/269705961Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:51:42 -0500<img src="http://13.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ku5ommUAny1qzo4gmo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>As it’s the holiday season, full of cocktails before dinner or dessert afterwards, this is my motto to being the hautest hostess that I am…</p> <p>When throwing a proper dinner/dessert/tea party, there’s a 90% chance of success so long as you are chic and above all <b>composed</b>.  Never be flustered.</p> <p>Those three days before, full of prep and worry are the only times to show your effort.  “What, these amuses were just a cinch to throw together!”</p> <p>That’s me in a proper apron (I’m not ruining my Proenza Schouler silk cocktail dress over spilled milk!) from Anthropology (they have such quaint hostess with the mostest things!!) explaining what’s for dessert.</p>http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/269693661http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/269693661Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:39:00 -0500<img src="http://10.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ku5nczWiSe1qzo4gmo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>In the very rare times that I want children, it’s always for the wrong reasons, i.e. an excuse to buy MULTIPLE Birkins/Chanel RTW as an investment for my future daughter.</p> <p>This is one of them again.  If I had a young daughter, she would totally get the CL Barbie for X-mas.  I’d def. wait til she was like 13 til I’d let her get her own Loubs.</p> <p>Via NET-A-PORTER.COM</p>http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/269664648http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/269664648Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:12:34 -0500<img src="http://17.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktva5qOdUV1qzo4gmo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>All that glitters…</p> <p>It’s like this view I have every night.  Breathtaking and beautiful.  Envious even.  But it’s not mine.  Nothing comes for free, and we can only strive to work so hard as to attain it ourselves.</p>http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/261947620http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/261947620Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:51:25 -0500<img src="http://19.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktr7ffQTg01qzo4gmo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Why my Thanksgivingg p0wned yours—</p> <p>What you don’t have freshly shaved burgundry truffles over yukon gold mashed potatoes and homemade Tahitian vanilla bean cream cheese frosted pumpkin spice cupcakes?</p> <p>It’s okay, I hoped to grow up one day to be just like me as well.</p>http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/259171155http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/259171155Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:01:00 -0500<img src="http://16.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kti47xrSyJ1qzo4gmo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Great success!</p>http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/252838933http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/252838933Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:14:17 -0500<img src="http://6.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktggopBxYs1qzo4gmo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“It’s like we bought a car dealership!!” I squeal with joy. Now we don’t have to buy any more exotics—we can make the car coffee right here at home!</p>http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/251786211http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/251786211Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:48:00 -0500<img src="http://15.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktgglsfrXe1qzo4gmo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Just because I love making dishy dishes doesn’t mean I have dishpan hands. The easiest way for other b!tches to criticize: slovenly nails. Keep it together girls!</p>http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/251785398http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/251785398Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:46:00 -0500<img src="http://5.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktgauf9Q4a1qzo4gmo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>It’s hard being the domestic dah-ling that I am. Tonights prep for tomorrow’s dessert tasting menu of “iced bananas” - frozen chunks of bananas in coconut tapioca and slivers of mint, vanilla panna cotta with roasted Bartlett pear au jus and finishing with vanilla bean coconut cupcakes with a toasted coconut buttercream frosting.</p> <p>By the way—the theme of my tasting menu is post modern retro- everything is white and plated on white plates. =)</p>http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/251721421http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/251721421Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:42:11 -0500<img src="http://3.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kteh635PME1qzo4gmo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Ethereal.  Daul Kim was aspirational beauty.</p>http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/250638744http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/250638744Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:03:39 -0500<img src="http://2.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktco8pKO1j1qzo4gmo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Hubert, come back to fleur de lys because without you, it sucked. Alot. Or maybe it’s just that I can still taste The perfection that is FL…and nothing can compare.</p>http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/249489602http://chanello.tumblr.com/post/249489602Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:41:10 -0500