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X-treme Shopping

I have to stop living on the edge like this. Buying these shoes last week--straight from the office on my last night of work (ie. HIGH), with the knowledge that they were the last pair, 60% off, and that I had 15 minutes to decide before Barneys closed their doors--it was kind of like getting bombed in Vegas the night you bust out of jail, getting hitched to some red-lipsticked seductress in a drive-through chapel and CROSSING YOUR FINGERS that she’ll be the woman you thought she was in the morning.  Or umm, a woman at all.  OH BUYER’S REMORSE, HOW I HATE THEE.

Of course, you never think of that at the time.  No, at the time, you call your friends and whisper, "Guess who's in my shopping bag?  LANVIN, baby!"  You get high and have a photo shoot!

I’m thinking RED VELVET!  I’m thinking white hotel bed!  Flash photography!  Very seedy, very Terry Richardson!  Very Juergen Teller-for-Marc Jacobs! 

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I coughed myself awake the next morning, mascara under my eyes and rice plastered to my hot cheek, and EGAD, what had I done!  I opened one eye with a squint and there were the Lanvin, looking all scrumptious and timeless in the dappled sunlight (but still sexy, with the perfect low heel and, indecent as it may be to admit, serious toe cleavage), so I felt like I’d scored Marilyn Monroe while wearing beer goggles. 

I’m so bad, people.   So bad. 

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Um...these shoes (if shoes is the right word, because well "shoe" doesn't really quite cut it as far as I am concerned) are absolutely ADORABLE-HOT. I would have to buy them and then create an occasion around wearing them. That's all.

oh delicious, sinful and surely something to later NOT regret!! love it.

Sexy!

Now, Coquette, I know you're going to want to hit me on the head for saying this, but my initial impression was "Dorothy's Ruby Red Slippers." Is that a fashion statement no-no?

If Dorothy had had those, she would have never gone back to Kansas.

*wolf whistle*

gorgeous color!

Oh you trollop!

Are they not divine!?

They're lovely. I do think, however, that you and your new shoes deserve better than Juergen Teller's harsh faux-amateur-porno strobes.

YUMMY - at least I'm not the only one who can't stop photographing their shoes - it's like shoeporn but you actually get to wear them too!

I'm picturing you having a Carrie Bradshaw moment when you saw the shoes in the window: "Hello, Lover!"

Hey, you only live once. Enjoy them.

personally, I like them !
Unrelated , but I thought you should know
Printemps Haussman is having a special marc jacobs jewelry and other trinklets collection for prices around 10-50 bucks , 4-14 february .

Very Coquette! Don't wear them often enough to wear out the label!

SO JEALOUS!

Fantastic, they are fantastic and I usually only like les bouts pointus ...you did well Coquette.

tres sexy! and love the low heal. no pain with pleasure here! you did very well.

Lovely--no true lover of shoes could fault such a purchase!

Mmmm... quite scrumptiously divine. Rouge fabuleux. Enjoy them!

I wear athletic shoes and Crocs because I don't work in a profession that allows for anything but "sensible" shoes, and my feet kill me most of the time. But I say that these shoes constitute money well spent. If I had any reason to wear pretty shoes, I'd want a pair like these!
Peace.

Ohhh.... don't worry, just wear them, and feel very Very.

TOE cleavage??

You're bad, Coquette, very, very bad.

Decadent: Marked by or providing unrestrained gratification; self-indulgent.

Oooh to be so decadent to have a pair of ruby red slippers in my wardrobe ... *gasp* ... toe cleavage too!

Just discovered your blog ~ I'll be back.

Have you learned nothing from me?! Lavin is always worth it. I got the pink satin ballerines. We will toast Elbar together as soon as you get home.

I do believe those shoes deserve their own party. Red cocktails, red food, red shoes.

Toe cleavage is key in a pair of pumps.

BEAUTIFUL!

Very 21th-century-Scarlett-O'Hara, I love them!

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