Marine from Plastiscines writes in to say:
1. Hi.
2. She’s back in Paris with Anais, Louise, and Katty.
3. Until August, that is, when they hit the road for the Cobra Starship tour.
4. She has a Twitter account now - marplastiscines! Be sure to follow her.
5. She got this Marc by Marc Jacobs vanity case and she’s stoked.
C’est tout!
This morning on Twitter, Alexa Chung complained that as an English girl in America, she didn’t quite know what to do on the Fourth of July.
And okay, it’s true today is all about celebrating the separation of America from our invasive British big brother.
But really, we love the UK, we’re happy about all our UK friends who live in the US, and especially for these British imports that have hit American shores in the past year:
1. Alexa. Hi, welcome, love you.
2. Adele. We’ll chase pavement with you anytime.
3. TopShop. Cheaper, faster to ship, and available for sale anywhere in the 50 states.
4. Krissi Murison. NYLON’s new music director moved here from London and kicks ass.
5. Patrick & Peaches. Welcome to the NYLON family, superstars.
NYLON Contributing Writer Diane Vadino went to the Glastonbury Music Festival this weekend. We were very jealous but agreed to publish her blog on it anyway. Here’s her report:
FRIDAY
10:00 a.m. Leaving for Glastonbury! Except—the photographer’s kit bag is missing, and debacle at Hertz—our rental car is going to cost $400 more than Orbitz suggested. We frantically call police officers and rental car agencies.
9:00 p.m. Leaving for Glastonbury!
12:05 a.m. Arrive Glastonbury. Hearing the last strains of Bloc Party’s “Blanket” in the parking lot means…you just missed Bloc Party—and Lady Gaga, Regina Spektor, Lily Allen, Fleet Foxes, and Animal Collective. Desire to kill photographer mitigated by the fact that he found cheaper rental car.
12:06 a.m. Swap Havaianas for $12 wellies that photographer wisely purchased at highway rest stop—which is to say: hop around barefoot while trying to extricate flip-flop from giant, sucking mud pool, give up, put on wellie, move on.
12:15 a.m. The press office is closed. Swap press tickets for “hospitality” wristbands, without any suggestion that hospitality area will be stocked, as press area so tantalizingly was, with—flush toilets! Showers! Blackberry chargers! Hospitality caravan staffers report, with clear regret, that their biggest celebrity sighting thus far is Jack Johnson.
12:30 a.m. Hospitality area is divided into two, Republican-style areas of rich (in solar-powered yurts) and poor (with our $30 Karrimor tent and best purchase of the night, $10 head-mounted flashlight). Also, no Blackberry chargers. However: flush toilets! Result!
12:50 a.m. A late-night review of the Glastonbury grounds finds: a deserted Pyramid stage following Neil Young’s headlining show; 200 people dancing to “Billie Jean” at Reggae Delights; and a food stand selling halloumi-cheese cones, which has to be the most delectable thing I have ever heard of.
Our friend Cat took some time off from being an ultra-glamorous blonde and zoomed herself to Bonnaroo.
There, she camped out with her camera and her eagle-eye for style, and here’s what she found:
A lot of tunics, tie dye, and some patterns that looked directly lifted from the magic carpet in Aladdin.
Check out all of Cat’s pictures -
Plus a stealth encounter with Dita Von Teese, carrying a bowl of ice cream and a parasol at the same time! -
PS: Cat wants to know if we’ll be wearing rompers this summer.
Sanrio just launched a new online store called Gentei, which features Hello Kitty products from Japan that usually aren’t available in America.
Besides Hello Kitty rice bowls and cell phone charms, the collection features nine pairs of these:
Hello Kitty chopsticks.
They come in a corresponding pouch and cost $12 per pair.
Get them and take them into Teriyake Boy, where you can be the envy of every girl with a bento box.
Today a pop-up shop called 143 opened in London.
It’s the love child of Gio-Goi (the British streetwear label), Silver Spoon Fashion (another, smaller, funner British streetwear label), and the graphic designer Kate Moross.
The only problem?
Some girls read the news a little too quickly and thought Kate Moss had opened the store.
Really, it’s not that far fetched:
Kate did pose in the windows when she first launched her TopShop collection, and Sienna Miller’s been known to work the cash register in her own Notting Hill boutique, Twenty8Twelve.
But for all the obsessed girls sprinting down to Newburgh to get a glimpse of their icon, yeah, it’s a bummer.
Fortunately, the store is the only place in the UK where you can buy Hearts Revolution’s new pink vinyl record, so there’s still a reason to race there.
See the whole store (and get the address) at We Heart Stuff.
Spotted in a Florida parking lot:
This sign which says “reserved for hybrid vehicles only.”
It’s a “priority” parking spot, which means right next to the handicap spots, those spots saved for valet parking, and spaces marked for company VIPs.
We love that hybrid cars are getting a little special treatment on the road.
Now if only it were easier to buy them…
This leather purse was designed by the French label DouDouPop.
They’re located in Nantes, a city in Western France that Time magazine calls “the most livable place in all of Europe.”
If that means the only kind of weapon you need is a fun accessory, then sure, it sounds good to me.
You can buy DouDouPop’s crazy creations on Etsy; this one sells for $25.
xo faran
PS, Fun Fact: The word for “gun” in French is “fusil.”
Check out this space in New Delhi, India.
It’s called The Emporio Mall, and it’s made entirely of scissors!
The name doesn’t refer to Emporio Armani, but instead the flagship for designer Rajesh Pratap Singh, who’s previously shown his work in Paris, and works extensively with Indian fabric mills to promote his national textiles and style.
Besides having scissor walls, scissor doors, scissor windows, and scissor hangers, the store also has several sculptures of scissor art.
Soon they’ll be available for purchase in LA.
First, you might want to ask that their edges get sanded down a little bit.
Otherwise - well… no puppies and no babies in that apartment.
Scroll through to see the rest of the store and the art - including a scissor Buddha you can find and buy in LA!
xo faran
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