(not so) random links
halloween is almost here, people! i feel like i wear a costume every day (i’m dressed as/am impersonating myself, natch!), so i don’t often feel the desire to go crazy with the costumes and halloween stuff, but YOU can!
my 2007 halloween suggestions for you include:
-this senator larry craig mugshot mask (via boing boing)
-or perhaps this michael jackson fright mask (oooh!! SCARY!!) (also via boing boing)
-woof! meow! (via swissmiss, via whip up)
-or these DIY options with directions delivered via video, from threadbanger: fairy wings, a mummy, and a pirate (ARRR!)…
-ever fancied the idea of making your own street fashion website, so you can celebrate who and what is haute in your hometown? laura of tagtraeumerin runs tragfläche (leipzig, germany), and has recently made a post addressing that very subject, how to make a street fashion website. thanks, (again) laura!
“it shows how much people are inspired by real people and don’t follow blindly what magazines say”-yvan rodic of facehunter, in a NYLON magazine q&a with the social/street fashion photographers hailed at the from the street to the night exhibition, at colette in paris
make your own simple yet sassilicious hair do-hickies, with the help of rakia and her fashion tips, over at fly. they feature feathers! so like a little facinator, really!
zappos knows how to give good customer service, and then some. other retailers should take note, and follow suit.
according to a new book by dana thomas called deluxe: how luxury lost it’s luster, luxury isn’t that luxurious anymore. that italian bag you just threw down US$1200 for? it cost $100 to manufacture in china. if you’re willing to pay that much for something so cheaply made, the joke’s on you. (via boing boing)
October 23 2007 | Posted in (not so) random links, check this out!, crafty cool., culture-vulture, fashion musing, street fashion
October 23 2007 at 9:03 pm
KaraWow there’s some really good ideas there! Thanks
October 23 2007 at 11:14 pm
madam0wlThe story behind the zappos link gave me tingles!
October 24 2007 at 12:05 pm
JillWow me too (The Zappos story) what a great company! How often does something like that happen anymore.
October 25 2007 at 6:02 am
laurawow, it’s unbelievably great what zappos did there! i wish other companies would act the same.
November 1 2007 at 1:25 am
bits and bobbins » archives » (not so) random links[...] -adding to the link in my (not so) random links list from last week about luxury not being so luxurious, and fancy bags just being hype, a backlash seems to be brewing against those ridiculous “it-bags”… eric wilson of the new york times asks: is this it for the “it bag”? (let’s hope so.) *** [...]