fly flare

Fred Flare is getting a lot of lip service this month. First fashionista rep'ed their fashion origami, then Critical Shopper took a heart melting look at the bright boutique. Their main page has christmas shopping on lock with shopping by theme feature with categories such as 'black', 'kawaii', 'eco', and 'crafty'. I would fall into 3/4 of those and will likely do a large chunk of my holiday shopping from their unfailingly cute site. Free shipping on orders over $75 doesn't hurt either and totally leaves me enough cash leftover to grinch my own presents from OAK after Christmas. (picture straight ape'd from critical shopper. but it's so cute!)

tricky tricky girl

Fashionista commented on newish clothing site, FarFetch.com, which culls fucking hard to find garb from around the world and places it at your luxury-deprived fingertips. The shop is a virtual mix of oak-opening ceremony-and lord and taylor with brands ranging from aforementioned opening ceremony and henry vibscov to balenciaga and christopher kane. The site is also segmented into 'personality' tabs with divisions like 'luxe', 'lab', and 'cult' with steers you towards designers more up your alley. The only fault that I can pin on FarFetch is a fairly major one, their price gouging is worse than Shell Oil. They list a MbyMJ cashmere sweater for $450, which considering the ever mind-boggling dollar signs on Mssr. Jacobs wares doesn't seem out of place. One click over to barneys co-op will gladly sell you the same sweather, on sale, for 180. Ksubi are also listed on FarFetch as being $450, which is at the high end of their mark up spectrum and they can be had elsewhere for close to $200. Though, this is all forgivable when you see that they have a nice collection of Margiela, See by Chloe, Vibscov, Bernard Wilhelm, and Surface 2 Air; designers that are hard enough to find in real life let alone in online. Farfetch does offer free shipping and the inflated costs can possibly be attributed to the fact that near all of the boutiques who's wares they cull from are in europe (currency conversion be damned). Until, then I will just have to be content with staring at the screen until either our economy inproves or the rest of the world's just gets worse.