Cat just discovered that one of her favorite boot companies, Lucchese, has a “State Boot” collection. Sadly, they only have eighteen of our territories represented, and none of the three states Cat lays claim to — Colorado, New York and Mississippi — are included. It’s too bad that all fifty…
Cat’s in the mood to shop for shoes, and right now she’s obsessed with this lovely pair from Emilio Pucci. Of course, they’re $648 on Zappos. Sigh. Although, Cat would probably wear them every day, so if we consider price per wear, they’re actually quite affordable… (still in Cat’s dreams)…
With fall clothes coming into stores, it’s time for one of Cat’s favorite rituals of the season: watching the Thomas Crown Affair. Rene Russo is just so damned hot in that movie; she’s electrifying to watch. Every year Cat rents the movie to remind herself of how she’d like to…
[jump] Cat’s a little behind, so you’re getting Cheap and Chic Monday on Tuesday — but with even more bargains at less than $100! Top row, left to right: Buckle Straw Pump from Newport News $29 Ruffle Pleated Purse from Newport News $29 Kenneth Cole Precise Cut Pumps from Bluefly…
Square 1 on Larimer Square knows all things denim. Dark denim, washed denim, wide legs, stove pipes. They’ve got it all. And now thorough August 4 take 30% to 70% off your tab. They’re open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mnday through Saturday, and noon to 5 p.m. on…
Michael Falco for The New York Times This apartment cost $420,000. Interesting piece in the New York Times about several couples and what they gave up in order to buy tiny one- and two-bedroom condos in the City. No shopping, no fashion, no cigarettes, no going out. It’s an austere…
And here’s yet another reason to love the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center: Styling the Modern: Fine Art Meets Fashion May 10 – July 6, 2008 The CSFAC is such a cultural treasure that many people in Denver are not familiar with. During Colorado’s real art heyday — 30s, 40s…
No, this one is not a joke. The New York Times reported on Thursday that Louis Vuitton has added Mikhail S. Gorbachev to its spokesmodel roster. That’s right, the last president of the Soviet Union — as photographed by Annie Leibovitz — is joining a very sexy Scarlett Johansson for…
Need a laugh on this Monday morning. Head over to Jezebel, where the editors have created a delightful prank for those of us who read both Harper’s and Harper’s Bazaar. The mash up includes J.Simp on the cover and a the Harper’s Index, which includes this little dig: “Average price…
Wonder what the Sex and the City girls will look like when their new movie comes out? TVLand has the answer. Let’s just say, it’s a cruel, cruel world. One populated by Bea Arthur as Carrie. (via Flypaper)…
Photos via V Magazine; Christy Turlington’s before and after is above, while Doutzen Kroes’s is below. Ever wonder what models look like before hair and makeup? V Magazine has a great feature showing before shots — when they came in the door — and what they looked like after running…
Photos by Taylor Sullivan The Corner Office is so fucking cool. Like so cool you can’t call it cool, because that’s uncool. So when this week’s What to Wear Friday honoree, Kymberly Robertson, suggested that we meet at the martini bar at the new Curtis Hotel in Denver’s Theater District,…
FirstView From 3.1 Phillip Lim’s Fall 2007 collection. Cat’s a little behind, but here are the ten finalists for the CFDA / Vogue Fashion Fund. The winner scores $200,000, mentorship with some big designer, and a spread in Vogue. (via Fashionista) Last year, the prize was taken home by Travota,…
The starting and ending point of tours at the Great Divide Brewing Company was formerly a chest-high metal tap station tucked into a chilly concrete corner of the brewery’s main production room. From that vantage point, more than a decade’s worth of tourists watched Great Divide brew, filter, bottle and…
Seamstress Jil Cappuccio is a fabric person. An avid thrift-shopper with a collector’s eye, she’s developed an irrepressible love affair with vintage cloth and prints — a yard here, a length there — that she magically transforms into reasonably priced, absolutely one-of-a-kind togs that are comfortably designed to fit like…
The less said about the plot of the long-fabled, finally-arrived Simpsons Movie, the better; I know this instinctively, as a member of that particular segment of geekdom most psyched and apprehensive about its unveiling. I’m talking about the people who ask, “Does it suck?,” then prayerfully add, “Please don’t suck.”…
Sadly, No Reservations is not the big-screen adaptation of Anthony Bourdain’s snack-gulping, risk-taking Travel Channel show; you’ll find no monkey brains here, nor any attempts to party down in Beirut while Hezbollah and Israel blow each other to smithereens. This is just more of the same from the franchise factory…
The raciest thing I ever saw my mother do was read a brown-paper-covered Penguin edition of D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover on the London Underground. She didn’t fool all the other passengers carrying similarly disguised copies, and though I was only twelve years old in that fall of 1960…
In the observation room of the spacecraft Icarus II, passengers sit on a bench in front of a large, rectangular screen displaying a view of what lies ahead. They gaze at the spectacle as you might marvel at special effects on some ostentatious plasma monitor. A seething orb of gas…
When a Hong Kong action flick comes into your grasp, what else can you expect but fast, awesome martial arts? Triad Election shattered that stereotype, making me feel like the asshole who speaks slowly and loudly to anyone who looks foreign, only to be answered with “I speak English, dumbass.”…
On one level, Who¹s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a very literate and sophisticated Jerry Springer show. George and Martha are a longtime married couple. He’s a history professor at a small New England college whose career is far less glittering than he’d once hoped it would be; she’s the…
Around the World in 80 Days. The Victorians became increasingly fascinated with stories of adventure as technological advances in travel made their world smaller and more accessible. It didn’t hurt that so much of that world map was colored an imperial red. In his famous novel Around the World in…
