http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/ The latest ultra-cool shopping picks in design, fashion, and beauty. en-US Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.typepad.com/ http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/05/a-star-is-born.html http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/05/a-star-is-born.html The just-launched website pinkstarshop.com is so new that its inventory is still pretty thin, but what it does have is absolutely worth scoping out. From Society for Rational Dress, for example, there's this inspired take on the LBD. It's minimalist,... Lucky Magazine Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/05/color-theory.html http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/05/color-theory.html Were it in any other palette, I might have skipped over this dress. Its lines are really clean and soft, maybe even to the point of plain—or at least easy to miss in a crowd. But when you combine the... Lucky Magazine Thu, 15 May 2008 09:20:32 -0400 http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/05/sales-made-simp.html http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/05/sales-made-simp.html There are few things that make me happier than a bargain, so when I see something I love online, I tend to wait and stalk it compulsively until it finally goes on sale—good for the wallet, bad for time management.... Lucky Magazine Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/05/summer-loving.html http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/05/summer-loving.html This C&C California tank top sums up everything I feel like wearing lately. Because it's made out of silk, it's cool and light, and the splotchy ash-hued tie-dye print has an elegantly bohemian vibe. Though the fit is fairly loose... Lucky Magazine Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/05/great-pretender.html http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/05/great-pretender.html My desire for this object is nowhere near being grounded in reality, because not only do I not have $5000 lying around to blow on something like this, I would not have anyplace to put it. But if I did,... Lucky Magazine Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/05/bikini-topper.html http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/05/bikini-topper.html Milly is making what might very well be the coolest, prettiest beach cover-up on the planet. You've got to enlarge the photo on Bergdorf Goodman's website to appreciate it fully. It's made of lacy crocheted white cotton, which is actually... Lucky Magazine Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/05/yes-on-frills.html http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/05/yes-on-frills.html I'd be the last to guess that I'd gravitate to a top that's both ruffled and ruched—too fussy, right?—but I'm here to tell you that I have. Somehow in the case of this Y-3 racerback top the combination really works.... Lucky Magazine Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/05/two-of-a-kind.html http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/05/two-of-a-kind.html I was immediately drawn to this sweater I saw on the website for the L.A. boutique Seaton, probably because it has pretty much the exact same shape as my favorite can't-take-it-off American Apparel sweatshirt. This would make an excellent alternative... Lucky Magazine Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/05/go-long.html http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/05/go-long.html I'm a big fan of the long summer dress, especially when it's worn really casually, like with leather flip-flops and windswept hair. The look is incredibly glamorous and actually really easy to pull off, though obviously tracking down the right... Lucky Magazine Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/05/tech-i-support.html http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/05/tech-i-support.html Paper shredders are the sort of thing that everyone could and should use but no one ever really wants to buy, largely because they're usually blah-looking and take up way too much space. A friend just asked me for a... Lucky Magazine Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/05/two-in-one.html http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/05/two-in-one.html Lucky's editorial assistant Alexandra Willinger, who has that undone-cool thing down pat, discovered the following Rory Beca dress—and as usual, she's on to something. There are actually two articles of clothing at work here: an outer tank that you can... Lucky Magazine Fri, 02 May 2008 00:06:09 -0400 http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/05/instant-french.html http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/05/instant-french.html To get out of my cashmere cardigan rut, I've been looking for a little cape to wear instead. I finally found a strong contender by A.P.C., a knit version with a double row of buttons down the front that make... Lucky Magazine Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/04/shorts-fans.html http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/04/shorts-fans.html For those of you who didn't act fast enough to get a pair of those navy cotton In God We Trust shorts before they completely sold out, here's a second chance at another really cute and similar pair. In this... Lucky Magazine Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/04/morning-coffee.html http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/04/morning-coffee.html I'm kind of terrified of boiling-hot liquids, a fear that resurfaces with every trip to Starbucks. I like the coffee (especially the new, much-hyped-but-indeed-delicious Pike Place blend), but the temperature at which they serve it seems, to me at least,... Lucky Magazine Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/04/top-hat.html http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/04/top-hat.html Hats, much like jewelry was for me until only recently, are the type of thing that I often admire on others but for whatever reason have always avoided wearing myself. But since I've been trying to walk everywhere lately (not... Lucky Magazine Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/04/footwear-fetish.html http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/04/footwear-fetish.html Devotte makes the kind of shoes that people inevitably stop you on the street to ask you about. The silhouettes are different than anything else out there, and the color combinations are just as striking. You can also always count... Lucky Magazine Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/04/short-supply.html http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/04/short-supply.html In the summer, at least in my free wear-whatever-I-want time, I find that shorts are all I ever feel like putting on. It gets so hot in New York City—that sticky, nasty humid kind of hot which basically means fewer... Lucky Magazine Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/04/trick-or-treat.html http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/04/trick-or-treat.html I can already see how this Mociun tee might be a polarizing, love-it-or-hate-it type of thing, but I am definitely in the love-it camp. Though I'm beyond sick of the skull-and-crossbones trend, somehow having a rib cage screen-printed on a... Lucky Magazine Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:40:16 -0400 http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/04/yes-its-another.html http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/04/yes-its-another.html I know: I'm slightly obsessed. But I can't help but share this one I found at Cole Haan. The combination of white patent leather and silver piping comes across as both futuristic and sporty, two qualities I don't typically strive... Lucky Magazine Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/04/stumbling-on-ha.html http://www.luckymag.com/shopping/blogs/shop/2008/04/stumbling-on-ha.html On a mission to find a nice-looking lidded hamper that doesn't take up too much space (harder to track down than you might think), I wound up combing the aisles at Bed Bath & Beyond. Feeling a bit dejected after... Lucky Magazine Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400