01.Nov.2009 Reading
I’m on a new diet. Every day I wake up to an hour at the gym, down matcha green tea and fresh fruit for breakfast, and eat VeginOut delivered meals for lunch and dinner — except Sunday.
On the lord’s day, while in Giuseppe blue satin slippers and Marlies Dekkers panties, I consume a bag of Uncle Eddies vegan cookies and flip through Helmut Newton’s Playboy photography.
The key is to eat the cookies until you feel sick, and to stare at Helmut Newton’s photos until those shots of long models’ legs begin to slice the “sur” out of “surreal.” Like Newton’s play of gleaming glam and subconscious camp, it’s all about balance.
And Oscar Wilde said moderation is fatal thing…
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26.Oct.2009 Using
I used to suck down seven soy lattes a day and snort lines of espresso grinds around midnight — sleep was a waste of time.
Then I discovered matcha green tea. A premium powder of ground-up green tea leaves, matcha is higher in antioxidants than regular green tea, and whisking matcha and boiling water into a cup of jade froth makes for a better a.m. ceremony than whining in line at Starbucks.
Le Palais Gourmet matcha green tea is especially fine. When you open its canister, the bright green powder smells like an idealized version of a spring morning: sweet and alive.
Which is lovely. But the best part?
Matcha green tea gives you a higher, smoother buzz.
“Sleeping” is always better as a euphemism…
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09.Oct.2009 Hating
How nouveau douche is a brand new, historically accurate family crest signet ring, dahling…
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27.Aug.2009 Using
I don’t smoke — or drink. Or dance — but I hate having hotel matches lying around for candle lighting (or, worse, one of those red BBQ “torches” from CVS).
Elegant in the economy of its lines, this Porsche Design PD5 lighter looks so lush on my nightstand, next an equally minimalist Jimmyjane massage candle…
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27.Aug.2009 Wanting
With a predilection for petite Hermes “Kelly Danse” bags, matcha tea ceremony, and Porsche Design anything, the Japanese in me is coming out.
I’ve been toying with my 911 — a purring custom exhaust thanks to Magnaflow, a platinum hood emblem replacing the classic gold crest — and now I want to store this Porsche umbrella in my car.
Designed to tuck into the driver’s-side cubby of a Carrera, this Porsche Design umbrella is the closest I’ll come to having a driver hand me that custom Rolls Royce Phantom umbrella — for now…
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29.Jul.2009
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How’s this for a trip back to the future: Gresso is a Russian luxury company that pimps limited-edition gadgets that sell for twice your mortgage payment, before you hit the fine print. So it’s Dorian Gray of me to want a USB flash drive crafted out of 200 year-old African blackwood and diamonds — at least this Gresso “Labyrinth” USB flash drive has a memory of 192GB… |
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Made of African red- or blackwood, 18K gold, and a ruby or diamond that pulses with LED light, the coolest part of this Gresso “Pandora” USB flash drive is that its 64GB memory is protected with a fingerprint-scanning detector… |
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There’s a balance between form and function, and this Gresso “New Years” USB flash drive is tipped. It’s as absurdly luxurious as the other Gresso USB flash drives, only its use of 200 year-old Royal Mahogany wood isn’t matched by equally exceptional technology… |
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22.Jul.2009
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Camera-crafter Leica has history as an innovator, and still Leica digital cameras are built with weight, unlike most throwaway, plastic-brick digicams. And by “weight,” I mean price — this Leica digicam weighs in at $5,995. You were going to skip paying your mortgage anyway… |
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My little bro’s the photographer, but I can’t take a bad photo with this Leica digicam. Mostly because I’m in every photo — yep, I’m a middle child! — and I’m hot. Bah-dump chhhh… |
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Why the hate? Because this Leica digicam isn’t mine — yet… |
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14.Jul.2009
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Backup, backup, backup. My whole life is in my Macbook, so I back up everything onsite and off. LaCie makes sexy hard drives that sit pretty on your desktop, and I love the matte black of this LaCie Monolithic hard drive… |
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I’m a sucker for Porsche design. I adore my Carrera’s classic clean lines, and this LaCie Porsche hard drive has the same elegance of economy… |
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I like the unusual design of this LaCie Golden Disc hard drive, but the waves of mirror gold is a little Lady Gaga for me… |
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01.May.2009
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I’ve never been into iPhone condoms — the sex appeal of the iPhone is its sophisticated simplicity — I like it raw. But then I saw these Lapàporter iPhone sleeves, which echo the elegance of the economy of the super-smart phone’s design: a simple sliver of skin becomes extra choice as the shape highlights a rich python… |
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I love that Bottega-like basketweave. Bags are a last resort for me, so this Lapàporter iPhone sleeve is great — I can slip a credit card in here for a quickie. Errand… |
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We just chatted about how choice rich minimalism is, and here’s a useless bow… |
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23.Apr.2009
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Call it a Baracuta, a Harrington, a G9… A James Bond jacket is a James Bond jacket is a James Bond jacket. Worn by McQueen and Sinatra, these jackets are classic menswear, and I love it in a limited-edition leather. Work it over a pencil skirt… |
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A cashmere-blend Baracuta G9 is perfect paired with a Jackie K shift dress, though it’s so hot in LA I’ve gone back to sitting at my desk in just heels… |
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I never wear patterns — something about them feels too obvious. Besides that, the whole point of a G9 is its minimalism, and a fat plaid distracts… |
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