Posts Tagged ‘juli’s favs’

A quick update on my last fav’s.  So yes, Erin and I decided to take the plunge and got our iPod Touch pretties.  Now the rationalization, because there always has to be a rationalization, is it keeps us in sync with our calendars and email.  Which is actually worth it’s weight in gold.  But, oh there are so many fun other things we can accomplish and find at the touch of the magic screen.  I am obsessed.

But actually my next fav is shockingly …  wait for it …  Gap.  I know you will scream and shout and say, she is definitely off her rocker.  Their product is inconsistent, ill-fitting, etc.  Yes, I will agree, starting about 1998, they started to lose it.  Pandering to trends and forgoing their classics, with extremely inconsistent seasons.  So many times I have tried to go into a Gap store and not found anything worth spending three dollars on, which is what happened to most of their clothes (they ended up on the clearance rack).  The interesting thing for me though, is that I was quite willing to pay full price for a classic, which is the main reason I would go in there.  And I can’t tell you how frustrating it is to have the money to actually purchase something, the time to find it, and walk into a store expecting to be able to find those perfect black pants, and come up with nothing.  Absolutely NOTHING.  

Reading through my fabulous VOGUE with Sarah Jessica on the front, I discovered that Gap has brought on not only a new lead designer, but an actual legitimate designer and this season is the first with his input, basically he edited this season, for the next season I expect to see the full glory of his genius.  But it does make me feel a little nervous.  Kind of like my husband who is excited about the Bull’s first round draft pick, he has high hopes, but doesn’t know if they will pull off the championship.  I hope Patrick Robinson can live up to the hype and bring the american classics back up to the level we have expected from the Gap in years previous.

Kohler.

They make you forget they are selling faucets, but rather investing in a work of art. All of the sudden it is a must have, high-end seeming product.

Never do they mention affordable art, because at that point it cheapens the product. Instead, they pull it off as high-end, but the sheer number of ads they have in magazines and on TV betray the idea that they are in fact marketing for the general populace.

The picture on the right is a brilliant piece of advertising. Of course, I am trying to figure out where to put a Kohler faucet in my already finished house. I feel as if I need one to be the chic, downtown urbanite I claim to be.