Kate Spade & Keds Collaboration

22 Thursday Nov 2012

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Exciting collaboration news about one of my favorite designers this month! Kate Spade NY has partnered with Keds to design a line of sneakers in the signature Keds shape featuring Kate Spade prints. Keds are all grown up now and far from the little white shoe standard from my childhood cheerleading stunts – this is exciting!

This cute collaboration will be sold at Kate Spade stores, Nordstrom, and on Nordstrom.com starting February 2013. Lucky for us, the price points will be much lower than the Kate Spade NY designer line. I’ve certainly got my eye on those classic Kate Spade polka dotted and pink pairs! Which are your favorite?

In the meantime, here’s my favorite Kate Spade NY shoes available now… SEE HERE

Closet Coveting

11 Thursday Oct 2012

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Ah to dream! Pinterest is really really good at inspiring my creative side, but very very bad when it comes to making me want to spend a whole month’s salary (or more!!!) on creating some of the glorious things I see! For instance, the closets on Pinterest are incredible, whether they’re sets off movies, or actual closets (ah what a dream!), I’ve yet to come across one that is any less than somehow perfect. And all the incredible clothing…and don’t you dare forget the shoes! I tell you, Pinterest has a love for shoes – or rather those I follow really do (and so do I! You do too? Follow my shoe board: Made for Walkin’) Although I won’t actually spend crazy amounts of money on making my closet looking this fabulous, I will take hints from the style design and implement it at home for a fraction of the cost! I tell you it is nice to dream though, wouldn’t you agree?

Seating is definitely a do for my dream closet!

Don’t tell me you wouldn’t love this to be yours?

This could so be my closet – look at all that black! Feel at home here for sure!

The warmth from this room makes me feel like it’s somewhere I’d like to spend a lot of time in!

Chandelier? Yes please!

What I’d love to have in my dream closet:

- Light and Airy: mostly in white with bits of pink

- Grand sparkling chandelier

- Multiple seating options – maybe a chaise lounge and a comfy chair – this way my friends can spend time with me in there too!

- Bookcase style shoe housing – that’s one I could easily (and cost effectively!) implement now.

- Open space…not too many cabinets or doors to cover up my clothing. Like Carrie in Sex in the City said, “I like my money where I can see it; hanging in my closet.”

- And who could forget all the designer clothes, handbags, oh and shoes!

Thanks Pinterest for all the glorious dream closet photos!

What does your dream closet look like?

xo, Kate

Over-the-Knee vs. Over-the-Top

11 Wednesday Jan 2012

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One of the biggest trends both on and off the runway for Fall/Winter 11/12 has been wearing very tall boots. I’m talking, platforms, stilettos, and laced up over your knee sort of tall. When I saw this trend was gaining momentum again, my first thoughts were something along the lines of ‘great, now there’s going to be a bunch of girls running around in micro-mini’s and knee high or over the knee boots looking like (let’s be nice here…) ‘street-walkers’”. Yes, it’s true….over the knee boots are sexy – by nature they are. But wearing them doesn’t mean you have to pair it with an ultra sexy mini-dress.

I’d like to think that in order to style the knee high and over the knee boots properly you need to balance your ‘sexy vs. safe’…where in you need to decide if it’s just ‘over-the-knee vs. over-the-top“. The best ways to try out the look are as follows: