Little Missy's Guide To The Two Buzz Phrases Of The Day

 

We Can Only Be Talking About Disruptive Innovation And Mindfulness!

Don't Worry, Be Happy!

 

So, who else has seen Disruptiv1 buzzing around in his Tesla up and down 280 between Palo Alto and San Francisco and who knows where else?

Disruptive Innovation at its most elegant!

Catch Disruptiv1 for Little Missy if you can, readers!  He's my dream man!  Merry Christmas, Christine!  What is Disruptive Innovation, anyway?
As I have written in these pages before, a picture tells a thousand stories.  

The Real Boston Tea Party was a force to be reckoned with!
 



Steve's iPad!   Talk about Disruptive Innovation!

 

Alexander McQueen's Highland Rape Collection was not a Highland Fling!

And when you get tired of so much genius being flung all over the place and in your face, try

Mindfulness

This is very simple...Little Missy has been preaching it all year, since she discovered how to blog!  Talk about Disruptive Innovation!
Mindful means
In the Moment
Being in the Moment
not
Of the Moment

You see, Disruptive Innovation requires you to be of the moment, right there at the right time with your creative disruption that will change the world.  Mindfulness asks you to be in the moment, to recognize that you have the choice in how you want to respond!  That the choice is yours and yours alone! In fact you cannot even begin to enjoy all the Disruptive Innovation without Mindfulness!  It's a juggling act!  The Universe it telling us to be Disruptively Innovative and In the Moment!  I mean if the time for Intuition was ever Now, this is NOW! OMG!  Little Missy is no Guru!  Just trying to make sense of things.  In the Moment, as Ever!

Letter from London
What Is An Intellectual and Truth is Beauty!

Daphne Guinness Rips Into Little Missy

It's Hard Work Being A Philosopher's Woman!*

The tiny blue lights are twinkling all over Mayfair!  It's Christmas time in my most favourite of all cities!  Yes, Little Missy is in London on business!  Going to parties and Galas, you betcha!  At the Vanity Fair party Freddie and I saw Boris Johnson's sister.  Did you know that Boris, who is Mayor of London and who went to Eton and Oxford flunked an IQ test in a radio ambush this past week?  Here were the questions that felled him:

Identify the kind of bear that might appear beside a rectangular house in which all walls faced south 

And

How many apples would would he have if he took two apples from three trees?

Boris the jovial womaniser answered to the first, a brown bear and to the second, one apple.

Wrong, Boris!  A white bear (polar, duh)! And two apples, you nitwit!  Even Little Missy answered correctly and Lord knows I'm no intellectual!  Then Boris became a bad sport and refused to answer the third question about a wind-up clock.

Well, Little Missy was walking briskly up James Street in an effort to get away from the throngs on Oxford Street.  A man selling newspapers called out to me, "You, Madam, you look like an intellectual sort of lady who might enjoy my newspaper".  Now that is cheeky.  Little Missy has received many comments over the years but no one ever said I looked like an intellectual.  

Maybe it's the new Coco Chanel bob that is throwing people!  But it got me thinking (oh shut the door)!  I spent thirty years in a family where homilies such as "truth is beauty" were considered banal and unworthy of discussion.  But Little Missy used to be considered kind of cute, and I wanted to believe it, so it seemed like the truth!  Well enough of that!  Let's talk about the stuff we want to talk about, like the Isabella Blow exhibition that is on now at Somerset House.  Isabella is a girl I used to see a lot at the shows. She was quirky and nutty and appeared entirely self-absorbed.  I didn't like her, but then I didn't really know her.  What Little Missy admires about Isabella Blow is that Isabella decided early on in Alexander McQueen's career that she was prepared to lay down her life for him.  And she did.  After a decade of collaborations which reached the heights and then the depths, she drank weed poison in her potting shed.  McQueen took his life less than three years later.  Daphne Guinness, another of Little Missy less than favourites, actually did the right thing and bought her friend Isabella's collection so that it could be shown in this exhibition, which left me reeling.  See this if you care about fashion and if you are in London in the next few months.

Well, from the sublime to the ridiculous!  It's time for Little Missy's Mail bag!  Timothy Moss from I don't know where writes in, "You seem like you are always on the road.  Do you have frequent flier miles?" Thanks for writing, Timothy, and yes indeed I do!  I recommend to all my readers with the travel bug to consolidate all credit cards to one, like United.  I am no United Airlines cheerleader, but they do have the routes!  A few years ago I did that time honoured pilgrimage that many before me have undertaken during a spiritual crisis.  That is to say I high tailed it to India, and Frequent Flier Miles helped!  And you can get them not only by flying but by using airline credit cards!   Now this one I really love.  FashionistaSausalita writes:  "Did you eat turkey at Thanksgiving?  I think it's gross."  Well, as you know since you are a proclaimed Fashionista, when in Rome, do as the Romans do.  Of course we fashionable ones always want to do the fashionable thing, and that involves eating turkey at Thanksgiving!  After my family ate our turkey dinner, we plunged into a turkey and pumpkin pie mass coma and my son Michael, who may have eaten less turkey than the rest, led us in several games of Blackjack, at which Little Missy excels!  When not in a turkey coma! So be in the moment, FashionistaSausalita!  That's it for Little Missy for now!  OMG, I am going to Dallas now for a three day celebration of Karl and Chanel!  So I will be back as soon as I can with my Dallas Report!  In the moment!

* If you don't know the story of Daphne Guinness and French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, Google it!  Little Missy thinks Daphne is certifiable!  Takes one to know one!

Little Missy's Holiday Life Style

Martha's Chicken Tortilla Soup*

So many of us are weighing in on Holiday entertaining, that Little Missy has pulled together a few tips for you too!  Straight from Palo Alto, the heart of Silicon Valley, where Little Missy grew up!  Food is the essence of holidays, and sometimes all we want is a good chicken soup.  Here is the recipe for Martha's Chicken Tortilla Soup.  When friends come to visit Little Missy, they always perk up when they hear Martha is cooking (rather than Little Missy, I'm sad to say).  The picture is not actually Martha's soup.  I got it from the Internet!

Martha's Chicken Tortilla Soup

You will need:

5 small whole, skinned and boned chicken breasts

2 onions

2 cloves garlic

6 ripe tomatoes

1/4 cup fresh cilantro

1 bay leaf

1 lemon

salt and pepper

First, boil chicken and 1/2 onion in water with garlic and salt for about 15 minutes.

Second, chop garlic and put into a skillet with oil of your choice.  Add remaining onion and tomatoes that you have chopped and sauté for 2 minutes.  Add a quart of chicken stock.

Third, cut boiled chicken into small pieces and put into skillet with chopped cilantro, 1 bay leaf and salt and cook at high heat for 10-15 minutes. Discard bay leaf and turn off heat. 

Garnish with tortilla strips that you have cut into thin slices and baked in a 400 degree oven until they are crisp, and diced avocado.  Add lemon juice.

And as for complicated guacamole, forget it!  True guacamole is simple.  But first I must relate a story of a very ambitious woman from a town in New Jersey, who was trying very hard to impress Little Missy with her culinary abilities (I'm not the right person for this trick--respectful of great cooks though I may be).  She brought over to my house her idea of the perfect guacamole--she was going to teach me how to make it!  She brought over at least 12 ingredients and some kind of special hand held food blender.  She was so proud of herself I didn't have the heart to tell her so was way off base!  That food blender is a dust catcher in one of my kitchen drawers!

Martha's Guacamole

2 avocados

juice of 1 lemon

some cilantro to taste

salt

Mash these up in a bowl and you will have the perfect guacamole.  If you are in California, only buy Casa Sanchez Thin and Light Delgados corn tortilla chips, nothing else.  The wrong chip can ruin the best guacamole!  I've seen this happen dozens of times!  Only Casa Sanchez!

That's it for Little Missy's food tips!  I'm not Julia Child, and if someone wants to come over and roast a chicken I am always very happy to set a beautiful table.  Which brings us to Little Missy's Holiday Table Tops!

When I first was married a million years ago back in the 70's, I found myself in the unique position of being hostess to my parents for the first Christmas ever!  Prior to that fateful Christmas, my mother had always been the hostess (with the mostess, I might add).  I sought to stand out, to be different from my mother.  And though I had beautiful linens and access to lovely flowers, I set a bare table with terra clay potted narcissus as centerpieces.  My holiday table looked like a page out of Simple Living.  It was really quite dismal.  My mother showed me once again her grace.  "Your table is beautiful," she said.  I wonder what she really thought. Now I bring out the antique Portuguese lace table clothes and the silver.  More is more!

Themes and Variations

I like a gold, ivory and evergreen holiday.  That means spraying magnolia leaves gold and arranging them together with white French tulips and evergreen bows.  It means ivory pleated French wired ribbon.  It means pine cones.  It means cut crystal and silver vases and containers.  It means Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole and music boxes.  I like the smell of pine, as long as it is not overbearing.  Little Missy always makes Christmas sugar cookies in the shapes of stars, trees, doves, and ginger men and women.  There is always Champagne in the fridge.

Little Missy's Anise Christmas Cookies

Cream 1 cup butter and 3/4 cup sugar until fluffy.  Beat in 1 already lightly beaten egg, and 1 1/2 teaspoons anise seed.  In a bowl, sift 1 1/2 cup white flour and 1 1/2 whole wheat flour, 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt and stir into butter mixture.  Add 1/4 cup brandy (a good one).  Roll out dough and cut with cookie cutters.  Sprinkle with cinnamon or coloured sugars.  Bake 10-12 minutes in a pre-heated 350 oven.

And remember to tell the people who mean the most to you how much you love them!

*Not Martha Stewart!



Little Missy's Best Tip

 

 

Hillary Clinton for 2016

Hands Down



Little Missy's  Rules of Etiquette 

and More Holiday Gift Ideas

 

 

Far be it from Little Missy to be discouraging, but if you don't get out there and shop soon, all the good stuff will be gone, especially the stuff I am writing about now!

 

 

Maison Michel Veil

Like this Maison Michel veil!  You will wow the true  fashionista on your list and if someone doesn't like it or thinks it's silly, you can weed them out as not genuinely fashionable.

 

 

Hafner Chardonnay

Hafner Chardonnay is Missy's favorite chardonnay, and also the favourite of the top San Francisco museums when they have their events.  Friends are always wowed by the gift packs from this family owned Healdsburg vineyard.    Call them at +707 4334606 and tell them you want what Christine Suppes gets and they will take good care of you!  A really good tip!

 

Kermit Lynch's new book

However, if  your friends, like the charming Berkeley, California wine importer and taste maker Kermit Lynch,  prefer the French and Italian varieties, Kermit's new book may be just  the ideal gift.  He was the California pioneer of the European wine market and he writes really well (he majored in creative writing at San Francisco State in the day when that meant something).

 

Alfred Dunhill Toiletries for Men

Little Missy has always preached that men need to pamper themselves with facials, massages and fabulous products.  Make sure you visit Dunhill when you go to London, gentlemen, and get yourselves pampered.  An afternoon of pampering for gentlemen at a top spot is always one of my favourite gift ideas.

 

Metro Drop Earrings by Tiffany

These earrings are very Little Missy.  Just the right amount of bling for the holidays from the best American company.  My personal jeweller says that Tiffany diamonds are the best in the business and that Tiffany is the best company around.  He knows, as he is fixing every other jeweller's emergencies every day!

 

 

Now for Little Missy's Rules of Etiquette for the Holidays

1. Don't come to a party empty handed.  Bring a candle, wine, a bunch of holly, but bring something. Don't believe your hostess when he or she says that "your presence is their presents".  It's not true.

2.  Do NOT drag out your cell phone at a party.  For heaven's sakes!  Just Don't!

3. Don't take off your shoes.  Even if your feet are killing you.  Make preparations ahead of time, but don't go barefoot.

4. Don't chew gum or offer it to anyone.

5. Don't talk about your problems at the party.

6. If you know a good joke and can tell it, then do.  But not an off colour one.

Well, the season is starting to get under way!  There will be more Little Missy thoughts and tips, and I hope this has inspired you!  In the moment! 

 

 

 

 

Little Missy's Holiday List

or The Early Bird Catches The Worm!

Part One

 

Rodarte Jewelry

 

It's never too early to start your holiday shopping!  You can choose to forget the holidays which is curmudgeonly but completely understandable, given the frantic nature of the season.  Once or twice there has been the holiday season when even Little Missy thought and failed to take the spiritual path (make that pass), and pretend that the commercial aspect was beneath the challenge.  To JackSprat1, who writes in "Sorry Missy, Tesla is in Palo Alto, not Paris, and is not a clothes designer" I say to you Jack, you're right!  Tesla IS a car company and I think it would make a darned good Christmas gift.

Tesla

 

Now Tesla is a really nice Christmas present!  So is Rodarte's barbed wire jewelry, or their tie dye shirts , all of which will be supreme fashion collector's items.

 

Rodarte Tie Dye Shirt

 

 

Hermes Yak Shawl

 

Little Missy loves her Hermes Yak shawl and this would make a wonderful Christmas present.  The image isn't too good, but you know those French, their je ne sais quois never involved the Internet, and this is Hermes' official representation!

 

Anna Karenina A Fashion Primer

Little Missy Says All Children Must Read This Book!

This genius book (for children and their parents and everyone)! breaks down the most important part of Anna Karenina, the STYLE of Anna's CLOTHES!

 

Turnbull and Asser Pyjamas

There is something very manly about a man in his pyjamas when they are the right pyjamas that Little Missy can not resist! Yes, gentlemen, these are the right pyjamas!  They are always on my list for the men on my list!

 

Well, that's it for this time, but don't you dare think we have finished with Little Missy's Holiday List, we have only scratched the surface!  So be in the moment, even if that means being kind of early!  Laughing Out Loud, Little Missy Contradicts herself as usual!

 

 

News of the World and Little Missy's Reading Round Up

 

The Royal Christening and Two Groovy Uncles!

That little Prince George sure has two groovy looking uncles.  Prince Harry we know all about, but this other one, Uncle James with the beard looks to be a groovy contender as well.  And isn't he in the party planning business with social butterfly little sister Pippa and his parents?  These guys will be jamming out the best parties on the planet!  This little Prince George does not have a chance to be an old bore.  Hopefully Kensington Palace will be Party Central and London will live up to its old name Swinging London!  And Sarah Burton can keep on banging out fabulous creations for Mamaquin Kate to model!  Well done, Windsors and Middletons!  Little Missy approves!

 

Kanye Rents Out AT&T Park to Propose to Kim Kardashian!

You hit this one out of the ballpark, Kanye!  The San Francisco Giants rock and so do you!

 

George Lucas Gets Honoured by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art!

George Lucas with Alyssa Fung and Little Missy, photographed by Frederic Aranda

 

 

Yes, the Star Wars Wizard himself picked up a Bay Area Treasure award, bestowed annually by SFMOMA to a living legend in the arts who was born or who has worked in the Bay Area.  Joni Binder, President Emeritus of Modern Art Council of which Little Missy is a proud member, worked tirelessly for two and a half years to make this stellar night happen.  Good work Joni!  Congratulations, George!  You changed everything in motion pictures and no one deserves this award more than you. And yes, the dress I am wearing is Rodarte!

 

Joni Binder with husband Robert Shwarts. Joni's wearing Rodarte, too!

 

 

 

Well that's it for News of the world!  Let's go to Reading Round Up!  I'm calling this one Little Missy's Must Reads for the Educated Fashionista.  There are a ton of books out there so  let's not be boring.  I will just cut to the chase and tell you three ones that are not necessarily fashion reads but will put you that much more in the know about fashion.

 

Dior by Dior

Some people think it started with Chanel.  Some people think it started with Balenciaga.  Some people think it started with Yves Saint Laurent.  Personally, I believe it started with a caveman killing a leopard and presenting it to his cave woman, who fashioned the skin into a sarong.  Little Missy loves animals, but almost surely what I have just described is  the start of haute couture.  And then there is Christian Dior.  This little book, Dior by Dior, is the most profound book I have ever read on the subject of fashion.   This man's genius and humanity shines through every page, and his modesty is a virtue a few of today's designers could incorporate into their megalomaniac personas.

 

All We Know by Lisa Cohen is a book of genius, a biography at the highest level of the discipline.  The lives of three woman, all as nutty as fruitcakes and utterly compelling spring forth and the reader compulsively turns the page.  One woman is a tour de force of eighteenth and nineteenth century intellectual history (Little Missy's great love, BTW) who cannot commit a single brilliant thought to paper.  One is a stalker of Greta Garbo and one was the first editor of British Vogue.  Trust me and read this book!  You will be more fashionable when you have finished it.

A great read

 

Finally, it's one of the sadder books I have read, but I must recommend Alone Together by Teddy Getty Gaston.  This is also a compulsive page turner.  Teddy was John Paul Getty's last wife, and this is Teddy's compelling story of life with the difficult and complicated Getty. Teddy is a generation or two removed from Little Missy, and is more forgiving in her tone, and when you read what John Paul Getty was like as a husband and father, you will not be as forgiving!  You must remember that this was a different time and era, the Stork Club!  World War II!  Cigarettes and cocktails and debutantes and love affairs.  The whole nine yards.  It is a bird's eye view of what it was like to live with a man like John Paul Getty.  Obviously, nearly impossible!  Little Missy says get this book!  You will not be disappointed.  Maybe a little sad, but what a read!

Little Missy's idea of a good read

 

Well, that's it for Little Missy for this week!  Happy Halloween!  Be in the moment since the possibilities are just so endless!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

Gericault or Jericho?

You Be The Judge!

 

Frederic Aranda, Edelweiss October 2013

The Raft of the Medusa by Gericault

Fashion was getting so boring even Little Missy was about to give up!  Then along came Frederic Aranda and now fashion is fun again! Here are some pictures from an epic shoot this past August in Tokyo that Freddie did for Edelweiss Magazine!  Brodie Reynolds is an innocent and intelligent man caught up in several situations where he is about to be taken advantage of!  Of course in real life this never happens, does it!  And Little Missy is the good Fairy, there to help point the way from all things Evil!

Frederic Aranda for Edelweiss, October 2013

This is the way fashion will be from now on.  Epic.  And not one minute too soon!

Frederic Aranda for Edelweiss, October 2013

 

And Prophetic! Now for Little Missy's Mail Bag

Dear Little Missy, I always look forward to your blog posts.  Your posts are a surplus value to our blogger community of fashion and culture.  Hmmmm, this one sounds a bit fishy!  I think it was from a reader trying to pull my leg!  Because as we all know, Little Missy likes to go out on a limb, and reel in the wrath.  Like this email, for instance, from Robopuck.  Dear Christine, writes Robopuck, You are an authority on nothing, and nothing is your authority. Hmmm, Robopuck, you are sounding a bit like Gertrude Stein!  Did you know that Gertrude Stein's brother Michael and his wife Sarah lived right around the corner from Little Missy after they gave up life in Paris for the delights of Palo Alto?  Robopuck, I know who you are and how much you love French culture, so I know you'll enjoy that tidbit!

It's wonderful to be sharing these photographs with you.  The shoot was so much fun!  I wish you all could have been there with us!   

Epic and alive and in the moment!



Little Missy Gets Iconic On Rue Cambon
 Chic Chic Chic!

Little Missy Would Make A Good Nun And You All Know It!

Photograph by Frederic Aranda in London, 2012

 

 Yes, it was Fashion Week,  not Little Missy's favourite Fashion Week (that would be Haute Couture), but a very good one!  Having been to the Chanel show earlier in the morning, the urge to visit 31 rue Cambon, the inevitable Pavlovian Little Missy response to any and all things Chanel, flung itself into my conscious (what there is of it).  A burgundy sequined bag, big enough for the stuff one needs at night, a credit card, some bills, ID as we like to go to those downtown hot spots that require it, lipstick, cell phone and eyeglasses.  It adds up. So, off I go.  Well well, I am in good company, it seems.  Half the fashion world I know is assembled at Mademoiselle's apartment entrance next door for that rare little tour which is given to clients during fashion week.  "You look marvellous, darling, come along".  Well yes I will admit Little Missy might look marvellous to the Chanel crowd as I am head to toe in the latest that they have, a walking advert.  "Come along Christine, you've seen it a gazillion times but see it again.  It's fun and we can gossip", says Madame A.  So Little Missy goes on the tour of Coco Chanel's apartment at which Coco did not sleep (she really lived at the Ritz).
The Tour!
First we look at the Haute Couture and Little Missy gazes affectionately at the silver embroidered flapper dress she saw last summer, wondering who ordered it.  Then, looking around at our little assembled tour, including a young beauty from  Napa Valley (yes, Little Missy is surprised not to be in the know who she is, too)  it dawns on me that maybe no one has ordered it.  Or maybe six clients have.  It is a mystery, like the interlocking CCs on the light posts in Marylebone, London (Little Missy's favourite ever neighbourhood).  Did the Duke of Westminster put them there when he and Coco were having an affair?  I think he must have! What a tribute!  What a woman!  Then we walk upstairs.  There is a kind of rumbling and of course being from California I think at first it is an earthquake!  Or that maybe Karl has dropped by!  But OMG, the Russian Icon that Stravinsky gave Coco almost falls from its perch onto my head.  Little Missy may not lean so much to the Ecclesiastical interpretation, but goodness, is this some kind of message? That Karl is Not God and Coco is his mother?   Being the Chanel crowd, we laugh it off and then hear the story about Hubert de Givenchy visiting the apartment and as he is so tall, he knocks a crystal off the chandelier.  Then there is a tedious part about a frog and good luck and long life and all of that, but Little Missy is not going to bore you with it.
I will tell you this: the Chanel crowd likes to call that sunny spot for shady characters Monte Karl.  Those of you who are still reading this can pat yourselves on the backs, because really, that is a good one!

The Denouement (not to be confused with Deneuve)!

And did Little Missy get her burgundy sequined evening bag?  Maybe if I had gotten conked out by the icon, things would have been different...

News from Around the World!

Latest Breaking News and Commentary by Yours Truly Little Missy!

The Boss is in Rio!  Yes, Bruce Springsteen, the 64 year old Boss bared his abs to the world and here is his picture

You Rock, Bruce!

Thirty years ago Little Missy's Little Missy Lexi saw Bruce Springsteen on MTV and asked me quote, "Is he one of those dead rockers?"  No, honey, he was just rock star scrawny in those days but now look at him!  Buff Bruce, way to go!  Little Missy wonders if this gun is still for hire?

Kim Kardashian wants to look like Sarah Jessica Parker!

Apparently Kim is obsessed with fashion icon Sarah Jessica and is trying to imitate her look!



But it's not working!

Oh please Kim, go away!  We are tired of you!

Apparently some of my readers did Not Like my book choices (see Little Missy's Reading Round Up)!

I stand by my decision to have included Crazy Rich Asians in my readers' beach bags!  It was a major read and a very important sociological study by a brilliant writer, Kevin Kwan. If you wanted to read something depressing, there was always the front page of the morning paper!  If you want to laugh and meet some new friends, read Crazy Rich Rich Asians. I'm waiting for the movie! 

John Lone can play Nick Young's father, Philip!  John, you don't think you're going to be playing Nick, do you?

Well, that's it for News of the World!  Time now for Little Missy's Mailbag!

This one is a good one!  Dear Little Missy writes someone who still has an AOL address, Dear Little Missy, if  you think you are so great with all your parties and galas and lame ideas regarding art and literature, why do you live in San Francisco?  If you were really so great, you'd be in Los Angeles or New York, not a second rate provincial town.

OK JRK, or whatever your name is, obviously not JFK or you wouldn't be such a moron! I don't know where you live and you were too cowardly to say, so I'm assuming you aren't from around here, i.e. Northern California.  I'll tell you a little story, Mr. JRK (and I'm assuming you are a man). Tonight I hired a driver to drive me up from Palo Alto to San Francisco in a brand new Tesla, which by the way is a Palo Alto company.  I could have driven myself, but I wanted to text back and forth with a colleague on a project which has a deadline.  Oooooo yes, even Little Missy has a deadline now and again.  Anyway, I was being driven in this fantastic car on Interstate 280, just about the most beautiful freeway in the world, going up to one of the most beautiful cities in the world to a fantastic party given by the Modern Art Council of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Jacqueline Sacks to honor just about the most famous living movie director, George Lucas.  What were you doing tonight, Mr. JRK? 

Well, that's it for Little Missy!  I'm off to the Paris shows. When my jets run out of fuel I'll be home.  And then I'll sign up for a Tesla!  Going Electric!  Hello!

Little Missy Loves Rodarte Spring 2014!

Ultra Special Report with Images by Little Little Missy!

Rodarte Spring 2014 Photo by Lexi Suppes

OMG!  Kate and Laura have recalled Little Missy's first fashion God, Yves Saint Laurent, in their breakthrough Los Angeles meets Saint Tropez meets indisputably cool show today.  Held in New York's Chelsea gallery district, this show rocked.  Not for the faint of heart, i.e. critics who only want simple, boring clothes in the coming season.
Where to begin?  Do you like fringe?  You better!  It's all about fringe, leopard, bra tops, faux leather, sparkle, Coachella short shorts, an illusion net scorpion embroidered dress.  Better have good abs!  We are talking bare midriff to the max.   Was this a Little Missy type show?  Yes indeed!  LA rocks, it has always rocked, it will always rock! We love the Troubadour on Santa Monica Boulevard, The Byrds, we love Guns N' Roses, we love The Doors.  Jim Morrison forever!  We are the trendsetters, it's a fact that cannot be denied!  And pictures speak a thousand words!  And that means videos speak a million words!  So check out Lexi's (aka Little Little Missy) video, and see all that there is to love!  Lexi is more than a psychologist!  She is a fashion videographer! Here is her exclusive video!  Enjoy and in the moment, love, Little Missy and Little Little Missy

The Readers Have Spoken!  The Results Are In For

Who Will Take Over For Karl

 

No, Not This Mark!

 

Yes, it is true, Little Missy DID try to steer her flock in a different direction, but respects Democracy with a capital D.  Thank God for democracy in all its forms.  Without it we could have been communists or even worse, fascists and communists! So the readers have spoken, and they want Marc Jacobs to take over for Karl.  Here's how the candidates polled

1. Marc Jacobs

2. Rodarte

3. Kanye West

4. Alexander Wang

 

And then there were write ins for Haider Ackerman, Hedi Slimane (Good God, we need some more fashion education here, Missy is obviously failing at her task-- did you see YSL Fall 2013???  --seriously bad, Hedi!), and a couple for our beloved Alber Ebaz.  Tom Ford didn't even make the radar, so Missy has made some inroads somewhere! 

 

Bill Gates In His Day

 

Now let's talk about the new dialogue!  Who do you agree with, Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg?  Bill feels that that babies in Africa who are dying of diarrhoea are the pivotal issue of the day.  Who can disagree?  Not Little Missy! None of us!  Of course, Bill, we are all totally with  you on that one hundred percent!  But Mark and Facebook feel that it is pivotal to get Internet in the 70 % of the world that does not have it!  That there is No Going Back, and darn it He Is Right TOO!  This reminds Little Missy of her old days, of holding little soirees on the Stanford campus, and one of my favourites of all time was Amartya Sen, a Nobel Laureate and the Father of Welfare Economics. Illuminate his link, and find out who this genius is!  Yes, Little Missy was a Stanford University Hostess!   And Amartya was my most beloved academic ever.  And Amartya said that without Democracy, China had famines!  That India avoided famines because they had democracy!  And that means Freedom of Speech!  And of the Press!  Which is also why we Are able to have this blogging world today! Have you ever been to Saudi Arabia?  Don't try to blog there!  Because you won't be able to!  So Little Missy is beginning to think that Mark Zuckerberg is thinking along the lines of Amartya Sen! Without global communication we are really sunk!  I think Mark Zuckerberg has a case!  Even if he is not the most fashion forward! OMG, I am comparing Mark Zuckerberg with Amartya Sen!  Kind of!  They think alike!  Verbally Globally!  Little Missy wishes Bill Gates all good wishes and honors his commitment to humanity.  And wishes success to Mark and Facebook too!

 

 

Sadly It's Safe To Say There Will Never be Another Like This One 











 

 

 

Ten Little Things That Can Change Your Fashion Life

 Stop Worrying and Go For It

Photo by Frederic Aranda Hyde Park, London

 

 

    Ten Little Things That Can Change Your Fashion Life

 

Black nail polish on toes and hands

 

Stop obsessing about your hair. If it’s long, put it into a ponytail and then stick a twig into it.

 

Wear that precious Armani or Chanel or whatever frock at eight in the morning, and when you buy your orange juice and English muffins and the rest of your groceries you will finally earn some respect.

 

Cut your hair if you are bored.

 

Move to London.  When you are tired of London you are tired of life.  Hello!  Or Shanghai!

 

Take up snorkeling

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Pay attention to the animal kingdom and stop wearing them.

 

Fresh flowers are more important than bread.

 

Sorry to say this but hair spray really does matter.

 

Who cares what any one thinks about your look?  Just go for it!

 

 

 

Readers' Poll---Who Could Take Over For Karl?

 

The Divine Karl

 

Since no one can take over for Karl, Little Missy reaches out to her readers, especially in the States, Canada, the UK, Europe and Asia! One day we will have to face the music.  Who will it be?

 



Marc Jacobs

Pros of Marc Jacobs:  Gives all women a break, especially and including older women.

Cons:  Lost his edge (in rehab???)

 

Alexander Wang

 

There is Alexander Wang in the women's bathroom of the Metropolitan Museum a couple of years ago (The Met Gala for McQueen).  I didn't see Karl in the women's bathroom.

 

Rodarte

 



Pros of Rodarte:  They know what they are doing and will turn Chanel into a fashion art phenomenon.

Cons of Rodarte:  They would have to spend less time in California and Little Missy would go berserk.

 

 

Kanye West

 



This is a no-brainer!  Kanye would be perfect!  OMG Why hasn't someone thought of this sooner?

 

 

 

 

Well, that's it!  Vote for one of the candidates or write in your choice!  Who can take over Chanel?  Since we know it is nearly impossible!