Little Missy's Summer Reading Round Up

Three Books Spell It All Out for Summer 2013

 

OMG The Book of the Summer!

 

Run to your computer and get Crazy Rich Asians.  Little Missy promises you will absolutely go berserk it is so good.  Astrid the fashion icon, Nick the perfect guy, Charlie the martyr, and Rachel the goodie goodie from Cupertino!  And these were just my favourite characters!  It's just gossip gossip gossip about people, places and stuff you already know, packaged together by the latter day Truman Capote of Singapore, Kevin Kwan who I cannot wait to meet!  And if you don't know about this stuff, it's time you learn, and Kevin Kwan's crash course is delicious from start to finish!  It is just a non stop page turner.  Little Missy is not one to destroy my readers' pleasure so I am not going to write one more word. Just take it from Little Missy, get this book!  I just can't believe that Kevin Kwan hasn't been sued, it is so true to life. Anyway, we all know it's better to have people say catty stuff about us than No stuff about us at all!  And Kevin Kwan is quite the catty scribe!

 

 

Adam & Yves for the Fashionista's Fashionista

 

 

If you get fashion, by that I mean really get it and don't need a history lesson or a brush up on repartee, may I suggest Gladys Perint Palmer's divine Adam  & Yves.  Filled with Gladys' delicate and on the mark illustrations, both artist and writer bring the fashion world alive from the front row perspective.  Gladys does not suffer fools gladly (gladly Gladys does not suffer fools because I have had the pleasure of attending quite a few shows with her over the years and she is one who absolutely gets it).  After you read this book you will feel so chic and so in the know that you won't even want to put it on your coffee table.  No, Little Missy puts her copy on her chaise lounge in her bedroom so she can peruse it languidly in the languishing Palo Alto summer afternoons.  When I am in town!

 

 





The Great Gatsby

 

Read The Great Gatsby for heaven's sake!  Or re-read it for the umpteenth time like Little Missy!  Because this is the future of fashion, why Karl sent modern day flapper girls down his runway this summer and why Little Missy cut her hair into a Flapper Bob!  For goodness sake, it is the strongest fashion statement in years!  Since the hippies, practically!  So go back and re-read the book!  F. Scott Fitzgerald!

 

Well, that is it for Little Missy's Summer Reading Round Up!  There is only one more thing I will pass along, and don't tell anyone because this is gossip straight from the eyes of Little Missy!  Guess who I saw walking into Tony Blair's house on Connaught Square earlier this month when I was walking to take a hot chocolate at Cocomaya with Livia Stoianova?  Wendi Deng, the soon to be former Mrs. Rupert Murdoch!  Yes!  It's GOOD to have friends in high places!  Like Connaught Square.  Or Jackson Hole, Wyoming!  High altitudes are what it's all about.  High High Haute!  May your August be sizzling!  Or as my friend Cameron Silver would say Shizzling!

Haute Couture Week, the Stones at Hyde Park and a Win for England!

Kate Moss Not Cool Enough for Glastonbury?  Excuse Me?

 

Kate Moss sure looked hot a few days ago

 

What is wrong with the world? Kate Moss "stuck out like a sore thumb" because she didn't

 have the right dance moves for Electro fans at Glastonbury?  Because Daisy and Cara and Poppy and Pippi and all those other non-starter nobodies from Chelsea said so? No, no, and no.  Big Little Missy NO NO!  Before we even begin to launch into Little Missy's Couture Report, we must straighten  out this little problem.  Kate rocks, and she was rocking with Prince Harry on July 1st and she can rock it wherever she pleases and it is Not the end of an era!  No one rocks it like Kate.  Ask any respectable designer who he or she would want to see in their clothes and excuse me, they all say the same thing: Kate Moss.

OK, we are done with that, now for those of you who were kind enough to "like" a certain portrait of a lady taking a bubble bath whilst sipping champagne which Little Missy posted on Facebook last week, I cannot reveal the name of the photographer.  It wasn't Frederic Aranda as he was not in Paris. That would have been  a better picture, obviously. I can  reveal the name of the gracious contributor of the champagne, my dear friend and publisher of C Magazine, Jennifer Smith Hale. No, Jennifer did not take the picture, either.  She was already on an airplane back to California.  But it is so lovely to think my readers are looking out for me!

 

 





Karl Looks Hot and Cool and Fashion Week is Lost Without Him!

 

 



Well there's no question who took Karl's picture, and that was Little Missy last week at Fendi on Avenue Montaigne.  He came in for about 90 seconds, took a sip of Coke Lite and posed for pictures.  Then he took off into the night, leaving people like Little Missy to wonder what in God's name will Paris fashion do when he is gone?  It is unthinkable!  Because there is no one!  No one!  And if there is and you know who that is, write it in an email and I will post it next week.  Because there is no one!  Alex Wang?  No!  Marc Jacobs?  Whoever thought he'd end up looking respectable?  No, not Marc Jacobs either!  Little Missy will just say this:  French fashion will be a big mess when Karl leaves the scene.  So don't go, Karl!  What about the clothes I saw?  No, this is not a fashion report!  Go to style.com if you want to look at the clothes.  This is more serious.  People have got to stop going on and on that this is the end of Karl and Kate Moss.  Jealousy, my friends!  It will eat you alive.  And what about Mick Jagger?  He is still hot!

 

Little Missy Dares You To Say Mick's Not Hot!

 

Mick was as hot as it gets a few days later in Hyde Park.  He takes ballet classes with a religious fervour!  And Little Missy can report that his girlfriend, L'Wren Scott, (who I'm sorry to say is a fashion designer) is a Bitch.  But we are positive in these Chronicles, so keep that one under your hat.  Anyway, L'Wren, you're right, I am older than you, and I did know Mick in his twenties.  When he was really hot! So put that one in your pipe L'Wren and smoke it!

 

Little Missy is starting to get rattled.  Let's end this one on a nice note!  What about that Andy Murray!  Go England, go UK!  There was just a whole lot of shaking going on in Paris and London and it is a miracle that I made it to my plane back home to California the next day!  But we Love California!  Just like we Love London!  And Paris is still pretty sweet on a summer night.