So I haven’t started shopping whatsoever. I’ve been literally locked up in my house (okay, when I wasn’t not surfing up in Montauk) because of a huge influx of work and a hurricane. And believe me I would love to : New York Fashion week starts next week!!! HELP.

The only thing that’s got me so far, I saw just below my apartment (while I was on my daily hunt for coffee, my life is so exciting) in the window at Devonshire Optical, a local eye doctor who has some cool stuff. And so what I saw are his totally bizarre sunglasses. They’re Elizabeth & James, the other Olsen twins brand that you all introduced me to last time around.

The brand carries great frames but…

These little round guys give you an alien head (or maybe good for a Hans Moleman impression)(If you need proof, click on the arrow on the picture, you’ll see what I’m talking about.) and what’s up with these octogonal ones ?

Between these and my giant sunglasses from this summer, I’m thinking I’ve got a thing for weird frames.

Me, and the rest of the world, it seems. I’m seeing these little round lenses everywhere!

What do you think of them? Cool or a little over the top hip so much so that it falls right after the hype and just becomes pretty whatever?

Translation : Tim Sullivan

I was already a real fan of Gaia Repossi’s jewelry.

But since I met her I’ve been impressed by her drive, her vision for the family business of which she just became artistic director, and her desire to evolve the world of jewelry. Her collaborations with Alexander Wang and Joseph Altuzarra (just to name a couple) added a true fashion perspective that was lacking some at the Place Vendôme. All that, plus a doctorate in archeology, and a real talent for painting, and all before 25 years old!

I like that while taking this photo, she told me she wanted an image that showed her strength…

I don’t know if I succeeded in showing anything but her sweetness, but I was so excited to meet a girl who takes risks, looks for new forms of creation and never hides her desire to succeed.

Translation : Tim Sullivan

You recognize her, don’t you? It’s Anna Dello Russo, style icon to the extreme – here, in a Rochas jump suit and Valentino shoes (I have the same ones!!!) -, eccentric, adorable, appeared on The Sartorialist for the first time in 2006 and since became a fashion superstar via the internet.

And now, she’s got a blog, she bbms, she tweets, responds to 15,000 interviews at the same time, she is premiering her own perfume line and she has so much fun with this whole new starlet career that we’ve given her.

And I can’t help but love it.

I love that she has so much fun with everything, that she excercises for two hours every day and changes outfits three times daily just to satisfy her adoring public, that she’ll strike a pose and do it 50 times over (or 60, if you just ask her) in front of the streetstyle photographers who are all waiting for her and only her outside of the shows, that she always comes back and says thank you when you publish a photo of her, and she doesn’t walk away from fun. That she is never, ever, ever a snob.

So Anna…  Post a comment !?

Translation : Tim Sullivan

Next spring is going to be super floral!!! We’ll talk about this more soon when I get the shots ready from some of my favorite shows here in Milan. But yeaaaah, we made some more videos!!!

In the meantime, meet Jazzmine. And I’ve gotta tell you something (because I just got back from Giovanna’s birthday and the Ferragamo rave party and my feet are killing me and I’m feeling those Sicilian Martinis still saying hello) but here: Jazzmine is her real first name.

Not but seriously. How cool is that?! See you oh so soon!

Translation : Tim Sullivan