Henri Bendel is my OBSESSION!!!

So I was super psyched when I was on Coutorture this morning and saw my story was linked to their most popular links recently!!! The story was written for Fashion Indie and it was named "Behind the Scenes at a Henri Bendel Trunk Show"!!!

"Alison Nelson's Chocolate Bar" on the 3rd floor is one of my newfound obsessions. I can't get enough of their iced coconut chocolate drink!!! And where else but Bendel's would you find candy bars wrapped in rhinestone bracelets???!!!

I met a skincare lady holding a show downstairs for Cleanse Bath and Body, She was actually upstairs in the Chocolate bar introducing her Latte for your Botte' scrub. She is still showing and I highly recommend her delectable body goodies...

May 5-11: CLEANSE BATH AND BODY FRAGRANCE TRUNK SHOW. Meet designer Maggie Rasmussen as she personally presents Cleanse Bath and Body.

"What is the difference between mere fashion and true style?"
"Fashion says 'Me too', and style says 'Only me'." -Geraldine Stutz (former president of Henri Bendel)...

Its a beautiful thing to have a major NYC department store support young talent in a place where CHANEL is placed. Actually Coco Chanel was originally introduced into this country through the amazing store itself.

One of my favorite downtown additions to the store is this wacky chick staff member Dana. The busty tattoo clad blond came here on an MTV True Life reality series "I'm moving to NYC" , She had me in tears the entire time we were working together. I didn't even know her last name and it only took me 2 seconds to find her on myspace. AHHH Google!!! Connecting psychos and sickos everywhere from uptown to downtown.

Happy Style Mall Apple Hunt

Even thought the hunt doesn't officially start for hours there are a couple of apples out for the hunt at both the Happy Style Mall #1 (Sokri (165, 85, 70) and Happy Style Mall #2 ( Sokri (18, 8, 66).



Skin is Another Shop skin mod that is from A Piece of Candy ($1 - I'm not sure if this *particular* skin a piece of candy - thin forsted lips - is available since it was a previous group gift, but Candy always has several skins available in her shop - Immintel 164/183/101)and hair is from the free House of Heart Designs (Tropical Escape (127, 70, 23) hair demos.

Killer Queen Japan Mall + more

Killer Queen Japan Mall - (Hull Hynes 208/233/22)



6 camping for products pads- ranging in time from 20 minitutes to 3 hours

Trash (220,248,22) -pins & a free tibet tshirt

Plants (229, 249,22)- short set and purse

AFK Tool (236, 245,22) - two free afk tools

Studio601- 2 dresses

Redlic (337,220,32) - male (unisex) hair

*TVT* (243, 221, 42)- female hair & pumps

Hiroko Spyker's booth (219,246,52)- $1 female short set

Next door to the Mall you'll find a sex club (just warning ya -Hull Hynes 187/173/21 ) with vending boxes set up outside. Here you can pick up a the free (female) skin I used along with a bottle of water.

Parallel Love - (Japan Beginners Land 232/114/22)



Along with the hat and earring/bracelet set the May gift has been placed. There is also a discount section with $20 non-transferable wears m&f. . And here is the rest of it.

(All shoes pictured are from TVT - all prices are $0 unless noted otherwise.)

All Saints UK

So while I was waiting for someone to buy one of my head bands at my Henri Bendel trunk show I saw THE FASHIONISTA decked out head to toe in gorgeous avant guard draping!!! My guess was she was an art dealer but she told me she was a London based mid-wife ??? I asked what she was wearing and she told me all about this UK based line All Saints. I know the minute my UK based best bunny girl Kat reads this she will go buy the whole line. I might buy some too should I visit in a few weeks.

Movie Premiere: Iron Man

I heard this movie was RIDICULOUS. I'm going to go see it once I finish this damn Art History paper. *sigh*

As for fashion inspired by Iron Man, I suggest hardware, and lots of it!


Try this Herve van der Straeten cuff, or more realistically, these bangles from Forever 21.


Footwear?

Bruno Frisoni pumps or Celine t-strap heels from alloy.com ("Celine" is the name of the shoe, not the brand).


Lest you think I'm sending you out naked as a jaybird...

Stella McCartney rhinestone paillette minidress and Twelve by Twelve studded minidress.

I am, however, letting you go without a bag -- I have to get back to my paper!

P.S. I hope you like the newfangled photos I put together!

Dress Sale

La Petite Fleur is having a sale $30 for all dresses, shirts, & outfits at their uemachi location (uemachi (16, 225, 29). You'll find the following dress along with capris free to the left of the entry. One bit of warning some of the prims are no modify, so try the samples before you buy and decide if you can deal with the no modify prims or look for modify prims (some prims are modify, but not all.). ($0 dress & capris- f)



The hair is the free spring hair from TEKUTEKU hair salon (Shinjuku (89, 153, 22). ($0, m&f hair)
The skin is free from Frick ( Blackmount 98/138/64). ($0, skin, f)
The shoes are the *la* Jeweled Venetian Lace Boot from The Laughing Academy (Stetson (27, 148, 24). ($0, boots, f)

Another dress sale is going on at ....
Defleur Fashions (Sulcata (187, 39, 21) celebrating their relocation. Not only does this store have over 20 + dresses found on a 3 tiered table towards the back of the store completely free and four camping chairs, but you'll also find select dresses on sale for $100. These dresses are random colors of select styles. You'll also find 6 dresses for $0. Scroll over and check out these gorgous gowns. I'm not giving anything away by posing in one of the dresses since teh ebil ebil pixies from free*style already gave away this hint.... ($0, dresses, f)



I usually don't include group gifts, but I really wanted to send out a huge THANK YOU to Sheltered Heart. This hair was *EXACTLY* what I was hoping for and more. It is amazing. Thank you Sheltered. You can pick up the Legend hair along with several other styles when you touch the subscribeomatic at the sister store to Bewitched Hair House of Heart Designs, Tropical Escape (129, 68, 24). This should be the first or second notice. ($0)

The shoes are the Black Grape Jelly shoes from Playful Koneko (Camlann Tarl (124, 104, 301) which comes with a free Bible to. The slurl isn't the exact location of the freebie, but the store is really small so you should be able to find it easily.($0- shoes & bible, shoes f)

The skin is from the pack of Jezbel skins from Fashioncentric! Soda (Plush Omicron (230, 227, 21). (skin, $1, f)

One Cheap Chimp

You too can be one cheap chimp (probably sans margarita). Almost everything you see here was obtained from the Creator's Pavillion (creators pavillion (180, 178, 27). I can't help but wear ADA Store shoes(Fontaine (39, 104, 50). =X Hey, free shoes are hard to come by. But the rest ... it's all from Creators Pavillion.


(Pico Pure has put out a dress and two sets of bags. If they can make a chimp look this cute imagine what they can do for a girl.)

You may want to check out the Creators Pavillion because from MAY 3 - 25 there is a sim wide May sale. A lot of the sales are featured in a centralize tent, but not all. So take a look around.


Anywho, this is what too many margaritas and Micheal Jackson get ya....



I always wanted a bubbles; now I can be one. =-)~ ($0 for everythang)

ETA: for you guys having trouble finding the chimp avatar... It's in a store for the guys ABOUT ( creators pavillion 104/137/27) there are also two shirts on the floor that are free in About along with the chimp avatar!
And the sale started May 3 the date of original publication, not May 5. sowry =-)~