hey hey baby, we gotta get out of L.A.

AHH just watching Barbara Walters' most interesting people...yeah yeah, but it's only because she has an interview with Anna Wintour!!

December 12, or otherwise known as: The Day Devil Wears Prada finally comes outttt!!!!!! yeah and smart me, totally forgets about it even though I've been counting the hours! Literally, in math class, I counted the hours...don't judge me!

I'm making a concerted effort to post as much as possible, hope the posts don't get boring :P

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Fashion/Socialite World, But Were Too Afraid To Ask

If you are a nouvelle entre to the fashion world and all that goes with it (as all of us were at some point), I’m sure there are many questions you have. Hopefully this list will assist in any confusion. These are modifications of questions I have asked myself, so sorry if some answers seem obvious, but I’m very blonde sometimes, no matter what my hair color insists is my IQ.


People
Who is this Anna Wintour?
Okay, let me just breathe for a second as I pretend that you didn’t ask that question. Just kidding, there was a time, sadly, that even I didn’t know who Anna Wintour was, and I heap thanks upon the best friend that informed me. Anna Wintour is the infamous editor in chief of Conde Nast’s US Vogue magazine. Equally as infamous are her encounters with PETA, where she is usually assaulted with paint, in protest of her approval of fur for Vogue’s pages.

Conde Nast? I’ve never heard of this before.
Simple, Conde Nast is like Hearst publishing. An umbrella corporation that owns most major magazines that Hearst doesn’t already own generally. Think, Elias Clarke in The Devil Wears Prada, or Meade Publications in Ugly Betty. Conde Nast also oversees W, Lucky, Allure, the New Yorker etc.

Bee Shaffer? Why is she always with Anna Wintour??
Bee Shaffer is, hard to believe, Anna Wintour’s daughter. Anna was married to David Shaffer a few years back and Bee (real name Katherine) and Charles (or Charlie) are the products of the union.

Andre Leon Talley?
Editor-at-large at US Vogue. One of the longest survivors in the Fashion World, his stay at the top has lasted more than 25 years.

Tinsley Mortimer? Fabiola Beracasa? Dylan Lauren? Lauren Davis?
All fall under the generous umbrella of “socialite.” Born into the glamorous and fashionable life. I.E. they never had to read one of these because they’ve lived it their whole life. Search any of their names on google or wikipedia and you’ll find their whole story.

Plum Sykes?
Anna Wintour’s protégée, she cultivated her. Successful novelist (Bergdorf Blondes, READ IT), and fashion it-girl.

Karl Lagerfeld?
I can admit, these designers designing for names that are not their own can be somewhat confusing. I’ll put them all down here.
Karl Lagerfeld – Chanel, Fendi
Francisco Costa – Calvin Klein
Nicolas Ghesquiere – Balenciaga
John Galliano – Dior
Tom Ford – hard to pinpoint, mostly Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent
Marc Jacobs – Louis Vuitton as well as his own Marc Jacbos and Marc by Marc Jacobs
Matthew Williamson – as well as his own line of the same name, Pucci
Alexander McQueen – Givenchy

Amy Sacco?
Club owner. Heard of Bungalow 8? Yeah, that’s her.

Patricia (Pat) Field?
Infamous costume designer. Costume designer pfft. She dressed the girls for Sex and the City and The Devil Wears Prada, she is genius. She is god, worship accordingly.

Yeah I've been having a bit of a blonde moment and can't remember at all what other things I didn't know about fashion, PLEASE comment with some other questions I can answer. Some things I realize that I don't know either and the research helps me!


Now, since I am just beyond proud of how amazing it is, I'm gonna post my FABULOUS playlist. Hopefully it'll inspire others, since I always play it while getting dressed in the morning.
9 Crimes (Demo) - Damien Rice
A Great Big Sled - The Killers
Alfie - Joss Stone
Amie - Damien Rice
Be Born - Tally Hall
Blind Leading the Blind - Dave Stewart & Mick Jagger
Coconut Skins - Damien Rice
Eddie's Gun - The Kooks
Father Christmas - The Kinks
God - The Gents
I know - Jude
Just Apathy - Tally Hall
Kate - Ben Folds Five
Lonely Without You (This Christmas) - Mick Jagger
Naive - The Kooks
Ooh La - The Kooks
Out of LA - Jude
Seaside - The Kooks
Sweet Talk 101 - Cute Is What We Aim For
Taken for a Ride - Tally Hall
The Blower's Daughter - Damien Rice
The Curse of Curves - Cute Is What We Aim For
You Don't Love Me - The Kooks

Shoot me now, Diane Sawyer has pronounced Anna Wintour's last name wrong about 10 times already and she's been talking for less than a minute!

Ooh I spy Andre!

For some reason, I'm getting more and more excited each day for Florida. I mean, it's shopping, shopping, shopping, moisturized skin, and Disneyland with a pinch of being nice to grandparents thrown in.

Loves and Merry Christmas (from the little Jewish girl who ADORES Christmas)
<3 Ruby