...to talk about having a moment. You know when you’re somewhere, and you get so insanely happy because it reminds you of being little and big at the same time? Well people, for me that happened at AC/DC last night in Dodger Stadium. I grew up in Australia and spent many-an-afternoon jumping on the neighbors trampoline singing “You Shook Me All Night Long”.
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In the 70’s, when I was a wee babe in Australia, if anyone made it out the door wearing any type of sunscreen it was a major miracle. Luckily, I was so pale that I bordered on transparent, AND my dad worked for Estee Lauder; so there was a small semblance of knowledge about the sun and it’s effects, though sadly not enough! Now in my mid-40’s, it’s so easy to go down the bathroom-mirror rabbit hole, where I scrutinize every broken capillary, every crease and every freckle (“that wasn’t there yesterday!!”). For the record: this behavior gets me nowhere except making me want to Sylvia Plath my way to the closest oven.
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OK, I really, really, really wanted to find a store in Los Angeles that carries these furry numbers, Gucci's new Princetown Horsebit Fur Slippers, but there are none (it could be the fact that it’s currently 95 degrees) and they’re not being released for a couple of months.
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I like going into stores. A lot. So much so I owned my own for nine years. That's how much I love stores. If I walk into one that's particularly gorgeous, I'll even pretend I live there...if it's a furniture store I'll pick out which bed I'd sleep on, which dishes I'd use for dinner, which towels in the bathroom.
Read MoreI’m a Swede who lives in the Silver Lake part of Los Angeles. I like my design functional with oodles of color, never met a pompom I didn’t like, could quite happily road-test lipgloss for the rest of my life and am on the constant search for the perfect T-shirt. I was a magazine editor for 15 years, wrote a bunch of books that gave teen girls more beauty tips than they’ll ever need and owned a design store…not all at the same time.
Current obsessions: Chola-girl eyeliner, Clare V. french T-shirts, leaving chia seeds in plain yogurt overnight so it turns into pudding and the CVT soft serve ice cream truck. This will change, I can be fickle.
