Weekend Update

1. Do you know what I think is really good? When sales are at a point when you look up the items and they are available, brand new, from a department store, at a lower price than on The Real Real. These Noelle loafers from The Row have now entered this terrirtory.

I adore these shoes and have stalked them for several seasons. And now they are on sale! For  an excellent price, too. They are the sort you can wear year round, and with pants, skirts, shorts – anything. Very comfortable and I will be purchasing soon.

By the way – Net-A-Porter has more sizes and colors but they are infuriatingly more expensive as well.

2. Do any of you remember Julia Allison? Read this semi-obnoxious (but so readable) piece by her, about how Sex and the City ruined her life. How did SATC impact you? I am not ashamed to admit that there was a period where I thought owning tons of high heels I never wore was very very glamorous.

3. THANK YOU to reader P, who sent the the best article you are going to read this week (but please get ready for a LONG read. It’s worth it). This article, via Texas Monthly, about the Fayez Sarofim divorce. Funnily enough, I had just come across this family when I was looking up Avril Lavigne’s boyfriend (yes I am actually a fairly busy person with multiple jobs but this is just what I choose to do in my free time).

4. An interesting article, via The Washington Post, about Diane von Furstenberg’s next act. I actually really love a lot of DVF’s designs (both when it was her at the helm and after). She’s somewhere where I am always very interested in what they are doing.

5. This week, I read Kudos, from Rachel Cusk.

Kudos is the last of Cusk’s “trilogy” of somewhat linked novels, and actually I would highly recommend starting from the first book, Outline. These three were my first time reading Cusk and quite frankly this isn’t normally my thing – these aren’t very heavy on plot, and they are quite often compared to My Struggle, which I could just not get through. There’s a lot of interior rumination, not that much “action” yet I found myself flipping through the pages. And with a sustained interest that lasted through three books! Would highly recommend both Kudos, and the entire trilogy, for anyone who loves beautiful language and doesn’t mind a slower, quieter plot (though the language shouts).