All Things Fashionating by tracy mausser

Happy Birthday America.  What better excuse to be patriotic than by dropping the Benjamens on a gift for yourself in honor of our great country's birthday. Particularly when the great Italian fashion house Gucci is having a sale.  Yes, that's right...you read it here.  The top o' the line luxury line is parting with its beautiful bags, shoes and accessories.  Visit http://www.gucci.com/us/category/u/sale  for the specifics. If you live in the Los Angeles area, you have a chance to score some vintage Chanel.  The LA-based vintage boutique What Goes Around Comes Around (located at 159 La Brea Ave., Los Angeles) is having its annual Chanel event.  Not necessarily a major price break, but some beautiful bags, shoes, jewelery are pretty just to look at and muse about Chanel days gone by. http://la.racked.com/archives/2012/06/27/what_goes_around_comes_around_has_gone_chanelcrazy.php Barneys New York http://www.barneys.com/Sale/sale,defaul...

Have you ever wanted something so bad it hurt and you just knew there was no way you would ever get it. Ok, I’m not talking about love – well at least not the kind of amore between lovers – but the love of something so materialistic, that you know it will make you feel euphoric if you owned it, that it is borderline obsession. That is exactly how I felt when I saw Gucci’s Fall 2011 Ready To Wear (RTW) collection. I fell fast and I fell hard. Gucci Collection There is just something about Gucci Creative Director Frida Giannini’s collection that inspired me.  Perhaps it called upon that hippie chick that lies within me or simply the love of anything Marlene Dietrich; one can’t really tell where the ‘40s end and the ‘70s begin. So, when I picked myself up off the floor, I tried to discern what it was that had attracted me to the Italian fashion house’s Fall frocks as I am not usually titillated by high-end apparel.  It was an extreme toss-up between the fur, the pyt...