美丽如流苏

       
喜欢《倾城之恋》，喜欢白流苏。

       
白流苏，聪慧、优雅、坚强、理智，像水又像火，时而百炼钢，时而绕指柔，水火之间，鲜活的美丽着。让人没有来由的喜欢和倾慕。包括女人。
    
  想像白流苏。一个有着小小自私的女人。旧式的显赫，落幕的望族。满腹华丽的诗书，一眼无边的秋水,replica handbags。嫁了人，对婚姻抱着炫丽而剔透的憧憬，想象着，以为着，直到所有梦摔得支离破碎。如她这般冰雪聪明的女人，怎会不明白，一个根本无心的男人，如何会把心给你？
      
旧时代的大背景下，白流苏离婚的决定惊天动地。离婚时，一定是带着一颗连残骸都找不到的心。娘家，是守旧的破败，一对庸庸碌碌的哥哥，两个心狠饶舌的嫂子，一天不如一天的生活，勉强支撑的门面，回去，面对的是惨淡的不可预期的明天。夫家，冷漠花心的丈夫，老谋深算的公公，刁钻低俗的夫妾，没有人真正的关心她，爱护她，哪怕是怀孕，也只作为一个传宗接代的工具,replica Louis vuitton handbags，备受关注的也只是唯一可以继承家业的孙子。
    心疼流苏。每一次来来回回，哪里是家，何处是岸？在一条熟悉的路上，来来回回直到华灯初上。一个女人，满腹委屈却无人问津，没有人想知道她在哪里，在干什么？期待一次一次,designer handbags，失望一天一天，心里那种凄苦，欲说还休。只有任车夫来来回回的拉着，一遍一遍，恨不得将这条路，一直这样走，永远没尽头。
    喜欢流苏。坚强中带点依赖，只依赖那个全心全意把爱给她的男人。战火纷飞中，轰鸣的炮弹没有炸断故事的尾巴，一座城为了成全她依赖的爱，陷落了。绝望中的爱情，成全了两个自私的男女。都曾怕付出，都会怕受伤，但连命都快没有的时候，付出，谁也不会吝啬。天长地久太长，太久，隔着棉被相拥的默契，已足够两人厮守，几年或几十年。  

Lanvin Wrinkled Shoulder Bag

Lanvin is my new obsession. After I saw the Lanvin Happy Partage Metallic Bag I could not stop picturing myself with that bag. Jeans and a white tee,replica handbags, little black dress, skirt. You name it, I pictured myself with it.

Then I saw the Lanvin Wrinkled Shoulder Bag, and while I did not fall head over heels as I did with the other, I still felt love. Lanvin just continues to get it right. Their bags are quirky, colorful,designer handbags, multi-dimensional. I want one. I need one.

The wrinkled lambkin gives an additional dimension to the bag. Without it,replica Louis vuitton handbags, the bag is still stunning and I suspect many of you would prefer the bag without the wrinkles. I may be wrong, tell me what you think. The matte gold hardware looks beautiful against the taupe lambskin. Of course there is the signature blue ribbon handle with coin and large ribbon detail. Another Lanvin Love. Purchase via Net A Porter for $2750.

Gossip Girl “I thought I’d never use it…but have you seen the stitching ”

A world without Gossip Girl is no world at all, so I couldn’t be more exquote,1d that it returned for a third season on The CW last night. Our Upper East Siders were back from summers in the Hamptons and Europe, preparing for college (or, in Little Jenny Humphrey’s case,replica Louis vuitton handbags, high school queen-dom), and picking up where they left off at the end of the last season.

So where exactly did we leave them? Chuck and Blair had finally, at long last, professed that they had love for each other in their respective grinch hearts and decided to make something of it. Serena, freshly sprung from jail, had received word from Carter Baizen that he had located her dad in Europe, so instead of having a normal summer, they jetted off across the pond to track him down. Nate was on poor,naughty terms with his hoity-toity family (although you’d never know it, since Chace Crawford’s facial expression never changes from one of mild bewilderment), he and Vanessa were no longer dating (although they did hook up over the summer in Prague), and the Humpheys plus Eric had been chillin’ at Lily’s Hamptons house while she’s with CeCe, who is receiving cancer treatments.

But since all of that happened, three months has elapsed we all know that everything can change in an instant on the Upper East Side (particularly since Josh Schwartz & Co. have no idea how to properly develop a story line over a season. Not that I’m complaining). So what did last night hold for us, and for them?

Supercouple Chuck and Blair are, shock amaze, still together. As one of the other characters quipped during the show, I was half expecting to hear of their demise via murder/suicide, but they endure. And if you needed any further evidence that they’re both totally looneytunes and that Gossip Girl is the greatest show of our time, the writers saw fit to write them a cuckolding fetish (albeit a fairly mild one, to appeal to parents!).

They pick a girl, Chuck hits on her (always successfully. He’s CHUCK BASS.), they get to the edge of cheating, and Blair busts them and chews out the girl for picking up an attached man. They dispatch her swiftly, and then they screw. Sounds like fun, right? Except Serena talked some craziness to Blair about Chuck ACTUALLY wanting to cheat on her, which she wouldn’t have any knowledge of since she was in Europe all summer, but Blair freaked out besides and called the whole game off. Particularly when they saw Alexandra Richards, making a cameo as herself, giving Chuck the eye at the Vanderbilt family polo match. So now they’re just going to be boring. Or so they say. What’s the over-under on how long that’s going to last? An episode? Max?

Those weren’t the only polo match hijinks, however. Not by a long shot. Nate, on an endless quest to be ungrateful and piss off his entire family, brought Bree Buckley, a woman that he met on a plane that happens to be from a rival political family, to the match to meet his grandfather. And to give back the keys to a Ferrari that Gramps bought him because NO ONE wants a Ferrari, right?

Bree is suitably mortified whens he finds out that she’s just there as a tool, but Nate somehow manages to convince her that he likes her for her (which is amazing, since he barely manages to convince me that he can read), and Gramps quelled her fears by telling her that he wants Nate to be happy and that they can be discrete. But because America’s political dynasties are full of backstabbers and opportunists (that’s how they got successful, duh, and Bree should have known that from her own relatives), Grandpa Vanderbilt immediately got on his phone to plot ways to humiliate his rival via Nate’s new chick. Of course he did.

Vanessa also showed up to the polo match in an effort to talk to Dan about…well, I’m not really sure about what. Vanessa is easily the worst character on this show, and her brand new half-dreadlocked extensions are nasty. She keeps claiming that she’s not judging Dan for his new-found riches as a result of his dad’s impending union with Lily, but that’s precisely what she did for this entire episode. $3000 suits offend her fragile hipster sensibilities, as does Dan having his name in the program at a polo match. She wants him to remain poor and artsy and dirty like she is. But the punchline is that Vanessa is currently being used by Dan and Serena’s supposedly-dead-but-not-really half brother to get shut to his birth family. V, I’m going to have more than a little schadenfreude when all of this gets found out and you realize that he didn’t ever like you for you.

But the real drama was, as it always is, involving Serena. Her quest to find her father had turned into a booze-and-nudity tour through Europe once daddy rejected her, and she has come back to the States as an huge,immense tabloid star. Dan and his dad are under the impression that she was doing an Eat, Pray, Love ashram thing overseas, which is laughably ridiculous, since they have presumably both met Serena before and understand a little bit about her. “Contemplative” and “spiritual” are the last words anyone would use to describe that girl, but Jenny and Eric manage to keep the tabloids and blogs out of sight until Serena returns home, where the truth came out nearly immediately.

The thing is, Serena didn’t want to confess to anyone that the reason that she went overseas was to pursue her father or that he rejected her (or that she is banging Carter Baizen), so whenever the subject came up, she did something ridiculous to create a diversion. First she untied her dress in front of the paps to get absent from Carter, and then she told Dan that Carter is stalking her. He wasn’t, but Dan bought it and teamed up with Blair to get him served with a restraining order at the polo match. When it became clear that he wasn’t really stalking Serena, she stole a polo pony and road into the sunset, Carter chasing her on another polo pony. That served the double purpose of making a scene for the paps that might eventually get back to her dad and removing her from the situation so that she doesn’t have to TELL anyone about him. Neither of these things can go on forever, but watching her ride a horse in a maxi dress was pretty funny. And then she and Carter got it on in the woods, because this is Gossip Girl, after all. Inappropriate sexual activity is the name of the game.

Next week, it looks like we’ve got the return of Georgina as our Upper East Siders go to college. Until next time, XOXO.