11:49 AM • May 19th, 2008
By cheapjap
Hots and Nots
Hey high-end designers! Think you can bullshit your way through your budget line and get away with it? Think again! Every week (or whenever I feel like it), Designer Slumdown pits the wallet-friendly lines of two high-end designers against each other, and sees who slums it best.
Rogan Gregory for Target vs. H&M x Marimekko
Sooo, the much anticipated, Barney’s-sanctioned Rogan Gregory for Target line hit the racks last week. I haven’t had the horror of viewing the line up close, but based on the leopard trashfest pictured at right, it’s not worth any of our time. This number is skankier than the worst of Forever 21, 100% silk or no. Someone over at Rogan Gregory clearly confused slumming it right with slutting it out, as the dress looks a hell of a lot cheaper than its $39.99 price tag.
The Marimekko option pictured at left puts the Rogan Gregory to shame in more than one capacity. It’s not just uber cute and classy; its length, print and cut make it (gasp) totally In. This dress runs for around ten bucks more than its competitor - even so, $50 is a fairly low price to pay for high style of this ilk.
My biggest problemo with Roland Gregory for Target is that it perpetuates the bullshit idea that if you can’t spend big, you can’t look of-the-moment. When was an animal-print, silk t-shirt dress ever a coveted item? What a crock.
And the best slummer is…Marimekko. By an effing landslide.
12:43 PM • May 7th, 2008
By cheapjap
Oy Vey!
Soooo, Barney’s is teaming with Target because the economy sucks, err, I mean, because they want Middle America to have access to high fashion. Barney’s’ medium for this beautiful union is designer Rogan Gregory. I would care about this if I knew who Rogan Gregory was. Based on the looks of his collection, he constructs boring shit in varying gray, black and white tones (my bad, Minimalist Chic) that sells for upwards of $500. Thanks to Target, he and Barney’s have come down to earth to sell us stuff for $45 or less. Lucky us!
3:35 PM • Feb 26th, 2008
By cheapjap
Oy Vey!
Soooo, the heinously uppity and nauseatingly expensive Barney’s New York is currently having their Warehouse Sale. My beef with Barney’s isn’t their prices, per say. It’s that - every time I browse the store - I toy with the idea of opening a credit card and going into thousands of dollars of debt just so I can revel in the awesomeness that is the Co-Op floor. One would think I’d be all over the Warehouse Sale. And one would be wrong. Continue reading →
11:50 AM • Feb 8th, 2008
By cheapjap
Love With Hate Icing
Most of us ignore Lucky mag’s many contests for two reasons: 1. The time and energy it takes to enter is better spent shopping, and 2. Needing free stuff makes us feel poor. Boo hiss. I used to be more impressed by Lucky’s prizes than by what was required in order to win them. But this month, Lucky has offered a challenge that my inner adjective-obsessed freak just can’t pass up. It’s the Walk-In-Our-Shoes Caption Writing Contest; I’ve already spent most of my morning on Thesaurus.com for research purposes. Continue reading →
