"Guess why I dyed my hair blond? To make myself unforgettable." -- Fallen Angels
Whenever summer turns to fall and the nights get cooler, and longer, I sometimes like to play, "What Would Wong Kar-Wai Do?" (Note for my mother: Wong Kar-Wai is a famous director known in Asia for making romantic, melancholy films about beautiful people with broken hearts whose paths cross and diverge in cities such as Hong Kong). Tonight I went for a stroll through Chinatown and a quiet dinner at Dim Sum Go Go that hit the spot. Afterward I meandered along the crowded streets, bustling at the end of the day under the bright, soft hum of neon lights, and went into a Shiseido boutique to buy some lipstick. "You want ruby red," said the lone English-speaking shopgirl. "Yes, yes I do..." When styling a WWWKD-type look, you can't spend too much money, because being kind of broke and insouciant is part of the magnetism of the character and being in on the joke. Like you're so busy contemplating our cruel world that you can't be bothered to match, and yet it wouldn't cross your mind to look ordinary. A leopard print belt haphazardly buckled over a rotating wardrobe of thrift-store shifts and cheap party dresses you slept in is a good place to start because it wasn't really going to go with anything anyway. And it's not like you care...
[YSL Leopard Print Wide Belt, $199.99 at Overstock.com]
Windowlicker - from the French for window shopping: faire du lèche-vitrine - appears on Tuesday and Thursdays at 10am EST-ish.
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