season five

things I love: rag & bone floral tank

I have thing for florals paired with edgy separates and accessories. This Rag & Bone silk top will look great with black skinny jeans and gladiator stilettos. At Saks.

things I love: chi mihara platform

I like the way this covered- platform Chi Mihara shoe looks with short dresses, shorts and skinny jeans. At Saks.

on my radar for spring: legging jeans

Although I have a few pairs of this season's flares in my closet I tend to pass over them in favor of my very fitted and narrow jeans. I think it is because they don't require a specific shoe to make it work. Converse, flats, stilettos, platforms, wedges and high boots all work with skinny jeans. WWD reports that legging jeans are a key trend coming out of California. I especially love this pair by J Brand.The picture shows a Citizens of Humanity style. WWD

kinky shoe love

net-a-porter's weekly update featuring these super sexy bondage heels by Balmain made me swoon. net-a-porter.

Donna Karan on luxury, value and conscious consumerism

In an article titled "Luxury's Lament" in Monday's WWD Donna Karan commented on the new definition of value in fashion and it had nothing to do with price.

“Once somebody wears luxury, they might buy less, but it’s really hard [to turn away from it]. It has a longevity. It’s not something disposable, of the moment. I think it’s about a conscious luxury, not the frivolousness of it. For me, it is about the commerce and philanthropy, but it’s not philanthropy in a sense that I am buying this and giving money to that. It’s being about becoming a conscious consumer — that it’s not just at the whim of I want and I need, and that everything you are doing has a reason and purpose.”