What to SHOE: Olivia Morris

Check out the retro colors.
Last Friday I attended a blogger event at a showroom where several designers' Fall 2008 collections were featured including Thuy, WILLOW, and Thrive, to name a few. But I fell DEEPLY in love with a brand of shoes to which I hadn't previously been introduced: Olivia Morris.

Her shoes are crafted from DELECTABLE Italian leather and just speak to a usually ignored part of my psyche. She chooses the most unusual, retro "ish" (greyish, blueish) colors to create shoe confections that are very a-higher-rent-circa 1955 Lorraine McFly.

London-based Olivia Morris graduated from legendary cobbling school, Cordwainers College, London in 1996. Just a couple of years later, while still freelancing for companies such as DKNY, Morris set up her own label. She launched her first collection for Autumn/Winter 2000, which was immediately coveted by both press and buyers. Morris opened her own shop in 2002 on Portobello Road in Notting Hill, and her shoes are sold in boutiques and department stores around the world. Says Morris,"I design shoes for the modern contemporary woman who loves fashion,” says Olivia, "but doesn’t take it too seriously."

I am LIVING for the gold shoes on the right with the crystal disc adornment. GORGE.

The bow on these is to die. Can you even?

I have a shoe crush.

Best Party Ever.

Hey, gals!

Hope you had a great weekend! Mine was especially phenom. On Saturday, I went to a bridal shower for my friend Amber after which, we attended the. best. party. I've ever been to. It was an 80s party thrown by some guy I don't know for his 40th birthday with an open bar, hors d'oeuvres and an 80s cover band (some songs were better than others). This guy spared NO expense. He even shut down Mansion for the first few hours of the party. But the best part was the AUTHENTIC Back to the Future DE LOREAN he rented and parked outside of Mansion for the occasion. You cannot IMAGINE how much this pleased me. I took SO many pics of it and in it. It even had the day/month/date dashboard. I'm not even entirely convinced that it wasn't THE De Lorean.
Me with the De Lorean. Can you EVEN?

The back of the De Lorean.

Check out the dashboard.

I had to be physically removed from it before I could find the flux capacitor. I'll be back shortly with a beauty review.

Kisses,
Fabulista

LOST Analysis: BBJ is Your Beauty Constant.

Minkowski finally shows up... looking like HELL. Dude looks like Tom Hanks in Philadelphia.

In case you haven't realized, I'm DEEPLY into Back to the Future II. I actually liked the sequel better than the original. Though it came out when I was 9, I went to see it opening day with my brother and his friend John. My brother bought his ticket. I bought my ticket. John tried to buy his ticket, but they were sold out. I'd bought the last one. I was all, "see you, John. Guess you're catching the next show." My brother insisted that I have my mom pick me up while he and JOHN saw the sequel I'd been waiting 4 years to see (at 9 years old, that was approximately half my life). I wound up seeing it a few days later, but know what? I mean, it's been nearly twenty years. And I'm still pissed about it.

Know what I'm not pissed about? The fact that last week's LOST was fraught with BTTFII references. Way to go, LOST writers. I so salute you.

The Similarities
*Charles Widmore bidding for the journal of the Black Rock's first mate. The contents have not been published and are unknown to anyone outside the family of the seller, Tovard Hanso, who must be related to Alvaro. This is just like old Biff stealing the Sports Almanac! I'm DYING to see how that plays out.
*1996 and 2004 Daniel Faradays were a tribute to the multiple Doc Browns in BTTFII.
*Daniel sends Eloise to the future much like Doc sends his dog Einstein to the future in the De Lorean.
*The CHALKBOARD scene in both LOST and BTTFII. In case you don't remember the BTTFII scene, here it is:


Another reference: a fave show of mine, Quantum Leap. This science fiction television series' plot involved scientist Sam Beckett leaping to various points in time, usually constrained within the period of his own lifetime. In some cases, the time-traveler was able to get in contact with characters of his own past, resulting in a predestination paradox.

What did you think of the episode?