This past weekend, while I was at the University of Richmond, my sister gave me a tour of the campus. And gosh, it was beautiful! (The campus, not the weather…)

This is Robbie. She was super thrilled to pose in my pictures for me. Can’t you tell by her face

I don’t actually remember the name of this building, but I remember Robbie telling me that it was where they have concerts and the theater was there, also the art museum. I looked up it up and I think it is Booker. But then Robbie told me that the first pictures were from the Modlin Center

Isn’t this little courtyard wonderful I love the Gothic-inspired architecture.

More of inside…a building. I don’t remember which one. I never know where the heck I am! But I love the purple.

This is all still inside the same building. The views are so pretty! The campus really is gorgeous, it is very green and rich, even in the aftermath of winter.

This was on one of the pathways. I thought I knew where I was, but it turned out, I had no clue. I would have gotten lost easily there – I kept thinking I knew where we were and then we would turn a corner and we would be across campus from where I thought we were! Did that make any sense

This is Gottwald. Reminds me of Harry Potter (Grindelwald…you know…). Technically, it is Gottwald Center for the Sciences. Robbie said, “If you want to goof off, you go to the library. If you want to actually get something done, you go to Gottwald.” Ha.

Inside Gottwald. Oh my gosh I just think the interiors are so beautiful. Why couldn’t my school look like that Most of the buildings at W.S.U. were pretty on the outside, blah on the inside. (Except the CUE.)

Inside the Cannon Memorial Chapel. This is where all of the freshmen girls in Robyn’s grade level did their little Proclamation Night thingamajig. Proclamation Night is where Westhampton College (the girls) hold a candlelight ceremony, put on by the upperclassmen, to officially welcome the women of the new class to the college.

This is Westhampton Lake. It is right in the middle of campus. It is super dirty, though. I asked Robbie if you could swim in it and she just snorted. It was full of mud and algae and gross stuff. I didn’t look too closely.

Here I am…behind me is the library, kind of. The round circle on the lawn kills the grass in a pattern of a sundial, in honor of the spring equinox. Or something. I’m paraphrasing, here.

This is the student common area. So…artsy! I love the colors. The official name is Tyler Haynes Commons. Also, I scoped out the bookstore, and it ain’t got nuttin’ on the Bookie! Well. The original Bookie. Not the new one. But I digress.

This was inside the main library on campus, Boatwright Memorial Library. Think of this in a stuffy British accent. That’s how I say it. Also, I love love love the Recreational Reading area! I wish my school had had something similar. I think I kind of want one in my own house….

More posed photographs of my sister. She’s ecstatic. P.S. see the boots Those are Hunter Boots, and apparently they are all the rage. (Think Uggs, but rainboot-style.) I don’t see the appeal, in fact I first saw a couple of girls wearing them and thought, how sad, they can’t afford cute boots so they have to wear fisherman’s boots. It turns out they are made in Scotland and called “wellies” so that they can charge an exorbitant price for rubber. At least Uggs are made of animal skin and fur to justify the price! I don’t quite understand. But anyway, everyone who’s anyone has them. So whatever.

P.S. I did see a girl in a white pair, and I thought they were pretty cute, despite being a teensy impractical. Maybe the rain keeps them clean.

Behind me is Jepson, “School for Leadership Studies.” I love this architecture so much. It reminds me of England, or European churches, or something. Ain’t it grand

And, I saved the best for last. This is Robbie’s favorite place on campus:

It’s called the Atrium, and it is just a small room/hallway located in one of the buildings, which I unfortunately don’t remember the name of and can no longer text my sister to ask because she is sleeping. (Her last response: “Booker. I’m sleeping. Don’t respond.” Haha.)(Update: She says it’s in the Old Library.)

Anyway, I would definitely spend all of my time in a room like this, too. It reminds me of The Historian. I feel like in this room you should be surrounded by ancient texts, dripping candles and crotchety old librarian monks. Or something. Even though in reality, the room behind where Robbie is sitting is full of printers, copy machines and modern technology. I think I know which one I prefer…

Robbie also took me to the Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature, which is a fancy way of saying, Rock Museum. But, as a person who collected rocks as a child (I have a geologist uncle, okay, these weren’t, like, rocks off the beach. We’re talking amethyst, rose quartz, Tiger’s Eye, etc. All the pretty rocks.), I found this place pretty darn cool.

Look at the size of this geode! Apparently it was originally all in one piece until a workman dropped it while transporting it into the museum. Cringe. The lady manning the desk was the sweetest, most adorable little Southern gal I have ever met. I wanted to take her home with me to be another grandmother! She was so cute,burberry check scarf, and hilarious, and chatted with us for a good ten minutes, before setting us up in the phosphorescence room (where they turn on a bunch of different lights of different wavelengths to show them fluoresce). She mentioned that museum attendance was pretty slow. It makes me sad. People just don’t appreciate art and history like they used to, I feel like. I was brought up in museums and I love them. Maybe I am just an old, boring soul.

As a sidenote regarding the above picture, I don’t know why I look so gosh darn awkward.

They had another geode that was nearly as large as the one out front. Also, below is a photograph of part of the museum. There were several rows of this, full of minerals, gems, fossils, jade sculptures, china, ancient coins…oh my gosh, I can’t even count it all. It was quite the fascinating collection for a little hole-in-the-wall museum on a college campus. If I ever go back, I would spend some more time in here. We only stayed for about a half an hour – we were late for lunch.

While checkered design has always been the signature of Burberry’s creations, some of their footwear designs don’t have it, which is actually a smart take since I guess it would look so flashy and rather odd on a sandal or on whatever footwear style.

If you agree with me, then you might as well find these Burberry Bridle Housecheck Ankle Boots interesting, especially for the fall and winter seasons. This truly takes away the brand’s signature design,burberry scarf, but still, it manages to appeal a lot. Made from chic Italian leather, this bootie features topstitching throughout, which creates paneling and a hint of toughness to its entirety. This then has laces on the front and a small belted detail on top with gold-tone buckle fastening.

To complete, these Burberry Bridle Housecheck Ankle Boots have stacked heel of 4 inches, wooden platform of -inch, shaft of 8-inch, and leg circumference of 9 inches.

You can get these Burberry Bridle Housecheck Ankle Boots at Saks for $895.

As always, Giuseppe Zanotti offers another tough-edge footwear design with these Giuseppe Zanotti Open-Back Buckled Ankle Boots. This indeed shows hardcore glamour, but this guarantees to be different as with other tough-styled bootie designs.

These Giuseppe Zanotti Open-Back Buckled Ankle Boots are made from Italian leather material; and what better way to show a tough look than coming in a shade of black and being combined with silver-tone hardware. So indeed, this pair of booties is in black and it features three oversized buckles on the straps at the sides. Along with this, an exposed zip fastening is also present, which then goes on the front. A cutout effect on the back and as well as cutouts on the sides are also present for a tougher and chicer design.

To complete, these Giuseppe Zanotti Open-Back Buckled Ankle Boots then have a self-covered heel of 4 inches, -inch platform, three inches shaft, and 11-inch leg circumference with a structured cuff.

You can get these Giuseppe Zanotti Open-Back Buckled Ankle Boots at Saks for $1,hunter rain boots,150.

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Two Tone Blue Georgette Scarf

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Louis Vuitton on screen

On February 15th, Louis Vuitton will venture into a new realm, one that it does not even know. Moving from print Ads, Louis Vuitton will debut on screen showing a travel-themed 90 second television and movie theater advertisement. This clip is not focused on the celebrities, rather on travel, to bring Louis Vuitton lovers together world-wide. The advertisement was shot in France, Spin,hermes scarves, India and Japan. LVMH Mo?t Hennessy Louis Vuitton, described the advertisement as “the first ever on-screen corporate campaign by a luxury house.”

I look forward to seeing one of the quintessential luxury houses on screen. What about you?

Article and picture via New York Times.

IN an unusual marketing move for a fashion and luxury goods brand, Louis Vuitton said Tuesday that it planned to advertise on television for the first time, with a travel-themed 90-second spot that was shot in France, Spain, India and Japan.

The campaign, which will start Feb. 15, will run on cable and satellite television channels and in movie theaters around the world, the company said. It shows ordinary people, rather than celebrities like Catherine Deneuve, Andre Agassi and Mikhail Gorbachev, who are featured in a current print campaign for the label.

Louis Vuitton, a unit of LVMH Mo?t Hennessy Louis Vuitton, described the advertisement as “the first ever on-screen corporate campaign by a luxury house.”

High-end fashion brands and luxury goods companies have generally avoided television advertising, sticking mostly to magazines and, in some cases, newspapers.

Television advertising can be expensive, and many luxury goods companies, particularly European family-owned concerns, have operated on relatively small advertising budgets. (The holding company LVMH, based in Paris, is not family owned.) Also, image-conscious fashion brands have been wary about undermining their aura of exclusivity with appeals to mass-market television audiences.

An exception is Chanel, which made a splash about three years ago with a two-minute TV ad for Chanel No. 5 perfume. Starring Nicole Kidman, it reportedly cost more than $30 million to make.

The Louis Vuitton ad aims to promote the brand itself, rather than a specific product. A Louis Vuitton bag makes only a fleeting appearance in the ad, which asks, “Where will life take you?”

“It is supposed to touch our clientele and viewers in ways that perhaps other media will not touch,” said Pietro Beccari, Louis Vuitton’s head of marketing. “This is a way to say Louis Vuitton is different. It is something éphémère, but also something that stays.”

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Mr. Beccari said the ad would be particularly useful in reaching new audiences in fast-growing markets like China, where the image of Louis Vuitton may be less established than in Western countries.

The company said it would run the ad in “rigorously selected cinemas” and on cable and satellite channels that were likely to attract well-traveled audiences. These will include news channels like CNN and BBC World, which many business travelers watch in their hotel rooms, as well as outlets like the Golf Channel, Mr. Beccari said.

“We will not use television in the way Nutella is using it,” he said, referring to the chocolate-hazelnut spread. Mr. Beccari declined to say how much Louis Vuitton would spend on the campaign. Referring to the television channel with the biggest audience in France, he added: “We will not be on TF1.”

Even without television advertising, sales of Louis Vuitton products have been rising. The brand, including clothing, recorded a double-digit sales increase in the first nine months of last year, the company said, with particularly rapid growth in China.

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Like impulse buyers in a Louis Vuitton boutique, Mr. Beccari and Yves Carcelle, the chief executive of Louis Vuitton, did not hesitate in deciding to use television ads. A proposal put together by the ad agency Ogilvy & Mather, part of the WPP Group, showed a collage of moody still images from a variety of films, Mr. Beccari said, and it struck the right tone for the brand, which has been trying to focus on its travel heritage after several years of glitzier marketing for the fashion line.

“We both got goose bumps and said, ‘This is the direction we want to go,’ ” Mr. Beccari said.

We have been lamenting over attempting to find the perfect beach bag. Do you spend $50 or $500, do you get a designer bag or kick-around-bag? It comes down to personal preference and what kind of use the handbag in question will get. What I advise is buying a bag that is in your comfort zone price wise and will perform the task you are looking for.

The Coach Beach Collection is worth checking out, with items illustrated by Pierre Le-Tan, known for his whimsical style and keen eye for color. While the actual beach bags that I would opt for in this collection still cost around $250, they are illustrated beautifully and have the perfect beach feel to them. As far as the illustrated canvas bags go, there is a seahorse, cabana, and umbrella theme. To be perfectly honest, I am having a hard time knowing which I like most. All I can picture is one of these totes, cut off shorts, a tee, my bikini, sunglasses, and a hat. Typical beach wear accessorized by the perfectly cute and fitting beach tote. Each canvas illustrated beach tote is $268 at Coach.

There is also a tote, dubbed the Coach Beach Leather Large Tote, which I adore the shape of. There are light color options available, like cream and seafoam, on a classy and clean design. The inside features stripped lining which we all know is ubiquitous with summer. Coach may release a younger-suited Poppy line but they continue to produce higher end leather lines which are doing well for them. This tote is an example of that, and truly, a beautiful bag. Buy for $598 via Coach.

While every Coach line is not for me, this line is perfectly suited for its purpose and puts a huge smile on my face. Items are selling out fast, so check out more of the Coach Beach Shop here.

The use of denim on footwear is indeed rare, so once you see such, you’ll surely get captivated. Now that’s exactly what these Giuseppe Zanotti Denim Boxer Boots has done to me. The moment I laid my eyes on these, I knew it would surely set a strikingly chic look, especially of course for the fall and winter.

Made from Italian denim material, these Giuseppe Zanotti Denim Boxer Boots definitely show a hard-hitting glamour. Coming in denim material already makes these booties look tough and edgy; and to add to that, laces on the front as well shows a hint of military style to it, plus it also has vertically exposed zip detail that adds design and function to these booties.

These Giuseppe Zanotti Denim Boxer Boots are indeed high with a shaft of 15 inches, and it then has a leg circumference of 14 inches with a leather detail at the cuff.

You can get these Giuseppe Zanotti Denim Boxer Boots at Saks for $1,295.

Show chic Parisian look during the fall and winter by simply wearing these Jil Sander Fur Cuff Tall Boots. Other than keeping you warm for the said seasons, this also guarantees to keep you very much in-style and luxurious, just like what you see on fashionable people in the streets across Europe.

These Jil Sander Fur Cuff Tall Boots are obviously made from black leather, and it interestingly has a pointed toe, which makes it look a lot chicer. And since most booties come in black, this shouldn’t bring any more surprise. But then again, what is certainly astounding about these boots is the fabulous mink fur on the shaft, which should really keep you even warmer. To create a more Parisian look to it, narrow double-strap buckle detail is also present.

Having just the 1?-inch of self-covered wedge heel is enough for these Jil Sander Fur Cuff Tall Boots. It is then finished with 11-inch shaft and 13-inch leg circumference.

These Jil Sander Fur Cuff Tall Boots can be yours for $1,995 via Saks.

Looking for a pair of wellington boots that will keep your feet warm and dry during the long winter months If you are then there are several different pairs now available for you to choose from. However, some because of the name attached to them tend to be quite expensive to buy.

In recent months at some of the summer festivals a number of celebrities including Naomi Campbell have been seen sporting a pair of Jimmy Choo Hunter Wellington Boots this year. However, at a price tag of more than 600 this seems a little excessive for footwear whose main task is to stop your feet getting wet.

So if money is an issue there are plenty of other wonderful styles of wellington boots now available that look just as good and cost far less. For example you could go for the traditional pair of Hunter Wellingtons that are available and which come in wide variety of colors not just the traditional blue or green. How about a more exciting pair of red, pink or even bright yellow ones

Then if you are looking for something that is a little more daring and will keep your feet warm as well this winter then Ugg Australia’s Wallingford Rain Boot is worth considering. These like the traditional Hunter Wellington can be brought online from places at eBay and come with a more respectable and affordable price tag of between 50 and 100. As you will soon discover with the Ugg range of rain boots these again come in a range of colors and finding a pair to match with your outfit should not prove a problem.

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At www.hunterboots-us.com further details and information on the styles are boots that are hot for this coming autumn and winter. Plus here you will find further tips, advice and information on how to care for the boots you do have.