Splendora Newsletter, September 27 2002

What to wear: Shirt dress over cropped pants (80's to the max!)
What to hair: Natural vegatable-based dye
What to make-up: Rosebud Strawberry Lip Balm
What to listen to: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, The Last DJ
What to see: Sweet Home Alabama
What to Read: Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
What to cable: Manchild
What (not) to TV: Cedric the Entertainer
What to drink: Sweet Reisling paired with Vietnamese food
What to make: Pureed potatoes with scallions and parsley
What to buy: A vintage cardigan with grosgrain trim
Secret Weapon: Baby Oil in the shower

We would like to welcome two fabulous merchants to the Splendora Network, Echo Furniture in San Francisco, and AYA Salon in Los Angeles, famous for Thermal Reconditioning (permanent hair straightenting!)

Noe Valley's Echo Furniture features simple and stylish wares for your home & AYA offers amazing hair and skin services for the discriminating L.A. customer.

More on AYA and ECHO

Can you guess who these lovebirds are? We'll give you a few hints: the long-haired lady is someone whom we have labeled La Homewrecker, and the dashing dude just had his braces removed. Give up? The lip-locking lovelies are none other than the duo of Cruise and Cruz. Someone should mention to them that PDA is so out. In fact, there seems to be a correlation between being caught canoodling in public and calling it quits (think Jennifer Lopez).

Who: Jimmy Fallon and Tara Subkoff

Why: Both are extremely vain (disillusioned) in that "I'm just a down-to-earth mega talent" way

Where: Spotted at Tara's Imitation of Christ show during NYC Fashion Week and on the Red Carpet at last week's Emmy Awards in L.A.

Celeb Cred: Jimmy has the whole SNL/MTV thing and used to hang with Winona. Tara designs re-fangled vintage wares for her I.O.C. label which is usually sported by hipster extrodinaire Chloe Sevigny

What We Don't Get: What is an indie darling who stages edgy, voyeuristic fashion shows doing with a butt of the joke kinda guy? We suspect she tells people that she's attracted to the fact that he really "puts himself out there"

Lasting Power: We give it another few weeks until Sevigny tells Tara that Jimmy "is so affected"

It was only a matter of time until the cheekiest Brit of them all opened her very own store in the Big City. The opening of the Stella McCartney store brought all of the high-fashion priestesses together for spirits, trash-talking on Phoebe Philo, and karaoke. Apparently the girl with the most cake (Gywnie of course!) got up on stage and entertained the crowd by singing Smokey Robinson's "Crusin'". We have the Duets soundtrack where the ditty is featured and we must admit that the girl can sing (even better than her B.F.F and fellow Anglophile Madge). Aside from the vegetarian hot-dog cart and all of the celeb hub-bub, it was so about Stella's beauteous clothes.

The Fabulous Stella Show

SAN FRANCISCO
Bare Escentuals
The Hillsdale B.E. is having a National Makeup Artist Event featuring the fantastic skills of Bravon. Call (650) 377-0294 for more details.

Celebrate at the CANVAS
HANG galleries is celebrating the 2 year anniversary of their Inner Sunset location, the Canvas. The party begins at 7pm and will feature great art, spirits, and live music. Call (415) 504 0070 for details.

LOS ANGELES
Sample Sale
Today and today only at this fun showroom there will be wholesale prices on clothing and accessories from lines like Hand Maid, Tres Flores, Rigged T-Shirt Couture, and Grey Ant. And if that wasn't enough, Creative Scentualization will be handing out free samples of her new fragrance, Perfect Perfume. The showroom is located at 110 E. Ninth St., Ste. A-1042, (213) 236-9421.

NEW YORK
Designer Korner
This boutique is having a great sale on their designer accessories. You must attend, Prada and Gucci items will be on sale! The store is located at 15 Prince St., (212) 343-8072.

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