The Hills Season 4 ep.3 recap

On this week's dose of reality....

- Whitney tells Lauren that she's going to New York City to do work for People's Revolution. You can see the jealousy in Lauren's eyes when she says "Pack lots of luck" and smiles. Maybe she's jealous that Whitney is getting her own spin-off show, tossing Lauren aside like smelly designer clothes.

- Lauren makes a weird face (see photo) when Whitney mentions Doug. Finally she sees what we've all been smart enough to face: Doug is dumb. But Lauren, never make that face again. It scares me.

- Whitney gives great...no I can't. She gives really awful, TV-stereotype advice to Lauren on how to break up with Doug. "It's not you, it's me." Really? That's all the MTV writers could come up with? And were Lauren and Doug even dating? I thought they hung out a couple times and reminisced about high school. If that's dating now then I'm really out of touch. 

- Spencer disowns Stephanie, his Lauren-loving sister. Evil quota filled.

- The People's Revolution office in NYC is so much hipper than the dump they have in L.A. Cue shots of" typical" New Yorkers wearing all black and skinny jeans with towering heels.

- Kelly Cutrone blasts Whitney for being late the minute she steps inside. I actually cowered in my seat. Poor Whitney looked scared shitless and stammered cute excuses. But Kelly makes it up to her when she tells Whitney to get to work. Work being telling male models to take off their clothes.

- Whitney keeps exhaling heavily while she's surrounded by all the men. I bet she hasn't talked to a guy since the show started. But I would be hperventilating too if I were surrounded by ab-alicious men.

- Kelly Cutrone is awesome because she tries to hook Whitney up with a hot model. I like her more and more each episodes.

- The Devil doth speaketh: "The day I'll be friends with Stephanie again is the day I'll be friends with Lauren Conrad." She-Devil gives him a sad face. Is Heidi starting to regret ditching Lauren? 

- Lauren and Brody go out to eat and they flirt with each other as usual but nothing happens. Except Brody jokes about seeing her naked which is funny when you see her scared reaction.

- Whitney meets up with Alex (hot model) and Kelly bails on them. Wow, no one saw that set up coming!

- You know things are bad for the show when a conversation between Lauren and Stephanie about whether Steph's pet is a guinea pig of a hamster takes up a whole minute of air time. I'll try to erase that scene from my mind. 

- Whitney gets back from New York and tells Lauren all about it not noticing the daggars in LC's eyes. Whitney gets the hot models, Lauren gets dumb Doug.

- Stephanie brings Spencer gifts (for treating her so bad?) and it's funny when Spencer smiles with actual happiness when he gets a book on the C.I.A. 

- Lauren "breaks up" with dumb Doug and surprisingly he gets all offensive saying "I treated you like a princess" and "this hit me like a ton of bricks." Did he just read the cliché dictionary? Maybe the camera crew at his house should have tipped him off that this was coming. Well he is dumb Doug after all.

- Lauren drives off in the sunset while Doug goes back to eating for one.

Till next week!

Model.Live girls get their own cards

If you haven't been paying attention, Model.Live is Vogue's web reality show that follows three girls who are trying to make it big as models in New York. And just in time for New York FashionWeek, IMG has put up their show cards.


I like how Madeline isn't your typical glamour puss model. She looks androgynous in this photo and I like her don't-fuck-with-me expression. Does she have high fashion potential? I'm not sure. I'll wait until I see her on the runway to pass judgment.


Austria looks so glamorous and young (I still think she's 12, not 16.) I love her long hair and those lean legs. She will be hot by next season.



Cato looks really beautiful. She reminds me of Carmen Kass, Gisele and Angela Lindvall all in one model. I think she will go places. I hope that means Paris, Milan and London.

Simon Tham, model, went to my high school?

My friend just sent me this link and asked me if I remember him from our high school, Clarkson Secondary in Mississauga. At first I was said no, there is no way that anyone that good looking, with those abs could have come from our school. But then I remembered...wasn't he that puny little kid who looked like he was 10 years old? Well, he's not puny anymore as you can see. I never knew him personally, but I knew who he was, mostly because he was really small but cute. So you never know just who could grow up to be a model. I bet he can't wait for our high school reunion.

After a little research aka typing his name in Google, I found that he is represented by Sutherland Models and booked an Abercrombie and Fitch ad campaign shot by none other than Bruce Weber. You can see more chesty goodness here and here.
And he might be walking exclusively for Calvin Klein in the upcoming S/S 09 show.
Although I feel strange for looking at these photos because I still think of him as a kid. Shudder. I won't go there.

Gossip Girl Season 2 Ep.1 recap

Warning: It's all one big spoiler so don't read unless you want to be...spoiled.

Ok here we go!

We open with a shot of the McMansions in the Hamptons with Gossip Girl saying "Sex, lies and scandal never take a vacation." And then cut to Nate making out with a blond in the backsteat of a girl. God, don't you miss being in high school? But thank God that guest houses were invented, so if you get bored of having sex in a car, you can just pop over there for some raunchy good times. And no, the blond isn't Serena, it's an older dame. A hot, older dame.

And then we come to delightfully sinful Chuck, who last time we saw him was ditching Blair for some decorator chick. Guess that fling didn't last after the first, erm, fling. Three smiling beauties who apparently don't know English grammar happily take off their bikini tops. There are children near by! What about the children??

There is even sex going on in Brooklyn apparently. Sin isn't just for the Hamptons! We see Dan making out with a random girl in the library while his employer reads aloud to an audience who is blissfully unaware of all the steamy action. After random girl leaves, random hot asian chick comes expecting a make out session but Dan has to go home to finish his unfinished story for his internship. It seems that Dan is nursing his broken heart for Serena by becoming the biggest man whore in New York City. I am oddly turned on by this.

Too bad Jenny isn't getting any action- well sex action that is. She has been spending her summer interning at Waldorf Designs under the tutelage of a bitchy employee. Jenny is trying to get a dress she made on the back of said bitchy employee, but all she gets in response to the pretty dress is "It's not even white, it's bone" and "If I'm going to wear a custom anything, it's going to matter." Damn, this show has the best lines. Jenny is then forced to match buttons as punishment.

Back at the Humphrey household, Dan struggles to write even a sentence of his story, which is supposed to be about his and Serena's break-up but the words just won't come out, he is so heartbroken.

Know who else is heartbroken? Chuck Bass. Once he learns that Blair is taking the Jitney ("What's a Jitney?" asks limo-loving Chuck) to the Hamptons, he shows up at the bus stop with flowers and an awesome bright red suit. But instead of being welcome with open arms, Blair falls into the embrace of a hot dude. Love hurts!

But even the rich must put aside their insecurities and eat together at the dinner table. Chuck quizzes James (Blair's new boy toy) on Blair's favorite movies, proving that only he knows the depths of her soul. Chuck also notices that Blair's heart pin, originally given to Nate when she told him she loved him, is on James's sleeve. Chuck's jaw tenses up' he is upset. Blair ends up taking the pin back which not even James notices.

Blair then chats up Serena and asks her why she hasn't dipped her fingers in some man chowder. But Serena is still missing Dan. I sense a reunion coming up.

Speaking of Dan, remember that story he had trouble writing? Well he didn't write and got fired from his employer. If only he could sort out his feelings for Serena then his genius would be restored.

The littlest Humphrey, that is, Jenny, makes nice with Eric (she was a raging bitch to him last season even though he was her one, true friend) and uses him to get into the fancy party so she can wear her custom dress and show everyone how talented she is. Hey, what are friends for?

Nate and his married fling move their sexual escapes to her house. These kids sure are frisky. Her husband comes home a week early and Nate is forced to jump from the balcony in his skivvies. At least he looks sexy.

Nate's ex, Blair, says the best line of the episode:"Damn that Mother Chucker."
Chuck gets suspicious of James when it's discovered the he has been lying about where he goes to school. If it's not Princeton or Georgetown then he must be a crook! He calls a P.I. (on speed dial) and does some digging.

And look who shows up! Dan!! In an unlikely turn of events, Serena's Grandmother from Hell, says that she has changed her ways, and realizes that her granddaughter's happiness is more important than her own. Has Lily been force feeding her Prozac? She and Dan proceed to the White Party. It always has to happen at a party.

Jenny and Eric are also at the party and Eric introduces her to socialite Tinsley Mortimer (who can't act out a white dress) and Jenny gives her bitchy employer the evil eye.

Nate wants to make his married concubine jealous so Serena kisses him as a favour...right in front of Dan of course. Dan says that nothing has changed, that the drama is still the same. Of course it is, Dan, this is the Hamptons! But then! Dan's two random make-out chicks appear out of nowhere (do people in Brooklyn get invited to White balls in the Hamptons) and bust him for playing them. So him and Serena are even and they get back together. Everything is all right in the world again.

And it turns out that James is actually an English Lord. Not an American Princeton/Georgetown lad. He says he likes Blair's honesty for calling him boring and he lied to her because he didn't want her to like him for his titles. It's a good thing Blair is not superficial...cough. Chuck doesn't stand a chance.

Jenny shows what a good person she is by turning down the chance to intern for Tinsley and continuing to work for Waldorf Designs even though everyone treats her like shit.

Chuck apologizes to Blair and begs her not to leave. But Blair wants to hear those three words that every woman wants to hear from their lover. Chuck doesn't get past "I..." and Blair leaves him for Lord James.

But at least Nate will be getting some action even though summer is ending; the married fling sets up a date to meet in the Fall. Maybe this is for real!

Chuck drinks his sorrows away and Dan starts writing now that he's back with Serena.

Till next week!

BROOKLYN - i made my dress with a man's shirt, bushwick, 09/01/08

Yay! It's September! This means several things

1. Fall is almost here. Actually I consider Sept. 1 the beginning of Fall because it reminds me of school even though I'm not in school anymore. Fall is my favorite season because I love how there are so many ways to dress and how the air is so crisp and refreshing. It also means shopping for new clothes. But first I have to get a new cellphone before I start spending. I hate when technology gets in the way of shopping for clothes!

2. Gossip Girl premieres on the CW tonight! I'm going to keep refreshing the Pirate Bay so I can download it as soon as possible and then post a review of it hopefully by tomorrow. If only my Internet wasn't so slow.

3. New York Fashion Week begins on Friday which I'm so excited about. I can't wait to see what Marc Jacobs has in store for us. I just watched the documentary Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton again last night and I was reminded about how brilliant he is.

4. More Spring/Summer fashion weeks are coming up! There's still Milan, London and Paris to look forward to.

Also here are some randomly chosen clothes and accessories I really want for my Fall wardrobe:

H&M High-Waisted Cocoon Skirt
The skirt reminds me a bit of the Giambattista Valli F/W 08 dresses that poofed out at the hips. I would love to pair it with a tight, sheer blouse to make it have sex appeal.


Kurt Geiger Military-style Ankle Boots
They look like they will shred your feet but God damn they are sexy.


Whistles Majorette PeacoatThe neckline alone does it for me. I am really tired of seeing women's boobs fall out; even during the Winter, it happens. So this high neck is so refreshing and sexy. Less is more, as they say.


H&M Patch Jeans

This jeans are a bit equestrian and rural which I think is a nice contrast to the city and everyone in their dark denim.



Marc Jacobs Cameron bag
I've never been a fan of patent leather but this one with the studs is super hot and perfect for Fall.


Whistles Antler Necklace
It reminds me of Santa's reindeer and Christmas. This is the closest I would come to having a deer's head on my wall.

Studded!!!

I am so overwhelmed by so much love and sweet comments. I just want to thanks you all for visiting and leaving such sweetness! This weekend has been quite calm and relaxing--so much rain, which is a good thing because the weather is much cooler; so I went for a walk.
OMG! Could you believe September is here already? I have lots of shows lined up for the new season; but, I am really looking forward to "Gossip Girls". I have set my Tivo in preparation. ;) While I wait on the premier of Gossip Girls, I decided to catch up on one of my all time best movie "Sound of Music". Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!
:)
xoxo


**Update: dress: forever21