School of Style » Behind The Scenes http://www.theschoolofstyle.com/blog The School of Style Blog is an insiders look at what goes on in the daily life of the School of Style Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:35:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 New York Window Shopping http://www.theschoolofstyle.com/blog/new-york-window-shopping/ http://www.theschoolofstyle.com/blog/new-york-window-shopping/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:24:34 +0000 admin http://www.theschoolofstyle.com/blog/?p=2610 We bought a lot of great fashions while we were in New York City for our first NYC School Of Style class but we also had to leave some stuff behind :( Here are some amazing window displays that we saw while shopping in New York. Enjoy!

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After our class wrapped, which by the way was a HUGE success (more on that in a bit) we did what we do best … shop! We hit NYC hot spots, Madison Avenue and 5th Avenue to shop til we dropped.

The shopping excursion started at Bergdorf Goodman, where Luke scored some major deals. He walked away with a Jil Sander suit, John Varvatos shoes, and John Varvatos black button down shirt — all on sale. More discounts were to be found at Barney’s where Lauren scored big on an amazing pair of Marni flats. After Bergdrofs was window shopping down Madison. We checked out all the window displays of the worlds hottest designer brands; Chanel, Tom Ford, Prada … just to name a few.

All of that walking made us kinda hungry so we hit up Candle 79, a vegetarian restaurant near Park Avenue. Yes, we finally found a healthy place to eat in NYC. The food was amazing but made us amazingly full, which meant walking it off in Central Park. We LAers live for parks and Central Park did not disappoint.

You would think that the shopping stopped there but it didn’t. Sure all the stores were closed but window shopping is always open. Stay tuned for our next post, which has some amazing windows that we shot.

Hooray! We love NYC :)

xoxo,

SOS

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Something we noticed about NYC is that you all really love your meat! We are from SoCal and meat isn’t really something we incorporate into our diets. So finding stuff to eat around here hasn’t been an easy task.

We stopped in The Breslin (the restaurant in the Ace Hotel) for some grub and the selections for non meat eaters was slim pickins. Although everything on the menu looked incredible. Even made us wish for about 5 seconds that we did eat meat. Anyways, it was time to order. I (Lauren) asked the waitress if there was anything vegetarian, she said there was but it wasn’t on the menu. I ordered that, it was a plate of vegetables and it was pretty fantastic. Luke ordered the sweetbread with lentils. Sounds non-meaty, right? Wrong. I tasted a bite of it and it didn’t taste like bread to me. Luke didn’t think it tasted like bread either but he ate it anyways.

Today while we were hanging out with some Ace Hotel employees and told them about our trouble with finding healthy/veggie food. Luke told them how even the bread tasted like meat! Turns out it was meat. Not only was it meat but it was the most hardcore meat ever.  Sweetbread isn’t bread it all. In fact it isn’t even close:

Sweetbread is the thymus (throat) and the pancreas (heart or stomach), especially of the calf and lamb.

Pretty gnarly, huh? At least we got to wash it down with some really great desserts.

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So we had a little difficulty adjusting to NYC when we first arrived, then we quickly remembered how awesome New York is. How did we come to this recollection? We went shopping!!!

Yesterday we when to the best store ever in life, Century 21 to do a little shopping. The results were fantastic. In case you aren’t familiar with Century 21, it is a designer discount store. Not just any designer discount store, this is THE designer discount store. The store is freaking huge and in it contains some ridiculous deals. RIDICULOUS!

We were like kids in a candy store. I mean two stylists shopping for designer duds at like 90% off … It’s pretty much the best thing ever.

Luke scored a sweet Marc Jacobs jacket and Lauren scored, well, everything! Lauren got two pairs of pants from Alexander McQueen, two Margiela dresses, an Allesandro dell Aqua shirt, a Coming Soon shirt, a Proenza Schouler dress, a Dolce and Gabbana sweater, and a pair of Rick Owens jeans. Basically it was about $6,000 worth of clothes for a tiny (very tiny) fraction of that price.

We love NYC!

Peace out for now,

SOS

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Epic jacket!

That jacket weighed about a thousand pounds ..

Room service anyone?

Cover look

The cover!

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One Eskimo

Old Crow Medicine Show

The XX

Hot Chip

John Waters

Diplo/ Major Lazer

Little Boots

Glitch Mob

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The band Temper Trap wore some of the goodies from H&M we brought to Coachella for a quickie backstage photo shoot.  Here is what they wore:

Toby: a bitchin’ bandanna, a button down from Crooks and Castle, a thrift store tee, jeans by Cheap Monday, sunglasses by AM, and a necklace by Aceless

Lorenzo: hat by Peragrimin, tee by H&M, jeans by Lee, sunglasses by Spy, and a jacket by H&M

Dougy: Pants by Ralph Lauren, tank by H&M, and shoes by Tod’s

Johnny: Shoes by Hudson, pants by H&M, a vintage button down, jacket by Diesel, and sunglasses by Spy

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