Hot Five: 25 June 2010

LUSTING AFTER_Black top from ‘Cafe by Women’
You know those people who are like a heat seeking missile to stylishness? They can see the potential in anything, pull it off and make you feel you could also do the same thing? Well, we think Kelly, she of Gran’s Loose Change, is one of those women! Visiting our office this week, Kelly sported an amazing Moochi-esque black top with ties, flowing tails and all round amazingness – that she’d picked off the rack, worn a size bigger than recommended and left loose and floating. The top in question is from Mount Maunganui label Women and from their Winter 2010 Cafe range. It retails for $366, but a little birdy told us there’s a sale coming up. My photo doesn’t do it justice really – you need to see it moving with the tails flailing effortlessly behind. So if you’re interested in seeing if there’s a Women stockist near you, cntact Kelly directly on kelly@vmarketing.co.nz

VISUALISING IN MY ROOM_Penguin Classic RED editions
I love books. Books for reading and books for collecting; and I hands down love the Penguin Classics range of books in the orange covers. Divine! But you know how much more I love anything red – so when I saw the Penguin Facebook page this week announcing their collabo with (PRODUCT)RED I was beside myself! A selection of the Penguin Classics have been turned RED with a specially designed cover, featuring an iconic sentence/line from the book done up all gorgeously – and it’s for a good cause with 50% of profits going to the Global Fund to help eliminate AIDS in Africa. So far there’s the above pictured, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostroyevsky, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, The Secret Agent by Jospeh Conrad, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Therese Raquin by Emilie Zola and Dracula by Bram Stoker currently swathed in red, but you can place your vote now to decide one more Penguin Classic that will be turned red at Christmas – my vote goes to Wuthering Heights or Little Women!

DEVOURING_Kapiti Spicy Apple Crumble Icecream
When it comes to movie going, I like my traditions – and if I’m luxing it at the likes of The Lido, The Capital or one of the Rialto complexes, that routine includes a gourmet ice cream, generally always chocolate. But last Wednesday night, after ordering something other than the Spicy Chicken Itame from Wagamama the trend continued when I was confronted with a icecream cabinet sans cocoa! Shock horror. What to order? Luckily my girlfriend Whitney took the situation into her own hands and promptly ordered us two tubs of Kapiti Spicy Apple Crumble. What luck! You know the taste of delicious vanilla icecream that’s gone all melted after you’ve scooped it over fresh-from-the-oven apple and cinnamon crumble? That’s this! There’s even crumble pieces and everything.Delicious, delicious-ness in the form of icecream. If you’re at a Kapiti scoopery in the near future, I HIGHLY recommend you order this. Scooperies I recommend are the Kapiti Store at Elliot Stables, or the Rialto movie counter in Newmarket.

POUTING GLAMOUROUSLY WITH_Karen Murrell Red Shimmer Lippie
While browsing Helene Ravlich’s beauty blog “Pretty Beautiful”, I came across her rave about Karen Murrell’s moisture stick and knew I had to get my hands on this hot new beauty range. I’m in love with pretty much the entire range to be honest, but today, on this dreary Friday I’m loving the Red Shimmer Lippie for its ability to brighten up the gloom. Murrell’s website states that “a woman consumes an average of nearly two kilos of lipstick during her lifetime” through daily tasks such as eating, drinking and kissing! And if you’re going to eat any lippie, this one would have to be on your preferred list surely – with no mineral oils, animal based material, parabens or preservatives – and it still smells/tastes great. I also love it because it’s the first red lippie that I’ve been able to apply in one smooth motion, from the first time I took it out of the packet and feel polished rather than like a practicisng clown. $25 from stockists like these guys.

LISTENING ON REPEAT_I Think I Like You Too by Jamaica
It was a tough ask to find this week’s listening on repeat, because to be honest my soundtrack has mainly comprised of Our favourite: Brit Hipsters (Florence, Ellie, Imogen, KT, Kate and Lily) but at the last minute the universe delivered with an email  to check out this track ‘I think I like you too’ from French Hipsters, Jamaica. The video’s shot by So Me, who directed A Cross the Universe about fellow french cool-kids, Justice (do the D-A-N-C-E) . Don’t be fooled by their name, Jamaica aren’t reggae or dub, they’re “new-wave meets grunge meets club” according to their MySpace and their song ‘I think I like you too’ is the perfect pairing with my red lippie above to blow away the cobwebs at the end of the week. You can’t help but bob you head, tap your feet and type five times faster – just what I need today to get the new nzgirl site ready to unveil….