fashion's night out boston 2012

last night was the annual international event fashion's night out.

i celebrated here in boston by walking around newbury street / copley mall / prudential center for a little bit with megan, sarah, and marissa, and showing some of my MARGRAVINE stuff at a pop-up shop at the copley society of art.

i was a little disappointed to see that a lot of the stores in the copley and prudential malls didn't seem to be celebrating this year like they did last year. last year we stumbled upon a lot of cool little treats - tiffany's had a photo booth and fancy chocolates topped with real gold, dior and many other shops had glasses of champagne, saks had lemony cocktails and pinkberry samples, a VIP lounge and a dj, but i didn't see any of those things this year. a couple of times i caught myself thinking "did i get the date wrong or something?". the only consistent thing i noticed this year was the fashion show in the center of the copley mall (with a special VIP only area), but i didn't have time to stick around for that.

i walked back over to the pop-up shop where i stayed until 9PM with my faux fur cowls and collars and chatted with people checking out all the local designers who had set up there.

i had a spot next to laura of pansy maiden, who, along with her incredibly well-made and gorgeous bags, kept me company for the duration! it was really crowded (and warm) until around 8:30, then everyone packed up promptly at 9 and that was that.

i didn't sell anything, sadly, but i did give out a few business cards and even signed up one gentleman for the bazaar bizarre boston mailing list via my iphone haha. an organizer's work is never done!

when i left, i had to carry a huge bag full of all my merch and display stuff. i didn't really feel like walking around and dodging the crowds on newbury street with my giant cargo, so i just went home.

all in all, it was much different from last year for lots of reasons, but still pretty fun. maybe next year i'll attend in NYC?

os gêmeos @ the ica

last friday, some friends and i went to the ica's brazilian street party celebrating the opening of the their os gêmeos exhibit.

it was really fun and the exhibit was awesome to see. i had sort of hoped that there would be more works in the exhibit, but the ones they did show were amazing so i can't say i was all that disappointed.

and i totally found my patronus in one of the pieces

this guy reminded me of prince. his purple suit had actual sequins all over it and was sort of perfect

earlier in the week, i went down to dewey square to check out the progress on os gêmeos' giant mural overlooking the rose kennedy greenway.

the mural is so cool and so important to this city and its severe lack of public art. i don't really have anything to say about the bullshit controversy surrounding the mural because it's just plain dumb.

http://osgemeos.com.br/

clover lover

i'm pretty excited about this whole food truck thing that's happening in boston now. i know it's been going on quietly for awhile, but i guess now that the city has developed an application process, the movement has exploded. or whatever! it's awesome, that's all.

especially clover food lab. sarah and i had lunch at clover yesterday as well as breakfast this morning and both were AWESOME.

yesterday for lunch we both got an egg and eggplant sandwich, we split rosemary fries and each got a lavender lemonade. the whole thing only cost $17 for both of us. the food was AWE-SUM and you can't beat a deal like that.

we went back for breakfast this morning and got popovers and drinks.

again, super good and super cheap <3 dear clover: please stay at BUB! http://twitter.com/cloverBUB