CURIOUSER NEW YORK

A guide to shopping for a baby shower...or how not to get carried away at a kids store.

Just a preview of my next vlog about Soho shopping. Click to see more here .

Let me introduce to you my spring obsession - the  PIPER EMBOSSED LEATHER ESPADRILLE WEDGE  from Kenneth Cole New York. They are as comfortable as they are stylish. I'm all for the combo of style+comfort. It comes with the age, I guess... Get them  here . Since the discovery took place in Soho...

In and around Soho on a Saturday afternoon, and with a bit of the overall surrounding of one of the most fashionable districts in the city.

You know how you can find out if the summer is almost over? The end of the season sales and the new Fall 2013 collection presence in the stores!

When Christmas comes, most likely you will go home to celebrate the holidays with your family and friends - in the city or away. And, what's the best way to pump up your Christmas holiday spirit if it's not with the Christmas tree market scene?!

This is something I've been wanting to do for a while - to share on, at least, a weekly basis the great finds - be it an online find and/or something I've stumbled upon on the streets of New York.  This includes the great finds of my travels...[There will be a lot of them, brought to you live from Argentina this winter!] So, this week's fabulous discovery is: Get it now while it's on sale! It was $178.00, but now - $124.60. Click here to see more. And it comes in various color combinations too! I love them, and if it weren't for the Sorel's boots I've just gotten, I'd most likely go for these cuties.

I love this UK brand - All Saints . And what more I love about them is their secret sale - bonanza!

You'll tell me.  The first time I saw these sneakers-wedges , I instantly felt the need to have them. 

Check out my thoughts on Discovering the Swedish minimalism !

What is it about the t-shirts that feature cool cats and/or graphics with the texts in a foreign language that really attract me?

It's been three weeks since I came back from my trip to Germany and Sweden , and I'm snot even close to putting all the photos I took on the trip that I promised to show to my family and friends. I've never realized back when I was a teenager that with each decade new innovations would come - like photo cameras, gadgets, iPhones/iPads and such, that would result in us taking so much more photos that it would become a challenge to organize it all.  Back in the days, we'd take a few photos, then turn in the photo film at a drugstore and in a few days we'd pick up the print-outs - viola! Easy, fast, painless…But nowadays - it's a completely different picture. Now that we digitize everything, and with all the photo Apps we have - we store all our pictures on our gadgets for months and years to the point, where we loose any interest to dig that far back for the photos to put them up in the albums. That happens to me a lot -  unless I take care of my photos ...

I'm not yet done with Stockholm.   Last month when I visited Stockholm, I spent all three days walking around the city, taking a boat cruise only once to reach the far islands of the city and to see the city from afar to enjoy the Old Town at the fullest. One of those days I spent walking around the Stockholm's Sodermalm district, think of it as something close to New York City's SoHo + West Village. Before I went there, I've read in the guide that this district has flourished over the years with the design shops, fashion boutiques, art galleries, furniture stores, cafes, restaurants and what-not… I made it a mission to spend enough time exploring that area so that I could get the full vibe of the district, and I did. 

I couldn't get enough of Stockholm many bikes and super stylish Swedish design offices, galleries and shops - done in a very 'IKEA'/Nordic style. I embarked on the trip to Sweden for many reasons - to see it and to shop in it...

  Toronto is one great city, and by now, most of my Facebook and Twitter friends know it as I've disregarded the fact that I had no international plan for my data usage in Canada and kept updating my status with the photos of things I was seeing, eating, drinking and visiting in Toronto last weekend. It wasn't my first visit to Canada. 

  Don't you just love New York and it's 60-70-80% sample sales? Even though it doesn't happen often, when it happens - it pours. All over the city: Chelsea, Fifth Ave, Union Square... My God! How can a busy New York woman/man make it all happen within just a few days, taken that they all have the same day and time deadlines and the fact that most of us work for a living?

As you know by now, I'm obsessed with my jean shirt . I wear it all the time and with everything.  I find it very versatile and workable for many occasions  - under a blazer with black pants, it looks formal enough but with a casual chick twist. Over jeans with sneakers and a motorcycle leather jacket - it looks both very casual and very America Levi's 80s. Over a short summer dress, it looks also chick and stylish and ... comfortable and warm. A jean shirt is also great for covering any flaws and making an outfit look doable on all occasions.  OKEY, let's just say - I'm obsessed with a jean shirt. The one I got a year ago at Uniqlo , the light wash, has already traveled internationally with me. It has its own passport now, hah! But recently, it's got itself a competition - in the form of a dark wash jean shirt from the same store, Uniqlo.  

Me shopping at the flea market near Loire Valley, France. Don't we all secretly love flea markets and second hand stores ? It's not like they are making a come-back, they've been, actually, around for as long as the first markets back in the Depression era that appeared to be the only ways for the people to sell their belongings for food. Nowadays, most of the people, who sell their stuff at flea markets do not necessary doing it for money, although, it does help to get something back on that YSL circuit 1986, right? 

Bright pinks and blues, neon greens and yellows - the Spring has arrived and the fashion world is telling us that as much as we love our blacks, browns and beige, it's time to add some color to our wardrobes, just as the Japanese and Italians have been always doing it.

There's definitely a trend going on across many non-American stores these days - the simplicity in approaching the fashion, adapting the runaway looks and make them down-to-earth.  I've been also noticing a lot of 'safari' looks, which, as I assume are coming from the likes of Michael Kors , whose latest collection and running in print ads are all about safari. MICHAEL KORS - Modern Safari Collection from Watch Station on Vimeo . All in all, the simple lines in the stylish clothes look pretty universal as they apply to many life situations and occasions - from office attire to traveling apparel and leisure times out on a town. I do like the simple clothes, when they have a bit of 'oomph' in them, like the latest Spring/Summer line at one of my favorites - Uniqlo .