Author: Christy DeSmith

  • Dealios; Plus, Deep Thoughts on Gift-Buying

    More exciting news for all you patriots intent on fulfilling your duties as Americans this holiday shopping season: Ensemble (2812 W. 43rd St., Minneapolis). A modest boutique inspiring immodest desires. Ensemble hosts its annual holiday shopping party on Thursday from God-knows-when till about, oh, about 8 p.m. That’s when you’ll get fifteen-percent off. Promised goods…

  • Fashion That Gives Warm Fuzzies

    More eye candy from my fave local fashion photographer, Nic Marshall. These latest pics were styled by the ladies of Eclecticoiffeur. The model, I hear, is from Vision. Don’t you just lurve the eye-popping color? I, for one, also like the bucolic backdrops—even if they are reminiscent of the much loathed Anthropologie catalogue.

  • Shopping for Girly-Men

        Cufflinks, fire of the wrist bone. And they make for decent stocking stuffers, too. The shop girl at Via’s worried whether these would be too “jewel-y” for the heterosexual on my shopping list. But I assured her these would go to the girliest manly-man on the planet, my mop-headed boyfriend. The cufflinks he…

  • Superfood Sucks

    First, a preface: I am not a foodie. The blander the better. Nourishment, for me, is achieved by daily ingestions of oatmeal and honey, cinnamon-raisin bagels with peanut butter, salted popcorn, and, as of late, Odwalla Bars. I’ve enjoyed these very much because, well, they’ve made it easy on me—“No Refined Sugars,” say the labels.…

  • Dress Rage

    Oh, and this other thing: What. the. hell. is with this year’s selection of holiday dresses? The New York Times ran a piece this morning, alleging that the year’s holiday dresses are better tailored than last year’s and, again, that the "baby-doll dress is dead." But everyone I go, I am confronted by ads of…

  • Reasonably Promising Shopping Events

    For the women on your shopping list: You might have luck at these two shopping events. First off, there’s No Coast Craft-O-Rama at Midtown Global Market. I was cruising the list of vendors and was happy to spot all sorts of great local jewelry-, clothing-, and crafts-makers as well as the clothing/ephemera designer with the…