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When I log in to our photo service to see what the paparazzi has come up with on any given day, I never know what I’m going to find. Sometimes it’s great, sometimes it’s all British reality TV famewhores, but usually it’s somewhere in between. Last night, though, I logged in to start the process for today’s post, and I found perhaps my favorite set of photos ever. They include entertainment legend and all-around awesome person Carrie Fisher, a big ol’ French bulldog and a purple Proenza Schouler PS1. Based on these photos, Carrie Fisher might be my spirit animal.
I wonder what percentage of fashion-interested women own or have owned a Longchamp Le Pliage Tote at some point in their lives. I’m probably one of the few who never has – on my college campus, chic girls looking to tote their books chose between Longchamp and Herve Chapelier, and I chose Chapelier for the broader shoulder straps and wider variety of color and shape options. I was in the minority, though; an incredible number of girls I knew swore by their Longchamps (usually plural) and would wear nothing else. To this date, the bags still frequently show up in Best Seller sections on major luxury retail websites. They’re just too versatile not to be popular.
I have never been a fan of the Isabel Marant Bekket Sneaker Wedges that everyone in fashion seems to love. I’ve seen them styled well, but for the life of me, I can’t figure out why someone would pay $700 for them when there’s a whole host of awesome real sneakers out there, most of which look much cooler. Spend a hundred bucks on a good pair of Nike Dunks and save the rest for something else! Anyway, rant over, you get the point – they’re not my favorite and I’m fairly sick of seeing them.
Most tabloids have those “Stars: They’re Just Like Us!” features in one form or another, and it seems like these pictures of Jessica Alba struggling to carry a bouquet of flowers (or perhaps a very chic potted plant assembly? Who can tell anymore these days?) from her car to her final destination will probably end up in at least one of them this time next week. Not only that, but she’s coming from a station wagon! Jessica Alba really is just like us, if you don’t count how she’s incredibly pretty and also very rich. (Maybe some of you are also incredibly pretty and very rich, and if that’s the case, mazel tov.)
In my never-ending (ok, it’ll end when the summer’s over and all the celebs are back to normal) quest to find someone to write about other than the Kardashians, Ecclestones and the Birkins that they buy to match their hair extensions, I bring you these photos of Kristin Davis, out for a morning walk in New York City. I still can’t think of her without thinking “Charlotte York-Goldenblatt,” and I’m sure I’m not the only one – it seems as though parts of Davis’ personality and personal style mesh well with those of her famous Sex and the City character.
Regular readers of BagThatStyle and PurseBlog know all about my fascination with Alanis Morissette and her unexpectedly fabulous collection of designer handbags. You wouldn’t expect someone like Morissette, who skews toward hippiedom, to have an absolutely sick closet full of the finest from Chanel, Balenciaga, Gucci and Proenza Schouler, but that’s what makes her bag habit all the more compelling for me – she’s one of us! 
Do you guys watch Real Housewives of Orange County? I do, against my better judgment, and sometimes as a part of my job. I have varying amounts of contempt for all of the members of that cast in particular, but Alexis Bellino in particular rubs me the wrong way. On a show where literally everyone is fake, she somehow manages to distinguish herself as EXTRA fake. It’s a certain type of achievement, I suppose. Let’s just say that I’m not the woman’s biggest fan, despite the fact that her oafish husband does occasionally make me feel sorry for her.
The neon trend that’s been happening for the past year has been nearly all-encompassing, so seeing a normally staid brand come out with something neon really shouldn’t surprise me. In fact, it generally doesn’t – most brands aren’t beyond a little easy trend-pushing, and color fads are adaptable to most aesthetics. Chanel, on the other hands, was perhaps the one brand I expected not to go for it, but here’s Kelly Osbourne, toting a fluoro Chanel Flap Bag. 
I wrote a while back that I thought that Kanye West‘s stylistic influence had motivated Kim Kardashian to modify her own personal style, and when you see the two of them standing together, how similar they’ve become, visually speaking, is totally apparent. A year ago, Kim probably had half the black clothes that she has today, and I certainly don’t think she had the Hermes So Black Birkin (all black, including the hardware) that she has today. So is that good, or is it bad? He’s definitely the reason Kim’s wearing the Kanye West for Giuseppe Zanotti Sandals that she’s wearing in this photos.
I always forget that somewhere out there, usually somewhere in Los Angeles, Whitney Port is still a thing. She shows at New York Fashion Week now, which is a laudable achievement, even if her line doesn’t seem to have caught on quite as well as Nicole Richie’s. Hey, there’s always next season, and maybe then the paparazzi will follow her even more than they do now. This is another symptom of the summer gossip doldrums – Whitney Port going to the grocery store attracts the attention of bored photographers in a city full of celebrities. Even she seems a bit surprised and dismayed by the whole thing.
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