Missoni x Target

When you're on your death bed on your birthday you get lots of time to watch tennis.  Ummmmm Novak Djokovic what can I say.  I've followed him from his junior days to the very top.  I am a tennis nut.  I follow the rankings and all the tournaments.  I can give you a detailed biography of every player in the top 300.  It's an obsession of mine which you may not have known about.  Now you do.

You also have a lot of time to tweet and shop online and obsess over the Missoni collaboration for Target.

I had wanted a Missoni bikini since I could remember, but could never convince myself to pay $350 for it.  Cue Target.  Cue the website crashing within 5 minutes and Cue the wonderful Carrie nabbing me the skirt that I wanted before the big crash of 2011.

24 hours after the crash I managed to get on the website and score a bikini bottom (which did not come with the option to purchase a top?????) and 2 hand towels.  All for about one tenth of the price of the bikini.

Say hello to my new skirt

And my bikini bottom

And my two new hand towels.

HAPPPYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Stella McCartney for Target - part deux

We've had 3 years to recover from the pandemonium that was the launch of the first Stella McCartney for Target collaboration.  I think that launch will go down in folklore.  Hoards of women wrestled one another for a silk top and maybe a dress.  The media made fun of it for months.  I distinctly that Saturday morning.  Doors opened at 8am but I decided to check out my local store at around 11am.  I was greeted by a pile of jersey t shirts sprawled through the store and empty racks upon empty racks and bewildered women fighting in the change rooms for any left over items.  A tiny little lady gave me a dress that she was clutching which was much too big for her.  It was silk, navy with long sleeves.  I still wear it on a regular basis.  It's held up pretty well.

A rather secretive launch was held in a sprawling mansion in Sydney last night, but Grazia magazine broke the news of the designer even before the guests had arrived.  One item I really love/want, but not sure I can face the crazy women again!

Need/want/love

via designersfortarget.com.au