It's Friiiiiiday!
Hello weekend! Just a few more office-bound hours to get
through and then it's time for gin & tonics, lie-ins, shopping and a few
more gin & tonics... With the gin in sight, here's our round up of the week
gone by to brighten up your day and hopefully make 6pm roll around a little
faster. This week the Mice have mostly been...
Dancing at our desks to Santigold's new album, Master of Makebelieve.
We've loved Santi since her first album, L.E.S. Artistes was the
soundtrack to an amazing 3BM holiday in Mykonos in 2008. Since then
there's been a bit of a Santigold hiatus but earlier this year she returned and
on 24th April she released her long-awaited second album. I've been
trying to limit my iTunes downloads recently - clicking a 'buy' button on my
iPad is just far too easy; five minutes in the iTunes store and I've spent a
couple of hundred pounds without even realising... The only way to limit
my purchasing is to go cold turkey and avoid the source of the problem
altogether, so no iTunes. But no iTunes has meant that I've been hugely
neglectful and had completely forgotten that the new album was out. That was
until last Saturday when I was getting ready for a party, reached for my iPod
to play L.E.S. Artistes, and thought hang on a minute... So I made a concession
to my new no iTunes policy and entered the store of no return - thank God I
did. The new album's been on repeat on my iPod ever since. It's not
quite L.E.S. Artistes but it's a slick slice of electro, MIA-esque pop which
will definitely get you revved up for a night of drinking far too much wine and
should definitely be the soundtrack to the next 3BM holiday...
Santigold - Disparate Youth
Drooling over all the fabulous Cannes Film Festival fashion. Last week's Met Gala was a nice little warm-up to the twelve day French fashion extravaganza, but just two days in and the NYC red carpet has all but been forgotten in the face of some megawatt gowns in Cannes. Our favs so far? On day one, Eva Longoria in heart-stoppingly beautiful Marchesa and Diane Kruger in etheral, pistachio Giambattista Valli Couture. On day two we loved Marion Cotillard in Christian Dior, the epitome of French chic even down to her Chopard diamond studded hair.
Images via: www.redcarpet-fashionawards.com
Doing calculations to
work out how I can afford a piece of McQ Alexander McQueen's debut runway
collection. Yesterday Net-a-Porter launched its seven day
pop-up McQ store - a chance to privately order Sarah
Burton's McQ Alexander McQueen's fall runway collection. Each limited
edition piece will be made to order in the Alexander McQueen atelier in Italy
and will be shipped as soon as it's ready. But here's the thing, although
you order now, you pay on delivery. McQueen are estimating that the
shipping date will fall sometime between 15 September and 31 October which
means that we have a minimum of seventeen weeks to save for any McQ amazingness
that we order... Seventeen whole weeks. Or eighty five whole days...
My top covets from the collection?
£1170
Image via: www.net-a-porter.com
Image via: www.net-a-porter.com
Now, I don't have a spare few
grand knocking about but it has got me thinking... That beautiful,
beautiful bodysuit is £1170 and there are
85 whole days until I would have to pay the lovely people at Net-a-Porter.
And if I divide 1170 by 85 I get
the eminently affordable £13.76. A piece of
draw-droppingly gorgeous fashion history with couture-like detailing for the
bargain price of £13.76 a day? How could anyone pass that up?
Let's put £13.76 in context. A zones 1-6 travelcard on the
tube is £15.80 - that's £2.04 more expensive than my McQ bodysuit.
Get up a bit early and walk to work everyday and you'll have the perfect
body to slip into your bodysuit when it arrives... A large glass of house wine
is usually around £4.50, just three glasses of wine and you'r at my McQ
bodysuit. Swap the wine for tap water and you'll wake up every morning
fresh and smug and hangover free but more importantly, come autumn you'll own
the bodysuit...
You have until midday (GMT)
on Wednesday 23 May to place your orders, so get those calculators out, get
tapping away, start working out what you can drop from your daily spending
(lunch? for wimps and those who won't be wearing McQueen this autumn),
order up a storm and start putting those pennies in your piggy bank...you can
thank me in September!
Wondering how
it took us so long to catch onto 30 Rock?! Just a few episodes into
the first series and I'm already hooked! I have a confession to make,
Saturday's iTunes slip-up didn't end with the Santigold album... once I had a
taste for clicking that 'buy' button I didn't want to just leave it at a measly
one album, I was hungry for more...(this is why I need to be cut off at the
source...). A little browse around and I was suddenly also downloading
the first series of 30 Rock. But again, thank God I did... If you're one
of the few other weirdos who hasn't ever seen it (where have we been?
Living in caves?), 30 Rock is the Tina Fey created NBC TV series which
centres around Liz Lemon (Fey), the head writer of a weekly comedy sketch show.
Said to be loosely based on Fey's experiences writing for Saturday Night
Live, it's fun, easy viewing and absolutely hilarious. I love, love, love
it!
Happy Weekend!
x
The Mice
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