OMM: casa milà serendipity

Yesterday, hanging around with my husband in cold London town, I felt - out of the blue - like pulling out old photos of a brief trip to Barcelona, without my husband, like five or six years ago. 

Little did I know that at possibly the same moment, the same childhood friends, Sheila and Steven, were in NYC, visiting from home in Malibu, with my other childhood friends, Caryn and Linda.. we all go back to when we were like two, three years old (okay, I didn't meet Caryn until Kindergarten, so that was five) and I only just discovered today, that while I was posting yesterday, they were talking about me, and that trip to Barcelona! I guess this isn't coming out the way I meant it to, except to say that I do so love serendipity.

The first day, Sheila and I were on the roof pool at the OMM hotel, a hot languid afternoon, and we were about to go on an architectural walking tour. And the serendipity of THAT: our guide mentioned that they were doing the first jazz night on the roof of Case Milà, which we could see from the pool. But I didn't realist until now: we were seeing these guys on the roof. They were setting up the jazz night. Which we went to that night: which you'll see in another post.

Second in the OMM Barcelona series. 

all that glitters is not miu miu

What is it about glitter on shoes at the moment? Can someone tell me? When I saw my friend Estelle at fashion week- it was a bizarre act of serendipity, actually, as I was replying to her text, while in the tube, making a plan to meet at Somerset House that day, knowing that it wouldn't send til I got to Embankment station, and who should walk onto the stop at that moment, mid-text, but Estelle! (and her blog name is Serendipity, and it's my two numbers: 23, and 7) and she was wearing these glitter shoes. I loved the way she paired them with red trousers - I love lavender and red, to me, it 'redeems' red - anyway, she said she got them at Primark, really cheap. Something like £6.

My previous post - and subsequent discovery that Office are selling a similar pair, the Larry, for £62 - reminded me that I'd forgotten to post this. There has been such a fuss, such a feeding frenzy, for the Miu Miu glitter boots, and court shoes - and I like them, and I LOVE Miu Miu as a brand (I love Miuccia Prada, period: as a person, and as a creative being).



The thing about me is, I instinctively bristle at any trends that start getting out of hand. I might like something on my own - like the way I admired Estelle's shoes - but I kind of shrink away from that crowd mentality, that fanatical 'everyone's wearing it' thing. Still.. there's something so Dorothy's ruby slippers in the Wizard of Oz mentality about these shoes - and it's a concept that has such legs.. sorry, the cliches are just running thru this post, I'll stop now.



Thank you to Estelle of Serendipity 2307, to Miuccia Prada, for your inspiration, and to Net-a-Porter, for inadvertently letting me steal these four product shots. This pair of gorgeously impractical glitter and suede peep toe booties, for example, can be purchased for a mere £555. They are boots meant for taxis, and parties, and most definitely, not made for walking.