My week in shoes.

This week I did an abnormal amount of shoe shopping (for me at least). Since I ended up staying in the city for Memorial Day, I devoted the whole day to shoe shopping. At the end of the day I had picked up two new pairs of heels, and two pairs of black flats for work, but I wasn't very happy with my black flats. Friday, I had to go uptown which gave me the perfect opportunity to go to the Lincoln Center Century 21. There, I found a pair of black patent leather Cole Haan loafers which I quite like, so I will be returning the previous two pairs of black flats. I'm very pleased with my three new pairs—loafers, an everyday wedge and crazy tall heels for parties. I think I'll need to take some time to edit my shoe collection now; out with the old and in with the new!

Thankfully, the weather cooled down this week. I think low 70s are perfect. I've been doing a lot of walking around the city, usually with a vanilla milkshake in hand.
Speaking of sweets, I had a really yummy raspberry bread pudding treat from Sarabeth's for lunch after my first 'bad' day at my internship. I realized afterwards that when I said what happened out loud (missing shopping bag of very expensive handbags that was eventually found, sent the wrong color bag to a magazine, etc.) it really wasn't that bad as I didn't lose or damage anything and I was able to resolve them in the end. Also this week at my internship, more interns started, including one who works with me. Of all the interns, I am so, so glad that we work together. As you can imagine in anything related to fashion, there are lots of personalities, but I happened to work with the girl who I get along with the best.

I was also able to go see the Costume Exhibit: Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations. The idea of the exhibit is interesting, putting two designers whose only similarities are that they are women and Italian in dialogue with each other, literally. Throughout the exhibit there are videos of impossible conversations between Elsa Schiaparelli (a designer from the 1930s,  played by Judy Davis) and Miuccia Prada. I was not a fan of the videos and found them incredibly distracting. I really liked the Prada clothes, and especially the shoes, but I didn't like the Schiaparelli stuff. You could definitely tell it was from another era and didn't quite go with the Prada. Overall I liked it.