AND MY TOMBSTONE SHALL READ

ITS OFFICIAL; I AM A SLAVE TO SHOES. I CONTINUED TO ABUSE MY CREDIT CARD TODAY. ABOVE, MY NEW CHANEL BALLET FLATS. (AND MY TOMBSTONE SHALL READ: 'SHE DIED POOR, BUT GOD-DAMN SHE HAD AN AMOUNT OF SHOES') - SW

THERE IS ONLY ONE CHANEL...

[ABOVE] LONDON LAMP POSTS

LEGEND HAS IT THAT THE SECOND DUKE OF WESTMINSTER, HUGH RICHARD ARTHUR GROSVENOR, WAS SO LOVE-STRUCK BY MADEMOISELLE 'COCO' CHANEL BACK IN THE LATE TWENTIES AFTER THEY MET AT A PARTY IN MONTE CARLO IN 1925, THAT HE ORDERED ALL THE LAMPPOSTS IN WESTMINSTER TO BE ADORNED WITH HER INITIALS, ALONGSIDE AN ORNATE W - THE DUKE'S CREST. POOR OLD HUGH WAS LEFT HEARTBROKEN WHEN, DESPITE HIS EXTRAVAGANT GESTURE, CHANEL TURNED HIS PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE DOWN SAYING: "THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL DUCHESSES OF WESTMINSTER, THERE IS ONLY ONE CHANEL". THAT TOLD HIM....... SIGH. - SW

CHANEL CUP CAKES TRES CHIC...

VINTAGE CHANEL = ♡ PALPITATIONS

VINTAGE CHANEL JEWELLERY GIVES ME HEART PALPITATIONS. THIS EXQUISITE SELECTION IS FROM THE ARCHIVE OF NEW YORK BASED VINTAGE COMPANY 'WGACA' - [WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND] - HOWEVER IF YOU ARE LOOKING TO TREAT YOURSELF OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE THIS NEW YEAR, THE BEST SELECTION AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE IS FROM [SHOPBOP]. THERE IS JUST SOMETHING MAGICAL ABOUT THE DOUBLE CC, DOES WONDERFUL THINGS TO A GIRL! COMBINING THE CC ON MY FAVOURITE MEDIUM OF JEWELLERY, & YOU HAD ME AT, COCO. - SW

FOREIGN CURRENCY. NULL & VOID.

Before i share with you another pearl of shopping wisdom (read; self justification on spending a lot of money on consumer products that I neither need or can take with me to my next life, just really, really, really REALLY want. Right now.) I have another shopping theory.

I am lucky enough to travel. A lot. At last count, I spend more time out of Australia (my home) then in. I am in no means complaining, one of my life goals was to be able to have a career that allowed me to travel - life is good. I do not tell you the rate I rack up frequent flyer miles for any other reason then the prelude to my second shopping philosophy (if you are new to this Blog (Firstly, Welcome!) you can check out my first philosophy on how you can actually MAKE money whilst shopping, no I am not involved with AVON, AMWAY or any kind of pyramid scheme).

SO... I travel alot. That means alot of different currencies (Exhibit A... my passport wallet below).

There is something that triggers in my mind (I like to to call it a Chanel-gasim), that when I look at a foreign currency price tag, if I instantly cannot convert it to AU$ OR US$ (I think this is more then fair, I am allow 2 currencies in the conversion equation) then its value could well be 'much cheaper then i could get it at home'. OK, I know 'much cheaper then i could get it at home' is not a currency, nor is it a 'value'... but the beauty of that is... it's 'much cheaper then i could get it at home' (OK, it may very well be triple the price I would pay for it at home, but my mother taught me to alway walk on the bright side of life, so, cheaper it is). Reality does kick my butt, monthly actually, (or my account department manager does) when they receive my credit card bill, which conveniently converts all expenditure to AU$. No, thank YOU AMEX.

Ignore is Bliss - as I post this from HK airport, where shock horror, all the price tags are in HK$, it would be a crime not to see what I can pick up as to SAVE money on goods that i can get here 'much cheaper then i could get it at home'.... - SW

HELLO, LOVER.

CHANEL STORE, HONG KONG. I want to move my bed in & live happily amongst all the double CC's. Everything about this brand is breath-taking. -SW

'Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.' - Coco Chanel

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