Some bunny loves necklaces

Oh, kind style gods: Thanks so much for smiling down on me this fall. Thanks for making roomier jeans with higher rises. Thanks for allowing me to keep my flats and flat boots. And thanks especially for Lusterbunny.

What is this Lusterbunny, you ask? It's a beautiful line of ceramic charms (beads? medallions?) in vibrant candy colors, fired and emblazoned with deer, vines, chandeliers, paisley, octopi, etc. The jewelry is all handcrafted by Rain Harris and sold on etsy.com (yay, crafts!) and locally at Magpie in Davis Square. Trendy, yet somehow timeless, yes?

So rad:

[I'm wearing this one right now. No, really, I am.]

[My, how gothic of you!]

[Two little birds...]

I can't get enough of these necklaces. They bring welcome pops of color to fall's rather gray palette.

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Crocs are evil

I have long hated Crocs, those ugly plastic shoes designed for the garden but suddenly seen in school yards everywhere -- even on boys!

Alas, my seven-year-old daughter has been begging for a pair for years. With the approach of fall, I thought the issue was behind us for now.

Then my daughter's godmother came to town to visit last night. Anxious to spoil, she insisted on taking the child to the mall and buying her a pair of HOT PINK CROCS.

She bought my three-year-old son a pair of blue and green ones, with Mickey Mouse cut-outs.

What could I do but smile? Especially when my friend and her husband own Crocs themselves?

Can you believe the bill came to $60?

As fate would have it, I arrive at work today to find an email from a co-worker advising me about a story of a boy in Virginia who had his toe nail ripped off on an escalator. He was wearing.. wait for it.. Crocs.

My daughter has already pushed to wear her Crocs to school tomorrow. And I don't like to live in fear.

But pink plastic shoes are just wrong.

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Oh no, she didn't!

There was a rather interesting article profiling Rachel Zoe in Sunday's New York Times Magazine. Though Lynn Hirschberg provided juicy -- and/or troubling -- insight into Zoe's life and how the starved stylist single-handedly conducts celebrity and tabloid fashion, the most controversial lines came from Miss Thang herself:

"Anna Wintour is one of my heroes, but they say that I’m more influential. As great as it is, Vogue won’t change a designer’s business. But if an unknown brand is worn by a certain person in a tabloid, it will be the biggest designer within a week."

I wonder what the Vogue editrix thought of that little quote. Unfortunately, Zoe's ability to churn out teeny-weeny, bug-eyed, bejeweled starlets in her image (Hello, Nicole Richie! We're talking about you, Lohan!) does affect the celebrity fashion landscape and probably influences tweens to lose weight and spend gobs of money on designer jeans. But no one messes with Anna Wintour. No one.

[Zoe vs. Wintour: Coming soon to a fashion show near you. Bangs will fly.]

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