Champagne Baggage

A look through the most beautiful and distorted rose colored lens. . .providing insight on art, design, fashion, tasty-bits, social events, people, and anything that fuels a bubbly-cultured-good time and remember to pour your champagne at a slight slant.
-ZW

Tuesday, March 13

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Text from “In South, GOP Voters Balance Faith, Defeating Obama”

LEWIS: Mitt Romney is a Mormon, an unfamiliar faith here. But his religion didn’t come up among the dozen attendees I spoke with. Instead, for people like Judy Sellers, it was Mr. Obama’s faith.

SELLERS: I really don’t think that a nation that falls on Muslim leadership, potentially, is going to be a nation that is going to survive.

LEWIS: Barack Obama is a Christian not a Muslim. It’s an issue that came up four years ago when he ran for president. And it’s not the only topic that made a return appearance last night. John Gentile of Crossville, Tennessee still doesn’t believe Mr. Obama is allowed to be president because his father was born in Kenya.

JOHN GENTILE: I just don’t like the directions that he’s headed in, and personally, I don’t think he qualifies to be president and a natural born citizen. And the Constitution states that you have to have two parents that were born in the United States. So there’s no alternative allegiance by any member of the family.

LEWIS: The Constitution actually doesn’t say that. But it gets to the complicated nature in the deep South of Republicans picking a presidential candidate they think can beat Barack Obama in the fall. That’s the choice voters in Alabama and Mississippi face today when they go to the polls.

Russell Lewis, NPR News, Birmingham

Wednesday, January 25

*explicit* 

No matter what side of this baggage you fall…if you’ve seen Joan’s documentary… hard to question the fact she is a living legend. Yes, she fights (you have to be fighter to make it), but those claws only come out when provoked, if thats not class… bam.

HOWARD STERN: Joan Rivers vs. Chelsea Handler

(Source: youtube.com)

Wednesday, December 28

Why not? (Well, actually I could name about 50)
Chocolate McQueen Armadillo Shoe… princeless? ($58)
-you be the judge 

Why not? (Well, actually I could name about 50)

Chocolate McQueen Armadillo Shoe… princeless? ($58)

-you be the judge 

Sunday, December 25

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I iz Santa Claws
Here’s a festive Caturday for you, courtesy of our Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection.

1914 photo - entitled “Xmas Shopper” 

I iz Santa Claws

Here’s a festive Caturday for you, courtesy of our Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection.

1914 photo - entitled “Xmas Shopper” 

(Source: nypl)

Thursday, December 22

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A new creation fresh from MY ROOM… (Practice Makes Perfect)

Sunday, December 11

“I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world. I have my own State Department, much to Foggy Bottom’s annoyance. We have the United Nations in New York, and so we have an entree into the diplomatic world that Washington does not have.”

Mayor Michael Bloomberg

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Friday, November 25

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Miss Piggy just might be the epitome of the phrase “style icon”.

With Marc Jacobs-attending fashion shows…hmm, I wonder if its awkward posing with a puppet? Especially a puppet with a diva complex.

Friday, October 21

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Wednesday, September 21

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If It Doesn’t Hurt…then you are not wearing it correctly. Fashion is Pain Darling. -Zachary Wooten

I have always said pain is fashion, we bleed to look good… no knows this and embraces the physical element of pain more than Daphne Guinness (one of many eccentrics in fashion that cannot be ignored). Guiness recenelt told the New Yorker:

Teresa Alfonso, Guinness’s personal assistant, tried to get her to eat some of the pasta that had been prepared for the production team. “If I eat, I can’t work,” Guinness, who had been subsisting on Red Bull and Ensure, said. “I’ll eat when I’m dead.”

I am smiling ear to ear-thank you Daphne, thank you.

-ZW