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Velvet Luxe

Velvet is soft and warm and perfect for winter. This season pick yourself up something velvet like this Velvet Blazer By Francine ($297 via Girlshop). It's the perfect dress me up when you want to be comfortable with that casual style.

Here's more velvet picks of the season:

Andrea Behar Velvet Jacket ($225)

T Tahari Stretch-Velvet Clover Jacket ($198)

Polo Jeans Velvet Jacket ($149)

Alice + Olivia Velvet Skinny Pants ($242)

7 for All Mankind Velvet Jeans ($176)

Anthropologie Velvet Minidress ($298)

David Meister Velvet Top ($225)

Velvet Ballerina Slipper ($265)

Web Snob Weekly Roundup

At the end of each week, I'll be posting a Web Snob roundup of the best posts during the week from the hippest fashion, beauty, and lifestyle blogs.

FASHION:

Stylehive shows us the modern style of the Liza Top by Katrin Schnabel.

Stylebites gives you tips on how to store your summer wardrobe to get ready for winter dressing.

Second City Style shows off the freshest coats for fall.

Aesthetics + Economics shows her stripes for Spring 07.

Fashion Tribes Podcast Interview with EBay's Shawn Henderson.

ACCESSORIES:

Bag Snob Tina gives us the skinny on the hot 50% off sale going on at Net-A-Porter.com along with her picks for the best handbags to snatch up!

Mattie Roberts reports on accessories in Paris' Marais district. Ooh la la!

Jewelry Weblog introduces us to Ethos Men's Jewelry.

BEAUTY:

Girlawhirl travels light with Trish McEvoy's simply pretty face compact.

The Beauty Newsletter Elke shows her Halloween makeup ideas from the past.

Beauty Daily gives us the skinny on hair extensions with sew in wefts.

Fashion Tribes Beauty Buzz helps us soothe our skin like a sensitive supermodel.

LIFESTYLE:

I'm Not Obessed interviews singer John Legend.

Fashion Tribes L.A. Story gets the low-down on the Hotel Cafe Tour with Joshua Radin.

Kate's Chocolate Goodness

I was running errands early evening in downtown SF and sauntered into the Kate Spade store for a quick browse around. These chocolate patent wood heeeled Kate Spade Abigail shoes caught my eye. I'll have to go back and try them on when I have more time. The are the perfect blessing of height with the ease of a flat. There was also black patent leather but chocolate brown just seems so much more delicious!

Coquette Things - Flats

I love ballet flats and the new Steve Madden Tipie flats ($69.95 - $79.95 for lepoard) are extra sweet with a patent leather quilted tip and soft suede. The only problem right now is that they aren't quite out yet but you can pre-order them now off the Steve Madden site or just sit tight for another few weeks until they get into the department stores. Flats are now going beyond basic black so here's your chance to experiment with different colors, prints, and textures.

A girl can never have too many flats, so here's some of my picks for flats this season:

Steve Madden Bunny Peep Toe Flat ($58.99 sale)

Tommy Hilfiger "Tina" Peep Toe Flat ($65)

James Oliver "Cynthia" Flat ($104.95)

Sigerson Morrison "Belle" Flat ($270)

Nine West "Shelbi" Flat ($64.95)

Pazzo "Matti" Flat ($79.95)

Shopping goes High Tech in SF

I finally had a chance this past weekend to visit the new Westfield San Francisco Centre that houses the new big Bloomingdales. What I loved from when I entered the door was how high tech everything is these days.

The touch-screen "iDirectory" greets you with a typical directory map but also lets you type in where you want to go and it will show you on an interactive map, where you need to walk to get there.

LV is all in lights to greet you at the entrance to Bloomingdales. I love the black and white checkered floors.

A skin care analysis machine at the SK II cosmetics counter. I just found out that SK-II is a Japanese skin care line.

Defintely not high tech, the amazing dome that was built back in 1908 and restored as a centerpiece for the shopping center.

Read more about the Westfeld SF Centre at SF Gate.

See all the flickr photos

Stylehive Launch Party

Last night I got invited to go to the Stylehive Launch Party here in San Francisco. It was lots of fun to finally get to meet the stylish and cool people behind Stylehive - Michael Carrier, Stephanie Wong, and Sabrina Yeung.

Beetini's were the drink of the night as we got a chance to see some of the cool new features of Stylehive - the follows and magazine feed.

The lovely "stylebee" Stephanie Wong who just got some fabulous fake lashes put in at the Thi Cosmetics table. Stephanie is expecting her first baby in a couple months!

I also got to catch up with my fellow fashion blog friends Marisa Todd of Glam.com and Leslie Scott of Fashion Tribes.

Click here to see all the party pics from the night!

Gone Shoppin'

It's nice to be back home after all the wedding craziness and fun hawaiian honeymoon. (I promise I will show pics soon of the dresses I wore.) Now that there are no more wedding expenses to worry about, it's also nice to be back into the real world of shopping, online shopping (and mostly craft stuff) that is. Plus I'm not about to break the bank anyway, since most of these things are under 20 bucks. In getting back up to speed at work, I ended up buying a few things in the process.

Here's what I've bought:

Isaac's Style Book (free, just pay $3.95 for shipping)
I just love magazines and couldn't resist this. The design looks really cool.

Wee Wonderful Fall Stitchettes ($12)
4 original emboridery patterns by Hillary Lang. I love all of her work.

Starlets of Craft Calendar 2007 ($14)
I thought this was a really nice designed calendar and would be fun to have in my craft corner.

Little Pocket Book ($19)
Something else I am eyeing right now is this Little Pocket book from One Good Bumblebee. I love all the fun illustrations.

An Apple (or Pear) a Day

I don't wear wrist watches but I am dying over these new necklace timepieces by Marc by Marc Jacobs. There's four total to choose from (others are: red star and blue circle) but I love the fruit ones like this green apple or the yellow pear. For only $125 get yourself both if you can't decide!

Coquette En Vacances

I will be on a little break these next couple of weeks as I'm getting married. (Yah, married!) So, the Coquette blog will be on vacation until October 16th. I haven't had time to respond to any emails or requests lately so that will resume when I am back. Merci beaucoup!

In the meantime, please check out the CRAFT Blog for your daily dose of crafts and please subscribe to CRAFT Magazine!

xoxo,
Natalie