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I've mentioned several times before how powerful fashion is; it can enhance what you communicate non-verbally to the world, and can change your outlook on life, yet without skipping a beat cause mass hysteria, a mob-like mentality that has the power to cause major websites to crash, endless lines to form at dawn, and the proverbial claws to come out. You know exactly what I'm talking about. Jason Wu's highly-anticipated French New Wave inspired collection for Target was released at eight am Sunday, February 5th in stores and throughout the preceding evening on their website, and you'd better believe that I was right there in the thick of it. Over the past few years, Target has collaborated to create affordable capsule collections with the likes of Luella Bartley, Proenza Schouler, Anna Sui, Zac Posen and Rodarte, to name a few, and as the public gradually caught on, these collections began to fly off the racks at record times. We all remember the great Target.com crash of 2011 when the even more highly-anticipated Missoni for Target collection was made live at midnight; the entire collection sold out within a matter of hours, and would have probably done so in minutes save the unforseen website crash. This time around, Target played it very safe. Little by little, similar to your favorite time release painkiller, individual pieces were added to the website without fanfare, resulting in a Twitter/Facebook explosion of link-sharing amongst die-hard fans. While this did preserve Target.com as a whole, the occasional glitch was inevitable; in some cases, an item would be added to the 'shopping cart', only to find that someone actually beat you to the punch in completing the transaction. Oh, the humanity. Needless to say, this has been a shopping excursion of epic proportions from my perspective. Yesterday, a friend and I went back and forth on which time zone the target website was aligned to. As silly as that sounds, being misinformed would have meant missing the chance to snap up anything at all. After hitting refresh and switching browsers, going back and forth between Twitter and Facebook for any piece of information, however small, I was able to secure two pieces I really wanted, however there were several more that just slipped through my e-fingers. There were moments where the link to the Jason Wu shop would be made live, I'd click on it, and then it would disappear as if it was never there. The staggering "Oops..." error messages didn't make matters any better (which primarily appeared when I attempted to search the designer's name), but the most frustrating moment was when the website prompted me to change my password due to account inactivity; an event with absolutely no ties to the shopping extravaganza, but caused my blood pressure to skyrocket nonetheless. It's akin to playing-tug-of-war-with-the-last-sweater-in-your-size of the twenty-first century. Living in San Francisco, making the pilgrimage to either of our closest stores is totally out of the question; everyone has the exact same plan and would end up leaving very disappointed, and less a limb or two. Enter mom. I have to say, one of the best parts about having grown up in a small town in northwest Florida is having the ability to send mom on a shopping quest to several nearby Targets to pick up the missing pieces. Countless phone calls, three dropped calls, and two Targets later, I got what I ultimately wanted. Thanks, mom! By now everything is sold out online (who am I kidding, it's been that way for nearly a day), and picked over to death in stores. I refused to participate in the Missoni madness that took place last year, opting to find the one piece I really wanted on ebay for about double the retail; my peace of mind is worth far more than that. Wu's presence on ebay is at upwards of thirteen thousand items at this moment and rising; all at highly inflated prices (a $50.00 purse is at $500.00 buy it now, for instance). You have to take the good with the bad, though. Once all they hype dies down in a few weeks, the demand will plummet, and you'll find these items on ebay for close to the retail price. There is something to be said about being fashionably late. Below are the images of what I managed to get my hands on:  This was the first piece from the collection that caught my eye. Surprisingly, this didn't sell out as quickly online as I thought it would.  I managed to get this top in a size large from the website, which will probably be a little too big. Oh well, that's what tailors are for.  The first piece apprehended by my mom; It was shown as a look with the above top, which works so well it could be a dress.  Thanks to mom, again, This will be mine, too!  I went back and forth between the dress and the tee in this style, and feel this is a little more versatile. Plus, I have more dresses than I know what to do with (and the dress was sold out in the shop anyway). Take Twenty Two February, 2012 Every Two Weeks a new Taylor Take on Fashion © 2012 All Rights Reserved JLRadio.com ________________________________________________ FASHION TRENDSETTER Click E-Zine -Fashion News! Komenuka Bijin Cosmetics  |
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