Black Friday Craziness

Black Friday is probably the most intense shopping day of the whole entire year. Ironically placed right after one of the most meaningful, sentimental, and touching holidays, Thanksgiving, the completely materialistic "holiday" seems to appeal to a lot of people out there. 

One needs to be mentally prepared for an ordeal such as Black Friday. This is the first year I've actually really participated in the craziness, as you can see, in the picture I posted in above, we camped out for these sales, with our lawn chairs firmly planted on the ground and Starbucks at hand. 

Leah, Jazzmin, and I woke up at 5 O'Clock in the morning, drove to Walnut Creek, and waited two hours at the crack of dawn for some incredible ten dollar makeup deals at Sephora.

I was surprised at how serious the workers dealt with everything. This is how everything worked. Thirty minutes before opening, the workers asked everyone to get into a single file line, which I have to add we were in the front off. When the doors opened they let one customer go in at a time at ten second intervals to avoid the crowding. 

Though I never realized it before, a part of the fun of Black Friday is the crowds and the waiting, there is a certain rush to beating everyone else to a good deal, whether people may believe it or not. In the end, the experience of waiting with my friends was as good as the deals that I got.  

At the end of the morning I left feeling accomplished with more than one hundred dollars in savings and new, good memories. Overall fun experience. 

Versace line release with H&M

The big day is almost here! In late November Versace will be launching an exclusive line with H&M. H&M is a retail clothing brand which sells fashionable items of clothing that are fairly reasonably priced. Although, they are taking it to a whole other level, H&M is now selling for a limited time "more reasonably" priced items for Versace.

Last week it emerged online and in the news that a Chinese website called " Germany Street" was selling the exclusive pieces early on their website.

In recent years, High Fashion Desginers have been known to collaborate with high street fashion designers to make their looks more easily attainable. Because of the exclusivity of these pieces, counterfeits are inevitable. Counterfeit fashion has been in the news lately with shows such as Good Morning America disclosing the issue of counterfeit wedding dresses.

Though this Versace release may not interest most, a lot of die-hards take this VERY seriously. People wait in line for hours to get their eyes and hands on these collections.

And even though this may only be shopping there are rules involved. Because of the limited number of garments shoppers are only alloted a set amount of time to be in the store with a maximum of two of the same item.

The more reasonably priced high end fashion does not end with this line. H&M has been known to do launches with Stella McCartney, Jimmy Choo, and Lanvin. Other stores such as target have done lines with designers such as Zac Posen and Missoni.