Its less than a week away to... Boxing Day! DSM's Autumn Winter 2008 annual sale begins at 11am on Saturday, 27th December. For those of you in London, please attempt to make your way out there.  Definitely not to be missed!

If trying to find past copies of the Purple Fashion magazine is becoming seemingly difficult, here's the alternative; Purple Anthology. Editors Elein Fleiss and Olivier Zahm have published a book, a collection of the best from the magazine's archive with each chapter covering a different year from 1992 all the way up to 2006.

And if you haven't gotten your hands on the latest issue, I suggest you do it soon. Kate Moss(wearing a Balmain dress, I think) on the cover with Mario Sorrenti, should be a good one.

Images via www.purple.fr.

Was at the Kinokuniya bookstore at KLCC two days ago. My boyfriend and I had made seperate purchases and was at dinner when he took out this Japanese architecture, design and lifestyle magazine called Casa Brutus. Main reason he bought it was because Nigo of the famed A Bathing Ape was featured in the publication and he of course felt lucky enough to find it considering its a two month old copy. While I'm no fan of Ice Cream or BBC or BAPE(two of which are brainchilds of Pharrell and Nigo, while BAPE is strictly Nigo's), I found the magazine to be refreshing. What was most interesting to me are these Japanese styled apartments and spaces. For the most part, we normally always think of zen type spaces when thinking of anything Japanese spaces, but Casa manages to give us something different...mainly in the form of all things fun. While the mag is all Japanese, its images are enough to keep you occupied. The website is worth your time too, because its interactive and you get to flip some of the pages from each month's circulation to see the featured write-ups. Reminder to self, something worth checking out next time I'm at a bookstore. Btw, anyone else love the Colonel Sanders statue in the garage??

Images via Hypebeast.

I'm wondering if I should get these... A vintage miniature dollhouse furniture set, mid-century. I've been watching these the whole week. Two hours left to go..

If you love french parisian labels that are not so easy to come by like Isabel Marant, Maje, Sonia Rykiel, Gerard Deral, Vanessa Bruno, Comptoir des Cottoniers look to no other than Parcel from Paris. They are a website that look for french exclusive items you can't usually find outside of Paris, and bring it right to your doorstep at a minimal cost. Heck, if you can't make it out to Paris, let them bring a little Parisian flavor to you. They've also got a little shop on ebay that sell pre-owned items that are worth checking out. 

Some of my recent purchases from Decades, yay!

Chanel Kelly Green Lizard c. 1990s

Chanel Magnifying Glass Necklace, c. 1997

While its been getting crazy in Miami (where I used to live temporarily) with the Art shows going on, its getting a little crazy in my head with all the vintage shopping I've been doing at Decades lately. Not only have they got me hook, line and sinker with the amazing inventory they have going on over there, they've also got me dreaming of owning and living in a kick ass cool house in a neighborhood like Silver Lake. This is a nice surprise considering I never see myself as someone living in California. Growing up in cities like KL, London, New York and Miami, its a little tough to imagine heading out all the way west, West Coast! But I remember picking up a book on Silver Lake called Bohemian Modern when I was living out in Miami and thinking to myself... hmm, maybe one day it could happen. The neighborhood is full of eclecticism and character, mainly because most of the people who live there are top notch creative heads. But we're not talking flashy cars and huge lawns. These are homes that are to put it plain and simple, straight up cool. If you're feeling like you're in a rut and need a change of scenery, please pick up this book and dream away.... Because it will want to make you do some furniture switching around in your own home/space yourself, and that is always a good thing!

Design Miami opens tomorrow and runs through the sixth this month running side by side with Art Basel, Miami. Brainchild of Ambra Medda, Design Miami has been running for three years straight now. The bi-annual show runs twice a year; one in Basel in June and the other in Miami every December.  She has done pretty amazing things... More to come on her later. Have fun Jess!