My Week in Work: July 12-16, 2010

Where I worked this week: the room desk at the Hotel Palomar Philadelphia

I've had quite the busy last few weeks. This being summer and all, people are all over the world and I've been double-timing it with the stories. So, partially to back up my excuses for not writing here so much and partially to brag about how much work I did this week, I present: My week in work...

Monday

• The one about Spain's World Cup victory
• The one about Emirates flight attendants
• The one about budget bus companies
• The one about passport prices
• The one about diamonds
• The one about Louis Vuitton's World Cup case
• The one about V Magazine
• The one about Yigal Azrouel
• The one about Selfridges' apology
• The one about the Vera Wang dress
• The one about the Hotel Palomar video

Tuesday

• The one about travel shoes
• The one about Massachusetts
• The one about the Gayborhood
• The one about the unfair United flight
• The one about the condom store
• The one about pricey bicycles
• The one about fashion brands on Foursquare
• The one about Shanghai Tang
• The one about Miu Miu Sardinia

Wednesday

• The one about travel taxes
• The one about the baggage thief
• The one about Spirit Airlines
• The one about links
• The one about Palm Springs fashion
• The one about the Old Spice ads
• The one about Kris Van Assche
• The one about Jenna Lyons
• The one about Hotel Palomar
• The one about Berlin's Weinmeister Hotel

Thursday

• The one about Argentina
• The one about Hermes luggage
• The one about Park Avenue Summer
• The one about full-body scanners
• The one about Abercrombie bedbugs
• The one about the Barneys Co-op card
• The one about the Orion case
• The one about Barbie's Louboutins
• The one about intense rings
• The one about Gianni Versace
• The one about Miyako Hybrid Hotel

Friday

• The one about Obama in Maine
• The one about The Modern
• The one about Spirit Airlines' fees
• The one about more links
• The one about Vuitton's Eiffel Tower
• The one about Chanel Pre-Fall
• The one about Victoria's Secret bedbugs
• The one about The Market at The Piazza
• The one about Obama at the Holiday Inn

The Difference Between Travel and Fashion People

Okay, internet. We need to talk. I am about to make severe generalizations, but this rant needs to happen. It keeps entering my head when I see particular examples of the below day in and day out.

• Fashion people don't get Twitter. There's nothing sadder than hearing that so-and-so big fashion names, who are otherwise terribly interesting people, have joined Twitter and then seeing that their tweets are so uninteresting to the point of annoyance. It's even worse if they start using texting language ("lol," "ur"). Fashion PR people and some bloggers/journalists are the exemption; it just seems to be the fashion personalities who don't get it.
• Travel people get Twitter too much. Sure, it's an excellent networking tool and a platform for getting your name out there and your travel stories read, but when your tweets contain hashtags up the wazoo, weeks of references to an obscure convention you attended along with maybe 12 of your 1,200 followers, and 30 rapid tweets that show one side of a conversation on travel tips, you suck. #unfollow.
• Fashion people travel way more than travel people. I could probably scientifically prove this if I had to. Fashion people--those actually involved in the fashion machine--are all over the place, all the time, and jumping continents comes naturally quickly. Life is one beautiful trip from Paris to Milan to New York to Miami to Shanghai to Moscow to the wilds of Norway to Buenos Aires and beyond. Travel people, on the other hand, have their destinations. It's a trip and then home. Trip and then home. Unless you're doing an around-the-world, but even then you're still not traveling with the freedom of fashion people.
• Travel people do the fashion thing with difficulty. A prime example is something I've been championing whenever possible--that travel shoes do not have to be ugly. I realize this is an uphill battle, that tourists will forever be wearing Kipling fanny packs and Teva sandals, but damnit at least try for some personal style? If you can plan a 3-week long Shinkansen tour of Japan, then surely you can put something better than Crocs and Nike on your feet. And buying an Alexander McQueen scarf in London or a Chanel bag in Paris is NOT what I mean; that doesn't count.

The Last Six Months in: Shoes

Before it becomes almost six months since my last post, I will do some quick updating and then (hopefully) resume blogging here on a regular basis. Just so everyone is clear: I am a pro blogger at other sites, which takes up all my time and doesn't usually make me want to keep blogging in my free time. But alas.

My last six months in:

• High Heels:
  

  I almost bought these Proenza Schoulers

  and these Givenchys,

  but ended up buying these Christian Sirianos

  and these Zaha Hadids.

• Dress Flats
  

  My love for Y-3 continues with these gold Washibas

  Memories from Roma soccer games stream back with these Italy World Cup limited-edition Puma Tekkies

• Boots:
  

  The Barneys sale comes through again as I score the Prada Runway F/W 09 black garter boots