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"There are two types of people in the world, in my mind: What I call the &amp;quot;planners&amp;quot; (i.e. your friend that started stressing about New Year&amp;#x27;s Eve plans LAST January 1), and then those that constantly try to shuffle their life into a state of organization. I am genetically programmed to identify with the latter but I&amp;#x27;ve always harbored jealousy for those hyper-organized-list-checkers. Work is relatively quiet around this time of year, so naturally every January I go through the same motion of trying to learn to be a &amp;quot;planner&amp;quot;. Apparently, the shoe designer Pierre Hardy is in the same mode--check out what he helped inspire me to create, after the jump. The month of December rolls around and I don&amp;amp;#8217;t recognize myself anymore...The Container Store and I become best friends when in previous months I couldn&amp;#x27;t get there with a GPS. It puts you in a trance-like state. People bustling around with carts full of empty boxes, hangers, scented sachets...things that you didn&amp;amp;#8217;t even know existed to organize more things that you didn&amp;amp;#8217;t know needed organizing. Sure, I need a cute colored tack holder...because it matches my set of eggplant empty boxes. And because, uh, I have so many tacks to organize. It doesn&amp;#x27;t help that everywhere I turned this past week everyone else was getting organized. My friend Dan called to tell me he had turned his hall closet into a library (welcome to New York--where any space is an &amp;quot;opportunity&amp;quot;), After watching 23 episodes of 30 Rock on Saturday (OK that&amp;#x27;s the truth serum talking..don&amp;#x27;t judge me--it&amp;#x27;s my staycation!)I managed to tear myself away to have dinner with a few good friends at Indochine (full disclosure: Netflix hadn&amp;#x27;t sent the second season yet so I had a small window to leave my apartment). So tearing me away was a toss-up between my love of Indochine&amp;#x27;s sticky rice and the company of Pierre Hardy, one of my favorite shoe designers who also happens to be, as I mentioned, in &amp;quot;become a planner&amp;quot; mode. Pierre is getting ready for his Fall season and we chatted colors, fashion, travel...it was an incredibly inspiring dinner...and it got me thinking. And I realized something for the very first time. I&amp;#x27;m not a &amp;quot;planner&amp;quot; and while I can be semi-organized... creativity comes from the spontaneity of life. Planning out your wardrobe for the week ahead has always felt constricting to me. And I realized why. It&amp;#x27;s interesting if you think about your wardrobe as a collaboration of who you are at that moment. The people you encounter, the experiences you have, your mood. When I get dressed in the morning it is a reflection of me living in that moment. And that is something that can&amp;#x27;t be planned. And honestly- at this moment I am not the most organized planner in the world and instead of trying to mold myself into someone I am just not- I am embracing it and so should you in the new year. If you make a resolution, let it be that- let yourself experience what you really love. After a week of checking off lists, taking exact measurements and filing, I&amp;#x27;m exhausted and while everything is &amp;quot;in its place&amp;quot; I was missing the sense of adventure that comes from coloring outside the lines (seeing what creative outfits happen when my closet wasn&amp;#x27;t organized by color and I started building a look from an accessory I really wanted to wear that day). All of my un-me-like organization had led me to forget about New Year&amp;#x27;s, and the night before I started thinking about what I was going to wear, and just like everything else in my life, I came up with a super-easy last minute solution that made me (and will make you) look fabulous. I saw these Christian Louboutin shoes in the window of Harvey Nichols department store in London on our shopping trip in November and snapped a pic, because I thought they would be fun to recreate. All you need is a yard of velvet ribbon, a yard of grosgrain ribbon, feathers (you can get them at any craft store--get the kind attached to some sort of a ribbon already so they are not loose) and two shoe clips (I got mine at a vintage store for $5). Use heavy fabric glue to glue the ribbons into a bow and glue the bow to the clips. Then add as many feathers as you like around the bow (I like over the top, if you couldn&amp;amp;#8217;t tell). The best thing about these clips is they can be clipped onto any shoes you own and can make the most simple pair of heels into a show stopper (and can even be turned into a brooch with a quick bit of glue and a pin afterwards!) Leave me a comment if you try it- would love to hear how they turn out! I ended up ringing in 2009 as a collaboration of the people and things that inspire me in this moment (thanks Pierre). Not that I would have planned it."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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