Holy #%@$, My Friends Are Having Babies

My friend Naveen just gave birth to a baby boy! She's the first of my inner circle to have a baby, and I think I might be more freaked out about it than she is. The next time I go to LA, there will be a brand new, tiny little person to meet, and since I want to make a good impression on him, I'd better come bearing a kick-ass gift. Some ideas:

This one is as much a decorative piece as it is a plaything. Scandinavian Rocking Horse, $190 @ Acorn.

Flensted Happy Whales Mobile, $29 @ Design Public.

 Georgie Giraffe, $24 @ Anthropologie.

Polar bear suit, $24.50 @ Crazy 8.

Photo credit:

1) www.acorntoyshop.com

2) www.designpublic.com

3) www.anthropologie.com

4) www.crazy8.com

Starck, Burgundy, and Piggies

I haven't done a home post in ages and thought I'd share these lovely yet terribly expensive items from the MoMA store.

I love the smoked glass look of the Philippe Starck and Eugeni Quitllet-designed Mr. Impossible Chair, $490.



This Sommelier Burgundy Glass, designed by Claus Josef Riedel in 1958, ranks "among the world's most revered hand-made wine glasses." Why, you ask? Momastore.org explains:

"The design of the glass allows the bouquet to develop fully, while the slightly flared top lip maximizes the fruit flavors by directing a precise flow onto the front palate. Certain wines and grape varieties require this type of controlled delivery. By ensuring that the fruit is highlighted while using the marked acidity of the wine to keep the flavors in balance, the Sommelier Burgundy Glass produces a superbly three-dimensional 'taste picture.'"

I sincerely hope the $120 price tag is for a set of four, and not each individual glass.




Though I'm by no means a religious person, I have a deeply ingrained aversion to pork. However, I'm pretty sure the little oinker below is halal. The Somewhere City Plush Pig by Goran Lilas makes a soft, snuggly gift for your littlest loved ones, but it's so adorable that you just might be tempted to keep it for yourself. I thought about it long and hard at the MoMA store in SoHo. $26.

Photo credit: www.momastore.org

Gifts for Hipster Babies

I'm still in denial disbelief that I'm actually old enough to have a friend who has a baby. Babies are adorable, sí, but I have no desire to have one take up residence in my body and then leave rather messily through a very narrow exit, leaving a trail of stretch marks in its wake. It's not on the agenda for anytime in the near future.

Anyway, with having a fashion blog and a friend who has recently given birth comes the responsibility of buying stylish gifts for her tot. Though my friend is indeed a mommy, she's of the MILF variety, and painfully hip to boot. She will see to it that her kid has steez coming out of his diapers, which are probably eco-friendly and feature the designs of a struggling Berlin-based graf artist. He will not be seen in duck-print anything, or anything befitting those Hickey Freeman ads that scare the daylights out of me.

Fortunately, someone at Marimekko must have had the same dilemma, because they designed this striped onesie that's perfect for the Brooklyn stroller set. $50 @ Auto, available through Refinery29.


It looks like Scandinavians have the problem covered, because in addition to the Marimekko, I found these baby slip-ons on 111vox. They have little robots on them. And robots kick duck ass. $22.


Photo credit: 1) www.refinery29.com. 2) www.111vox.com