As the unofficial end of summer approaches I thought it would be apropos to run a few Fall predictions. I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful Labor Day weekend. You deserve it!

Fall 2008 predictions:
• Lace will be out of style by Halloween.
• We will learn the real identity of Gossip Girl and the show will spin into oblivion.
• Cynthia will spend another season searching Barneys for high wasted jeans in a size 36. They DON’T exist. Go to Chico’s!
• Trance will become a roady for the Jonas Brothers.
• Lovely lavender will dominate the Avenue.
• The new Bouley will be the most applauded restaurant in town and the toughest reservation. Start calling now!
• The mid-calf skirt and long suit jacket will never grow wings– well, not on the East Coast.
• Kenley will win project runway.
• The fashion week party thrown by Calvin Klein on the High Line will overshadow all the shows.

Our tans will fade but the memory of Summer 2008 will always remain.

xoxo

This week, in T Magazine, Lynn Yaeger talks about how she went to Paris and couldn’t afford YSL or much of anything else. Instead– like most American tourists in Europe –she set her shopping sites on something off the beaten path: a wooden duck.

Yager chimes, “And I even loved the euro back when it was 20 percent lower than the dollar and I came home from Rome with, among other things, a one-of-a-kind black alligator handbag embellished with beaded polka dots that, in reality, I never used much. (Maybe I’m better off with a wooden duck?) “

As Yeager interviews her friends about alternate ways to amuse yourself while traveling abroad –museums or windsurfing!?– the International Herald Tribune sings the song of joy as European tourists shop, dine and play New York as if it’s Candyland.

One interviewee explains, “she felt like this summer had turned into a turf war with free-spending Europeans over the chic bistros, spas, boutiques and department stores that she, a native New Yorker, used to consider her playground.”

For now, I’ll be skipping Capri and scoping out the best sales possible. Even with a weak dollar, there is no other country that does sales like the US.