La Perla.
Requisite lighting-related gifts.Silver-Dipped Light Bulbs (not real silver, that's just what they call them), and a Porcelain Owl Lamp which combines two of Emily's major obsessions: Owls; Various Forms of Muted Lighting.
Streetwise bookI had been looking for this book forever, and finally found it at Left Bank Books in the West Village (the owner is originally from Eugene, Oregon). Mary Ellen Mark was kind enough to sign it for me. More on Streetwise in a future post.
Black Pumps.
"About a Son" and "2001: A Space Odyssey" DVDs. These covers go together pretty well—maybe they should package them together as a special edition.
Issey Miyake Pleats Please dress.It's basically just a big piece of really intricately pleated fabric, and comes with a booklet showing sixty different ways you can wear it. (Photo of Racquel Zimmerman in Issey Miyake by David Sims, from
Future Shock, in
V45.)
Raquel Zimmerman wearing a gown by Gareth Pugh, available (for, ahem, £7,500) from Shop SHOWstudio, a pop-up holiday web shop containing one-of-a-kind items curated by photographer Nick Knight. This particular gown, which is made of something called Chrisanne Angelskin Fabric, comes with a DVD documenting its construction from start to finish. Most of the stuff on sale is not exactly 
attainable by us commoners, but contributions from John Galliano, Shona Heath, Sølve Sundsbø, Julie Verhoven, and Nick Knight himself, among others, make browsing enjoyable. Do that now at shop.showstudio.com, and bookmark showstudio.com for always-fascinating fashion films and photoshoots.
