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Victoria Beckham

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Ok. So everything looks amazing on this woman. But what a sexy way to spin off the basic shirt and pant that EVERY woman has in her closet. Shirt & pants - already in your closet! Belt: from store "RK" (Square One - Mississauga) $168. There is another version in the same store that looks like a skirt (also for $168) for more casual wear.

WHAT IS LUCITE?

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Ok so Chanel has this bag. It retails for approxima tely $849.00 on Ebay. For this brand, you would think it to be a reasonable price for maybe a small chained purse right? Or maybe a version of what Penelope Cruz has been seen carrying out and about town. Not so much. It’s this plastic bag that looks like the one you were given by your mom when, at age 6, you decided you too wanted a purse, lipstick and shoulder pads…we all had one of those. But Chanel deems it appropriate to make one, and sell one for $849.00 . But then again…this is Chanel. If they could sell designer air, they would…or have they done that already? The bag is part of their Naked Collection and it goes with this Lucite trend that seems to be everywhere in maga zines now, but has yet to hit the retail market. So the big question is: what on earth is this Lucite anyways? Lucite in big grown up words is a transparent thermoplastic acrylic resin ( wordnet. princeton.edu/perl/webwn ). Basically its plastic. In a ti ...