Let me start at the very end. I found my jewelry!! You know you go on a trip, and to be cautious, you hide your jewelry, just in case you’re going to become one of those holiday robberies you read about. You hide it, but you forget where you hid it. I am sure that I am not alone. I feel that I am not alone on anything that I do, as I represent all of us “The Perfect Woman”.
 
I went to Sardinia with you know who, my Italian boyfriend. Finally after 35 years I changed beaches and tried something new. It was great. I could actually swim in the water, which is extremely difficult to do in Ibiza, between the jellyfish, the seaweed, and the rocks that Ibiza beaches are famous for (although no one really cares, as it’s not a place you go to swim). But in Sardinia, every beach was gorgeous, and the water was very swimmable, except that the beach was littered with crying babies and fake designer handbags.

Porto Cervo was amazing. Nothing was on sale and it was the end of August! That in itself was something to see. I was there the same week the NY times had just written about how popular it was getting.

Getting back to the jewelry search. Don’t you hate losing something and repeatedly searching in the same places over and over again? I ended up finally dumping 5 days of garbage on the floor, thinking maybe it got thrown out by accident… this was at 3:30AM as we were leaving the island at 5:00AM. I know it was a disgusting thing to do, but at least it was all “Made in Italy”.
 
I personally unpacked my suitcases today (my maid is on vacation), and it looked really hopeless as I got to the very last 3 items out of 1,232 pieces of clothing and accessories packed and aquired on and for the trip, there between the Dolce white jeans and the Donna Karan red sequin top, laid the two rings and the diamond earrings. Lesson learned, when you hide your jewelry, take a photo.

Now, about my vacation. Great. Even with the jewelry scare. I am enclosing some of the boy photos. And the one girl is Carmen Walther… who if you do go to Ibiza you can get some fantastic permanent facial repair (injections of Bio-Alcamid and Juvéderm Ultra) in between beach time and cocktails. Email: beauty@lifestylemed.org Tel: 34 678179359. If you are anywhere in Spain, it’s worth a trip to be wrinkle free…

Tony

Paco

Sebastien

Si y No (the best t-shirt of the summer)

Italian lifeguard having a smoke

You can see my taste in men vary, but I do have a thing for that Euro Macho Man…

My beach read was “Eat, Pray, & Love” which I am writing a new version “Diet, Swim & Shop”. I was a bit jealous that the author went to Bali and found Mr. Wonderful and I went to Bali and only found rain. The second book, which I highly recommend, is Micro Trends by Mark J. Penn.  Amazing!  Especially since one of the specific trends is the desirability of older Jewish women for romantic partners as we are so wonderful & perfect… I kid you not. It’s a micro trend! Mr. Penn has just summed up all the new directions of the world, and has let us know where we are heading. Good news from what I could understand that we will still want beautiful, comfortable, affordable shoes! Beverly Feldman of course.

Ok, Girls, My staff is slowly wandering back in from their 3 week holidays. First on the agenda is to get my eBay store up and running. Sorry for the delay, but it’s hard to keep a store open when there is no one inside to greet the customers. I am releasing my beaded bag collection ASAP, 34 pieces and then slowly releasing everything else that I have bought in my entire life. I’ll just go through the next 20 years in my new size 30 jeans, a few t-shirts and the new Dolce leopard cashmere sweater I just bought with the matching scarf. I had to buy the matching scarf  ’cause it matched the sweater, I know you would have done the same thing. It was only 105º outside. Ooh la la… Too much is not enough.

It can take me 3 seconds to design a shoe, but it takes 5 months to manufacture a Collection. This is the Beverly Feldman Asian “A Team”. I am the happiest of all, as I have finished designing and immediately after this photo was taken, I left for a weekend in Shanghai. I went back to my very favorite restaurant in the world Paul Pairet´s Jade on 36.  Paul is a combination of a highly creative scientist and a seductive magician. I would say his food is the equivalent of eating Cirque du Soleil, if it was edible. A mysterious adventure with spectacular results for each course. I threw Weight Watchers right out the 36th floor window. But it had a great fall right into a magnificent view of the Pudong river. I am spoiled for life, as it can never ever be as good as it is at Jade on 36. My seven chakras had united and were having an orgy of sensations by the time dessert was over.

Paul came out after and sat at our table, God descended from the heavens as far as I was concerned. My date was Sebastien, the celebrity French floral designer. It was a good thing I knew some French. Oh la la….. c’est magnifique.

I found out Paul comes to Madrid once a year for a big time chef’s convention, that’s 3 million calories every half hour. I am trying to convince him to come to visit me in my little Spanish pueblo, and cook me lunch, or better yet I can make him lunch, I was married 17 years, and still remember how to cook. I bet he never had tuna fish with lettuce and tomato on white toast, with a Corona beer.

My menu selection, there were 4 choice and each came in 3 sizes, notice I took XL. I would have to take a video to explain each dish. And how it has nothing to do with anything that it may resemble in the title. And each dish has a special plate designed for its presentation and each course should be patented for its originality. The staff is not only charming, but also so dedicated to please you. Well, enough about food, my waist is expanding just writing about it all… as of today I’m back on WW, 26th time, but it works.

How about the weather? How about all that rain you read about in China? Well I was there. Every day it rained. I was in Hong Kong on Black Saturday. That meant there was more rain than there was in the last 100 years.  All roads flooded. I actually took the metro to the office, 1000% more efficient than the New York subway system, by the way, and it is in Chinese.

Two weeks later I was lucky enough to be there for a typhoon rank 8. 8 is when they close the airport. It would have been ok, as my hotel, the extraordinary Shangri La is located in the wonderful shopping center, Pacific Place, but the only things they had on sale were shoes and handbags and clothes size 2.
 
So the sales are on worldwide, I resisted. The fall clothes are on the mannequins, its hot everyplace north of the equator, and I cannot understand the rush for pre fall when summer has just begun? Call me crazy. But is this part of the global warming? We need fall clothes now, or they won’t be around in September? It‘s not even cool in September anymore. In October they start showing cruise. If you took a long nap and woke up, you wouldn’t even know what season it was in the stores.

I pride myself on making timeless shoes, shoes that do not go out of fashion. Shoes that do not have expiration dates, I do not try to think up the craziest heels ever, so next year they are out of fashion. I try to give you good taste, fun, comfort, and a bit of sexiness, something that will make you happy that you can afford. My shoes and handbags express my creativity and fill your closets with a little bit of sunshine, no matter what the weather is outside.

XXX

After 35 years of shopping for myself and for my business, I decided it was time to start letting go. As you know shopping is my passion. I have been shopping and collecting for inspiration for each collection with the excitement that I enjoy with the entire design process. Now with the help of eBay I am releasing back to the universe some of my goodies.

So what is special about my eBay store? Each piece has some specific relationship to my designs. Whether it is a color combination, a stitching detail, an embroidery story, a vintage bead design, somehow it has all been an inspiration. I have many handbags, both new and vintage, as I have to buy shapes to give to my manufacturers. I have an immense collection of vintage jewelry, beaded handbags, and embroidery samples from European factory showrooms, along with most of my own personal designer wardrobe that I have saved over the years. I have over 1500 pairs of shoes which are a collection of mine, vintage and just other designers that I admire.

All designers have an inspirational closet, room, some even have warehouses. I thought I would start letting go before I got to the warehouse stage. Everything is being shipped direct from my design studio in Alicante, Spain where all the ideas start from.

Happy bidding.

XXX

I was sent this little fairy tale, that I think should be read to all little and big girls. I’m not sure if it is proper to put it here or not, but it is so funny I could not resist. So here it goes.