Thought this was a pretty nice Gucci bag.
Large decorated bee with expansive wings on the flap.
Beautiful pink with white pearl studs.
Brass chain and red, white, and blue shoulder strap.
Priced around $1500!
Small shoulder bag yet plush oversized and ornate make a big statement.
Nice gift for that special someone or to treat yourself to Gucci! 😉
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Just wanted to share this awesome coat by Paris designer, Yves Saint Laurent.
The colors are so standout, and the plushness is amazing from head to toe…beautiful.
The label is a little fuzzy, but I think the original price on this was over $30,000!
And even at deep discount it’s close to 10 grand!
I wonder if it’s real fur? 😉
Shabbat Shalom!
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So we’re down in Florida.
It’s pouring today, so we decide to go to Sawgrass Mills Mall.
When the rain let’s up, we decide to go outside to this one row of stores that is like designer row.
We went into Robert Graham, Ralph Lauren (the purple label), Roberto Cavalli, Versace, Gucci, and more.
We saw this nice Chasidic couple in Gucci.
He looked at me and me and him–he was buying his wife a gift and I was “window shopping” and taking some cool photos.
We gave each other the thumbs up.
The shoe here was from the Gucci store.
Pretty incredible, no?
It’s definitely a brand standout!
Nice job Gucci designers. 😉
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I just thought these women’s pants were so cool (yet gaudy).
Another standout you think.
A fashion magazine making up fashionable ladies pants.
The covers are bright, colorful, and feature a array of many women and looks up and down each pant’s leg.
The pants are a collage of these all.
These pants are probably not for the faint of heart–you’ve got to have courage to wear these.
Some might say, you’d be crazy…
A ladies next dilemma–what shoes do you wear with these? 😉
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I hate neck ties in general, but love these specifically.
If you have to wear a tie, these strong gorgeous silk ones called Quindici by Ermenegildo Zegna are absolutely beautiful.
At a retail price of $285 each at Nordstrom’s, they are not cheap, but what a powerful and confident accent for any formal outfit.
These are all for me! 😉
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Remember, the catchy old Burger King commercial about “Have it your way”(where you can order the burger any way you want, no problem!)?
Now, we are reaching the point with DNA testing, where we can have it your way and order up babies the way you want them.
According to the Wall Street Journal, by getting genetic profiles of egg or sperm donors, you can search for a match with the genetic profile of the would-be parent to have a higher likelihood of desired traits (e.g. blue eyes) or lower likelihood of undesirable ones (e.g. heart disease).
23andMe, a DNA company (note: humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes) that sells home testing kits for $99, has patented a process for analyzing DNA and providing information on health and ancestry, and this could be used for system screening of egg or sperm donors through a tool called a “Family Traits Inheritance calculator.”
Calculating better babies by choosing desired matches at fertility clinics is only steps away from actually making marriage decisions based on genetic make-up–in that scenario love is only one factor in choosing a mate and maybe not the primary any longer.
The idea being to screen potential couples before marriage to yield “the best” potential children–smartest, athletic, good-looking, etc.
There are already genetic banks for screening and capturing genetic information on potential couples to avoid genetic diseases such as Tay-Sachs and others.
While bioengineering children for better health is one thing, creating a blue-eye and blond-haired race was the Nazi’s concept of an Aryan nation as a superior race that would dominate the world.
The ethical questions of how to screen out illness without creating a situation like in China under a one-child policy, where male offspring are considered superior and so we proverbially tilt the odds in favor of what we think is best even if it may not really be.
Neither a homogeneous superior race, nor a customized bioengineered baby is the answer–rather, we need to value healthy diversity in children, where each is a miracle and a blessing in their own right. 😉
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