Strong Week Links 2

I'm gearing up for a trip to New York this week. I'll be visiting my best friend since middle school who lives in Brooklyn, but I'm looking forward to some Lower East Side shopping here. (In middle school I would've been more excited about this place right around the corner.) Any favorite recommendations?

I'm loving @puppethorse, the Instagram of sweet stylist Georgie Perrins (who I helped out on a few shoots a while back). She's so good at capturing a certain LA scenery look - palms and vegetation plus iconic Southern California architecture in a quiet palette with dramatic lighting. 

Bemoaning the fact that your cart is like a sieve on the Mansur Gavriel site the day of the relaunch and restock of their uber-coveted bucket bags. I'm entertaining other options, like this. 

I'm digging these shoes.

Speaking of shoes, even though I love the Charlotte Stone sandals I got at James Rowland Shop last summer after I ordered a pair of Birkenstock Arizonas and thought they looked weird, I kinda want to give Birks another try. After all, "You try to survive your first visual influence. It is love on second sight."

Photo by Darcy Rogers.

Design + Relief

Give a little help to those still recovering from the continued ravages of Sandy and pick up this artfully designed embellishment to Milton Glaser's original tourist classic.

From Grey Area:

Sebastian Errazuriz’s studio was paralyzed after the hurricane. Unable to work and tired of watching the horrible disaster unfold on the news, Errazuriz decided to design something to help raise much-needed relief funds. This idea occurred to him after seeing the water line marked on the walls of the flooded galleries in New York’s Chelsea art district.

100% of profit goes to Hurricane Sandy relief programs.

Give directly, too:

Donate $10 to Red Cross disaster relief efforts by texting REDCROSS to 90999. Or donate online.

Masbia: a non-profit New York soup kitchen providing healthy, low-sodium meals to seniors displaced by Sandy. Donate online or text SOUP to 20222 to donate $10.

An article that details lots of ways to help.