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American Shops

LLG Travels: Community Bookstore, Park Slope Brooklyn

November 21, 2011 American Shops

I spent my last Sunday in New York in Park Slope, Brooklyn with lovely Lola. Good times. After lunch she whisked me smartly to Community Bookstore for book foraging. It’s one of those stores where every book entices, where the edit is so good and clever that to be honest, there was barely a book […]

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Friday night in New York: Angelo Lambrou & La Palapa

November 16, 2011 American Shops

After three days of back to back meetings from breakfast through to dinner in New York last week, I was ready for some downtime on Friday evening. (Because like an idiot, I had forgotten to schedule in any gaps in my 15hr a day schedule.) So, after my last meeting, I wandered up from  Café […]

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LLG Shops in the US: Williams Sonoma cookshops

November 13, 2011 American Shops

I know it’s going to sound bizarre, but one of the things I always have to take back to England for my mother when I return from America are pale green washing-up gloves from the classic American kitchen shop Williams Sonoma. She swears point blank that these are nigh on indestructible, the platinum standard of […]

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Gilt Now Deliver to Europe!

November 9, 2011 American Shops

There isn’t a friend of mine in New York who hasn’t been sucked into the world of Gilt. I mean, really, what’s not to like about shopping online from your favourite designers & luxury goods houses at a thumping great discount (often up to 60%)? And Gilt do menswear womenswear, homewares, traval, experiences, you name […]

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LLG Food: Cherry Pie & ice cream from Delicious Orchards

October 12, 2011 American Shops

This, to me, is quintessential Americana: Pie à la mode. Altho we changed things up a little, and went for cherry pie and served it with hazelnut gelato, as opposed to the more traditional apple pie & ice cream.

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LLG Shops: J Crew Outlet at Jersey Shore Premium Outlets, New Jersey

October 12, 2011 American Shops

When I lived here in Colt’s Neck back in 2009, I was broke. Proper stone cold broke. Just enough money to pay my debt repayments each month and that was it. So, I didn’t go shopping. Ever. And I didn’t think about shopping or research it — if you read the blog from back then […]

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New York: Hell’s Kitchen Flea Market. Antiques Garage

March 9, 2011 American Shops

Lots of New York visitors know about the Hells Kitchen Flea Market, but it also has another satellite location further down in Chelsea, and certainly a lot easier to get to — just a (long) block from Madison Park, so you can go gorge at Eataly or Shake Shack afterwards, before working it all off […]

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Shopping: Fairfax Trading Post flea market, Los Angeles

January 24, 2011 American Shops

I didn’t have much time to go shopping last time I was in LA — too busy taking meetings and catching up with friends. But over breakfast at the Andaz West Hollywood one morning, a fashion publicist told me I should check out the Fairfax Trading Post at Melrose & Fairfax for the Sunday flea […]

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New York: Canal Street handbags

December 13, 2010 Accessories

Canal Street is the New York of the movies. Not the glossy, shiny Manhattan of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and ice-skating at the Rockefeller Center, but the grimy, frentic, smelly, traffic-jammed, rat-scuttling Manhattan where people trade, hustle, shout, elbow, swear, in the shadow of old tenement buildings.

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Shopping: Kate Spade pop up shop opens in London’s Covent Garden

October 12, 2010 Accessories

There are so many pop up shops springing up like mushrooms around London that it’s hard to keep track. Often they are just a cursory fit out of an empty store between lets and leave you feeling a little mugged. Not so with US fashion label Kate Spade’s first foray into the UK market. Their […]

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