Who Dat in the awesome tuxedo?

With that white sneaker, I've officially become hip.

Jason Markk Sneaker Cleaner

Ever since I was in 5th grade, I have been fascinated with sneakers, Nikes in particular, and I wear 90% of my purchases even though I know once they hit the pavement, they'd depreciate in values. I have always been lazy to clean them after each wear, and that laziness made many of my sneakers semi dirty (that's the reason why I mainly wear Chucks now. Chucks ages with dirt on 'em)

I have been cleaning my closet lately, and I have finally realized $ > sneaker collection, therefore I am only keeping a few unworn pairs, and the not so sentimental ones are on their way out to eBay. Due to my above mentioned laziness, I need help to make these old shoes presentable on eBay, and this is when the Jason Markk Sneaker Cleaner comes into the picture.

The product name is quite straight forward, and hopefully I will be able to clean up a few pairs and post them here before I ship them to somewhere in Kansas.

Nordstrom Rack

Nordstrom Rack always has good men's stuff on the cheap. 

• Hugo Boss sweaters - ✓
• James Perse super soft t-shirts - ✓
• Nikes, adidas & Converse - ✓

This weekend, I ventured to the Rack in South Coast, and Lord, they have things I didn't even know they carry at a regular Nordstrom. From Marc Jacobs to Maison Martin Margiela to Versace. My jaw dropped a little bit for just seeing these labels featured, and I now know the place for me to get my next suit.

The Barneys New York Warehouse Sale

I first heard about the "legendary" semi-annual Barney's Warehouse Sale a year ago while reading my neighborhood shopping blog RackedLA, and and since it was always held in the Santa Monica Airport, my lazy butt has never thought about venturing out that far to combat caffeinated people who are bargain shopping.  Furthermore, the good stuff are always gone after the 1st & 2nd day.  However, since last Summer, Barney's moved from their long time location to LA Convention Center, a 15 minutes drive from my place w/o traffic, and Lily and I went to the summer madness to do some treasure hunt.

This winter, the event is held again at the Convention Center of Downtown LA, and Miss Lily went on its first day at 7 AM to check out all the bags and shoes that tend to be gone within the first day, and you know what, most of the people dashed to the bag table and shove as much damaged but still pricey bags like the Kadashians needing the spotlight.  Since Lily is also shopping for me, I got numerous MMS regarding to nice and priced find.  Ultimately, this is the score card for us (even though I was stuck behind my office desk, but my personal stylist did a great job. Mad props, Lilyjan):

Scoreboard for Me:

- Helmut Lang hooded sweater

- Public School jacket

- Eugenia Kim wool cap for 75% off!

- Helmut Lang jeans for half off.