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more about #shopping more comments → Clarissima: Scoopy Doo 4ever. EVUR. more » DahlELama: Yes yes yes on the entree thing! And the waiting to order thing. And, yeah, the gift guide thing. And what else did he say? Because I'm sure that was ... more » MattyMcboy: How come this shit never happens at Neiman Marcus? Hell, I'd pay good money to watch a brawl break out involving thin white women in Chanel fighting ... more » i'm a bottle: Look at those happy consumers with their products! Buy, little people, buy! more » mackensie: Not to harsh your post-Thanksgiving mellow, but: Black Friday brawls break out at two Wal-Mart stores [latimesblogs.latimes.com] more » Magister: I haven't researched it, but I believe that I saw on Fox (or somewhere) this morning that retailers were expecting us to spend something like $672 per... more » BookishLookish: Slimelight always sucked eggs. Overpriced drinks, asshole poseur druggies everywhere. Good riddance! more » Urbania: I'm an architect whose done a lot of high-end and medium-end retail design, and I look at these renderings and see a whole lot of fail. I'd want to d... more » ms_priestypants: Now you know how Anglicans felt when The Church of the Holy Communion was deconsecrated and made into a nightclub (I'm thinking of it's later more B&T... more » Oy Veh (Informality Reigns): This really represents not change. You could always buy a cornucopia if stuff inside. more » Thatcornellguy: I had an afterprom at this place when it was called "Avalon". That night it was filled with high school students and creepy 30-year old men. These r... more » Baroness: Oh sad sad sad. I'm officially an Old, so I remember Limelight. -16 in 1986, got into the VIP Library with a party that included Rupert Everett. Wh... more » Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: "Oooo, Lancelot, Clytemnestra, come over here. See that Proactiv® kiosk? That's where Daddy lifted a cinder block with his penis. Let's get back t... more » hamburgerhotdog: I was at Duff's (a kind of crappy metal bar on Marcy Avenue in South Williamsburg) and found they were now in possession of all the HR Giger furniture... more » Spirit Fingers: Good God, what's a sneaker gallery?! That sounds awful, and located next to Auntie Anne's Pretzels. (i.e. the place of dough-fat and salt until you li... more » -
#holidaze
New York Observer columnist Simon Doonan writes truth: "People HATE gift guides, universally."
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#blackfriday
Apparently No Tramplings This Black Friday
Good job, shoppers: You didn't trample anyone to death this year. Things are looking positively lackadaisical out there. The Times even quotes a shopper as saying, "Everybody has been really pleasant." But what are we going to write about!? [NYT] -
#sadthings
The New Limelight Shopping Mall Makes Former Club Kids Weep
In case you didn't hear, developers are turning '80s and '90s Chelsea superclub Limelight into a shopping mall during the worst economic downturn in recent history. There will be brownies and a sneaker gallery! It's even worse than we imagined. More » -
#existentialism
Dude waits 12 hours in rain so girlfriend can buy H&M Jimmy Choos. Related: Sissyphus.
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#economicindicator
The Recession Map of NoLIta: Updated
In February, we noted the sad decline of the once-posh, boutique-strewn neighborhood of NoLIta, where Gawker HQ is located. We sent the interns back to the streets and have a new report: more sales, more closing, and only some redemption. More » -
#wtf
Ikea Is the Disney World of China
We're not sure how to break this to you. So we'll just say it: People in China go to Ikea just to hang out. And sleep on the beds.
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#kidsthesedays
Hipster Crib Is a Cardboard Box
If you're going to spend $255 on crib for your spawn, you might as well do it ironically, right?
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#recessionomics
The $1,500 Seersucker Man-Skort Lives
The Way We Live Now: Fashionably. But only for the necessities. $775 shorts for the men. Online shopping sprees for the olds. The basics. More » -
#trendwatch
The Tyranny of SkyMall Trend Stories
Well well, today the NYT Style section has a piece on the quirky old SkyMall Catalogue. It is full of funny things! How many times do you imagine the "LOLSkymall Catalogue" story's been written? More » -
#trendwatch
Teen Mall Culture Shopping Death Recession Abercrombie Etc.
The noble American mall has been killed by the recession. Already dead! So is there a trend piece to be written, still? Yes. Can we sum it up in one sentence? Yes we can: More » -
#recessionomics
America Makes Do
The Way We Live Now: Very, very still. Americans have stopped moving. Colleges are liquidating everything except their students. Ebay is the new luxury! More » -
#recessionomics
The Mall is Dead
Did you, who lived through the 80s, ever think you'd live to see the day when you couldn't make money with a mall in America, or with a pub in England? That day has come! More » -
#inthetank
All New York Times Activities Now Obama-Related
Attention, New York Times employees: Form an orderly line and prepare to walk up to 66th street to hear your colleagues discuss their quickie Obama book. Oh! And we know what you should wear: More » -
#economicindicator
The Recession Map of NoLIta
How has the economic downturn affected a cozy-chic downtown Manhattan neighborhood? We surveyed the retail territory around Gawker HQ in NoLIta. What'd we find out there? Lots of closed stores and a lot of sales. More » -
#shopping
Sad Consumerists Haggle, Miss Point
The power is yours! Prices are slashed, you can return anything, you can haggle for discounts. Designer gear was flying off the racks at Barneys this weekend. It's all so tragic! More » -
#sadthings
Kathy Fuld's Recessiony $10,000 'Secret Shopping' Sprees
Fabulously rich people are nothing if not sensitive. Take Kathy Fuld, who still goes on once-a-week $5,000-10,000 shopping sprees at Hermès, but nowadays, so she doesn't offend anyone, she tries to keep quiet about it.
