Whenever I land in New York, I make a beeline for the Upper East Side; home to gossip girls and ladies who lunch, tree-lined streets, glorious art galleries and the kind of apartments that have gloved doormen and a line of chauffeurs waiting outside. So on my first day there, I hopped straight in a car with Nicolette and made for the neighbourhood.
We started with lunch at Fred’s at Barneys, where the rooftop views are breathtaking and the conversations to be overheard are nothing short of entertaining. By way of example, at one point the glossy ladies who lunched at the table beside us where discussing the most glamorous way to have babies, and stated “…if we want Spring/Summer babies, we have to get pregnant right now! I suppose I’d better let him start touching my body…” It was all we could do to contain our hysterical giggling until we burst through the shiny glass doors and onto Madison Avenue (via the shoe department, of course).
After lunch, it was time for a walk uptown via Madison Avenue for some window shopping and a stop at the new Laduree outpost to buy macarons which we ate watching autumn leaves fall beside Central Park and, rather cheesily, whilst peering in the windows of Tiffany’s doing our very best Holly Golightly impressions.
We stopped at the Frick and strolled the residential streets which run off the Park, each lined with a row of shiny porticos and patient doormen, and passed tiny dogs, immaculately-coiffed women with their well-mannered children, tiny salons and private courtyards that we peered into as we dreamed of living in such apartments and throwing garden parties in in the summertime. Oh!
Wearing: Sass and Bide tee, Carven skirt, Prada sunglasses, Michael Kors watch, jewels from Mimco, Jersey Pearl and J.Crew.
Don’t you just treasure those days where you skip about town being a lady of leisure and pretend to live in an entirely different tax bracket?
Love, Miss B xx
I actually find those kinds of days depressing after a couple of hours – it’s so sad knowing I have to come back to reality eventually!
It sounds like a fabulous day though (:
Just gorgeous B! And those women planning their babies sound a bit scary and hilarious!
The UES is a lot of fun for a day-trip…but you wouldn’t ever want to have to play by their punishing size 00 rules!
Loving those Prada sunnies!
Ahhhh it sounds wonderful *sigh* Would love to be in NY xx
Love NY – one of the few things I miss about living in Melbourne – unable to fly to the big apple for the weekend!
Those women sound hilarious – I love spending days like this, I just wish I didn’t have to come back to reality x
Rocking the monochrome, dahling! LOVE the shades too! x
Sounds so lovely! I love New York and I especially adore the city in the fall!
X0 – Christy
Those necklaces are so cute! i can never find any cute shorter necklaces that don’t look cheap or cheesy.
-Bianca
Great photos, sounds like an amazing day!
Love, LoVe, LOVE NYC and the Upper East Side…if you’re lucky, one day you may just walk onto the set of GG! It happened to me!
-Amanda
That looks like too much fun! I’ve never been to NYC but it’s on my hit list and I cant wait to go!
-Danielle
Gorgeous! I’m heading to NY on the 4 November, cannot wait!x
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Haha that is such a funny thing to overhear! Like a real life Gossip Girl situation! Wish I’d pretended to be rich in the UES a lot more when I lived in NYC, all seems so far away now…
It was *hilarious* (we were giggling into our lunch)!
B xx
Ah, New York! Your photos are lovely. Makes me wish I was back there. Only been once – in the freezing depths of winter but looooved it! So glad you had a fun time, xx
Thank you so much! I don’t know what it is, but there’s just something about New York that makes you want more and more
B xx
I want to be there right now! It sounds fabulous! I briefly met Nicolette in London at the Evans store at Marble Arch when Beth Ditto was launching her line with them and she was absolutely lovely. Hope you have a great trip! x
Thank you Annie, it was incredibly fun. And Nicolette is possibly the nicest person in all of New York!
B xx
PILE on those accessories. Seriously. LOVE IT
– JT
I don’t understand the meaning of ‘less is more’ when it comes to jewels
B x
You look lovely! You must have fit in perfectly on the upper east side. I love a day spent in the museums, strolling. Central Park and shopping on Madison. So perfect. So glad we finally have a Lauder. Hope you are enjoying the city!!!
Lovely photos. The top with a heart looks. Love shoppinh in NY. Missing those days. It was fun gazing through the glass doors to find out the chic clothes and shoes. Have fun.
Incredible photos, and entry. Makes me miss New York! I agree with you on the tax bracket comment, although I am sure if we had the money we would show those Upper East siders how it’s done! x
Nice pics…I love those days too, until it’s time to come back to reality.