Lei Ann...Off Duty

*the jason wu for target experience ~ are you experienced?*

it’s 8:30 a.m. on a frikkin’ sunday morning.  WHAT the heck am i doing awake & blogging, especially when i have to go lion dance later this afternoon???  well, as the whole universe knows, jason wu debuted at target this morning, so you know what had to be done.

as i stood in line at 7:45 in a line easily 20 women already deep & twice as more behind me, i started thinking.  first, i listened to the convos around me.  bitches be making fun of these other bitches waiting in line for cheap clothes, just because a designer label was attached to them.  bitch, you’re waiting here too, so who’s the bitch?  geez louise.  i waited at 5 in the morning for versace at h&m, so a measly 15 minutes at my local target…that ain’t no thang.

however, i started thinking back to the first of these diffusion lines that premiered at target years ago.  behnaz sarafpour & proenza schouler stayed on the racks for weeks.  no one even know who they were.  did *i* even know who they were at the time?  can you imagine if proenza schouler did a collection for target *now*?  THAT would be utter chaos!  now, every tom, bitch & harry is out here for these collections.  maybe they’re just recently jumping on the bandwagon.  maybe cheap designer duds are too enticing.  maybe they don’t give a shit about the clothes at all & just want to make a quick buck off of ebay.  who knows?

at 2 minutes of 8:00, a security guard came out with only 2 sets of instructions “no running & only 6 items per person.”  that made me very glad that they were somehow keeping some sort of semblance of control.  as soon as i walked into target, i had to make that snap decision of heading either to clothes or accessories first, which luckily i knew the layout of my target store having been there umpteenth million times.  i really wanted the cat bag & scarf, so to accessories it was…plus the majority of the women were already pulling clothes off the racks in such a whirlwind, that i didn’t even want to get in on that mess.  there were only 2 cat scarves left.  i calmly took both plus one of the cat totes.  when i wandered back to the clothing racks, i didn’t see the blue pleated skirt i wanted, did grab one of the cute cat long t-shirts…wasn’t interested in anything else, so i was out.  done.  in, all paid for & out in 10 minutes.

in retrospect, all these collections are just a blur now.  some items i really covet & still wear to this day…a tracy feith dress here…a rodarte lace cardigan there.  other items, like some JPG tops, still sit in my drawer with tags on.  my strategy these days is to completely peruse the lookbooks of these collections before they come out & ask myself “what do i really, *really* want?”  some of jason wu’s stuff was very cute, but who doesn’t have a white blouse & a black bow to easily create some of these looks?  the cat accessories are definitely the hallmark of this collection & what i truly wanted, so blessedly didn’t go overboard with the debit card.

so, what am i even trying to say?  as i find the hunger for these collections grows with each passing designer, my interest is waning.  is it the natural progression of not desiring what is popular?  am i just having a more discerning eye (and tighter wallet)?  am i completely disinterested in the early morning waiting game & then flurry of excited shrieks & disappointed moans?  naaaaaaah!  hmmmmmm…this is all way too deep to contemplate early on a sunday morning.  i guess i’ll think about it later…the next time i’m standing in line for the next target designer collaboration….bwahahaha! shit…isn’t marni for h&m coming up soon as well?  oh dammit…