The following is best when read aloud with a snobby English accent.
This season's biggest fashion trend? Why it's the cupcake! Just take a peek at luxury retailer Louis Vuitton's current window display, featuring a chocolate cupcake with sparkly white icing in a gold wrapper.
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| Louis Vuitton window display in Century City |
While they do not actually sell cupcakes or any products with images of cupcakes, Swarovski more than made up for this author's disappointment by providing mini-cupcakes to all visitors.
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| Swarovski Crystal Society 25th anniversary celebration in Century City |
You'll note not only the glitter in the frosting, but the edible pearls topping each delicious piece. If you are more concerned with how you look than how you dine, perhaps a trip to kate spade is in order.
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| kate spade in-store t-shirt display in Century City |
I assume that since this $58 t-shirt is size XXS, they simply didn't have room for the "CUP" part of cupcake.
The great cupcake takeover is not limited to the high-end retailers. Ubiquitous bookseller Barnes & Noble is filled with cupcakes at prices more affordable to the commoner. This book of platitudes, journal, and notepad are each less than $10.
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| Barnes & Noble themed display in Marina del Rey |
Should you desire something more sparkly with which to contact your dear compatriots, these notecards on a nearby shelf may suit your needs.
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| A selection of the notecards in the same Barnes & Noble |
If what you desire is something a tad more tacky to suit your proletariat tastes, Aahs! has you covered. Where else would you go for cupcake bandages, toothpicks, and stress balls in an assortment of fluorescent colors?
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| Aahs! cupcake-related display in Westwood |
One need not spend a dime to enjoy the cupcake phenomenon. Two industrious girls offered me one of their chocolate cupcakes that they generated in their domicile. Not being a fan of chocolate and having already dined on one of Swarovski's delectable confections, I chose to enjoy my bubble tea sans cupcake.
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| Homemade cupcakes spotted in Boba Loca in Westwood |
Others choose to express their fondness for cupcakes in more artistic ways. After opening a random magazine to a random page, I discovered this model with no less than three cupcake tattoos.
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| Seventy Arniotis's photo spread in Inked, March 2012 |
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left photo shows one large cupcake tattooed in each armpit. A close examination of the
right photo reveals a third cupcake on the inside of the model's left ankle.
As I encountered all of these cupcake instances over the course of one day, I must wonder where the pervasive cupcake will next appear? I can only hope it is in front of me, preferably in a scrumptious form.
1 comment:
Only in CA!
Okay if I link to this space from my blog?
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