Love this exotic look for Pre-Fall by Missoni.

It will go so well with our new signature exotic skins
collection!

The BAFTA Los Angeles Awards Season Tea Party – Arrivals   Gorgeous… Love all the warm colors and Charlize?!… Well, stunning as always….

Happy New Year!  Happy Handbag!

We at Heather Belle are “ringing” in the new year with a purse giveaway.

I am so proud of the look and ripple effect of this new collection. If you buy Heather Belle you are buying into creating jobs in America and vegan luxury.

What is a vegan luxury handbag, you ask? They are bags made from exact replicas of elephant, eel, turtle, python or crocodile that are hand cast and hand painted to give them a rich authentic look and feel. This is the new face of exotics that are sexy, high quality and sustainable. Stay tuned…

Be one of the first to carry the newest in luxury bags by entering our giveaway of an urban sexy crocodile clutch.

To Enter:
1). Must be a follower of HeatherBelle4
2). leave a comment with the color you’d pick!

For extra entries
3). Blog/tweet for extra entries!
4). Become a Facebook fan of Heather Belle
I’ll be picking the winner next Thursday, January 12th! Good luck!

Thursday fashion tip – do not cut your spanxs

I was at a event this week at my good friend Sepi’s Spa in Santa Monica. I struggled to get into spanxs that were too long and had the brilliant idea to cut them.

As I am walking around the party I feel the spanxs rolling up my thighs – OMG they gave me upside down thigh muffin tops under my dress. I threw them in the trash and regrouped trying to
be steady now that I was spanxless. The image will be forever seared into my head.

The question use to be “paper verses plastic”. The new question is exotic skins verses eco friendly, animal friendly faux?

- Better price
- Luxury without cruelty
- high fashion can be socially responsible
- feeling good and looking good has never been more on trend

My thought for the day:))

I took my kids to a site on a recent trip that is probably not on the DC tour guide list. Occupy DC. The point I wanted to drive home as a mother is that one of the greatest things America allows us all is the ability to speak up, protest, have a voice, vote and make a stand.

This freedom has created great change i.e. Women’s rights, African Americans rights, Gay Rights, etc… Protests against Vietnam, all things that our democracy allows. I wanted them to see first hand the passion and the conviction people have when they believe in something because the crowd was filled with all walks of life and not just “slakers” as sometimes implied.

I believe that producing my line in this country is my way to protects those rights by keeping people (myself included) working. If we stay a culture that creates as well as consumes we add value to the world, financially as well as intellectually and spiritually.

Here are some photos I took from the day. Mostly fascinated by the intelligence, humor and some nuttiness of the posters.

Love to know your thoughts. – hb