Welcome M2M Style Lounge!

DISH'S newest advertiser is M2M Style Lounge! You have never seen such a store! There are leather sofas next to the bar and a flat screen tv so you can relax while you shop! Everyone knows about the men's lines they carry...Calvin Klein, D&G, ---But check out the Women's!!!   ROBIN’S JEANS | DIESEL | ZODIAK SPORTSWEAR | EFOR | CARPE   WHITTALL & SHON | AJAXX 63 | ENERGIE | PENGUIN | SCULPTEES SPRING COURT SHOES | ROAR | J LINDEBERG | COLD METHOD |BEN SHERMAN | FAITH CONNEXION | FRENCH CONNECTION | AD HOC | MISS ME COUTURE KLD COLLECTION | MM UNPLUGGED HUDSON | ROCK & REPUBLIC | 7 FOR ALL MANKIND | MEK MISS ME | ROCK REVIVAL | DL 1961 | CITIZENS OF HUMANITY TRUE RELIGION | PAIGE | MISS SIXTY | ROCKABILLY | DIESEL

M2M Style Lounge just started their weekly drawings of shopping sprees to the store.  Any purchase enters you to a weekly drawing of gift certificates and other prizes.  Winners and prizes will be posted on their Facebook fan page!!

And check out this deal DISHIES!!! WOOHOOO! See you there!

Neiman's Cuts Christmas

Super affluent shoppers have been tightening their Gucci belts over the past year forcing luxury retailer Neiman Marcus Group Inc. unveiled its Christmas Book Tuesday with a nod to frugality.

More than 40 percent of the gifts in the catalog's 83rd edition cost less than $250! This list includes another change in the famed holiday catalogue...practical items! Don't misunderstand, prices are still out of reach for the average American. New items include $75 plaid stockings, $235 Italian wool scarves, $100 Ugg slippers, $175 cases for iPhones and $250 Ralph Lauren rain boots.

"Tokens of affection don't have to be extravagant to be brilliantly received," the book's introduction imparts.

Extravagant gifts still abound giving shoppers an escape from the tumult in the financial world. There are limited-edition $105,000 Jaguars, motorcycles for $73,000 and DISH favorite a $25,000 "Cupcake Car" custom-made of colorful fabric, wood and sheet metal and powered by a 24-volt electric motor.

Neiman's is not forgetting the GREENIES, there's an eco-friendly chandelier made of 366 plastic bottles rescued from the landfill. Yours for just $12,000. Forget the fact that you can make your own for 12 dollars!

The Dallas-based chain and its luxury competitors are being forced to adjust their inventory and prices as their well-heeled clients splurge less since the financial meltdown ballooned last fall. While luxury stores' sales have stopped falling in recent months, they remain weak to say the least.

Neiman Marcus, privately held since 2005, reported last month that its fiscal fourth-quarter loss widened compared with a year earlier as revenue fell 26 percent and consumers kept a lid on their spending. For the quarter that ended Aug. 1, the retailer reported a loss of $168.5 million, compared with a loss of $35.6 million a year earlier. Revenue fell to $768.1 from $1.03 billion last year.

For the full fiscal year — as revenue fell 21 percent to $3.64 billion from $4.6 billion — the retailer lost $668 million, compared with a profit of $142.8 million a year earlier.

P.S. DISH wants to e Ralph Lauren Rain Boots and the Cupcake Car. Just and FYI =)

Top Drawer Supporting Houston

 

Is Your Face Sexy??

If you aren't sure, go to EYE Gallery to find out! Ask for Tina and told her the DISH sent you!

They are having a sample sale on the coolest glasses you have ever seen! DISH can never find glasses that look good on us and within 3 minutes, Tina found a pair that we LOVED!!!

The sale ends on Sept 26th so make sure you get there ASAP!

1896B Westheimer!

CLICK HERE for more info!

FNO

Thanks to DISH friend Anna Wintour...actually we just sat behind her and snuck pics of her at the River Oaks International Tennis Tourney...but hey you take it where you can get it....The fashion world is getting a HUGE boost tonight!

In Fashion's Night Out hundreds of stores around the world will stay open late for the single largest shopping event in history! Designers were there, free food and drinkie poos, discounts and gifts with purchaces all in an effort to boost the economy and help to rebuild the lagging fashion industry.

Thanks to Vogue US and Vogue International the global initiative is to promote retail, restore consumer confidence, and celebrate fashion. The evening extravaganzas in their respective world fashion capitals went off without a hitch! There were brow bars, hair cut stations, make overs, limited edition jewelry and so much more!!

Houston had a show at Neiman Marcus and it was FABOOSH!! =)

See?? The Devil apparently isn't all that bad!

Resale, You say!

DISH fav, Ashley Allen keeps giving us these precious little gems for our Shopping DISH! We are so grateful because no one shopps like this sweet one! Here is the latest from "Ash in the City!"

 

Ear bobs to a scarf is like cheese to a toasty baguette

 

My old soul... or should I say little heart... goes pitter patter every time I set foot (in Louboutins of course) into The Guild Shop on Dunlavy. It is hands down the best second hand shop in the 713. My scarves have new best friends: ear bobs circa 1940. For $5-$10 you can get the most banging pair of luscious, rhinestone and pearl encrusted earrings to consume your ear lob in the most fabulous way EVER! And the best part? The were previously owned. So it's recycling!! Love. Love. Love. Don them with a fabulous scarf, which of course you know is our latest passoion. In my current world, they go together like creamy robiola cheese and toasty bread... and who doesn't love that?

The Guild Shop
2009 Dunlavy
Houston, TX 77006
www.theguildshop.org

Wrap it up!

Hot or cold it doesn't matter...according to DISHIE Ashley Allen...Scarves are all the rage! For more of Ashley's musings, click HERE

I love, love, love scarves. I love how old hollywood icons used to cruise Sunset in a convertible with one wrapped so delicately around their heads protecting their locks from the wind. I love how the fabric hugs my neck like Octopus' arms when I wear one. I love how I can dangle a scarf over a black dress and it automatically looks more interesting and in fact I find it extremely intersting how I can dote that same black dress the next day with a different scarf and no one seems notice. Not that yours truly does that of course. ;)There is something about a tiny piece of scrap fabric that can make an outfit an ensemble. It is the perfect accessory for any outfit no matter what season, age or economy. It's your shirt or dress' best friend. I wear my luscious coral scarf at least twice a week. I recently spent some time in gorgeous San Fran. It amazed me how many of the women could look so effortly chic by just adding a scarf. I had to bring this piece of the bay area back with me... and of course a case or two of vino from Napa. It can be 100 degree August weather in Texas but you bet your brand new Gucci hobo that I am going to be wearing a scarf, my coral one to be exact... and I am not the only one! Take that San Fran.

Sales Sales EVERYWHERE!

This weekend is THE time to be hitting the sales DISHIES! The summer time is slow and that has put ALL retailers into PANIC mode! People are having sales that would not normally because of the economy! They are trying to keep doors OPEN...and it's all ot YOUR benefit!

Tootsies in Highland Village is having a HUGE one!

Top Drawer Lingerie is having a 40 plus % discount on select merchandise as well.

Rococo in River Oaks Shopping Centre is having a blow out to make room for fall which is ALREADY coming in!

I know these aren't the only ones, but it will take you to three LOCALLY owned stores to spend some of your hard earned cash on a discounted treat for yourself! We can be recession proof if we spend LOCAL! so PLEASE start local first!

Enjoy DISHIES!

DISHing the Shopping Secrets!

We had such a fun time Tuesday on Great Day Houston!! That show has the most fun producers and of course...guests =)

This week we were giving away our shopping secrets...mainly e-bay and online sample sales. We love Giltgroupe.com!! When shopping E-Bay make sure you use reputable "stores"and sellers. Check out their former buyers comments, the buyer can't take off comments so if there are bad ones...they are REAL!

Click HERE for our fun segment!

Next Tuesday...Spring Fling, What are people wearing to theparties this gala season???
Have we told you how much fun ew are having with Deborah Duncan and the Great Day Houston crew??? BLAST!!

Thanks to Jennifer and the girls at Rococo at W. Gray Shopping Centre for dressing us....Could you die over that dress???

Great Day Houston is the Best Day DISH Has!!!

Seriously...leading up to the DISH showwe are always so stressed! Getting the models together, the chothes, coordinating the fittings, getting the borrowed clothes to the show and back etx!!! It's the DISH passion so we actually get a kick out of it...good thing because DISH Houston will be on Great Day Houston again this coming Tuesday with GALA fashions. After all it is Gala season and what's girld to wear?!?!?!

DISH will tell you! =)

Now for the fun stuff...this week's show! Confessions of a Shopaholic!

Click HERE =)