It's Friday, I'm in Love

I wanted to wait until I had more pictures to share this post with you but let's just call this a preview, shall we? I'm off to mainland China today, where as most of you know, blogger is blocked. UGH.
So here's a post to tide you over while I'm gone. Though I've been such a bad blogger lately, I doubt anyone's holding their breath for new posts. ;)

Last week, two of my favorite people were married on the Queen Mary in Long Beach. I can't go into it right now because like I said, this is just a preview... but I am so happy for these two!! I love them both so much! Congrats to Lindsey and Leah Carmichael!! <3

The beautiful bride, getting ready

Bridesmaids!

She looked SO beautiful <3

Custom Cece L'amour shoes I made for Leah

Our shoes (3 of which, I designed)

 Cheers to the happy couple!!

Ok everyone! See you in 10

XOX, 

Behind the Scenes...Photo Shoe-t

I know, I know. Almost a month without posting, I totally suck. I hope you follow my Tumblr because I update that almost daily. It's so convenient. 

It's been 10 months and this divorce thing is still really affecting me. I don't know why but I find it hard to do the things I used to love to do. Blogging included. BUT... this isn't a therapy session its a muthafuggin shoe blog so let's get to it!

This last Friday we shot for the new Fall 2012 Cece L'amour and Penny Loves Kenny lines. IT WAS SO AWESOME!! We had a really great team of super talented people and we had a lot of fun. Like, probably more fun than you're supposed to have when you're working ;) We shot it at the beautiful Biltmore hotel in downtown Los Angeles and shot from 10am to close to 10pm. Crazy long day!

I'm no longer designing for bebe. I've handed it off to another designer who's got some great ideas and is going to have a lot of fun with it. I'm now concentrating on my own brand, Cece L'amour... my baby. And a really fun brand named Penny Loves Kenny. We own both of those names and I think it's awesome to be designing for the 2 brands that my father's company actually owns. It's more personal.

Anyway- here's a look behind the scenes...

The best part about these shoots was that I got to use my beautiful friends as models. It's so INSANE that I have actual friends that are this beautiful.
The amazing and ridiculously gorgeous Skully Smith for Penny Loves Kenny...

Me in my Cece L'amor floral mary janes, deciding which shoe to shoot next...

Up next, another stunning friend of mine, Dianna Ryan for Cece L'amour.

These are my favorite for fall!!

And me again, in rare form. FLATS!? Yep. Sometimes you gotta get on the roof of the historic Biltmore hotel in your Chucks. ;)

Love you all!!




XOX,

Cece L'amour Shoes, Finally in Stores!!

It feels like it's been forever but I'm happy to announce that my first collection for Cece L'amour will be available at the end of this month!! YAY! The first few places to carry them will be Heels.com, Zappos.com and Amazon.com (so honored to have your support!!!)

Here are the styles that you'll be able to purchase...

♥♥(Katie)♥♥

(Christie)

(Heidi)

(Tanisha)

(Juls)

♥♥(Leah)♥♥

It's so awesome that the shoe names that made the cut are some of my favorite people in the whole world. My 3 very best friends, Katie (my sister) Christie and Leah are up there and that makes me so happy! Heidi was one of my bridesmaids and someone that people would often mistake for my twin. Tanisha worked with me at Titan for forever and was always so supportive. She's someone I can always talk to about anything. And Juls is one of my favorite friends to go out with! We always have an amazing time and I can ALWAYS count on her to cut the bullshit and be real with me.

So now you know the personalities behind the shoes. I hope you like them and will help spread the word :) I'd love to be able to continue making fun, girly shoes for you forever and ever and I hope to get better and better at making shoes people like.

THANK YOU to everyone reading this for your continued support. I feel so lucky to have so many awesome friends... I truly consider my readers to be my friends.



Big ol' XOX,

It's My Party and I'll Wear A Cake Hat if I Want To...

I'm officially 30, and this is how I celebrated...

The night before my birthday:

Cake hat- Agent Lover

Pink glitter pumps- Bordello

The night OF my birthday (last night):

 two of my favorite babes, Leah and Candy <3

My birthday present to myself? Louboutins of course! ;) Leopard Madame Butterflies

I'm in the Dirty 30 Club!!




xox

Oscar Party!

The girls and I decided to blow off the Oscars this year to just stay home and have our own Oscar party. You know, to be low key ;)

Getting Bella ready for her big night...

(i have a treatment in my hair, that's why it looks so greasy)

On the super exclusive brown carpet. The paparazzi was insane!

(my dress is Lanvin for H&M, Leah's is vintage)

The shoes!!

 (YSL, Bordello, DSquared2)

Leah took home the Oscar for Best Hair and Makeup

I won for Best Shoes, a new category this year ;)

Bella (8) swept the Oscars with Best Actress, Best Director, Best Song, Best Cinematography, and Cutiest Cutie Pie. Congrats!

 We were all so honored!

Bella couldn't contain her emotion

Leah, usually reserved, shed tears of joy!

And I'm a total ham.

Damien, Leah's very talented son, made our awesome Oscar statue but wanted nothing to do with our silly girly photo sesh.

Thank you, and goodnight!

Happy Holidays!

I love love LOVE my Lanvin ♥ H&M dress so much and knew it would be a perfect Holiday dress! I adore the poofyness of it. It's so girly and happy and the perfect shade of red. I wore it with my nude patent Christian Louboutins. Perfect.

Here are some crappy quality photos from our company Christmas party. I'm 5 tequila shots deep at this point...

 One of our very favorite couples, Marc and Jess. Jess is the Badgley Mischka and Charles Jourdan shoe designer. She's so talented and just as sweet as can be.

 Sascha kicks ass and takes names over at our wholesale company!  She was one of my beautiful bridesmaids too ;)

 The most amazing man alive. No big deal. There's the second most amazing dude back there... My dad :) Haha

 My amazing sister Katie. Hi sissy!

♥ ♥ ♥

To all my AMAZING readers, I hope you have a wonderful holiday and a happy healthy New Year! I love you guys and and so happy to feel so connected to so many of you. 

Here's to 2011!! I can't wait to see what adventures it brings for all of us.

XOXO

Your Shoe Girl,

Celine