Computers were actually the size of small rooms when I was a kid, so I’ve never gotten down on myself for not being more of an early adopter when it comes to everything digital. I’ve had the same iPhone since 2009—which in technology years is like driving a 1971 Buick down the Long Island Expressway at rush hour—but as I have noted before, my mobile device needs are simple and few, and it has served me well. I might have traded it in sooner, but haven’t wanted to give the satisfaction to friends who’ve enjoyed teasing me about it, as though the phone itself was emblematic of some fundamental inability on my part to move forward as a human in the world. From the way they react sometimes, you would think I’d pulled from my bag not an iPhone 3G, but blankie and a binky. You really would.
Lately, however, I’ve realized that an upgrade is actually very much in order. I’ve come across some apps my phone can’t load, and I want a good camera—the better to catalogue my exploits for all of you. The young man at the Apple store on 14th Street was very polite, and didn’t so much as smirk when I pulled out my old jalopy. He set up my account for me (how much do we love that they do setup at the Apple store?) and I was good to go. Now I get to enjoy the fashion part, and cuteness abounds. Swash is a British line of clothing and scarves, and they’ve got the prettiest, cleverest prints going. I love that they design iPhone cases, because their other stuff is a fortune. This one’s so unlikely, all in green, and so optimistic too somehow.
If this floral print from Kirna Zabete came on a dress, I’d totally buy that dress.
From graphic design super-site Society 6: a burst of graphic ethnic happiness.
Also from Society 6: a crazy quilt of brights you’ll never have to worry about losing at the bottom of your bag.
Exactly what you’d want as your iPhone case if you were trying to be all fabulous on safari.
I am trying to get over the branding here, because the yellow splatters on grey are just so chic.
Is it a Rorschach test or is it an iPhone case? Or, fabulously, both?
I love the one with the yellow splatters! And if it helps, there are people even further behind you. Like me, my sister, and my step-sister. None of us even have smart phones yet. I’ll be buying my first one this week or next.
Donna
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That blue one from Society 6 is so beautiful that it might actually be the impetus I need to finally replace my old, broken BlackBerry. I wish S6 also manufactured button keypads, le sigh.
I, too, have a 3G. Every time it acts up and my wife asks when I’m going to upgrade I say, with a shrug, “it works fine most of the time.”
But I’m with Fiona. One look at that blue sky mandala case and I’m wondering what time I could swing by the Apple store today …
So? So? Which one did you get?!!!
I have a plain black rubber iphone case ergo it is constantly lost in my purse, on my desk, in my living room, on my dining room table––point made. What I know from talking and seeing patterned iphone cases with any amount of white on them at ALL is they look dirty as in unclean and grimy as in I-don’t-want-to-touch-that-filthy-thing. Something to think about when making a choice––all over color maybe a better/cleaner fashion statement.
I have a fabulous, kaleidoscope-y one from Ted Baker…check them out…they are gorgeous as well. I’m loving the Society 6 mandala one!
I don’t know about a dress, but I have a trench coat from Kirna Zabete’s Target line that has pretty much that print, and I love it:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Womens-Kirna-Zabete-Target-Long-sleeve-Trench-Coat-Floral-/321072857704?_trksid=p2047675.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D14294%26meid%3D5709811738676669071%26pid%3D100011%26prg%3D1095%26rk%3D1%26sd%3D330834155887%26
I like (fake?) wood veneer covers. But I like these prints for you Kim because they make you happy. Or what about a picture of Sammy?
And c.w. makes a good point — I’d get some kind of holder or something, so it wouldn’t fall to the bottom of the purse, to be landed upon. Those puppies are expensive. Also, a brighter cover – maybe not white, but a color – might make one less likely to leave it somewhere.
Definitely the Kirna Zabete floral. So pretty. Feminine without being girly and just dark enough.