Thoughts from the Dirty City

I have already discussed my passion for for fashion and color here, pointing to Pantone, one of my favorite places to garner inspiration. So you can imagine my delight when I discovered a side project/website from Pantone called myColor myIdea. The site features celebrities from a wide variety of fields with their idea of the perfect color and the inspiration for that color. Nothing as exciting as the color report I mentioned in an early post, but a nice added bonus to the mid-season doldrums.

I am convinced I must have fallen asleep at my desk while waiting for the clock to strike 5. It must be a dream. While perusing the list of celebs that have put their stamp on the Pantone page of fame I had to do a double take when I saw Suzi Weiss-Fischmann, Executive Vice President & Artistic Director at OPI on the list.

Anyone that knows me, knows I have an unnatural obsession with OPI nail polish. For some women it is shoes, for others it is handbags, for me it’s OPI. I suppose I should be thankful seeing that shoes and handbags can go for several hundred to several thousand $$ and nail polish is only $10 a bottle. Each season I pick my new favorite color and it usually doesn’t leave my fingers until a new line comes out and a new favorite is discovered. Thankfully that happens every season so I never have to wait long.

And wouldn’t you know it, her favorite color, it’s red. My very first bottle of OPI was OPI red, and it is still one of my top five favs. I feel I must also mention my beloved “Lincoln Park After Dark” my favorite from the Chicago line that has graced my toes for years since. It is my favorite amongst favorites, myColor -her-Idea if you will. If there were one person I would want to trade polish with it would be Suzi. So seeing her on the Pantone site made my day, thank you yet again Pantone!