Today’s Object Of My Affection (OOMA): SUEDE AND LEATHER STRIPED BOXING SNEAKER by Superga. I’m not even into sneakers like that, but these have me feenin hard for some new kicks.

They are currently half off at Luisaviaroma.com + there’s this: 20% Promo Code FR10CJBA01 on sale items. I soooo, want to snatch these up right now, but I just bought a ticket to Paris and I need not to be on a spending spree right now. Oh, the agony!

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What you see here, my dear followers, is musician and fashionista Pharrell Williams. I, for one, find his simple white T, with poppy yellow sneakers ensemble quite chic. And to top it off, he’s sporting a scrumptious purple croc Hermes. Spectacular.

If you’ve an eye for style, or at least an open mind, you can appreciate this look. But, alas, in certain circles (read: the Black “community”) men who relish in the many possibilities of fashion almost always have their sexuality questioned. It really is too bad. And then so many black women wonder why all the progressive black men go for women of other races. Well… I’ll not get into that. Not today.

Click to see how one popular black blog ridiculed Pharrell for be a free fashion spirit:

From a post titled, “Pharrell’s Rainbow Status Almost Complete”

We’re just saying. It is very hard for a man in any line of work to justify yellow Bape Sponge Bob
Crocs and a purple signature Hermes Bag. Then, homeboy points at the sh*t like it didn’t almost blind us already. SMH. What it do, Pharrell?

Well. I suppose you can’t expect too much from a publication that owes their success to being the first to exposed a (pseudo)celeb sex tape. Sigh…

Extra tidbit:

Pharrell had this bag – the one he’s using as a footstool on what looks like a city bus – custom made. See him here picking up the lovelies from the Paris workshop: