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If a blog post calls Jimmy Choo for H&M "Zara for Sluts" in the headline, you know it's going to take you some interesting places. A sample: "Upscale whore is a fabulous look but it only works if you commit and are so ridiculous-sumptuous that it's Euro on that, Henry VIII-does-Miami tip. This line, however, is Bai Ling on day five of a meth bender at the industrial discotheque who's all craaaazy and wearing chinchilla in July who then gets suddenly lucid, and wants to discuss healthcare." [The Awl]