
If a movie is set in Beverly Hills, we, the movie-going public, expect to see spoiled girls, designer clothes, plenty of pink and loads of bling.


Beverly Hills Chihuahua does not disappoint. It was the nation’s top grossing movie last week. Audiences loved the adventures of Chloe, the pampered rich-girl chihuahua (pictured at top), voiced by Drew Barrymore. The pawed princess wears couture clothes and sports a pristine mani-pedi. We watch while Chloe looks down on the hired help, gets lost, gets found and ultimately learns that love has no social class, or money can’t buy you happiness, or something like that.
But we digress. This isn’t about life lessons. This is about shopping.
Our collar holds the key to our social status. After all, she who holds the leash is she who does our bidding. In the movie, Chloe wears Harry Winston, though we aren’t sure whether it’s hers or if she just borrowed it for the red carpet. Personally, we are whining for La Collection de Bijoux at I Love Dogs, where the collars are designed by master jewelers and hand-set with diamonds ($280,000-$1.8 million, top photo, diamond encrusted collar). It’s a sure way to declare who’s the Alpha girl at the dog park.
If you haven’t worked your way that far up in the pack, go faux with a Juicy Couture bejeweled collar (above) from Saks ($65), the Marilyn collar at The Diamond Collar ($35), or, for casual day wear, perhaps the freshwater pearls necklace at Calling All Dogs ($80). Add a Swarovski crystal crown pendant ($10, left) for day, then switch to metal for night, either a 14K gold heart with paw charm ($300) or, if you’re more of a platinum-furred girl, the sterling version ($55-$75). They’ll up your glitter quotient in a very flirty way.
Our closet bores us so we are prancing for the fall ready-to-wear collections. The satin bow at the waist on
Cha Cha Couture’s Hollywood doggie dress is sure to show off our girlish figure ($39), and Park Avenue Puppy’s cute cupcake sweater is making us salivate ($46). Appropriate office attire is a must, so onto the list goes the day at the office dress in purple ($55, right), along with a pink winter wonderland fur coat from Just Doggie Stuff to hide those bad-fur days ($42). And just because we’re on all fours doesn’t mean we don’t appreciate nice things: Here’s a bark-out to Oscar Newman’s rosette-covered sweater
($77); he’s clearly been sniffing around Fendi’s Milan show, and he deserves a big slurp for his efforts.
Bad girl! We almost forgot the mani-pedi. How could we? Especially when open-toed paws are so in fashion! And when there are luscious puppy colors such as Amethyst Shimmer, Deep Capri and Candy Apple Red just waiting to finish off a look ($4.65). We don’t know what to say for ourselves, so we’ll just channel Chloe: Talk to the paw.




















