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- When you walk in the Phillip Lim for Target event, you see this.
- So in order to prevent hyperventilation you grab one of these nuclear waste buckets and hope for the best.
- And then you see the panorama from Target's 8,100 mile road trip. It's pret
- And celebrities start filtering in.
- And still more celebrities arrive.
- So now you feel ready to turn to the clothes, which apparently looked like this at one point.
- But you found them more like this.
- And this, if you're lucky.
- So you consider breaking into this glass case, which is far to demure for this event anyway, and grab the bag that'll fit your laptop. You thankfully see a scarf someone unwittingly drop
- But then you see the checkout line and you're like, screw it, I'll get it on eBay.