And when, some five years ago, she spotted a pair of Manolo sling-backs in leopard-printed pony skin, she found nirvana.
STEVE: Exactly, it's just found nirvana.
Foreigners who have found seaside nirvana in Barcelona hang out in this chilled bar back from the beach.
But in New York, she knew she had found nirvana.
SO, she said, she has found nirvana amid the freshly painted lime-green halls of her new school.
But many fans thought they had found folk-rock nirvana with songs like "Jealousy," a buoyant pop tune reminiscent of 10,000 Maniacs, and "Carnival," with its Latin groove.
Ski Cheap (published in October, December, February and April for an annual $10 subscription) is one man's attempt to find nirvana on the slopes without going into serious debt.
Todd McCarthy of Variety gave the film a B+ judging that "when Coppola finds creative nirvana, he frequently has trouble delivering the full goods."
Recently, he found nirvana while staying at the W hotel in San Francisco: a queen-size mattress and box spring with a feather bed on top.
These are New York City's most troubled children, teen-agers like the 14-year-old girl whose father was shot dead and whose mother finds nirvana in a crack pipe.