I have a habit of watching Diana Ross in Mahogany. Kind-of like the way I watch Selena, once is never enough. I love the clothing—Ross’s personal style as well as the designs she created. I bring this up though, because the opening sequence reminded me a lot...
“It smells like… wealth… in here,” I slowly tried to articulate my nose to my mom and her friend Ms. Cynthia as we walked through Bergdorf Goodman. And it did. The air smelled stale, with hints of the leather handbags, glass cleaner that undoubtedly kept the counters...
‘Why Don’t You’ is my weekly tribute to legendary editor Diana Vreeland who penned a column of the same name for Harper’s Bazaar for 26 years begging, “Don’t just be your ordinary dull self. Why don’t you be ingenious and make yourself into something else?” The first...
I saw that the makings of the escalators have been installed in what will finally be the home of the 2nd Avenue Subway. Completion is slated for December 2016. Because this subway line has literally been (almost) a hundred years in the making, I guess MTA...
‘Why Don’t You’ is my weekly tribute to legendary editor Diana Vreeland who penned a column of the same name for Harper’s Bazaar for 26 years begging, “Don’t just be your ordinary dull self. Why don’t you be ingenious and make yourself into something else?” Here’s the...
Carrie Bradshaw said it best. “Every year the women of New York leave the past behind and look forward to the future. This is known as New York Fashion Week.” With the start of New York Fashion Week (next Thursday, in a new venue, at that!), I’m...
I love this city, I hate it sometimes, too. In an effort to keep track of my feelings about the Big Apple during my time here I try my best to chronicle them in a letter to this crazy place. Welcome to Dear New York–a series posted...
I’m not good at sitting down. Or being still. I make fun of my mother all the time for being the same way. She’s always moving. Always fixing something, it’s always something with that lady. When I first moved into my apartment (and even now, she thinks I don’t...
I think I come across more serious and a little older (or my actual age I should say), when I wear pants. [inlinetweet prefix="" tweeter="" suffix=""]I’ve come to hate being called cute.[/inlinetweet] I know that I have a youthful face and more often than not, I’m making...
One of my most treasured possessions is a book I bought at Shakespeare and Co on my first trip to Paris. Alicia Drake’s Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris follows the rise of two men who would change fashion forever—Karl Lagerfeld...