‘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?” Although I...
Hi.
My whole life I feel like I’ve been waiting on being here with you. The last four years, especially. And now I’m here.
I don’t know if you noticed but I redid the blog. Just for you.
I didn’t feel like the website served me anymore. Or gave insight into my growth as a person. I’ve always been a personal style blogger with an emphasis on the person.
I did the unthinkable the other day after too much champagne. I mean, I knew it was coming. The first time I saw her, I just knew. Add in the bubbles and I was a goner. I felt like I had dreamed about this moment long before my...
Here on The City, we are all about cultivating personal style, luckily, we can look to some of our favorite celebrities for a few style lessons. Or I guess that should read: 5 Style Lessons I Learned Living in New York City. I've officially been Channing in...
This is my 1000th post. Clap for a writer with her blogging *ss. I have written 1000 things on this site. Literally. Actually, 1002 but I had two delete two post in the move to Wordpress. I've always thought of this site as just something I did in...
I haven't done a Dear New York in awhile. I have some drafted and scheduled to post the next couple of months on my anniversary of moving to this resilient city but today's date holds a significant anniversary on its own. Not one that's celebratory...
Before I moved to New York, but after I started Channing in the City, whenever Jay Z's (who recently dropped the hyphen from his name) "Empire State of Mind" came on, I would turn it up. Like, to ignant (yes, ignant) levels. I would purposely...
People always talk about branding yourself. Branding this, branding that. The other day one of my co-workers noticed that I may or may not smile every time a certain someone's name pops up in my phone. "He can't be busted," he told me. "Think of the...
When Sex and the City originally aired on HBO today, 15 years ago, I was 10. When it went off the air in 2004, I still hadn't seen it. I wasn't allowed. I could barely watch HBO, much less anything with 'sex' in the name....
Three years ago, today, I did the best thing I've done for myself, in like, as long as I can remember. I logged onto Weebly.com and turned my online portfolio for COMM460 into Channing in the City. I had no idea what I was doing....