On Saturday, April 5th, a curated selection of Iris Apfel’s vast furniture, vintage, textile and jewelry collection will go on sale at One Kings Lane, the rapidly growing e-tailer for the modern, one-stop home decorator. After years of conversations with the… READ MORE
Traditionally, when fashion month is over, and spring is making its first attempts at breaking, I get a full body and face treatment: a deep tissue massage to relax, a facial to clean my pores, a sea salt body scrub to… READ MORE
Belgians hold a special place in their hearts and homes for Kipling. If you went to school in Belgium, any time between now and 1987, chances are you were carrying a Kipling book bag or a back pack or their… READ MORE
Every season I get the question from journalists, usually with a big camera or running recording device in my face: what trends am I noticing (and liking) on the runways. If you have seen those video clips, chances are I… READ MORE
I don’t like cooking. Wait, that’s not entirely accurate. I do like cooking. It’s creative and challenging and I’m not bad at it. Maybe I am too lazy to cook? That’s not true either. I don’t mind getting my hands… READ MORE
The incongruous days when yellow cab drivers unapologetically shooed you out of the backseat when you innocently revealed your destination to be Williamsburg, and when your friends from Manhattan feigned an incurable, medical adversity to the air in that specific… READ MORE
One would expect London to be the epicenter of great knitwear. Scottish wool is pretty much spun on its doorstep and it’s the kind of hyperbolic climate that requires natural fibre insulation year round. But I was disappointed when I… READ MORE
Charlotte Ronson’s fans were in for a bit of a surprise when they entered The Hub at the Hudson Hotel on February 7th. Instead of the usual quirky-cute, happy-go-lucky silhouettes they’ve grown so accustomed to, the stage was filled with… READ MORE
One could categorize vintage in three telling groups. One group would be what we call vintage, and entails everything that’s collected and worth collecting, the special pieces sort of speak, sometimes more than 25 years old. The second group would… READ MORE
Nars Cosmetics has launched a new series of short film portraits for their popular NARSissist edition. It will feature the women they feel represent the many fans and devoted followers who have inspired their NARSissist campaign. Philanthropist and Vogue girl… READ MORE
We’ve seen a lot of anniversaries lately. Chloé celebrated sixty years. So did Missoni, and Max Mara. Moschino looked back at thirty years with the best show of the season in Milan. Miu Miu turned twenty. And Armani had their traveling retrospective Couture shows…. READ MORE
I grew up on Motown records. Every weekend my parents listened (and while I watched with transfixed glee, often danced) to the soulful voices of artists like Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes and The Temptations. Even before I took… READ MORE