The Answer to Your Fitness

I don’t like the word ‘workout’. For one, because it has the word ‘work’ in it. Exercise should be fun, not work! You get paid to work; but you’re rewarded for the other. I was never much of an athlete…. READ MORE

December 16, 2013 / 14 Comments

I Am Giving You Soap!

I know what you’re thinking… Just another soap, right? Wrong! Jaboneria Marianalla is special for a number of reasons. First: the soaps smell awesome. Second: my friend makes them, with his mother. Third: they look awesome. Four: they contain rejuvenating… READ MORE

December 11, 2013 / 3 Comments

When Grace met John

There are animated theories about Grace Kelly having had an affair with John F Kenndy. Certainly the way she met him, dressed in a nurse’s costume at his hospital bed in New York, wasn’t exactly standard protocol. But besides her… READ MORE

November 29, 2013

Chloé, Behind the Scenes

I spent three days at the Chloé headquarters in Paris. Geraldine Sommier, the woman who was hired two years ago to restore the semi-lost archives, granted me free reign of her office, two medium-sized rooms filled with fashion images and… READ MORE

November 27, 2013 / 5 Comments

Three Halves to Make a Whole

When I walk in the front door to Mia’s second floor apartment, I wonder if she’s just raided a florist. There are flowers waining in the kitchen sink, in artsy cabbage bushels on the window sills, laid out in a… READ MORE

November 21, 2013 / 4 Comments

Sixty Years of Chloé

During Paris Fashion Week in September, at the book launch on Rue Saint Honoré, I met 92-year-old Gaby Aghion, the founder of Chloé. She sat in a wheel chair in the middle of the store, entertaining fans and loyal customers… READ MORE

November 19, 2013 / 11 Comments

DVF X HVN

New York DJ Harley Viera-Newton and her by now infamous cat Marmite (featured here) have teamed up with Diane Von Furstenberg for a special holiday collaboration. Together they’ve created a bag and head phones inspired by Marmite, whiskers, ears and… READ MORE

November 14, 2013

Heart over Heels

First there was the balding lawyer who told me on our first (and only) date that I was wearing the wrong outfit. “You should have worn a short, tight dress,” he insisted. I had not asked him for his opinion…. READ MORE

November 11, 2013 / 25 Comments

When Jean-Paul came to Brooklyn

I wish you could have been there on Friday night. The man is hilarious! I instagrammed the fifteen seconds where he tells Kristina O’Neill from the Wall Street Journal about his teddy bear. As a boy he was not allowed… READ MORE

October 30, 2013 / 4 Comments

Vintage, Reseen

On October 15th, my friend Sabrina Marshall and her partner Sofia Bernardin announced the launch of RESEE, a vintage and design “re-commerce” site out of Paris. Their e-store “fuses rare vintage and the best in second hand clothing with high… READ MORE

October 25, 2013 / 3 Comments

The Outtakes #PFW

If you take about 200 photos per day and your Iphone is only operable in wifi areas and you’re out of the house until the wee hours, (and you’re also a bit lazy) there’s not much time left for proper… READ MORE

October 16, 2013 / 5 Comments