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
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
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
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
Now I Love Football
Little by little, by not more than word of mouth and keen observance, I have discovered that there is a small school of girls in New York – like fish in a pond – whose free-spirited, sprightly esthetic has not… READ MORE
I Cried When I watched the Rolling Stones
Tennessee Thomas’ apartment looks just as I’d imagined: cute, retro and little. It reminds me of the rabbit hole in Alice in Wonderland when everything seems to be shrinking, but really it’s just Alice growing bigger and bigger. Everything in… READ MORE
Pennies for Your Art
For their Fall ‘magalog’ Pennyblack, a young women’s wear line in Italy that’s part of the Max Mara group, focuses their attention on the art world. They have models posing as painters and curators and the art direction is based on… READ MORE
Body Party
Ciara is a self-proclaimed tom-boy but the people at Paper Magazine had something very different in mind when they hired me to style her for their September cover…. Danielle Levitt‘s beautiful images and our hilarious behind-the-scenes ‘TWERK’ video should give… READ MORE
Say Yes to Pillow Balls, or Ball Pillows?
Arden Wohl and Andrew Yes met while studying film at NYU. Arden, as you learned, went on to become a baking, vintage-wearing, headband-toting Veganist. And Andrew? Andrew started making pillow balls, or ball pillows, which ever way you want to… READ MORE
I Don’t Have to Wear Vintage
We aren’t quite aware of how big the estate is until our van gets stuck at the front gate. It’s one of those intimidating high, metal gates with a faceless, electronic box perched at the height of the driver’s window… READ MORE
All Eyes on Alber
The best thing about Lancome’s collaboration with Alber Elbaz, besides the actual make-up of course, are the cute, funny drawings. Remember the Lanvin Halloween party on Madison Avenue in 2010? That must have been the first time I saw Alber’s… READ MORE
Coco Rocha, Well Suited
Elle Mexico, June 2013, cover story by Santiago Ruisenor. Styling by Natalie Joos. At the Metropolitan Building, Long Island City.