It’s about two o’clock in the afternoon when Carmen Hawk and Rodney Klein park their truck behind my rental car. I’ve been waiting on the sidewalk in front of their closed store for about half an hour, watching confused customers… 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
Last summer, a couple of years after launching her wildly popular blog, Tales of Endearment, Natalie Joos had to make a decision. “I was having mental breakdowns – and physical ones – trying to do both jobs,” recalls the casting… 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
“Do you have any mascara??” she begs. I hear feverish rattling and shuffling noises coming from the tiny bathroom. When I answer a regretful “no” and scurry to offer help, I see Nora hunched over a make-up drawer. “I don’t… READ MORE
How is it that I don’t remember if I ever went on the Eiffel Tower? I have just spent the past hour pondering and searching my deepest, earliest memories. It seems like the obvious thing to do when a) you… 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
You know something collectively catalyst is going on when one of the world’s top collectors and most active patrons of Latin American art has decided to open a new Contemporary Art museum in Mexico City. A project of such a… 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
Something’s off with the camera. Even when I turn on the auto-focus the image is blurry and I can’t change the aperture. I try every button, lever and switch, but nothing’s working, except – ironically – the battery. This is… 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