Monday, March 19, 2012
Gorgeous blogger Jac of Dirty Shiny Pretty was checking out her fashion horoscope on Honestly … WTF when she realized that the Leo illustration was wearing a red version of my blue, cropped and ruffled Junya Watanabe motorcycle jacket. (Apparently, Capricorns like me should be wearing Givenchy. I could live with that!) I wanted to [...]
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Friday, November 4, 2011
Last Sunday’s New York Times had an article about singer Kelly Clarkson called “Kelly Clarkson, a Pop Star Proud in Her Own Skin.” It looked at how fans identify with Clarkson not just because of her powerful voice and stand-up-for-yourself lyrics but also because of her habit of “dismissing withering criticism of her weight.” Courtney [...]
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
I’m sure all of my fashion-obsessed readers are eagerly following the news of Europe’s deal to reduce Greece’s debt and stem the financial crisis that has shaken the euro. The Wall Street Journal’s front page story, headlined, “EU Forges Greek Bond Deal,” explains that European leaders “had reached agreement with private banks on a ‘voluntary’ [...]
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Saturday, August 20, 2011
On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal ran a story by Heidi Mitchell called “Jewelry Style Waits for No Man: Buy It for Yourself.” Here’s the lede: “For jewelers, a market is emerging for their baubles: the women who actually wear them.” I’m not sure how to react to this. Since I launched my jewelry business [...]
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Friday, July 22, 2011
I visited Norway four years ago this month. MrB and I went to Oslo first, then through the fjords to Bergen. It was one of the most beautiful places I’d ever been, and I’ve been wanting to go back since the moment I left. So sad to see what happened there today.
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Last week, a busybody speculated aloud that my favorite red lipstick is full of lead that will give me cancer. (My reaction can be summed up by this 2008 post.) Right after that conversation, I saw that lots of news organizations were picking up a story about a pair of Dutch artists — Lernert Engelberts [...]
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Five days after I saw Bill Cunningham New York, a documentary about New York Times style photographer Bill Cunningham, I went to a screening of another documentary called Page One: Inside the New York Times. The New York Times has become a big movie star! But what if the fame goes to the Times’s head? [...]
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Sunday, June 12, 2011
The New York Times ran a story today about commencement speeches and included an excerpt from Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, who spoke at Barnard College. Her words are worth repeating: “Women almost never make one decision to leave the work force. It doesn’t happen that way. They make small little decisions [...]
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Monday, May 23, 2011
Because of my pre-jewelry life as a journalist, I’ve always been a sucker for newspaper-print clothes. I got this newspaper-print jacket a couple of years ago on eBay. I won’t be wearing it again. Check out the back. Yep, that’s Hitler-loving John Galliano‘s name in eye-catching black and white. If I owned any Christian Dior [...]
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