Thursday, September 29, 2011
Lately, when I need cheering up and J. Lo’s “Defend Your Outfit” video isn’t quite enough, I watch the super-gay version of “Bonjour” from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Enjoy!
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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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Thursday, June 9, 2011
Last Saturday, I went to an event where I wanted to look serious, so I dug around in my closet for some suits from my (pre-2005) corporate days. First, I tried on a gray skirt suit by Luciano Barbera. I got it at Barneys when I was absolutely desperate for a summer-weight, investment-bank-appropriate suit. I’d [...]
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011
I’m always looking for pieces that remind me of this gloomy/gorgeous Fall 2006 bird gown by Olivier Theyskens for Rochas. This bodysuit-and-pants ensemble by Bernard Perris, spotted on 1stdibs.com, immediately brought the Rochas to mind. I prefer seeing birds on clothes to birds on jungle gyms. Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds has been on television quite [...]
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Sunday, February 27, 2011
MrB and I are on a whirlwind trip to Los Angeles. Last night, we went to The Weinstein Co. pre-Oscar party, where we discreetly ogled the dashing actor Colin Firth, who is sure to win an Oscar for his work in The King’s Speech. I continued my non-wardrobe-remixing tradition by wearing nearly the exact same [...]
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Sunday, February 13, 2011
Someone asked me for my “girl and boy crushes” at the Fashion Group International Rising Star Awards lunch last month. You know you’re at a fashion event and not the Council on Foreign Relations when you’re asked that question. The query is practically mandatory among the stylish set now: “What do you do?” and “Who [...]
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Saturday, January 22, 2011
Phew! January’s Jewel of the Month sneaked in just under the wire. Fine jewelry, like the cheese in Cheez-Its, can’t be rushed into maturity. A jewelry designer without her own factory must work with other people’s schedules. Last year, I wrote about lost-wax casting, a process in which a design is carved in hard wax. [...]
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Every time I come across Grease on TV, I have to watch it. I enjoy every second of it … the songs, skinny John Travolta, the Pink Ladies, the cigarettes that the bad kids smoke. Back when it was first released (yes, I was alive then), I wanted to be bad-ass like Rizzo (Stockard Channing) [...]
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Monday, November 22, 2010
I am fascinated with the ultra-defined appearance of Angelina Jolie’s jawline in this poster for The Tourist, her new movie with Johnny Depp. That jawline is so sharp that it makes me think of a hatchet or a throwing knife. Angelina could cut a bitch with her own face! I like it. It’s good to [...]
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