Sunday, February 17, 2013
Tweet You know when someone is talking nonsense to you and it would be way too rude to say, “So what?” so you say, “Annnnndddd?” instead? Obviously, it isn’t that much better than “So what?” So bite your tongue and let your lobe(s) do the bitching with my single ampersand earring in sterling silver. I [...]
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Categories: earrings, my designs, style icons, week in review
Monday, October 17, 2011
Tweet In the ’90s, I lived with a roommate in a nice-enough apartment building. We had a doorman, a marble lobby and the location was decent — not too far from the subway — but it definitely wasn’t Park Avenue. One day, I saw a tall, elegant man in the elevator. He was wearing the [...]
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Tweet The world lost a screen goddess today: actress Elizabeth Taylor has died at the age of 79. She lived an amazingly long life considering her myriad health problems, which included a bout of pneumonia and an emergency tracheotomy in 1961. Shortly after that crisis, Taylor won her first Academy Award for Best Actress for [...]
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Categories: celebrities, movies, news, obits, style icons
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Tweet Superstar hairstylist Julie Matos of the Riccardo Maggiore Salon and I first bonded over our love of the ’80s club/music/fashion scene. Julie’s ’80s-radar went on full alert last month when, while in a Walgreens, she noticed a statuesque, glammed-up blonde. Julie stalked the blonde all over the store till they ended up in the [...]
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Friday, November 26, 2010
Tweet If you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time, you know that my jewelry designs are largely inspired by interesting historical women, including Cleopatra, Elizabeth I and Anne Boleyn. But I’m also fascinated by ladies of more recent vintage such as Sally Randall, the mid-’80s New York It girl whom I wrote [...]
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Monday, November 1, 2010
Tweet The fashion police — both online and offline — are mighty agitated over 17-year-old Gossip Girl actress/singer Taylor Momsen’s punk/Goth look. WTF! If she’s not your kid, why are you so upset? Personally, I’m not alarmed by a style that first épater‘d la bourgeoisie over three decades ago. I just see it as a [...]
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Thursday, February 18, 2010
Tweet Before I write about my New York Fashion Week adventures, I’m going to tell you what I think came out of my ethics panel at Monday’s Independent Fashion Bloggers Evolving Influence conference. I don’t believe there’s a single code of ethics that can cover all fashion blogs right now. The issues a fashion-news blog [...]
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Categories: blogs and bloggers, Minx manicure, pictures of me, style icons, swear rings
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Tweet When gorgeous blogger Ondo Lady asked me to write about my New York style icon in honor of Fashion Week, I instantly knew that I would be writing about Sally Randall. With Ondo Lady’s permission, I’m republishing the post I did for her blog here: When I think of my New York style icon, [...]
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
Tweet Click on the photo from Patrick McMullan’s book to find out! There are quite a few pictures of the stylish lady in question on Danceteria’s MySpace page. Comments will be back in my next post.
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Sunday, February 15, 2009
Tweet People have been asking Carly Simon to tell them who inspired “You’re So Vain” since the song was a No. 1 hit in 1973. “You had one eye in the mirror as you watched yourself gavotte.” I’ve always loved Carly’s sexy-hippy ’70s style. The cover of her 1971 Anticipation album From the cover of [...]
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