Ahh, though summer season does not officially end on the calendar until September 20th- here in the US it has come to it’s unofficial close marked by a long, lovely Labor Day weekend.
I both love and loath this holiday weekend. Ever year I struggle to say good bye to the long, lazier days-I always feel [...]
So now that I had my inspiration- an iconic Chanel Camilla flower (catch up on part 1 here), I needed to consider how I was to go about creating the look.
As classic of a pairing as these two are, black and white can be a bit tricky for a wedding. The last thing I wanted [...]
I just returned home from an eight day excursion through Paris and Normandy. The occasion: the nuptials of two amazingly awesome friends whose love shines as bright as the City Of Lights itself!
As chic and continental as this all sounds, there were a few American missteps- my traveling companions and I found ourselves locked out [...]
What is it in our psyche that makes a fireworks display so very exciting? Is it the combination of explosive danger and burst of bright, beautiful color? Is it symbolic of human emotions…like a feeling of excitement so overwhelming you feel as though you might burst at the seams. Is it the tingly feeling of [...]
On the advice of a friend, a textile designer no less, I visited the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum this weekend. I had never been to this gem at 91st and 5th ave, an outpost of The Smithsonian housed in an Andrew Carnegie mansion. What a treat ! Visit www.cooperhewitt.org to plan your visit.
The Fashioning [...]
I have lamented in an earlier post about longing for a garden. I grew up in the South and gardening was a part of my life, especially in the summer. As a girl growing up in Virginia, all summer long we reaped the benefits of a vegetable and fruit garden. I can still taste the fresh [...]
In France they have a saying ‘en avril, ne te découvre pas d’un fil’ which basically means- in April, don’t put your umbrella away. It’s sort of on par to our ‘April showers brings Mays flowers’ idea… but somehow said with a French accent the sentIment just seems so much more sophisticated.
Umbrellas from Alexandra Sojfer… [...]
Last week I got a call to give a comment about the trend of citrus colored fashion and how to wear it. You know those colors that can best be described as lemon, lime, grapefruit, clementine…. ( if you can zest it you can wear it!). Well not to give to much away I can [...]
They say that when the going gets tough the tough get going…but in this economy even the toughest can’t afford to ‘get going’ very far away these days.
So what’s one to do when a dream destination has you swooning to take flight while your ‘inner accountant’ has your feet firmly grounded at home .. you [...]
I just spent 5 days at La Samanna in St. Martin , leaving on the day of a brutal snow storm. I had prayed that the snow wouldn’t hinder our plans, as it was my friend’s birthday and we didn’t want to spend it at JFK. Thanks to prayers and the pilot’s determination to “hit [...]
