9/11 Memorial Museum
Almost exactly one week before September 11, 2001, I walked across the grounds of the World Trade Twin Towers after visiting an art gallery. On that fateful Tuesday morning, back in LA, as reality set in after fielding a few calls from my East Coast clients in the...
Downtown Girl
It should be no surprise to you that I am back on the road. The last photo of the suitcases in my last entry should have been a dead giveaway. What I failed to mention, though, was that I actually ended up with three pairs of striped sneakers: two from the Missoni x...
Converse x Missoni
If you’ve been a reader of my blog for a while you’d know that I basically live in my leather Converse sneakers when I’m visiting a new city, especially if there’s a lot of walking involved on a given day. You’d also know that I have a...
Supermarket À La Chanel
The days of showing a collection to a selected few in Mademoiselle’s private salon at 31 rue Cambon are long over. In these golden Karl Lagerfeld days, it’s all about the spectacle of the runway at the Grand Palais in Paris…about how to one-up the...
The Chanel Jacket Diaries, Part 8
Mix two sleeves, a Peter Pan collar, two front pockets, tonal lining, and some buttons together… sounds like a recipe for a basic jacket, right? But what separates one jacket from the other? In today’s episode, let’s explore the anatomy of two...
Happy Feet
I sent my passport away a few weeks ago to get it renewed two years ahead of its expiration date; I’d simply run out of pages. So while almost everyone I know has left the country for their summer holidays, I have been California bound, nose to the grind. The...
Runway to Reality
I’m officially banned from looking at any more texts or emails from my sales associates. But this morning, a very clever person texted me a video of a sale jacket so I can better see it in motion. And as I said all those years ago when I first found out what the...
The Chanel Jacket Diaries, Part 7
As summer sales dwindle down, my living room is starting to look like a makeshift boutique, divided in two by an imaginary line for things that have to go back to the stores and things that will be added to my Chanel collection. And then there’s a tiny section...
Instagram Me
I’d mentioned before that I’m more into antisocial media than social media, but Instagram has definitely gotten the best of me. Most likely it’s because it serves two large components of my personality: visualization and attention deficit. Throw all...
Long Live McQueen
It’s been some four years since Alexander McQueen’s passing, but his eponymous label is still thriving under Sarah Burton’s guidance. I’ve mentioned before that I have forsaken all other RTW labels in order to sustain my Chanel addiction, but...