New York Fashion Week Grows Up
There has been a whole lot of sexy going on in New York this past week. That’s normal, for this time of year. Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, which began last Thursday, wraps up today. And while the après Labor Day fashion buzz is nothing unusual, what has struck me this go round is that the transition people [...]
Monday’s Miscellany
Another mashup of quick items. This week, focus New York–on swimming, China in the city, and cowboy boots. Swimming +Pool sounds like a far-fetched idea that would take flight and die over beers on a hot summer night: let’s build a floating pool in New York’s East River, and let’s design a filtration system so [...]
Considering Alexander McQueen
Yesterday I went to the Met to see the Alexander McQueen retrospective Savage Beauty. I thought I might beat the crowds by going first thing on a Tuesday morning. No such luck. One of the guards on duty told me that it’s never not packed, every day from open to close. The exhibit has broken [...]
Patron of the New.
Patron of the New. is über sexy. A friend tipped me to the just-opened TriBeCa store last week, so I stopped in last weekend, on my way home from my ritual Saturday morning spinning class. Oh. My. God. Located on Franklin Street in a stunning, prototypical TriBeCa space–soaring ceilings, concrete floors, columns down the middle, [...]
Master Craftsman
I have a very funny, charming dog, a five year old, white French Bulldog. He catalyzes lots of conversations everywhere I take him in New York. And, this being New York, on occasion those conversations take place with celebrities. My personal rule of thumb for these encounters is to roll with the moment, resist temptation [...]
Girl Power
First Natalie Massenet, now Arianna Huffington. In less than twelve months’ time, two super fabulous female entrepreneurs have inked high-profile, multimillion dollar deals for the companies they founded, using the internet as their launch pad. Natalie started online luxury retailer Net-a-Porter in London in 2000. Arianna, of course, founded eponymous news aggregator Huffington Post in [...]
Fashion Forward
Late last week Prada announced plans to go public. Rumors had been swirling about an IPO for most of 2010–actually, for most of the past decade. The new twist to the tales told last year was that the Company had decided to list on the Hong Kong stock exchange. And that is, in fact, what [...]
Irrational Exuberance
Earlier this month the window display at Sicis on Broome Street in Soho caught my eye, as it often does. Only this time it was, as I wrote when I posted a picture of it on Twitter, ridonculous–beyond. It was a bathtub–in the form of a gold, mosaic, high-heel platform pump. I loved it for [...]
Breaking Rules
Luxury Culture is a website that breaks rules. For that reason, and many others, I am an ardent fan. First, before rule breaking, comes beauty. Around for at least five years, maybe more, this is a site that has long understood and capitalized on the power of simplicity, strong images and vibrant color. It’s delicious. [...]
Fashion Democracy
This past Saturday the first of two annual transatlantic fashion marathons kicked off with men’s fashion week in Milan. Every year those intimately familiar with the fashion calendar (the way others are intimately familiar with professional sports seasons), eagerly anticipate the mid-January to mid-March romps down the runways of Milan, New York, London, and Paris, followed [...]
