The Best and Last of SALE SPRING 2013.

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I'm convinced that the current retail model is broken. Sales used to be a once in a while perk, not a fact of life. The internet, the recession and the enormous expense of luxury goods that some of us seem to think we magically deserve has turned sale season into a feeding frenzy. Friends that used to say "I dont sale shop" now wait for the sales, just like the rest of us. I look at the sales as a … [Read more...]

DESIGN: Eco Friendly Family Home in NYC.

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When a Chelsea based New York family outgrew their two bedroom loft, they decided to purchase the identical one, just on top. (I have fantasies about doing this all the time!) Naturally, the space needed a gut renovation, and they decided to enlist Design Developement to create a space that would be sustainable, toxic free, and responsible. They also decided that their new home would be mindful of … [Read more...]

Rosie Assoulin’s Debut Collection: Resort ..

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Rosie Assoulin makes clothes for cool girls, cool women. I almost don't want to tell you that Rosie is a close childhood friend of mine (even though you might already know because I write about her all the time) because I feel like saying that is going to diminish your opinion of my opinion, if you know what I mean. But the truth is, Rosie Assoulin has debuted her first collection in a … [Read more...]

Daytripping: Blue Hill at Stone Barns

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Yesterday, my family and I were all still sitting around in our pajamas at 11 am, and thinking of places to go to get out of the city. (Parade Sundays are always horrible.) I googled "Day trips from Manhattan" and on the first page was a link to Blue Hill at Stone Barns. THIS. We are doing this, I said, after poking around their site for a minute or two. Technically, Blue Hill is the restaurant … [Read more...]

Sexy Summer.

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Jean Shrimpton Slim Aarons Photo by Lionel Kazan, Glamour 1960 Via Harper’s Bazaar June 1995 by Peter Lindbergh via By me Kate Upton Summer glamour and sex appeal through the ages...The challenge we have as human beings  is to make life feel as good as it looks, and as artistic spirits- is to make it look as good as it felt to be there. Hence the joy of filters. And … [Read more...]

June Gloom.

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Until I went to California in June a few years ago, I'd never even heard about June Gloom, but we are having our own little version up here in New York. Gray skies and general opening of heavens. I was thinking about it, and I realized I get some kind of stomach in knots feeling every year at this time, but only recently. When I was a kid, obviously I counted the seconds until the last day of … [Read more...]