Impossible Conversations made possible. I wore Schiap pink in honor of the occasion. While I was excited to be able to see Alexander McQueen's archived designs in the flesh, last year's Savage Beauty had left me only ambivalent at most. Blasphemous, perhaps, but I'm a firm believer of to each ... Read More
What would Marilyn Do?
Today marks the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's death. Half a century later her legacy as an iconic bombshell lives on... Yet even though she was both Hollywood's starlet and one of its greatest tragedies—her rendition of Happy Birthday, Mr. President ringing hauntingly in the back of our ... Read More
Ready or Not: The ‘Y’ in ‘Yves’
Saint Laurent Paris, opening soon. R.I.P. the Y in Yves; it all seems surreal. Impossible, said the French way. The power of one letter, and one so rarely used. This is the power of branding, consumer association and influence. Yves. Y. Yves. Why? YSL is iconic; what of Yves, the man behind the ... Read More