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The [Faux] New Yorker

30 June 2009 • Kimberly

Sometimes I wonder why we get dressed in the morning. Aside from decency’s sake, of course. Clothing is one of humankind’s basic needs – a bare necessity, so to speak – worn for modesty (at least for some of us), for warmth, and for self protection from the nakedness of vulnerability. Yet through ... Read More

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Beauty & Brains, as the Cliché Goes

30 June 2009 • Kimberly

Herein begins my summer job volunteering at a local courthouse. To what department - criminal, civil, the likes - I will be assigned into, I know not yet of, but what I do know is how excited I am to take advantage of such opportunity to make good use of the myriad of black pencil skirts I own. And ... Read More

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It’s Officially Summer!

28 June 2009 • Kimberly

... now that school has been over for a week, and the weather is finally summer-y! [Thank goooooodness.] An  a s i d e : Loving the Matthew Williamson for H&M campaign, starring none other than Daria Werbowy. Oceans of greens and blues occasionally crashing upon white sands somewhere exotic, ... Read More

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