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Back to Black

19 October 2025 • Kimberly

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I stopped by a Kilian launch party for their newest fragrance, Angels' Share On the Rocks—a flanker of the much beloved, booze-and-apple-pie gourmand Angels' Share. The original is overtly delicious, a sort of sweet seduction best wielded with shiny blowout. On the Rocks, however, is notably softer. ... Read More

Fast FWRD

28 July 2023 • Kimberly

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Does a mini hiatus actually exist if I don’t address the radio silence since early July? It’s not that I don’t have things to write about; it's quite the opposite, in fact. Lately, it feels as though I have too much to find the right words for and not enough to spare post-workday—a good problem to ... Read More

Objects of Desire

19 December 2022 • Kimberly

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Took the ever-elegant Lady Dior on an outing this weekend. To the LACMA we went; it'd been a while since I visited (and at least two years since she'd been out of storage). Key works were still just as I remembered (Picassos and Matisses, namely, and this giant David Hockney of his view commuting to ... Read More

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