Alive For 35 at Dallas Contemporary
It’s a HUGE birthday celebration for the Dallas Contemporary in November, now housed at the Glass Street location in the trendy Design District area for about three years.
View ArticleIsabella Blow: Fashion Galore!
The Halcyon Gallery on New Bond Street---always a contemporary treat when I visit London, most certainly satiated my artistic requisite last month in more ways than one. The first: an impactful...
View ArticleLoewe and Behold its J.W. Anderson
With the luck of the Irish, a blue-eyed baby face and talent to boot, it’s no surprise the latest boy wonder to emerge from London Fashion Week is the adorable Jonathan William Anderson: J. W. Anderson.
View ArticleRising Stars 2013: Fashion Group International of Dallas
A flock of fashion patron’s descended upon the Hilton Anatole’s Gossip Bar last week for the Fashion Group International of Dallas 2013 Rising Stars announcement party, and black seemed to be the shade...
View ArticleHomes and Tomes with Tadao Ando, Jan Showers and Aerin Lauder
Since I am currently obsessed with anything to do with architecture, interiors and creating a beautiful home (my husband and I are currently renovating a mid-century modern ranch, so more to come on...
View ArticleThe Return: Let the Chanel Storytelling Begin…
Circa 1954 in Paris, a most precarious moment for Gabrielle Chanel as she presented her post-war collection at the age of 71—a collection that was ill-received by the French press. This moment in time...
View ArticleFashion Galore at Somerset House
A montage of interviews that pay homage to Issy—even though I’ve already noted the exhibition on Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore! that ends March 2, 2014 at Somerset House in London, this short...
View ArticleRecreational Renegades…
Sporty, biker or mini....as designers prepare for the arrival of Fall 2014 next month during fashion week I decided to muse upon on the arrival of spring, and reminisce the style forecast that will hit...
View ArticleArtful Inspirations…
Spring 2014 runways produced an abundant kaleidoscope of color, with monochromatic canvases of black and white, and serious flirtations and conversations where art popped profusely.
View ArticleDries Van Noten at Musée des Arts Décoratifs
So imagine walking into the mind of Belgian designer Dries Van Noten, and peeking blissfully at his eclectic musings of fashion and art—symbolically mesmerizing, and collectively vibrant and creative....
View ArticleBeach Hopping in St. Barth
Eleven years later I finally return to the très chic French island of Saint-Barthélemy—St. Barth. The first trip, a sailing celebration for New Year’s Eve introduced me to the fact that I was not...
View ArticleFalling for Ready-to-Wear Autumn Winter 2016
These days it’s much easier to flick through every ready-to-wear runway shot of Autumn Winter 2016 on my iPad at the speed of lightening and edit directly to Pinterest. At the end of a month-long...
View ArticleBurry: Helmut Lang the Artist
Helmut Lang: I’m not talking about the fashion brand that you find racked at Neiman Marcus, the eponymous designer departed his namesake label back in 2005 after selling it to the Prada Group, I’m...
View ArticleStella McCartney is the Cats Meow
Tobias, Adaline, Sammi, Hechi and Perla are purrfect models and the stars of Stella McCartney’s lookbook for the Autumn 2016 collection. The cats were not personally invited to attend a private lunch...
View ArticleThe First Monday in May: Manus x Machina
Back in early 2014, I visited the Museum of Arts & Design in Manhattan to view the exhibition Out of Hand: Materialising the Postdigital, which was an exhibition focused on computer-assisted...
View ArticleMatches Fashion x Altuzarra
I met fashion designer Joseph Altuzarra for the first time in New York at the Fashion Group International ‘Night of Stars’ gala two years ago, this week we met again over lunch with Matches Fashion...
View ArticleTakashi Murakami: Bold Color, Stripes and Floral
I just found this neat lithograph print by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami on auction at Paddle 8, and it reminds me of current styles that use bold colours and combinations between stripes and floral...
View ArticleGet Fancy in Flowers, it’s a Floral Frenzy
Floral styles are out in full bloom. It’s time to dress feminine for summer in oversized flowers. Shop the Gucci and Net-A-Porter collaboration that just launched today, and Matches Fashion’s second...
View ArticleLady Dior x Marc Quinn
Three things that I obsess over (other than McQueen) are orchids, Marc Quinn and Dior handbags – of which, I can never have enough. So when I read that Quinn’s latest project involved Lady Dior and...
View ArticleResort Stops for Chanel, Dior, Vuitton, and Gucci
The fashion flock love to fly to the far corners of the world, and for the Resort 2017 collections, a resort stop was the final destination for four fashion houses: from Rio de Janeiro to the...
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