Guilty as Charged: Loving Black and White Stripes

Black and white stripes seem to be a trend that will never (and should never!) truly end. The simple pattern has a magical ability to look both modern and timeless, flattering and fun, formal and casual.  So in honor of the stripes – and for “creative inspirational purposes” (sounds official, no?) – I’ve collected a [...]

Kisses

I love a simple, sassy vignette!

A Pop of Poppies

After a long, brutal Winter trudging through frozen concrete labyrinths (pause for dramatic sigh of suffering) New Yorkers are finally thawing out. Signs of Spring are popping up everywhere and although we’re normally tough to impress, every New Yorker gets a giddy eye-twinkle over each new bud and bloom. In the midst of the many [...]

Backstage at the Oscars: The Architectural Digest Greenroom

“I want this to be a glittering surprise,” said Madeline Stuart, designer of this year’s Architectural Digest Greenroom, “I want them to walk in and feel as though they’ve stepped into the most stunning set that might have been created by Cedric Gibbons in the 1930s.” Behind the sparkling Oscar stage is a room where [...]

Random Things I Love: Dresses on Mirrors

We all have random visual pairings that we adore and one of mine is a dress hung on a mirror. It’s such a gorgeously temporary thing, hanging only for a moment before being whisked off the hanger and twirled around a party. But for those brief minutes, there they are, the mirror and the dress, [...]