I had a client last month, a guy in his sixties getting fitted for a wedding, tell me his father always matched socks to trousers because “matching them to your…
My uncle works in private equity, and years ago, when I told him I was starting to style corporate clients, he said, “Easy, just put them in a vest, it…
The line that gets repeated as though it’s settled science is that women either think a man in a thong is the hottest thing they’ve ever seen or the funniest,…
I knew I was officially old when a 22-year-old intern tsk-tsked me for how I wore jeans. It wasn’t when I noticed my first gray hair (hey Steve, I see…
Here’s something I’d surely lose my job at any respectable fashion magazine doing today, around the year 2019: I purchase items off TikTok. I, a 30-something fashion editor who’s been…
“No, Mom, it’s supposed to look like that.” I groaned into my phone. It was an uphill battle trying to describe why I spent a truly embarrassing percentage of my…
My editor laughed out loud when I told her I’d dress based on TikTok’s trending hashtags for a week straight. Honestly, so did I. At first. “Yeah, right,” I said,…
In my family we have a saying about trends and fashion that my grandma Florence lived by: “There’s nothing new under the sun, just old trends waiting for the right…
If there’s one thing the fashion industry could teach us about reality, it’s that things are not always what they seem. Think of Christopher Esber’s latex getups and Carine Roitfeld’s…
Three weeks ago, I was mingling at a gallery opening in Chelsea when a woman approached me while I was drifting toward the complimentary champagne (as one does these things).…