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…
A couple of weekends ago, I met my friend David for brunch wearing a mustard yellow beret, a belted camel coat with oversized tortoiseshell buttons, and loafers with different colored…
One day last month, I had an extra half hour before dinner with a friend. It was in a part of town I didn’t frequent very often. You know the…
“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…
Last month, I was browsing through a vintage store in Philadelphia when I spotted someone doing something most women (myself included) often stop doing after a certain age: playing dress…
Confession: I have a folder on my phone titled “If I Won The Lottery” filled entirely with screenshots from The Row. And when I say entirely, I mean entirely. Vacations?…
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…
There’s a photo of me somewhere that my mother threatens to share on Facebook every time I act like too-big-of-a-freaking-know-it-all. It was taken in 1997. I am wearing platform sandals…
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…