It’s easy to get a bad impression of Coachella fashion, especially after the media deluge of stories about how to dress for music festivals, followed by the stories on how music-festival fashion has gone too far. Style cliches abound on Instagram and then are beaten into the ground by style writers: the culturally inappropriate Native…
Coachella 2016: My Music Highlights
From the media coverage, you might think that everyone who goes to the Coachella music festival in Indio, Calif., cares more about fashion than music. (Vanessa Friedman of the New York Times — praising the way clothes serve the message in Beyonce’s new visual album Lemonade — writes, “It is the anti-Coachella: the opposite of…
The Week in Review
In case you missed it, here’s what was on the blog this week. Monday: ProPublica won its third Pulitzer Prize. Wednesday: I don’t want to be a wet blanket. I want to be a quilt! Thursday: RIP, Prince. Friday: Happy belated birthday, Queen Elizabeth! Saturday: Like I said, anklets are the next jewelry trend. And…
Anklets and Chokers. Not Just for Coachella!
The choker necklace has gotten so hot so fast this spring — especially at Coachella — that Vogue is ready to declare the style so over in favor of ankle bracelets, aka anklets. Forget the choker necklace, this is the accessory you need this summer: https://t.co/FEVuX8Liqf — Vogue Magazine (@voguemagazine) April 20, 2016 When I…
Happy Belated Birthday, Queen Liz!
I meant to wish Queen Elizabeth II a happy 90th birthday yesterday, but then we tragically lost another royal and I had other things on my mind. So happy belated, Liz! My jewelry line is inspired by powerful women, especially royals, and one of my very first major designs was my Gloriana necklace, adorned with…
RIP, Prince
Devastating! Another icon gone too soon. Prince June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016 Embed from Getty Images Just yesterday, I’d been reassured about Prince’s health after reading that he’d appeared before fans on Saturday to show them that he was okay after being hospitalized for the flu. I was checking up on him because…
Quiltyyyyyyy
I’ve dressed like a dollar bill. I’ve dressed like a brick wall. But I never dreamed of dressing like a quilt until I saw this vintage Dior dress while window-shopping on Shrimpton Couture’s website. If I had this dress, I’d need someone to change Family Guy’s “Guiltyyyyyyy” soundbite to “Quiltyyyyyyy.”
Congrats to ProPublica on Its Third Pulitzer Prize!
A big congratulations to MrB’s nonprofit investigative reporting organization, ProPublica, on its third Pulitzer Prize! The article was a collaboration with another nonprofit, The Marshall Project, which specializes in covering criminal justice. T. Christian Miller, a senior reporter for ProPublica, and Ken Armstrong, a writer for The Marshall Project, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for…
The Week in Review
In case you missed it, here’s what was on the blog this week. Monday: Cara Delevingne wore her uniform to the MTV Movie Awards. Tuesday: Fashion and craziness at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Wednesday: Luxury living for 19th-century hamsters. Plus Gaultier and Moschino. Thursday: George Michael and the models of…
Recommended Reading: “Last Men Standing”
George Michael’s quote in yesterday’s post about “the years when HIV was a killer” reminded me that I’ve been meaning to share the San Francisco Chronicle’s “Last Men Standing” project. The Chronicle described its package of print and digital stories and film this way: “They outlived an epidemic, but San Francisco’s AIDS survivors are still…