My favorite vintage store, Frock NYC, has relaunched its website! Check out the beautiful selections, including Ossie Clark, Thea Porter, Ungaro and Moschino. Not to mention my very own Versace Couture dress (see above), worn to the Oscars in 2003! And if you’re in NYC, you must stop by the store at 148 Orchard Street…
Black and White
I like the bold, graphic design on this ’80s snakeskin Carlos Falchi bag. It’s $165 on Poshvintage.com.
Win a Strawberry!
Fun and friendly U.K. site Girlie Gossip is giving away one of my 18K gold strawberry pendants! Retail value is $990, so enter to win ASAP. Deadline is September 6.
The Rules (for Ladies of a Certain Age)
Whose rules are better? Ellen Barkin’s or blogger Gala Darling’s? Gala’s by a long shot, I’d say.
Great Minds Think Alike…About Gladiator Sandals
Here (on the right) we have Ashley Olsen in Alaia sandals. Below, vintage Herbert Levine. (Levine photo via Enokiworld. Sorry, the Levines are sold.) Speaking of sandals, if you’re a size 37 (and act quickly), you can get the Gucci sandal pictured below at Bergdorf Goodman for $582, down from $895. But if you’re a…
Happy Birthday, Madonna
Madonna is 49 today, and I remember listening to her when she was 26. To be exact, I remember listening to her on vinyl, in the basement of my parents’ house, with my friend Brian whom I tutored in Spanish. I also remember going to her show at Radio City instead of my high school…
Zandra Rhodes
The New York Times style section has an article on British designer Zandra Rhodes. A year or two ago, some British friends took us to see Zandra’s Fashion and Textile Museum in South London. We had a tough time finding it and were rattling all over South London in a tiny car containing four adults…
Thursday Book Club: Pope Joan
It wasn’t my intention to recommend books that I haven’t read myself but in honor of one of my newest jewelry designs, I’ll do it. As I said in this post, according to legend, Pope Joan disguised herself as a man and led the Church for a brief time in the 850s. I did read…
Going Off the Rails on a Crazy Train
I love Amy Winehouse’s beehive and exaggerated eyeliner as much as I do her Back to Black album. Embed from Getty Images Obviously, girlfriend has a lot of issues. As intriguing as those issues are, I hope she gets herself together before she joins “that stupid club,” as Kurt Cobain’s mother put it after his…
Great Minds Think Alike…About Sashes
When I saw this beautiful Jonathan Saunders dress in the window of Bergdorf Goodman …. CLICK HERE TO SEE THE DRESS. … the Marc Jacobs dress from 2004 on Liv Tyler immediately sprang to mind. Embed from Getty Images They’re certainly not identical though. It must just be the sash.