PILGRIMAGES

• 2011-10-11

  Joan Didion.

• 2011-02-26

  Karen Carpenter drum solo, 1976

• 2010-12-06

  You can keep your non-fictionalized Cleopatra. I prefer this version. If only all ancient rulers had a touch of that White Diamonds intrigue…

• 2010-12-05

  

  Naomi Campbell at age 16 photographed by Jamie Morgan for Pitti Trend, February 1987. Styled by Ray Petri. Among so many other things, Petri presaged the street style trend by almost 30 years.

• 2010-11-22

  Why We Don’t Want Men to Vote

  • Because man’s place is in the army.
  • Because no really manly man wants to settle any question otherwise than by fighting about it.
  • Because if men should adopt peaceable methods women will no longer look up to them.
  • Because men will lose their charm if they step out of their natural sphere and interest themselves in other matters than feats of arms, uniforms, and drums.
  • Because men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them unfit for government.

  In 1915 the writer Alice Duer Miller penned this response to a growing anti-suffrage movement which argued that women didn’t really want the vote anyway. She also wrote a regular column on women’s rights in the New York Tribune titled “Are Women People?”.

• 2010-11-18

  

  Maison Martin Marginal

  Today Text Edit (yes I know no one actually uses this program) autocorrected Margiela as Marginal. Needless to say, I didn’t bother re-correcting. Two dimensional trench coat, anyone?

• 2010-11-15

  

  The definitive answer to that seldom posed query, How many throw pillows is too many?

• 2010-11-03

  Nobody does side part like Meryl

  I love Meryl Streep. She is one of the most dynamic actresses in the history of cinema, she is extraordinarily beautiful and this lady rocks a side part like no other.

  

  “Hello, pleased to meet you.” (curtsy)

  

  “What the fuck do you want now?” (yawn)

  

  “Yeeeees?” (smolder)

  

  “Seriously?” (for the love of…)

  

  “No, it can’t be” (slap!) 

  

  “Hi…” (can someone take that light out of my face? thanks)

• 2010-10-26

  Charis Wilson (pronounced care-iss) was married to the photographer Edward Weston in 1939 at age 24 (he was 53). During their time together, she acted as muse and documentarian of their travels in the American West, and was known to have written his Guggenheim Fellowship proposal (the first ever awarded to a photographer). She passed away last year at the age of 95.

• 2010-10-01

  Attack of the ankle floufs

  Remember how a flash of ankle was once the equivalent of today’s tramp stamp? How times have changed. Now the ankle has unabashedly ascended to center stage in the fashion arena and it demands your attention! I mean, really, have you ever seen so much ankle-centric embellishment in one season? (Ok, you probably have, but just go with it)

  An ankleside potpourri sachet in black mesh at Rick Owens (the scent? anything that can confuse and confound enough for a high heel-wearing goth designer from Los Angeles to somehow amass a cult following and show to consistent critical acclaim in Paris…possibly ether?)

  

  More saffron threads at Sacai than you can shake a bowl of mulligatawny at

  

  M-I-C…I see your little rodent ears at Carven

  

  Corsages on the down low at D&G

  

  The French are notorious for elevating scarf tying to an artform. The Italians…well the Italians also wear scarves. See Missoni.

  

  Just say NEIGH to these horsehair-like hoof enclosures at Reed Krakoff