As obsessed as I am with Chanel, one of my favorites fashion houses is actually that of Alexander McQueen’s. His continued legacy of fantastically plumed gowns never ceases to capture my imagination, collection after collection. It’s tough beauty, dark and light all at once (photos courtesy of Style.com): Nowhere to hide that all that genius, even when cloaked by a …
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Road To Adoption: When Two Birds Collide
Sometimes you just shouldn’t taunt Mother Nature. Last week I glibly wrote to someone that we Los Angelenos don’t even roll out of bed for any earthquake weaker than a 4.5. Fast forward to Friday around 9pm, when I was in the middle of preparing for a big event the morning after, the plantation shutters in my living room began …
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The Hunt For Orange
It’s Friday here, the markets are still in free fall around the world, Mother Nature won’t let up with the natural disasters (did you hear about that freak storm at the concert in Hasselt, Belgium right after the one in Indiana?), and I just finally watched the documentary Waiting For Superman, so things are bleary. I woke up this morning …
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Birds Of A Feather
Maybe it has to do with my name, but I love anything related to birds, flight, and plumes. In my next life I’d like to be either a Russian supermodel (it’s probably the only way I’d know Russian) or a robin because either way, I’d get to fly a lot and maybe see even more of the world than I’ll …