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FIMTSO: The Tweed Jacket

One of my favorite fashion routines is collecting CHANEL RTW. Every season I peruse the runway pictures as they hit Style.com or spy pics from various sources and make a wish list. Trunk shows roll around, editorials show up in print and electronic publications, and I begin whittling my list down to a very short list. At these price points, …

Summer 2010 Trip: Look 3

The last couple of looks have been about the pants, so today I’m trying to see how many ways I can rework a black skirt on the road. Summer 2010 Trip: Look 3 The skirt is a 2009 Prada crinkly skirt that I think will look cute with the heels I featured in Look 1 or any regular pair of …

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When Larkie Met Coco

No, I promise this is not another entry about the stray cat. I’m talking about my fixation with the other Coco, the one who’s long gone but lives on through Karl Lagerfeld. When (little) Larkie met Coco through the editorial pages of Vogue about twenty-five years ago, I knew one day my closet would be peppered with Chanel goodies. I …

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FIMTSO: The Green Accessory

A reader suggested that I FIMTSO something green, and I thought hmmm, that’s a random color. Then I peeked inside my closet, and lo and behold, I actually have a whole green section in there! From shirts (mostly courtesy of Etro)… to shoes…. to outerwear to handbags…oops, I forgot to take the tissue paper out of the bag for this …

A Spanish Dunkin’ Donut

Remember the  Belgian churro I had at the Christmas market in Bruges? It was more like a sweet snack. In Spain, however, the churro is a bland pastry to be dunked in your breakfast hot chocolate, like what he’s doing here…you might say it’s a Spanish dunkin’ donut. On my first full morning in Madrid I have to go find …