Wearing: When a two-hour morning meeting turned into an all-day marathon, I didn’t have time to go home and refresh my face for a movie premier I was hitting. Instead, I ducked into a downtown ...
Wanting: These Eileen Fisher espadrille ballerina flats may seem ridiculously priced for rope slippers, until you consider that they’ve carefully crafted leather soles, that their minimalist sh...
Hating: Normally products with unavoidable advertisements cost less than their more elegant competitors…
Wearing: Coming in the colors of the Italian Riviera — bright blue like the Ligurian Sea, sandy taupe like the cliffs crumbling into the coast, burnt orange like the sun setting on a rusty vill...
Wanting: 1990s reissue of Cathy Latham’s 1965 “Les Clefs” silk scarf for Hermes…
Wearing: Hermes “Oiseaux Migrateurs” by Cathy Latham Hermes scarf There are a million and one ways to work an Hermes scarf, and one of the best includes tying it around your 99-lb. German...
Loving: It looks like my German Shepherd dog Major Dukes borrowed my time machine again…
Wearing: I just bought my third pair of handmade-in-Paris François Pinton “Jacky 2″ sunglasses — the tortoiseshell, center — , which I’ve been wearing everyday for five ...
Hating: Like my François Pinton “Jacky 2″ sunglasses, the Nina Ricci 3203 is an exact reproduction of original frames Jackie Kennedy Onassis wore (on January 30, 1978, at the Robert F. Ke...
Using: You could buy a 2.5 ounces of easy-to-use, mess-free squeezable tube of Vaseline for $2, but – Why would you, when you could pay twice as much for less than half the amount of petroleum ...
Wanting: Even though I’ve gone borderline granola, shampooing with an ultra gentle baby wash, conditioning my hair and taming frizz with virgin coconut oil, and playing up the natural wave of m...
Using: Since replacing Moroccanoil with virgin coconut oil as a frizz tamer, I’ve used whatever hair conditioner is convenient, figuring they’re all about the same. Apparently I was wrong...
Hating: Read the reviews — this John Frieda Hot Air Brush is awesome. Goddammit. I’d rather not know, considering the painstaking research I invested before buying the Bio-Ionic BlueWave ...
Using: My perfect skincare kit on the go… All that other ish you’ve been slopping on your face is a waste of time and money. I’ve tried skincare products designed by doctors in 9021...
Wanting: I can’t think of a better way to spend a weekday night than by peeling off a layer of my face with a lab-level chemical I scored for less than $20 off Amazon. Can you? Liar…
Wanting: Fred Perry’s classic polo shirt comes wrapped in a branded box, sized for ages up to one year, with the traditional ribbed twin-tipped collar, a two branded button placket, and the tra...
Using: Some seasons I like ridiculously thick, drama-lady brows, a la Audrey Hepburn, and I’ll draw on 25% bigger brows with a No. 2 pencil. But lately I’ve been digging a more natural br...
Wearing: I came back from Honolulu to find an Itsykini – a customizable bikini kit — waiting for me. Inspired by classic Bond babe’s bikinis, the Itsykini is four beautifully tailo...
Wearing: On the flying bus to Honolulu, I shared some tea with my white silk Kimberly Ovitz jacket. Luckily for me, that meant a trip to Caesar’s Drycleaning, where, just next door, I discovere...
Seeing: I’ve been holed up in Honolulu for Christmas and New Year’s. Again? Yes. You’d be remiss if you thought Honolulu was empty except for meaningless miles of white beach, like ...
Wearing: A gift from my friend Kamea, who runs Georgie and used my German Shepherd Major Dukes as a model, this Georgie “Julia” moto jacket looks like suede, but doesn’t feel anythi...
Hating: Translations always stiffen a story — local settings blur into blank spots on a foreign map, characters are stripped of their cultural context, and a narrator’s conversation with ...
Wanting: So I’m still using the white earbuds that came with my iSomething or the other. These Vivienne Tam “Butterfly Lovers” earbuds — noise-canceling, built-in mic’in...
Wearing: While in New York last month, I breakfasted with East-greets-West fashion designer Vivienne Tam (whose translucent skin glows, even on a winter-ish workday morning. If she develops skincare...
Hating: On third thought, I suppose this Helmut Lang twisted loop drapey cardigan is perfect for those days that the front of your thighs is freezing, but your ass is on fire…
Wanting: Remember that after snagging this Helmut Lang wool jersey jacket in black, I was hunting for it in gray? Found it. Want it. What’s that? But every jacket or coat I already own has a dr...
Wearing: I first saw this Helmut Lang merino wool sweater jacket in London, at Harvey Nichols. And I glanced and glossed on — for its price, I could just have another shawl-collar, wrap coat ma...
Wanting: I saw this Smythson “NOW OR NEVER” wafer notebook in design store and fashion victim mecca Colette in while in Paris a few weeks ago. While carrying a €100 notepad and an iPhone ...
Watching: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyjV0A fGRVo There’s something timeless about the simplicity of this song, of this video, of the fact that Brandon Boyd still sings better with his shirt off...
Wearing: I’ve worn black Francois Pinton “Jacky 2″ sunnies everyday for over four years. While in Paris, I decided it was time for change: after popping into a Francois Pinton bouti...
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