It’s not a secret that I love fashion. I adore designers and I’m interested in what makes them tick. I was fortunate to get to sit down with Reed Krakoff who is in, “a truly American desi...
This weekend really felt like summer. Except for not bothering to get the propane tanks for the BBQ and the Bug Zapper we were in full summer mode. There are certain things you do need to replace eac...
Sometimes the world decides it’s going to test you. That despite the fact you are through with school it’s going to sit you down and make you take a universal version of the SAT’s. ...
I fear my new-found opinion of over use and abuse of the internet will make me sound like an anti-smoking zealot two days after quitting smoking. Last week I read a book called Hamlet’s ...
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO GET THIS MAILED TO YOU CLICK HERE TO GET THE FULL EFFECT OF THIS BLOG. IT’S WORTH IT. Today Taylor turns twenty – one. I’ve been sitting here f...
I never do movie reviews or critiques but last weekend’s release of Tim Burton’s take on the sixties Gothic soap Dark Shadows has sent me running to the keyboard, like vampire out for a good g...
Mother’s Day is Sunday if you’re scrambling, have forgotten, never know what to get, don’t have much time or need a little help here are some things I would be thrilled to get…...
As things move faster and faster and one gets older it’s hard to avoid glancing backward at the way things were. Sometimes I feel like my grandfather when he used to talk about a car costing $...
Ralph Rucci is many things. First and foremost he is an artist who designs clothes. Though he is known as a clothing designer he also trained as an artist and has had gallery shows of his art ...
One of my favorite guilty pleasures is getting Indian Vogue on my iPad. Since yesterday was my offline day, I decided I could read on my iPad and catch up on many unread issues of many things, one wa...
I have been attacking some of my foibles with more rigor lately. One motive may be an impending birthday, which usually causes me to stop and take stock. For the last month I have been working on not...
I have been trying to wean myself off spending eighteen hours a day online. Having gone to the Genius Bar four times in one week, and finally letting them strip my computer and then me, moi and I had...
There is a wonderful museum in Columbus Circle called The Museum of Arts and Design. I have been meaning to go into it since, well, four years. Yesterday I finally made it; thanks to my friend Arthur...
I feel like I’m channeling Andy Rooney when I say things like this, but has anyone noticed that most people now regardless of their connection to you sign emails xoxox followed by an init...
No, that is not the title of a new Kanye West song. It’s what you get when the trending sisters Snyder, that would be Danielle and Jodie, the daring duo behind the getting more popular by the ...
I would actually send out a proper blog with photos but our internet has been on the blink for seven days. I know, I know, it’s a long time, and we live in NYC. Have any of you ever tried to g...
It’s not often I do a blog on someone and then a week later post their 50@50 video. But I had so much I wanted to say about Simon Doonan. And his video is so good I didn’t’ want to ...
As most of you know this weekend is Good Friday, Passover and Easter. Which pretty much makes it the Judea Christian Triple Crown. Being a total religious mutt, born a Jew, raised a Chris...
Granted the story does not have the sociological underpinnings of Trayvon Martin, but there is a thunderstorm brewing in the media and mommy blogger set at the moment about Dara-Lynn Weiss, wh...
While in Paris I saw the retrospective of the French illustrator, photographer and art director Jean Paul Goude. For those who don’t recognize the name you will recognize some of...
So, let’s pretend that I’m not happily married and our Ambassador of Style and Humor isn’t deliriously happily married and gay, what are the chances I could convince the amazing Simon Doonan t...
When each of my girls hit the age of ten I started taking them on a separate trip every year. There were a few times we met up with family in California. Sometimes I pick the spot, sometimes I let th...
Judy Collins is young at heart, younger in spirit, looks twenty years younger than she actually is, but is a true living legend. She has been performing for sixty years. She made her first public d...
Yesterday was one of the more chaotic days of the year in New York, it was St. Patrick’s Day. Once the weather starts getting nice the parade season starts. The two that really turn the city u...
NBC’s The 10 Show! based out of Philadelphia had Tracey back again this year to discuss her book, Between a Rock and a Hot Place, now out in paperback! Check out the clip below: View mor...
In the last twenty-four hours I have had one terrific experience with an online encounter and one scary one. I went to Philadelphia yesterday to do The 10 Show at NBC this morning and tap...
Check out these new reviews of Between a Rock and a Hot Place! Click the links below:
I just came back from taking Lucy to the New York Philharmonic where we heard half an evening of Beethoven. It was never my intent to take her, but somehow I had forgotten my tickets were for tonig...
I did a little tease the other day showing a photo of a gold leather ball, wow, what was that? That was one of the amazing designs I discovered tucked away behind a gate, in a courtyard behin...
The last two days I made a choice, either get up at the crack of dawn to write a blog and try and outsmart the Internet here or just sleep an extra two hours and be out of the room by ten, so you gue...
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