Fashion with a spark of intellect.

  • Name the price: Sonia Rykiel

    (Photo via Bloomingdale’s) This dress is: A. $195 B. $525 C. $975 D. $1,490 Points to consider: The dress is either cotton or silk (the description is unclear), lined, made by Sonia Rykiel, and exuberant and beautiful at the same time. Let me tell you, this dress is expensive. How expensive? The answer is at…

  • 30×30: #9, 10, 11 – Triple Play

    Friday was another gorgeous day in San Francisco, so I made sure to text a friend in New York to let her know that I was wearing a sleeveless dress and bare legs. Still, San Francisco weather isn’t perfect, and as the day wore on I had to add layers. Yet even that worked in…

  • The Final Unfashionable Frontier

    Gym clothes. (Photo via Clutch Magazine) Remember when people wore oversize T-shirts and -GASP- tapered sweat pants to work out? And before yoga was popular and it got its own category of clothing? There used to be a time when nobody cared about looking good while working out. I used to revel in the fact…

  • 30×30: #7

    I have 12 outfits under my belt. Here’s #7: Top: Anthropologie Skirt: vintage, Bianca Starr Tights: Nine West Booties: Madden Girl

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