I have a confession to make that would have gotten me fired from any respectable fashion publication circa 2019: I buy things because TikTok tells me to. Me, a thirty-something…
When my editor suggested I let TikTok dictate my wardrobe for an entire week, my first thought was: “That’s the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard.” My second thought was: “I’m…
Last week, my 19-year-old cousin Zoe FaceTimed me in a state of fashion emergency. This isn’t unusual—I’m apparently the family’s designated style hotline—but her question caught me off guard. “I…
I have a confession. I own more white dresses than any reasonable person needs, and every single summer I buy at least one more. My friend Kira staged what she…
I’ve been thrifting since before it was cool. Actually, scratch that—I’ve been thrifting since it was actively uncool, back when admitting your clothes came from a secondhand store would get…
It started as a tipsy dare at Emma’s birthday dinner. Six of us were crammed into a booth at this dimly lit restaurant in Williamsburg, halfway through our second round…
It started, as all my worst ideas do, at 1 AM on a Tuesday after three glasses of wine and a dangerous amount of scrolling. I was deep in a…
As someone who has spent her entire adult life working in fashion, you’d think I’d have a rock-solid sense of personal style by now. A clearly defined aesthetic that guides…
The tennis skirt first found me in the back of my mother’s closet somewhere around 1998. I was eleven years old, in that awkward phase where my knees seemed disproportionately…
The moment happened three weeks ago at a gallery opening in Chelsea. I was hovering near the free champagne (as one does) when a woman with the kind of expensive…