Archive for the ‘NEW YORK’ Category

At times navigating Manhattan’s society gala events can resemble the children’s detective game CLUE.  If you remember, the essence of CLUE is a toss-up of colorful, fascinating, and quirky characters mixed together in a big mansion, with everyone playing a game of solve-the-mysteries. Same in Gotham, where obsessions, clues, and notations are diligently gathered on […]


3 for the Front Row. The Lion Queens. Meeeow! All hail the Queens I would love in the front row for my New York Fashion Week show! Caitlyn Jenner, Anna Wintour, and Beyonce make a nice trio of Kittens for the Catwalk! The inspiration began with Anna and her iconic, yogic Eagle pose she curls […]


Serve This! Tennis speak has some lovely words like Love and Serve.  When a powerful and beautiful woman, like Serena Williams masters the sport, much more is served than lobbed tennis balls across clay. To serve with love, free will, and every inch of passion inspires everyone. I’ve been served the opportunity to create 27 […]


Destiny om’d. Time actually does come to a full stop when truth drops.  When Little Marvin, my good friend, and friend of Iris Apfel, the style icon, suggested that I illustrate Iris as his gift to her, I suddenly was a much beaming little Buddha on a little feathery soft cloud floating above the earth. […]


Walking in a certain world like an Egyptian Queen in her pristine, black patent leather and white lug soled Fratelli Rossetti oxfords, my meeting with fabric designer Bernie de le Cuono was like meeting “The Rosetta Stone of Linen and Wool” in Goddess form.  As founder and designer of her company, de le Cuona, Bernie […]