Archive for the ‘STYLE’ Category

Love affairs with Italy are like living in a sensory masterpiece.  If you’ve never rode a Vespa in the Tuscan hills in a haze of fireflies; breathed in Lake Como’s cool, magical, early am mist; savored the earth in a Piedmont organic wine or kissed a hot Italian with long, rivulets of curly hair in […]


“Heeeeere’s Grace!” “I’ll never write my memoirs, there’s nothing in a book. Love me in a picture, Kiss me in a cast, Touch me in a sculpture, Whisper in my mask.” Grace Jones has been my #1 favorite since the night I saw a video at a house party, a bright spot in a dark […]


The Glamorous Mariner Number 3 in my illustration series of magical people. London Fashion Week opens. Who personifies London fashion? There’s just one answer. Daphne Guinness. Royalty. Singular Vision. Eccentricity. Rarity Among Women. Obsession. She is an artist, an icon, a muse.  I begin delving into photos, videos. The process of capturing the essence of […]


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 […]


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. […]