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| on broadway uws |
Sunday, January 31, 2021
Saturday, January 30, 2021
Friday, January 29, 2021
restaurant week
around the town, amidst the exceptional circumstances of the new year, $20.21 menus, deliveries and orders to go....
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| meatpacking https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/as-new-york-city-hosts-a-restaurant-week-like-no-other-cuomo-suggests-indoor-dining-could-soon-return/ar-BB1dbzFq |
Thursday, January 28, 2021
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Monday, January 25, 2021
say yes to yellow
forget the change in temperature, we welcome the sunshine, happiness and warmth of this new year!
(youth poet laureate amanda gorman wore yellow on inauguration day, too :)
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| in soho.... |
Sunday, January 24, 2021
FLOTUS
grateful for this week, for democracy, for the hope of unity, for the nation's youth poet laureate, and for this quote by benjamin franklin that our new first lady jill biden had discreetly sewn inside the bespoke gabriela hearst coat she wore for the inauguration evening celebration: "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
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| photos gabriela hearst @gabrielahearst |
Saturday, January 23, 2021
Friday, January 22, 2021
Friday afternoon moon
at the Inauguration this week, Ms Amanda Gorman, our National Youth Poet Laureate, burst forth as a bright, clear light. excerpted from her poem, The Hill We Climb:
We will not march back to what was, but move to what shall be: a country that is bruised but whole, benevolent but bold, fierce and free.
We will not be turned around or interrupted by intimidation because we know our inaction and inertia will be the inheritance of the next generation, become the future.
Our blunders become their burdens.
But one thing is certain.
If we merge mercy with might, and might with right, then love becomes our legacy and change our children's birthright.
So let us leave behind a country better than the one we were left.
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| the high line, looking east on gansevoort |
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
so much style
so much to celebrate.
good night for now, America the beautiful!
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| kamala harris, jill biden, michelle obama inauguration day, photo credit nbc news...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Monday, January 18, 2021
on Martin Luther King Jr Day
On this day of remembrance, looking back to the crisp December morning in 2017 on which i traveled by train to Washington DC to discover the bright, bronze-hued National Museum of African American History and Culture. i was joined there by a talented designer i had worked with a few years prior while curating local finds for the lifestyle store created for Four Seasons Hotel Georgetown.
Jennifer and i shared the journey through the museum and the full range of emotions accompanying it, a physical, emotional and spiritual pilgrimage of sorts from which it was impossible not to emerge changed.
One aspect of the experience i responded to most were the quotes by legendary African American writers, poets and leaders engraved into the walls of the now iconic David Adjaye designed structure, from Maya Angelou to Langston Hughes to Martin Luther King Jr himself.
In the grand interior Contemplation Court meant for quiet and reflection, Dr King's words echoed through the force of water raining down into a cylindrical pool from a skylight above: "We are determined ... to work and fight until justice runs down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream."
We look to the future again this week, looking forward to new hope, to change, beginning with the upcoming inauguration and the first Youth Poet Laureate, and youngest inaugural poet ever, Amanda Gorman, to share her words, and her vision when she reads a poem written at the invitation of Joe and Jill Biden, "The Hill We Climb."
The mighty legacy of Dr King and so many other courageous men and women, flows on...
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| national museum of african american history and culture (photos, mine) |
Saturday, January 16, 2021
Friday, January 15, 2021
Thursday, January 14, 2021
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Monday, January 11, 2021
Saturday, January 9, 2021
Thursday, January 7, 2021
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
Monday, January 4, 2021
Sunday, January 3, 2021
bubble palace
we lost Pierre Cardin last week at the age of 98, a pioneering designer with a futuristic sensibility toward fashion and life...
he was a designer who favored circles, and bubbles, in his creations.
https://agnautacouture.com/2015/07/26/pierre-cardin-fetish-for-the-bubble/
at one point in his life, he bought a famous home, Palais Boules, in Cannes....
a Dior Resort show was staged there as recently as 2016....
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| https://thespaces.com/pierre-cardins-bubble-palace-near-cannes-goes-on-sale/ |
it was ten years ago in October, here in NYC, that i attended his 60th anniversary book signing and fashion show, and wrote about it on my then brand new blog.
not that Monsieur Cardin would likely favor looking back but after my morning walk today past the woman in her big puff of faux fur hat, past the rows of clear plastic outdoor dining pods at a popular local French cafe (our own makeshift bubble palace?), i was inspired to re-read and re-experience Cardin's inventive genius for just one fashion forward minute.... https://fashion-is-love-nyc.blogspot.com/2010/11/its-witchcraft.html
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| my photo, this morning, broadway, upper west side |
Saturday, January 2, 2021
Friday, January 1, 2021
dreams
2020, an awakening and a reckoning alike. what will take with you into the new year?
i choose dreams, and living each day with intention, making each moment and each life matter, even in the smallest ways, by choosing gratitude, kindness and love.
happy new year! here is to great happiness, health, peace and joy!
xoxo,
fashion is love
dreams
hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
life is a broken-winged bird
that cannot fly.
hold fast to dreams
for when dreams go
life is a barren field
frozen with snow.
langston hughes (1902-1967)
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| with gratitude to jen for the lingua franca sweater and peru and ghana made pillows |
(from the collected poems of langston hughes
copyright 1994 by the estate of langston hughes)
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