Franca Sozzani has died. I am not a fashionista by any stretch of the imagination, but I always thought she was what I would like to look like as I got older--switching out my reddish hair in my head for her blonde. I was never traditionally pretty. My eyes were too small, my nose a bit too large. I was not a head turner in the way that some of my ( Read more... )

I took a quick break from my editing work today to peruse a fashion magazine that a friend left in my car. This is probably the first time I've even picked one up in about ten years. I hate the fucking things...for so many different reasons that there's not even enough time to get into it. I've always just worn what I wanted, without much of a ( Read more... )