The Jason Wu for Tar­get col­lec­tion drops into stores on Feb­ru­ary 5^th. I offer here a lit­tle inspi­ra­tion to work with this new Wu. Jew­elry trends are crest­ing for Art Deco and Edwar­dian — a bit of Gatsby and Down­ton Abbey (I am, I admit, smit­ten) and the designer’s mod­ern take on lady­like fash­ion works […]

Depict­ing two heads, one look­ing for­ward and the other back­ward, the motif on this ancient Roman coin rep­re­sents the god of gates, doors and begin­nings; he is known as Janus. The first day of the new year is ded­i­cated to him. A Janus coin was given on the first day of the year: a gift […]

This week’s episode was The Wiz­ard of Oz. The show began with Ken­neth Cole’s noir direc­tive for Hol­i­day 2011 — clearly a nod to the per­sonal style of Wicked Witch of East. It was black, black, and more black: black dresses (didn’t we already have the LBD chal­lenge…?), black pants, black faux fur, and black […]

I’m rep­re­sented by Ran­dom House Speak­ers Bureau, the web­site of which has just relaunched with a gor­geous new look. If you would like to book a lec­ture for the com­ing year, please con­tact Kim Thorn­ton at kthornton@randomhouse.com. My new RHSB web page may be accessed here

It’s get­ting noisy around here. Yes!!!! (fist pump) Our home is ring­ing with laugh­ter, busy with hus­tle and bus­tle, doors revolv­ing from com­ings and goings, and the greet­ing of arrivals, and still more arrivals. This is more like it! Happy Thanks­giv­ing! Our now much too quiet house has been dif­fi­cult to get used to since […]

Update 3.11.11 — Prayers for the peo­ple of Japan, and for those on our own shores. If you want to help, please donate to the Amer­i­can Red Cross. I did as soon as I heard the news. Ah, Paris, where fash­ion and jew­elry are just…killer? Naughty, or intim­i­dat­ing? Jean Charles de Castel­ba­jac sent down the runway […]

Lon­don Fash­ion Week made the bright and the bold an illu­sory tale; one we can look for­ward to shar­ing comes next spring. Mary Katrant­zou, the Pied Piper of LFW’s trompe l’oeil, played a sharp tune if not one a lit­tle con­trived. Hers is a room with a view, as long as you don’t mind being […]

Jew­elry wasn’t the point on the run­way this past week — it never is. Yet a num­ber of design­ers had a strong sense of what they’d like to see paired with the clothes (or, what they like to see us buy in addi­tion to the clothes). At Ports 1961 the ultra­mod­ern appeal of iri­des­cent strands […]

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Walked the Jew­el­ers of Amer­ica Show yes­ter­day at the bustling Jacob Jav­its Cen­ter in NYC. The con­ven­tion cen­ter was host­ing two other exhi­bi­tions, The NYT’s Travel Show and The Inter­na­tional Restau­rant and Food Ser­vice Show. Need­less to say, it was a com­pletely fun day for those of us who can­not live on bread alone. So […]