I'm in New York for the next week. I had the opportunity to go see Gypsy last night and tour backstage with a friend who works in costuming. I even got to stand on stage and stare out into the vast theater. At least I can say I've been on stage on Broadway.It was great fun to see all the costumes, the wigs, the wig dressers, the tech people. Everyone was very friendly and eager to show me around.Co...

Are wild bellbottoms the new skinny jean? Prada thinks so, and so does The Cool Hunter.I would've killed for these jeans as a pre-pubescent girl who thought that all things vibrant and clashing were fashion forward (back in the days when I made my own kente cloth dress). Those days are (sort of) behind me, but I'm undeniably attracted to these break-the-mold jeans.But remember, should you suddenly...

The Times asked Milla Jovovich if she could steal anyone's warbrdoe, "past or present, fiction or reality, whose would it be and why?" She said, "Marianne Faithfull's and Bianca Jagger's. And I'd also steal Isabel Archer's from The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James. I'd steal everything from Edith Wharton's heroines, and from the little chimney sweeps from Dickens's novels. I'd love to go into Davi...

Maybe one of my favorite things about Latin America is the way buildings are painted. On my street, there are red houses with turquoise doors, blue houses with yellow doors, and pink houses with green doors. I hesitate to simplify or wax poetic, but I do think it reflects something inherently joyful about the culture. When you think about cultures that employ stark minimalistic and neutral architec...

Whoa, whoa... The Daily Mail needs to do some homework. Cool kids got the "Aggy" back in January 2007, or even December 2007....