Lux Lotus

Windowlicker

I love American style! I love Frye boots, Gibson guitars and Pendleton blankets. I have one on my bed, as a matter of fact. Pendleton has a new collection at Opening Ceremony, which is East Coast edge meets West Coast cool, just in time for fall.

[Red Tight Peplum Coat, $650]

Windowlicker - from the French for window shopping: faire du lèche-vitrine - often appears on Tuesday and Thursdays at 10am EST-ish.

Fortune's Favor

Tuesday night, Chinatown; "There is a way to everything you want."

Windowlicker (Bonus Edition)

I hardly stay in one place, but I'd like to. I've been in New York for eight years and often feel like moving on. Not sure it'd be London, but I like the sentiment (Thanks to James Bridle, who spotted it).

[Screen-printed poster, edition of 50, 40 pounds; Morag Myerscough, Studio Myerscough for Blanka]

Windowlicker - from the French for window shopping: faire du lèche-vitrine - often appears on Tuesday and Thursdays at 10am EST-ish.

Windowlicker

I don't need new glasses -- also I wore Selima Optique's "Yoko" in college in deepest blue, and although I realize that was a sophisticated choice, it seems babyish to me now -- but, seriously, look at these and try not to scream!

And, every fall I only want to dress like Sabina in Anais Nin's A Spy in the House of Love, and she'd eschew these, to avoid recognition. But maybe she's not right about everything...

["Hubert" frames in "Tokyo Tortoise," $300 at Selima Optique]

Windowlicker - from the French for window shopping: faire du lèche-vitrine - often appears on Tuesday and Thursdays at 10am EST-ish.

Blood Ties

Also, here is a former flame wearing the tie I picked out for him at Hermes years ago to a recent Ultimate Fighting Championship bout in Las Vegas. He is clever that way. From the local paper.

Luxloves: Unicorns

My dear friend S. wearing the shirt that I inspired! Genius.

Windowlicker (Weekend Edition)

What makes a thing classic? Above all, it must be memorable. 

[Yves Saint Laurent Small Mombasa Handbag, $1045]

Windowlicker - from the French for window shopping: faire du lèche-vitrine - often appears on Tuesday and Thursdays at 10am EST-ish.

Surprise Me

I spend a lot of time making excuses for men who disappoint me, and I'm tolerant for a while. I contain multitudes, I expect people who get me will be similarly complex. Anyway, ten minutes ago I dial a familiar number, half-expecting to rouse him out of bed and remind him we have plans tonight only to discover that he is at the grocery store, buying food to cook us dinner, just like he said he would, on his night off. And I thought I would do that! (The shopping, not the cooking.) So now I have a half-hour to kill, with nothing to do but take pictures of my outfit* for my mother. Ain't life grand, and best when you least expect it?

*See here for a better photo of my Katrin LeBlond ruffled shrug.

New York to Rome

Today's excitement is that I'm going to Rome next month to handle the publicity for the world premiere of The Afterlight, a New York indie film, at the Rome Film Festival.

I have never been to Italy, despite being one-quarter Italian and one-quarter Swedish, due to my father's glamorous roots.

Previously: Park City, Look Out!

On Priorities

Right now I am watching the sun rise in New York. Usually I wouldn't be up this early but I came home last night from the Rona Jaffe Awards and was asleep by ten. The night before that I with some publishing types, including Richard Nash (ex-Soft Skull), Johnny Temple of Akashic, and Joanna Yas of Open City. Tonight I'm going to an opening at jen bekman.

This fall, I'm focusing all my efforts on one author: Terese Svoboda, whose two new books are Weapons Grade and Trailer Girl. She's doing "Crossing the Line," a discussion on writing different genres with Stephen Elliott (The Adderall Diaries) at Idlewild Books on October 11th, and "The Long Life of the Short Story," with Ben Greenman (Correspondences) at the Center for Fiction on November 12th. There's one more edition of "Upstairs at the Square," on October 27th, and then we're on hiatus for the holidays. "Innovative Publicity Now," the talk I gave this week, is available for $30 at SheWrites.  It was fun, it came from the future.

Currently I am planning my projects for next year, which has made me even more contemplative than usual: What do I want my life to be like, on both a small scale and a large scale? Can I get by with less money? Will I make enough to survive? These are always the questions when you design your own career.

I am not sure if it's a consequence of turning thirty, or the general tenor of our culture now, but I am interested in doing less, better. I've been cutting back on what I am available to do and although it's been a difficult adjustment in some cases, and takes a while to implement, I'm happy with the general trend. Forecast: excellent.

Previously: The Bloom of Youth.