Fashion Dialogue...

WSJ Magazine


Vice Magazine

WSJ Magazine and VICE are featuring 2 SUPERB profiles on 2 iconic fashion industry legends this month. I always love when I come across a profile of a designer because it's always that rare glimpse inside a mad scientist's laboratory where they reveal (some, not all) their intricately laid ways of thinking and how they approach what they do everyday.

Sometimes, the profile is a monologue - a journalist's perceptive view of a powerhouse and what's keeping the charge - WSJ and Patrizio Bertelli. But sometimes you may stumble upon a dialogue between the designer and the reporter - VICE and Karl Lagerfeld. Those to me are always more fun. In a way, a profiled dialogue opens the door wider to this idea that Fashion is no longer just a monologue. In many ways it's becoming a dialogue, a conversation if you will, but no longer just between the designers and editors, but between everyone who gives a shit, has a camera, and some type of internet connection.

Now, more than ever, everyone wants to be apart of that dialogue with Fashion and I think that's wonderful. We need support groups to okay when we spend $700 on red soled shoes, or when we prefer a pair of distressed vintage Levis over anything else, or why we deem every sartorial purchase we really can't afford as an "investment". And can you think of anyone better to lead that group than the men and women responsible for the "drugs" that many of us are all so addicted to...

Neither can I.

Photo Credits: WSJ Magazine; Vice Magazine

Substance and Style...

Gourmet Brunch - Goat Cheese and Ham Panini w/ Truffle Oil, along side an Olive Oil Baby Spinach salad w/ Shaved Almonds & Balsamic Reduction...HEAVEN


Bennett's Donuts - A Hidden Gem in Fort Myers


You Can Never Have Too Many Pairs of Chanel


Time-less Classics

I'll have paninis and strawberry orange mimosas with a side of Prada. Thank you! I had the ultimate pleasure to spend my lovely Saturday morning with one of the most endearing, heartfelt, stylish woman I've ever met. Her home - pure, simplistic, modern perfection. Her wardrobe - what dreams are made of. With an amazing family and a circle of friends that rival "The Sisterhood", she lives what most people would call - A FULL Life. Her sartorial and domestic style is well curated and sharp. Chic and clearly defined, everything within her home and closet seemed as though it was filtered through a well defined funnel of what works and doesn't work for her taste and lifestyle.

She's really good friends with my boss (yep, the owner of these crazy Dries), and it was definitely necessary to feature her on this blog, sooner rather than later. I feel so honored to have been allowed inside of her amazing home, and absolutely privileged to bring these beautiful images to you.

Now, if you'll excuse, I have to go organize my wardrobe - thanks to my special guest, I now have direction on what perfected style looks like...