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Fashionable Memories and My Favorite Place to Find Them

I am a planner. I really enjoy planning travel and for me that includes everything from restaurants to outfits. By the time a new big trip comes along, I can usually think of one or two items that need refreshing and there begins the hunt. When I find an outfit I really love and wear it on vacation, I am immediately brought back to that trip every time I wear it again. This Alice & Olivia dress takes me back to warm summer nights in  ...

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Montauk, a Slice of Hamptons Heaven

Back in my 20s, I spent many summers in East Hampton, NY having the good fortune of having a best friend with a house on Three Mile Harbour. I fondly remember escaping there for a few weeks after taking the Bar Exam in the summer of 1992.  Those mornings, when we would make a daily sojourn to the Barefoot Contessa for yogurt loaf (thinking we were eating healthy!), before Ina Garten was INA GARTEN, are some of my favorite  ...

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Meatpacking and (Little) Island Hopping

There has been a lot of buzz lately about the new “Little Island “ park in NYC. Little Island is the love child of power couple Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg. It’s a public park that floats high on a pier above the Hudson River right by the Meatpacking District. In fact, it’s not too far from DVF’s store on 14th and Washington (coincidence?) New York’s Meatpacking District is a fashionable neighborhood abutting the  ...

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When life gives you lemons…

I have been obsessed with all things lemon lately- painted lemon serving platters, lemon-ricotta pancakes, lemon print bikinis… Maybe it’s my presently unquenchable thirst to return to Italy that is sparking this new obsession. I dream of returning to Capri, the island famous for its gigantic, lucious and fragrant lemons. Life has certainly thrown quite a few lemons at us all this past year. We have been fortunate to have made our way  ...