Reader Anthea wanted some suggestions on how to wear camouflage pieces. At your service!
Kind Of Sort Of Sporty (But Not Really)
I get very confused when I try to dress in a way that in any manner approximates "sporty".
Mint & Gold: Now & Later
Some of my favorite grassy pieces to welcome the sunny weather. Click here for product info.
Behind The Scenes: DKNY x Ramshackle Glam
When I was seventeen years old, I shot a commercial for a face wash product that ended up doing pretty well (I'll dig it out of my video archives someday; I guarantee that those of you who were teenagers in the '90s will both remember it and remember being vaguely annoyed by it, because the thing played a lot).
Anyway, as a sort of celebration for booking that commercial I decided to do something I'd never done before: buy a really special piece of clothing that didn't come from somewhere like the Salvation Army (my go-to shopping destination for most of high school). My mom and I went down to DKNY on West Broadway and I bought the most beautiful sweater I'd ever seen: it was a light camel color, cashmere, with an enormous cowl-neck and extra-long sleeves. For something like ten years, that sweater was what I put on whenever I wanted to feel casually elegant and sort of 'Oh, this old thing?', like I'd just stepped out of a Nora Ephron movie set in the Hamptons or something.
All of this is to say that I have a big soft spot for DKNY, and so the chance to work with the brand in such an involved, collaborative way was more than a little bit exciting.
Fix In A Flash: Ombre-Ish Nails
Did you know that it's actually, literally impossible for me to sit still for long enough to allow a manicure to dry properly before getting myself involved in one kind of activity or another that completely destroys it?
I know, you're shocked; go ahead and sit down for a moment if you need to.
Anyway, I've discovered a fantastic little solution for those times when you screw up one or two nails badly enough that you really should just take it all off and start over, but - oops - you don't happen to own the same exact color they used on you at the salon.
At the DKNY shoot last Friday, one of my colleagues had the most beautiful ombre-ish manicure, with the nail on her index finger painted just slightly darker than all the others; a subtler, more elegant version of that ring-finger nail art trend that's been circling around forever and ever now. And so on Saturday, when I decided to splurge on a beautiful pale-grey manicure only to arrive home, tickle my child, and immediately divest my fingernail of every single iota of its former prettiness, I just looked in my drawer, found a slightly darker shade in the same general color family, painted the index finger on both hands, and presto:
