From left to right: 1) Sunday calls for coffee and good books. 2) Getting retro at the MFA. 3) Pick up the new issue of Trouvé magazine to read my article about the secret lives of the MFA Boston guards. 4) Brightening up a rainy day. 5) Monday vibes. 6) Can’t live without my Junot.
Writer
Simone de Beauvoir
For the final installment of The Authors (for now) I’m featuring French writer and feminist Simone de Beauvoir. Writer of the groundbreaking text The Second Sex, she was an advocate for women’s rights and sexual emancipation from 1908-1986. Ironically, although she discounted clothing and makeup in her writings, she always wore her hair perfectly styled and…Read More
Sunday Snapshots
From left to right: 1) Thursdays call for a little drama. 2) All pink everything. 3) Matcha pick-me-up at Ogawa Coffee. 4) Check out my work for the Boston City Paper here. 5) New DIY wall art and my Monday mood. 6) Spicing up the weekend.
Vladimir Nabokov
Just when you think The Authors can’t get any better, it does. Following Leo Tolstoy and Sylvia Plath, I styled a looked based on the infamous Lolita author himself: Vladimir Nabokov. Although he was born in Russia he lived much of his life in Western Europe and in America, and didn’t achieve literary prominence until he…Read More
Sylvia Plath
For the next installment of The Authors (see the first here), I designed an outfit inspired by Sylvia Plath. Naturally I wanted to incorporate a few of my favorite female authors as well. Sylvia was an American novelist and poet working in the ’50s and ’60s. Her life was fraught with mental illness and personal…Read More
Sunday Snapshots
From left to right: 1) Spending Sunday with my favorite things. 2) My dog is the cutest, end of story. 3) Can’t stop wearing these booties I picked up in Cologne. 4) A much needed rest. 5) Nothing suits a rainy day like a new translation of Dead Souls. 6) You can read my latest article for Sasee here.