Streetstyle: Leather leggings...

silk top with erased chalkboard print, A. F. Vandevorst

faux leather and lycra leggings, H&M

high heeled combat boots, Veronique Branquinho

aged silver compass on chain, Carol Christian Poell
crystal glass particle coated fiber ring,  Carol Christian Poell (not visible)

brushed steel handcuff, Helmut Lang (old school)

Metaphors...

Chinatown, NYC at lunchtime. Zong zi: handmade rice balls, sold out of a cardboard box on the sidewalk. 

 

Achingly beautiful...

DIY...camel coat...

Giant safety pins nip in a vintage men's camel hair coat, lending some edge to a timeless classic.

True or False...

Is she?... Are you?...
Hilarious...

The apple doesn't fall far...

My father studying abroad in Madrid, Spain (1963)

Dad moved from Sicily to Brooklyn, then Queens, with my grandparents, finishing high school in the NYC public school system. After college, he went back to Europe for a year of study in Spain and, later, received his Master's Degree in Foreign Language (Spanish) from Hunter College in Manhattan, where he met my mom, who had also moved here from southern Italy with her family. Mom received her Master's Degree in French. I was their first child — born and raised in NYC.

Dad's the one with the pinstriped jacket and the book. I believe he's even wearing an ascot; hence, my proclivity for nerdy, intellectual types.

Masculine + Feminine...

NYU, New York City

Are we there yet?...

brushed silver compass on chain, Carol Christian Poell