Lagerfeld is dead. Long live fashion! 02/20/2019 So Karl Lagerfeld died. That was the moment I realised how many style- and fashion-related profiles I follow on Instagram. Everybody and their second cousin rushed to share their thoughts (and photos, where applicable) of the fashion giant. For a day, it was all sunglasses and dry-shampooed ponytails on my Insta-Feed. Lagerfeld's death was also the moment I realised how few people in the real world are bothered by his passing: Me, hyperventilating in the office corridor: "Karl's dead! Karl's
So Karl Lagerfeld died. That was the moment I realised how many style- and fashion-related profiles I follow on Instagram. Everybody and their second cousin rushed to share their thoughts (and photos, where applicable) of the fashion giant. For a day, it was all sunglasses and dry-shampooed ponytails on my Insta-Feed. Lagerfeld's death was also the moment I realised how few people in the real world are bothered by his passing: Me, hyperventilating in the office corridor: "Karl's dead! Karl's
Things I'm Checking Out Now 02/17/2019 It's basically summer in Brussels. Clothes-wise everything feels stuffy and musty and last season in the sunlight, but my head is absolutely reeling with all kinds of ideas, which is exhilarating after a very long hibernation: I went out three times this weekend. *exhausted* - All shoes will be repaired I already mentioned this earlier, but I really mean it. I am hopeful that I can store away winter shoes already, but not before they are resoled and polished and packed away. If you can't be
It's basically summer in Brussels. Clothes-wise everything feels stuffy and musty and last season in the sunlight, but my head is absolutely reeling with all kinds of ideas, which is exhilarating after a very long hibernation: I went out three times this weekend. *exhausted* - All shoes will be repaired I already mentioned this earlier, but I really mean it. I am hopeful that I can store away winter shoes already, but not before they are resoled and polished and packed away. If you can't be
Literary Gossip: White Houses 02/13/2019 The most interesting parts in Michelle Obama's "Becoming" were her descriptions of life as it happened inside the White House. I did not know, for example, that the First Family must pay for any food they eat in the White House. Alas, this was about the juiciest gossip Obama would share about their 8 years as the First Family: unless Barack Obama spills some serious beans in his forthcoming biography, the Obamas must officially be the least goss-generating of presidential families. I just
The most interesting parts in Michelle Obama's "Becoming" were her descriptions of life as it happened inside the White House. I did not know, for example, that the First Family must pay for any food they eat in the White House. Alas, this was about the juiciest gossip Obama would share about their 8 years as the First Family: unless Barack Obama spills some serious beans in his forthcoming biography, the Obamas must officially be the least goss-generating of presidential families. I just
