entertaining
"Mom, can you pick me up? She's talking about table linens again..."
The "Ralph Lauren Holiday" phenomenon, unhinged John Derian, and a brief history of ticking stripes. (And you thought entertaining was dull.)
The Printemps Report
Wherein, I visit the French department-store-that-says-it's-not-a-department-store, so you don't have to.
The stuff that improved my life for under $50 this year:
Five things that I would've happily paid double for.
Last-Minute Gifts: Buy This, Not That.
An already-judgey newsletter evolves, Pokemon-style, into its final form.
Gifts for fashion girlies.
(This is probably the list you've been waiting for.)
Gifts for "kitchen people."
(A category that may, as it turns out, include some men.)
The best gift is a gift that disappears.
(Hear me out.)