Category Archives: fashion

Umbrellas in the Snow

June 16, 2008 – 4:05 pm

NPR (National Public Radio) criticized my good friend Jocko Weyland for a paragraph appearing in the New York Times and then asked for their online readers to edit the aforementioned paragraphed. With your help, maybe. From yesterday’s New York Times, on newcomers noticing the “phenomenon” of carrying umbrellas when it snows: Jocko Weyland / Yet […]

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Yves St. Laurent RIP

June 2, 2008 – 6:44 pm

In the winter of 1985 my teenage French girlfriend left the apartment on Impasse Dantzig to meet with her modeling client. Her destination a 5-star hotel on the Rue de Rivoli was a marked counterpoint to our 15th arrondisement atelier. Candia was 17. Her rendezvous was with an Italian. I figured she would stay the […]

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Thai Cops a la Mode

April 8, 2008 – 6:17 am

Thai people regard a person’s dress as a sign of respect or disrespect. Backpackers earn their ire for sloppy attire and beer louts also score low with their wife-beater tee-shirts, however this sartorial appreciation extends to fellow Thais and now 10th Sub-Division commissioned officers will be required to smarten up their police uniforms with a […]

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