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I bought an amazing antique Venetian mirror, and some midcentury white lacquer bedside cabinets. Clothing-wise I'd say my patent Alaia booties.

Characters from Truman Capote and Nancy Mitford novels • Bombshell Glamour • Brigette Bardot's hair
a red-lipsticked laugh • Faded grandeur • Sam Haskins•Helmut Newton • David Bailey •Richard Avedon

If I Ruled the World by Jamie Cullum • Je suis venu te dire que m'en vais and Hotel Particulier by Serge Gainsbourg • Break Up by Scarlett Johansson & Pete Yorn • Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros • All sorts of 80s nonsense like Pebbles and Joyce Sims

Wondering if I can get away with wearing vintage lingerie tap shorts as actual shorts

Photographing what I am wearing on my iPhone before I leave the house. When I can't think what to wear I've got some cheat sheets!

1958-1964 - When the glamour of the 50s loosened up yet before anyone thought white go-go boots were a good idea

Vintage china teacups bought on eBay
A 2-yard length of grosgrain ribbon to wear as a belt tied in a pretty bow

Macaroons from Laduree

Breakfast at a local cafe with the NY Times and The Sunday Times from England

Aedes de Venustas on Christopher Street-an Aladdin's cave of incredible rare fragrances

Marie Robinson blonde and red lipstick

Being late. I don't seem to be able to get it into my head that getting dressed takes some time. Especially for me!

My Hermes Medor watch I bought it for about a quarter of the original selling price

Love, lust, dawn, dusk, the sea, music, nature, my best friend, travel, laughter, sadness, loss, longing, poems of Pablo Neruda, Mazzy Star, Copal Incense, amber, the smell of wet earth, summer thunderstorms, Jeff Buckley, Eric Satie.........I think you get the picture.

My intuition more........The XX, Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions, Lissie, Eric Satie, Kings of Leon

Made Her Think "Britt" Bag, Made Her Think diamond pave Blade ring, Snowboarding

Mark Glossblossom ripening lip tint. I have like 4 tubes rotating throughout my purse, bathroom and makeup bag and my friends keep stealing them from me!

Diptyque Tam Dao.... go through this stuff like water!

Sleep in if possible....lie in bed with my dogs....make coffee.....farmer's market for veggies and flowers.....flea market in the hopes of finding some magic and inspiration

French white wine in the evening, Coconut water during the day

Grayish khaki green, black with gold jewelry....tons of it!

Sigg bottle, cotton canvas shopping bags, I make my coffee at home

Interrupting people when they are speaking...
but only because I get so excited about the conversation.

Oscar de la Renta Brocade dress, Hermes Silk Bag

I'm more of a collector- I love to find objects and surprisingly beautiful pieces and then I design rooms around them

Thinking about having another baby

I'll never tell

Jack in the Box Tacos

Jenni Kayne

Seasmoke Pinot Noir

Multitasking² (as in to the 2nd power)

My son Teddy

Eres

Live in Europe

Honda 125 Sport, 1969 Bronco

Travel and the people I meet wherever I go

Ismaël Lô, an amazing Senegalese musician

Pop-art style African prints

Running again-in shorts!

Loads of colorful string bracelets

Listening to Krishna Das and practicing yoga with my 4-year-old daughter

Puffy sleeves and just about anything '80s

Belvedere dirty martini in fall/winter, Veuve Clicquot in spring/summer

620 Ducati Monster Dark motorcycle

Sail the Nile with Christian Louboutin

Handmade things, basically I'm really into anything that hasn't been mass produced - I love anything artisanal and I like meeting the people who make the clothes and things and food that I buy - having said that - I'm in an unusual situation to be able to do that so often

The Soft Pack

Finding a pair of vintage 90's Prada lace up boots that are really worn in

Watching my son sleep

Pancakes with family at home

Maryam Nassir Zadeh, (it's so so good - not just the best local boutique!)

Stockholm

Water... I'm pregnant....

Princess Tamtam for everyday and
Kiki de Montparnasse when I mean it

BRIGHT (I never thought I would EVER say that)

Missoni throw blanket

70s era Carly Simon, Queen Farah of Iran

The Wire on Netflix, Breaking Bad, too much Real Housewives

The shoegazing station I made on Pandora–I love when old My Bloody Valentine and Chapterhouse songs come on

To learn how to make dumplings for my cooking club

Gym, hike, or bike on my orange beach cruiser, Sunday Times, cook dinner from farmer's market bounty

Bangkok–the shopping is insanity

Certainly not math! I was a radio, TV, film major if that tells you what I am good at....

Fernet Branca mixed with ginger ale and a lime

Vaseline on curled eyelashes instead of mascara

I wear my grandma Esther's gold wedding band, it has teeny, tiny diamond stars

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