I Tried the Viral ‘Get Ready With Me’ Challenge Using Only Thrifted Pieces
It started, as all my worst ideas do, at 1 AM on a Tuesday after three glasses of wine and a dangerous amount of scrolling. I was deep in a…
I Tried the Viral ‘Three-Word Method’ for Defining My Style and It Changed Everything
As someone who has spent her entire adult life working in fashion, you’d think I’d have a rock-solid sense of personal style by now. A clearly defined aesthetic that guides…
Tenniscore Beyond the Court: How the Sports Aesthetic Took Over Fashion
The tennis skirt first found me in the back of my mother’s closet somewhere around 1998. I was eleven years old, in that awkward phase where my knees seemed disproportionately…
The $30 Target Piece That Keeps Getting Mistaken for The Row
The moment happened three weeks ago at a gallery opening in Chelsea. I was hovering near the free champagne (as one does) when a woman with the kind of expensive…
Everyone Keeps Asking About My ‘Designer’ Bag, But It’s Actually From Target
The incident that changed my entire perspective on luxury fashion happened in the Style Compass USA elevator, of all places. Picture this: I’m standing there in my usual work uniform—oversized…
I Dressed in the Complete Opposite of My Style for a Week and Had an Existential Crisis
Let’s get something straight: I’m a black clothing person. Not exclusively—I’m not one of those fashion editors who looks like they’re perpetually en route to a Chelsea gallery opening or…
I Dressed Like My Mom in the 90s for a Week and Everyone Was Obsessed
It started with a rainy Sunday afternoon and a dusty photo album I found while helping my parents clean out their basement. I was home for the weekend, ostensibly to…
I Found My Mom’s 80s Fashion Magazine Collection and These Trends Are Coming Back
Last Christmas, I made the mistake of asking my mother if I could “just quickly look through” the boxes in her attic for some childhood photos for a personal project.…
I Spent My Lunch Break Trying to Copy Instagram Outfits and Now I’m Having Trust Issues
Let me tell you about the Tuesday I almost threw my phone out my 15th-floor office window while trying to recreate what looked like the world’s most effortless business casual…
I Spent $400 Copying My Grandfather’s Wardrobe and Now I’m the Coolest Person in Finance
There’s this photo on my mom’s mantelpiece back in Atlanta – my great-grandfather in 1985, standing outside his church in his Sunday best. High-waisted pleated pants, suspenders, a cardigan buttoned…
Five Pieces, Thirty Outfits: How My Fashion Crisis Taught Me Everything About Smart Shopping
My bedroom looked like a crime scene last October, but instead of chalk outlines, there were piles of clothes everywhere. I’m talking actual mountains of fabric – seven years of…
How I Fixed My Entire Wardrobe Without Buying Anything (The Mom Hack That Actually Works)
Okay, so picture this: I’m standing in Target last Tuesday, staring at myself in one of those horrible fluorescent-lit mirrors they have in the fitting rooms, and I literally looked…