New York Fashion Week is here. Our streets are dotted with teenage models, as noticeable as a gazelle in a herd of wildebeest, clutching their portfolios and intently examining subway maps. Emergency haircut appointments are made, juice fasts considered and new shoes purchased. The question that I will be asked...

I'm only making Million-Dollar purchases this fall. I'm sure that this sounds like my shopping list is something along the lines of LearJet, Krupp Diamond, and a 24-karat mink, but let me clarify: I'm only buying things that make me feel like a million dollars.

Two things made me arrive...

I have nothing to wear. I gaze into my wardrobe, across the variegated landscape of peach chiffon Prada, white silk MiuMiu, and fragile wisps of vintage Nothing, deeming them one by one too slutty, not slutty enough, too fashiony, too blowzily overblown, too fattening and generally inappropriate for the task...

Vintage shopping can be really daunting for most women. In my video "Find Your Vintage Era" - I give shoppers advice on how to find and wear vintage using style icons through the decades as inspiration. Think about who you would cast to play yourself in the film of your...