There is a great scene from the eighties television sitcom Designing Women where Julia Sugarbaker (played masterfully by the late Dixie Carter) goes off on one of her trademark tirades. The target and subsequent rant in question was a New York Times front...

Imagine being an internationally acclaimed handbag designer with lines in Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, Takashimaya and London's Harvey Nichols and splashed across the pages of Elle, Vogue and Town and Country to divorced and homeless? The nightmare happened to designer Marcia Sherrill.

Her divorce like many was classic War...

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In a world and time where women with the title of heiress attached to their name spent their days on the social circuit and/or reclining on the recamier, Gloria Vanderbilt was both an anomaly and a creature of reinvention.

Vanderbilt began her career as an...

While the spotlight was on the catwalk collections at Fashion Week, some of the greatest designs were found off the runway.

Case in point -- American Express partnered with Architectural Digest and commissioned award winning interior designer Bill Sofield to design the Skybox. No stranger to the world of fashion,...

I caught an advance screening of author Elizabeth Gilbert's wildly successful book turned film Eat Pray Love which tells the real-life tale of a writer who embarks on a year long journey of healing and enlightenment, ultimately discovering herself -- and love -- along the way.

Devotees of the book...

In true Southern parlance (and according to the urban dictionary) the term "steel magnolia" is defined as "a southern woman who is strong and independent yet very feminine." (It was also invented by Louisiana playwright Robert Harling when he wrote the play of the same name about his dying sister)....

The quartet of Carrie and Company hits the silver screen this Memorial Day weekend and once again style plays a fifth character. While fashion in the form of Louis, Lacroix and Louboutin (just to name a few) takes center stage on the television series...

It's wonderful when passion and purpose come together, particularly when it helps our four legged friends.

Case in point is the new book Oh My Dog: How to Choose, Train, Groom, Nurture, Feed, and Care for Your New Best Friend (Gallery Books/Simon and Schuster)...

Like most baby boomers, I have been glued every Sunday night to HBO's The Pacific, the ten-part mini series that chronicles the Pacific Theater operations. Produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, the drama features the battles of Okinawa, Guadalcanal, Peleliu and Iwo Jima.

And like most baby boomers,...

You know her as a beloved actress, avid animal rights supporter and if you've been to Carmel's Cypress Inn, maybe as a hotel owner. And you know her as Doris Day.

Saturday marks the 88th birthday of the woman once coined America's Sweetheart. While her film work ranged from everything...

They arrive en masse, some 20,000 strong, and many without tickets, all there to breathe in the exalted air of the Blue Mist. They name their children (and often their dogs) Peyton, Peyton Jr. and Peyton the III. Their headgear rivals Halloween on steroids as pig snouts, gator jaws and...

The Academy Award ceremonies have been around since l929 when a group of 270 guests met at the Biltmore Hotel and paid 5.00 dollars each for Lobster Eugenie and "Los Angeles Salad." Back then, it was all about the food, and apparently today, it's all about the fashion.

From...

As the holiday comes to a close, with visions of red carpets dancing in our heads and the assembling of the ubiquitous year-end top ten film lists, I thought it would be a good time to look at some of the best style moments on film:

Best Sixties Homage Part...

Harry is a legendary lothario/sixty-something/music mogul and the guest at a Hamptons dinner party of his twenty-something girl friend Marin, her successful yet skeptical mother Erica and aunt Zoe who teaches women's studies at Columbia University. After being grilled about his media status as an elusive escape artist (as in...

It's a scene that is becoming all too familiar as yet another magazine closes and more space opens up on the newsstands. The formula is simple -- a bad economy means consumers aren't spending therefore no advertising which equates into fewer and fewer editorial pages and less money -- you...

I recently spent several days at the High Point, North Carolina Furniture Market, the bi-annual sojourn for 80,000 furniture retailers and interior designers viewing the latest in home furnishings. While the industry has been hit extremely hard due to the housing market and the economy, I was pleased to see...

With Halloween week upon us -- and the timely arrest of Roman Polanski and increased interest in the style of all things sixties, I thought this would be a good time to revisit one of the scariest and most stylish films of the horror genre ever made.

Based on Ira...

It's often said that life imitates art (and vice versa) and no one know this better than Hollywood. The cinema has long had a love affair with stories of finance, power, and big business, acting as a mirror and social chronicler of the times. With the financial shenanigans of the...

From penthouse to townhouse and everything in between, New York City remains one of the cinema's most recognizable film sets. The silver screen has chronicled some of the most alluring and memorable interiors over the past century, providing a glamorous, sometimes coveted and often implausible world filled with trendsetting decor...