While covering a dinner earlier this month at the State Department in honor of the 2009 Kennedy Center Honorees, I had the rare experience of coming face-to-face with the prodigy of one of my personal style icons.

Channeling her mother's pared down elegance and innate sense of propriety, Caroline Kennedy,...

If you have not yet seen Coco Before Chanel spend an afternoon during your holiday break with Audrey Tautou as she takes on the role of the infamous Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel. It is the story of her early years before quilted bags, interlocking C's,...

Liz Claiborne, my wife of fifty years, died of peritoneal cancer on June 27, 2007. Every tool in the oncologists' toolbox had been mobilized to cure her, to ease the pain of chemotherapy and to mitigate the humiliation of bodily deterioration. When the tool box was empty, despite her courage,...

No more ho hum gifts for your diligent jet setter. Reward your frequent flier with something more exciting than another pair of flannel pajamas. Since they grounded the Concorde, travel is no longer...

I have a friend who, every time she sees me, feels the need to say, "You look so skinny." The first time she said this, I took it as a compliment. I thought that she was giving me kudos for the good care I take of myself with three healthy...

This week's Ralph Lauren Boycott in Chicago generated, at times, up to 50 advocates for better media and advertising images, but a recent Page Six summary on nypost.com reported that "a store manager" said there were only four people in attendance.

To which this reporter has...

You probably have a business contact/cousin/in-law/"friend" who you don't actually like -- at all -- but you kind of have to get her a gift anyway. We think you should buy her one of these five things, then act a little martyrlike when you find out she didn't...

Love her or loathe her, Lady Gaga is impossible to ignore. And not just for the outré outfits that have made her one of the most talked-about individuals of the year. It's her beauty choices that are causing eyebrows to raise, with makeup mavens riveted by her every look. The...

Imagine you get invited to decorate one of the nation's most historic and prestigious houses for the holidays--and you have three weeks to do it. First, you panic. Then, you get busy.

This has been the Natural Home team's reality over the past month. We found out in mid-November that...

We have loads of little secrets -- most of which we will never share. But today we've decided to disclose a tiny little one. Even though it may be a black mark on our reputation as normal bitches who like to self-medicate with a whole tub of ice cream.

On a recent debate about marital infidelity on CNN one panelist was adamant that Tiger Wood's unfaithfulness was both predictable and unpreventable. 'As a famous guy you meet a lot of beautiful women. You feel attracted to them, they feel attracted to you, and you end up in bed. It's...

Hello, old friends. You look fabulous. Have you lost weight? Gosh, it seems like just yesterday we watched "Meana" Irina Shabayeva walk off with the most underwhelming victory in ProjRun history as Althea blinked and Carol Hannah surreptitiously vomited into her purse. I guess it feels that way because it...

It seems that Americans have always been nostalgic around the winter holidays. Just look at the lyrics of Irving Berlin's iconic song, White Christmas, written around seventy years ago:

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the treetops...

I talk about our office, which is Todd's and my apartment, all the time. So I thought I'd give you a looksy. Though there's no Dwight, Creed, Pam, or Michael, it's pretty insane.

The lay of the land: The apartment is split on three levels, but there are no doors...

When Maia James asked her now-husband, Daylon, what he was going to wear during their wedding ceremony, he replied, "That's a game-time decision, babe."

"Game-time" was also when he suggested they decide on the cake, music, and flowers (and Maia swears he was only half kidding). Luckily for Daylon,...

Welcome to the Real Food Rehab Holiday Gift Guide! I've asked my favorite tastemakers to submit, in their own words, their picks for a food-related gift they'd love to give or receive this holiday season. These are people I respect and admire, not only for their excellent taste, but for...

Farmers markets with strict local and sustainable ingredient rules can be tough on even the most ardent of locavore confectioners. Chocolate is verboten and local nut options are extremely limited, especially if you're in the Midwest. What does a French-inspired chocolatier make for a tightly-regulated farmers market such as

While our yearbooks have always been good for intermittent fits of nostalgia, we can't say they were ever really much to look at. This year, though, we're upping the glam quotient on year-end roundups by choosing the best and the brightest of Fashion's class of 2009. And with picks like...

The dating deceptions single women invariable confront range from the annoying (online photos that turn out to be a decade old), to the aggravating ("I'll call you"), to the agonizing ("Oh, her? Just a friend"). But usually we don't remain in the dark forever - one way or...