The headline for this blog concerns the female airline pilots in India and the challenges they face as reported in Air & Space dated November 2017. This is a bimonthly magazine that is published by the Smithsonian.
I have never visited Ireland. But I know a number of people who have and every single one says, “We had a marvelous time.” One said, “I even saw the thatched roof cottage where my grandmother lived.”
I became interested in Missoni when I read a laudatory piece in Bazaar’s January 2018 issue written by Joan Juliet Buck. I had read her memoir, The Price of Illusion, and was quite impressed, so I sat down at once and read A Colorful Yarn – which reported, in detail, her ties to Missoni.
When I read Ayn Rand’s first major literary success, The Fountainhead, many years ago, I was overwhelmed. It was published in 1943 and is still selling like hotcakes. “It’s reprinted regularly,” said the young sales clerk at Barnes & Noble as he showed me shelf-after-shelf of her books on the fourth floor of the Union Square store.
During this past holiday season, I got to enjoy some downtime. It was during this quiet, I got to catch up on many things I had been too busy to do the previous few months. This list included lots of magazine reading, as they had piled up.
I’m always on the lookout for unusual stories about females. Why? For two reasons: first, ADEA is a female-owned company that offers a diverse selection of apparel for women and, second, there are more doors open to women than in the past.
One rarely reads quotes from Armani, the king of Italian fashion. On the other hand, Karl Lagerfeld talks nonstop as he travels on various jaunts around the world.
Happy 2018! It seems I say this every year, although, it's true - I can't believe it's a new year already.
I first became aware of this event when I spotted a heads-up mention of it in the November 2017 issue of Harper’s Bazaar. The name of this exhibit intrigued me, so I marked my datebook. I didn’t want to miss it.
On Saturday, October 28th I walked up to Christie’s auction house at 20 Rockefeller Plaza (49th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues) to see Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi, Latin for Savior of the World.
While I was in Miami for Art Basel, I went up to Palm Beach. I had heard about Palm Beach but hadn't been there before; I didn't know what to expect. Well, I was pleasantly surprised! I loved what Palm Beach had to offer - it is its own oasis within Florida with its own personality.
