Zara Tag

I’d hate to come in and start dumping my mess on you from the gate. But, y'all. Y’all. I’ve been having a hard time at work. Allan and I had a fight. It got kind of ugly pretty quickly. And on top of all this, I was PMS-ing. Because, when it...

My goal in life is to look like I don’t care. I know there are people reading this who think this could correlate to my actual personality because I can be a bit tough to read. Listen, living in New York, you see all sorts of...

Sometimes, I’m champagne, and others, I’m Hennessy.* Specifically, Veuve Clicquot at the Ritz Carlton, for what appears to be an annual gathering for a belated birthday celebration. Together, my girls, my mom and her other favorite girl—Ms. Cynthia—came together for a sophisticated outing that brought tea, tears,...

I have a favorite train conductor. He’s usual on an older 6 train. The ones that are typically annoying during rush hour. They’re smaller than the newer ones and the spacing is weird so everyone ends up crowding by the door, which makes it hard for people...

I hate horoscopes. I never know if something I’m experiencing is because of a seed planted by some weekly “reading.” Maybe, I was going to have a great day, then I read I was going to have a bad one, not to spend any money, so...

“If you want to to be an artist, and you want to do and live off your art, then you have to take a stab at it, and paint in the best city in the world, which is New York as far as I’m concerned.” Graffiti...

  I remember asking Bill Cunningham’s muse Tziporah Salmon about developing her eye for fashion. She paused for a minute, and then said, “you know, you’re a writer, so you read writing that inspires you. You delve into the craft as a consumer, a fan, which may...