Michel Tcherevkoff does some amazing work with flowers. Check out more of these gorgeous creations at www.shoefleur.com. Talk about putting a little "Spring" in your step...Bloomin' fabulous :)

What happens when VOGUE - a formerly iconic fashion Bible - starts pandering to the lowest common denominator in a desperate attempt to increase newsstand sales? These people on the cover. UGH.

Hans Hoffman's painting "Spring" pretty much sums the season up for me. After the loooongest NY Winter of my life, I'm looking forward to the riot of color and energy....bring it on. Plus, even though this German painter created the piece in the mid 1940's in a celebration of Nature, it speaks to me of urban life in NYC today. I see the kinetic energy; the yellow taxis; blood and sweat; pot holes in the tarmac and hear a cacophony of sound. What do you see?

There is a new Robert Capa photography exhibition at the International Center of Photography in NYC, and because my lovely and talented friend Cathie, http://www.mystylistcathiearquilla.blogspot.com, invited me to see it with her for her birthday, of course I made an effort and went.

The exhibit, "Capa in Color" is on view until early May and presents his color work for the first time.
I had heard of Capa because of his famous black and white work as a photojournalist. Apparently he had used color film a lot in the 1940's until his death in the mid 1950's, but because of the length of time it took to actually process color film back then, only a few of his color pictures were ever published in the news magazines of the day - the deadlines were too tight. He also took color portraits of his friends.

This one of Pablo Picasso playing in the sea with his son is one of my favorite:

Check out more of his stunning photos here: http://www.icp.org/museums/exhibitions/capa-color.

And if you're in NYC make the effort to go, even if it's not your friend's birthday...

"I am not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I'm not dumb and I also know that I'm not blonde" - Dolly Parton

My favorite quote by Eve Ensler :

Eve Ensler is one of my idols

It's hard to believe that it's been 20 years since Eve Ensler's ground breaking one woman show burst onto the stage. I saw "The Vagina Monologues" performed by Eve herself, in Charlotte, North Carolina, where I was living at the time, and there were audible gasps from the audience, it was so shocking. Seeing her perform that play, was one of the most radical and affirming nights of my life.

Teach your daughters to love their bodies. Give them the power over themselves. Call their vaginas their vaginas - not some cutesy nickname. For that matter, teach your sons to call them vaginas and name their body parts correctly too. They have a penis, and a pair of testicles - you've got to have balls! Teach your sons to respect women, and talk to them about sex. Tell them that they should expect to give pleasure as much as to receive it. Tell them NO means NO. Teach them that violence against women is wrong. Always. Support the organization that Eve started.

Tamara Mellon is strong, smart, independent, and brutally honest about her demons.
This memoir covers her life leading up to the co founding of Jimmy Choo, her business and personal struggles while building it into a billion dollar brand, to the eventual selling of her shares and her exit.

The book is a good read, mixing business advice for entrepreneurs, with the salacious gossip of her life, her struggles with the guilt of being a single parent to a daughter she must leave behind in the care of a nanny, and her twisted relationship with her own mother.

She has now launched her own eponymous luxury brand, currently for sale at select retailers like Net-A-Porter. I personally can't wait to see how she writes her next chapter.

RIP L'Wren Scott. Whatever her real back story - this I do know - she was 6'3" and still wore high heels, and that rocked. 

Not a bad mantra...