Armed with a journalism degree, twenty+ years of marketing legendary brands — including for the maestro of minimalism, Calvin Klein — and fifteen years reporting on fashion, beauty and wellness, the writing in black and white newsletter explores (and let’s face it, exposes) the grey areas of fashion, beauty and wellness. Revealing truths, presenting ideas, and answering your burning questions. With nary an influencer ad or code in sight. Ever.
Words Matter. Anti-aging. Clean beauty. Sustainable fashion.
Less is More. “The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” — Socrates
New Year. Same You. Resolution (n): a firm decision to do or not to do something.
Well. Being. "The person who consumes from better sources, gets better thoughts. The person who asks better questions, gets better answers. The person who builds better habits, gets better results." James Clear
Labels. "Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It's not about brands. It's about something else that comes from within you." – Ralph Lauren
Late Bloomers. Be not afraid of growing slowly, Be afraid of only standing still. - Chinese Proverb
Health Matters. "Happiness is the highest form of health" — Dalai Lama
Worthy. Be clear on how you want to be treated. Know your worth. Always.” – Maryam Hasnaa.
Coming Clean. The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. — Pablo Picasso
Quiet Luxury is a Mindset. Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; It makes us value the inner world; It trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges - Deepak Chopra
Longevity. “Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances” — Frank Lloyd Wright
Girl Math. Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.' — Mary Anne Radmacher
Resolved. “Many people think excitement is happiness … But when you are excited, you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
Smells Like Teen Spirit. "Aging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” – Betty Friedan
Skinned. “There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love." — Sophia Loren
Seen. "Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory." — Jim Carrey
Great Expectations. "Keep Your Expectations Low, But Your Standards High" — two-time Olympic gold medalist and four-time World Cup champion skier, Mikaela Shiffrin
Clothes Minded. "Fashion and literature give women two types of power: the power to dream and the power to reinvent themselves" — Charlotte Casiraghi
Second Acts. F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said, “There are no second acts in American lives.”
Motherhood. “The truth is that motherhood is a hero's journey. For most of us it's not a journey outward, to the most fantastic and farthest-flung places, but inward, downward, to the deepest parts of your strength, to the innermost buried core of everything you are made of but didn't know was there.”― Jessi Klein
Aging Adjectives. The great age debate continues. When Allure eradicated the term “anti-aging” from its pages seven years ago, the aging movement began blazing through the dictionary forming new terms.
You Are Enough. "All I can tell you is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream." — Patti LaBelle
Weighty Issues. If you are a woman, you have worried about weight at some point in your life. Whether it’s a medical concern (More than 1 in 4 women are overweight, and severe obesity is on the rise) or not (girls as young as 7 feel they are held to different beauty standards as boys), it has weighed on you — literally.
What's Old is New. “Watch out for fashion, because it’s fashionable…here today, gone tomorrow. Find something that’s going to last you until you’re my age” — Lauren Hutton
The Beauty of Aging. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.” — Samuel Ullman
Curiosity. “A creatively lived life is any life where consistently, routinely, habitually and constantly you choose the path of curiosity over the path fear” — Elizabeth Gilbert
Funny Face. “You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.” — George Bernard Shaw
The Horror of Aging. “It's not how old you are, it's how you are old.” — Jules Renard
Dress Code. We get dressed at least 29,000 times in our lifetime. If for no other reason than the sheer number of times we swing open our closets, finding our look goes beyond decision fatigue.
Fashion. Forward. “[Aging’s] a fighting battle, but I refuse to think of it as a losing battle. I’m a positive thinker. I don’t believe in failure.” — Polly Mellen
Ambition. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
