I was gathering book notes yesterday and discovered this juicy tidbit reported by David M. Garner and Ann Kearney-Cooke, both experts on body image. Their study reported:
70% of women felt depressed, guilty and ashamed after looking at fashion magazines for a mere three minutes.
And I get it.
Page after page of gorgeous, fit women. Page after page of drool-worthy clothes and jewelry. Page after page of…
Earlier this week I was blessed to share a stimulating conversation with Mark Levy, the brilliant founder of Levy Innovation, who has been described as “a positioning guru extraordinaire,” “a Superman of the mind,” and “a horse whisperer for writers and thinkers.”
With accolades like that you might correctly surmise that our talk included phrases like externalized thinking and thought leadership but, surprisingly, Mark and I also mulled…
So when you hear the word STYLE do you think of a noun or a verb?
Because, interestingly, style refers to both, right?
I mean, there’s style as in “She’s got style” and there’s style as in “Who will Rachel Zoe style for the Oscars?”
So style is both something you possess and the process you go through to get it.
Sounds a little chicken and egg to me.
I mean, what comes first? …
Judith Leiber, who is now 90-years-young, is perhaps most well-known for her jeweled minaudieres. But no matter how famous you may be in some circles, you can be just as unknown in others.
For instance, a man once wrote to me for some advice because he had inherited his mother’s Judith Leiber handbag collection and didn’t know what to do with it. A local dealer he…
What’s living at the bottom of YOUR handbag?
Today’s LA Times reports that a Georgia woman recently decided to clean out her purse and discovered an old lottery ticket worth $189,302 hiding out down there!
And while I can’t promise that cleaning out your own handbag would be as exciting as this, I can promise that taking five minutes today to remove all the old receipts, gum wrappers,…
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