Women warriors

September 27th, FINALLY I get to use the accessory wall!!

Check out this glorious boot. It’s a gift!!! And it’s perfectly sized. Now I just need to make another one, hmmmmm. The red panels (reminiscent of last week’s Red book) are begging to be pleated, Samurai style. This cover is telling me what to do, much like its predecessor, the “RIPPED!” cover, which got me started on my fashionable year. But wait, inside I see a spiked and studded Prada shoe that reminds me of an Etruscan helmet. It’s been abandoned on a stair (by a modern-day Cinderella? Or perhaps by Alice in Wonderland?) amid pointy grasses and the hugest furry caterpillar I’ve ever seen! Put the red Vietnamese wooden panels together with that shoe and I wonder what you get?

(As I work, I’m smelling the faint aroma of an Italian-speaking cheese, one I’ve climbed high up a steep misty mountain in Switzerland to find, down in the depths of a musty cellar pantry.)

A dance club for young gays run by their supportive moms… what an incredibly beautiful thing. Imagine how that kind of love and acceptance could have changed the lives of so many before them.

So it’s the internet that’s helped young gays find each other and given them their newfound confidence. Interesting articles this week.

Last night I watched a few hours of fashionable television, The House of Eliott, a banquet of twenties elegance as envisioned by two women trying to forge a business in a world of male finance, and the new episode of Project Runway, the blue challenge. Here’s a combination of the two.