*lead photo by Venia Bechrakis With Greece making the headlines for its economic woes, I was inspired to go on the hunt for modern female talent from the birthplace of democracy and give it some positive attention.  Some of my picks have been around awhile, some are fresh on the scene. They [...]

*lead photo: dress by textile designer marit fujiwara, recent graduate of Chelsea College of Art and Design I asked a handful of thought leaders about the top women in sustainability.  Answers came from marketing expert and author of “Don’t think Pink” (Andrea Learned), the award-winning social entrepreneur and innovation strategist who launched the Creative Graduate Prize [...]

It made me feel less alone in the all male creative wilderness to have her powerful proof at my fingertips.

*lead picture, Lou Doillon in Anthony Vaccarello on StyleBubble I haven’t been to fashion week since 2005. And that was after more than ten years of attending the New York shows. The biggest reason for stopping: I was bored. Mostly the fashion press is what really pushed me over the edge. But now I [...]

Half a review of the documentary “September Issue.” Half a review of how differently I see things now from 15 years ago. I wrote my thesis on Vogue magazine.  Up there in that old Vogue library on the top floor of the former Condé Nast building, I lived and dreamed in the pages of Horst P [...]

Some pretty cool women involved in New Frontiers. Launching today. Dr. Rachel Armstrong is a Senior TED Fellow working on building a living building, and she’s a teaching Fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture. She’s also a science fiction author – and a beautiful fairy. Leonora Oppenheim focuses on turning information into conversation in public [...]

Lets look at what agencies have tried to do the last few years... pretend they are movie producers, product designers, art curators, publicists, gurus of the future, yet still maintaining a media buying and planning department, an account planning department, a 'creative' department focusing on those awards, and the account people tap tap tapping away at their cubicles. I think it's pretty bombastic to claim to do it all and yet still be an AD agency.

Ideas and Design on my radar right now. An eclectic bunch.

"Feminism (now) is less as an identity with rules and definitions - and more as a sensibility and a lens."

I was happy to see that the New York Times Emerging Artists of the Decade list started with two women, Rineke Dijkstra and Jessica Jackson Hutchins, both of whom I am unfamiliar with, so I decided to look at more of their work.  One of the articles that featured Hutchin’s work had the slug, “patience [...]