I’m not the first person to seek out Dieneke Ferguson for an interview. After all, when you think of people who help put fledgling designers and creators on the map, who are savvy and know the business, can combine profit and practicality with benevolence and a spirit of cooperation and support, she’s the godmother. Plus [...]

When I was in the thick of my New York life and not taking many vacations out in the greenery, I was invited to go white water rafting.  My main occupation at the time was observing street style and finding order and meaning in all of that gritty gloriously imperfect urban beauty.  Mid-afternoon, we pulled [...]

picture of Ma ke from Victoria & Albert collection 1 Eva Zeisel Eva Zeisel turns 103.  Thank you to Haute*Nature for bringing this working woman’s birthday to our attention and for posting her TED Talk which I hadn’t seen. Eva is a fully decorated *design revolutionary and **lifetime achiever (*New York Magazine, **Cooper Hewitt) and [...]

Persephone Books is a female-run publishing house and London bookstore that publishes out of print 20th century female authors. It’s a quintessential example of the kind of business built of passion, intellect and saleability that inspired Girl on the street and What Women Make. On my way from Brompton to Bloomsbury to interview Nicola Beauman, [...]