A pair of jeans that aren’t jeans. That’s what Matthieu Blazy debuted at his first Chanel show earlier this year — silk mousseline, stitched and dyed to look exactly like worn-in indigo denim, but as weightless as a curtain in an open window. Margot Robbie wore the originals to Chanel’s Fall 2026 show in Paris this March. A few weeks later, Bhavitha Mandava arrived at the Met Gala in a custom version that took roughly 250 atelier hours to make. The conceit was brilliant. Take the most ordinary, hardest-working thing in a wardrobe — denim, the textbook definition of a workhorse fabric — and reimagine it as something light, breathable, almost imaginary. Make the rugged thing tender. That idea is...
Tomorrow I turn 38. Usually in this space I write about flattering colors and the styles that suit your body — all the fun stuff. Today I want to write about something different. Something more personal, maybe even a little intimate. Something I’ve been wanting to say for a while, and a birthday feels like the right occasion.
Early in Sophia Loren’s career, she was told her nose would hold her back — too long, too prominent, too Roman. She declined to fix it. She became one of the most photographed women of the twentieth century anyway. The nose stayed where it was. Looking at the photographs now, it’s hard to imagine the face working without it.
Today she might have booked the consultation.
Rhinoplasty has gotten cheaper. The surgeons advertise on Instagram now, and every feed I scroll has the evidence on it. The same lifted brow. The same cheek filler. The same small, soft, slightly upturned nose. Hundreds of women slowly becoming one woman.
Not everyone is born with hourglass proportions — but almost anyone can dress into them.
The hourglass is a body shape, yes — and those who have it naturally hit the genetic jackpot of proportional symmetry. But the principle behind it? That’s just geometry. Shoulders and hips reading at roughly equal width, with the waist sitting visibly narrower between them. Three elements in alignment. And every body type is a starting point — not a verdict. You’re always just one or two adjustments away from that alignment.
After last week's post — "These Styles Can — and Will — Ruin Your Figure" — I got tons of messages that all boiled down to the same question: Okay, so what SHOULD I wear?
Which — fair enough. That article was necessary. Someone had to say it. But tearing down without building up isn't really my style (pun intended), so consider this the other side of the coin.
