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SHOP FOR HOLIDAY SPARKLE IN NEW YORK: DIOR FINE JEWELRY

 “Who wants to play with a building?....What’s fun about that?”  In the movie Big,  Josh Baskin, a 13 year old boy, trapped in the body of an adult, asks his toy company co-worker to explain the excitement of a product created with lots of market research, but no imagination. It’s one of my favorite scenes ever, and while I first saw the film when I was also thirteen, I’ve never “grown into” the belief that adulthood should be a beige existence.  The first time I saw a photograph of Victoire de Castellane over ten years ago, she was an assistant to Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel.  I remember loving her name, wondering how such ... read more>>

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