Want, Need, Have

With one well-heeled foot in big media and the other in fashion punditry, I write about retail, e-tail, celebrity style, where to find looks for less, and emerging trends.

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Aug 16, 2006

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What is the next…

Purchase you’ll make?

more roomy, oversized knits for fall

Trend in design?

little Marie Antoinette touches in subtle places; French opulence rubbing up against Adlerisms and otherwise stark canvases

Car you’d like to own?

2007 BMW 5-Series

Big step you’d like to make?

Move back to the West Coast, permanently

Fad that will fade?

Big plastic sunglasses

Vacation you’ll take?

Palm Desert would be divine just for a long weekend; somewhere beachy in Baja would be nice, too

Thing you’re going to fight for?

A new view when I wake up in the morning, having the Pacific nearby ... oh and my right to party

Secret that’s going to leak?

That the emperor has no clothes

Life you’ll lead?

Hopefully a passionate, productive one

Fountain of youth?

Laughing, moisturizing, breathing and enjoying everything in moderation

Book you’ll read?

Beautiful Evidence, Tufte and I might get around to finally finishing The Fountainhead one day

Thing that will change the world?

Empathy. More of it

Guilty-pleasure food in which you’ll indulge?

I'm trying to take the guilt out of everything

Person to whom you’ll say, “I love you”?

oh well that's a secret