I am a writer originally from Christchurch, New Zealand — by way of Ifrane, Geneva, Iowa City, Milan, Paris, Sydney, and San Francisco. I live in Harlem, New York City.
I blog about fashion and culture for the Gawker Media women’s site Jezebel, and I write for a variety of other publications, including Bookforum, Jalouse, the New York Times, the New York Observer, the Village Voice, DIS, Surface Asia, and the New Zealand Sunday Star-Times. I also do a weekly DIY column. I’ve been written about in the Guardian and elsewhere, as well as interviewed on NPR. Among my television appearances are interviews on CNN, MSNBC, The Joy Behar Show, and The Today Show. I am the inspiration for a (minor) character in a William Gibson novel. I have a bachelor’s degree in English and French Literature from the University of Iowa.
This blog is a space for thoughts that have no news peg, photos of my home sewing projects, and other arcana — what Joan Didion once called, in another context, “bits of the mind’s string too short to use.” The title is out of date, the contents are only irregularly updated, and I hear all the kids are on Tumblr now, anyway.
I tweet.
