SO MUCH TO SAY...SO LITTLE TIME...

Where to begin .... Little by little I suppose...

Ended a relationship... Pas de Regrets.... Many magical memories....Many lessons learned.... :-)

This image was taken on the last evening I saw him... He gets to remember me in this dress forever..I wish him the best of luck getting over me. lol.... More details to follow...Your patience is appreciated...

Left one romance &, plunged head first into another....

I have fallen HEAD OVER HEELS in love with punk again, thanks to this band:

LEGENDARY LA PUNK BAND THE GERMS....

What took me sooo long?! I'm obsessed. It's pretty much all I'm listening to these days... Without a question of a doubt one of my favorite bands of all time. Top 3! :-)

I have a new mentor... One of the clients my firm is currently working with is one of the hottest Interior Design teams in LA at the moment...

A design duo known as Chimera Interiors

The woman on the left actually has a pretty similar background to me in terms of lifestyle. Apparently she was pretty involved in the SoCal Punk & Skate scene. Although I don't have red streaks in my hair I'm still a punk chick at heart & I still hang out with skaters on a pretty regular basis...I was just at the skate park these evening...

This is Chad. My faaaaaaavorite skater buddy. He's a pro, as in professional skater. This guy shreds the ramp like no other.

You don't have to abandon who you are to be succesful in once. I've said it once and I'll say it again.

EMBRACE WHO YOU ARE.

In my favorite T-shirt. Taken about a month ago...

Taken about 3 months ago.

I wear this T-shirt ALOT! lol

Like I said...Soooooo much has gone on. Sooooo much to catch u up with.

Exciting times & Enlightening times...

I suppose in the end the most exciting thing is finally having a clear and confident voice as a designer... I know who I am...I know what I do... And I do it well ;-)

I'll elaborate more on that in the future. Till then I will leave you with an image of what is at this point my FAVORITE piece in the entire design center, which happens to be in one of my FAVORITE showrooms:

I am OBSESSED with this Love Seat/Day Bed by Ebanista! Obsessed! I'll further elaborate on my obsession further in future posts...

Taken about 3 weeks ago, after a long day of shopping on Melrose...

Taken Last week shortly after our my firm's huge event co-hosted by Interiors Magazine...

The smile says  it all...

Busy Week & a Busy Weekend ahead of me. My friend Rockstar Art Dealer Marsea Goldberg as has asked me help her sell art at an exciting Event she's co- hosting along with Russell Simmons this weekend featuring 80 of the nation's most celebrated artists!

Marsea is one of the most influential figures in the contemporary art world! I adore this woman.

Really looking forward to the event... More details to come...

*Ciao for Now*  ;-)

Punk Princess Point of View

I can remember the first time I saw a photograph of glamour girl Elizabeth Hurley in the infamous Versace safety pin dress back in the nineties.

It changed my life:

I suppose you can say that it taught me that little punk ducklings could one day blossom into swans that embody elegance but without necessarily having to abandon who they are.

I didn't know anything about Elizabeth Hurley's past at the time. All I knew was that there was this stunning woman on a red carpet wearing this stunning designer dress with safety pins in it...

Well as it turns out, Elizabeth Hurley used to be QUITE the punk chick back in the day:

Do you have a punk rock past too?

This is a photo of me taken almost 10 years ago. Back when I was too cool to smile...

There was a time in my life when I pretty much exclusively dated musicians.

When you hang out in a scene, you attract "a type" and I certainly had a type...

Almost 10 years ago. In Betsey Johnson. I was SUCH a Betsey Girl:

Was my taste in men simply an act of rebellion against my conservative diplomat father or was I just a wild child with a thing for wild boys?

I don't know, and I don't get care. It was fun! ...Well most of the time, it was...

While my lifestyle and image have altered considerably with time, there are still remnants of my past evident in my personal point of view as a designer and in my personal sense of style.

Elegance, but always with an UnExPeCteD edge.

This is a picture of me taken just yesterday morning during my daily morning ritual of doing my

 make-up in the loo at the PDC:

And here is a pic of me leaving my boyfriend's house taken last Monday:

Some people are embarrassed by their crazy past lives. I personally don't believe in the past, present, and future as separate entities we can disassociate ourselves from. I believe every piece of the timeline is a beautiful and significant piece of the singular, unified and unique patchwork that makes us who we are.

Embrace Who You Are!

In many ways, the beautiful thing about being a designer is that one is given an opportunity to tell their story. It can be tricky at times, but if you look at every project as a collaboration rather than a job, there's always a way to find room for your personal stamp. ;-)