Fashion is such a small world. During my brief time at Opening Ceremony’s FNO party, one of the people I met was Kerrin of the blog CATiD. I had no idea that over the past few months she’s become pals with my close friend Rhianna. Her name should be in hypertext, but I can’t link to her anymore because one of the internet’s greatest tragedies took place: last year she deleted her blog Breakfast at Barneys. Upon hearing the news of her misguided decision, I promptly pulled a Dawson.

Pulling a “Dawson”

Believe me when I say Rhianna had one of the best written blogs that ever existed. Think Susie Bubble, but with bombastic wit, a solid grounding in literary studies while set in the city of Chicago, along with extended layovers in in Paris and Marrakech. Rhianna now works at one of the hippest places in New York. I’m not just saying that because she’s my friend, although I do think all my friends are amazing people. Oh so what, the ACNE flagship in Soho isn’t cool enough for you? I’ve berated her enough in private about starting a new blog. Kerrin, maybe you can convince our beautiful friend that she must – once again – share her brain juice (and killer style) with the world?

We all know that fashion is an incestuous world run by gatekeepers, so it’s really mystifying when these types of synchronicities happen to me. I can’t be that cool, I live in Chicago! Just kidding… but not really. There’s still a strong stigma against Chicago that I encounter every time I go to New York fashion week…