My latest post on Now Smell This is a review of Jo Malone’s Blackberry & Bay Cologne. You can read it here.
Love Your Self: Barneys Beauty Bag Event, September 20-22, 2012

PSA (Public Shopping Announcement): Barneys New York is holding its twice-yearly “Love Your Self” event later this month. This fall beauty event will take place on September 20-22, 2012 at all Barneys locations.
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Covet: John Derian for Bergdorf Goodman

Bergdorf Goodman is celebrating its 111th Anniversary this year, and to mark the occasion, a number of designers have created limited-edition items honoring the always-elegant New York department store.
I’m especially smitten with John Derian‘s “handcrafted découpage tray featuring a rendition of the Bergdorf Goodman building.” It shows the architects’ original design for the store’s Fifth Avenue façade, courtesy of Columbia University’s Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library.
Just Because: I ♥ NY

…an island sixteen miles long,
Numberless crowded streets—high growths of iron, slender, strong, light, splendidly uprising toward clear skies…
— Walt Whitman, “Mannahatta”
Image: World Trade Center and Statue of Liberty (c. 1970s) via Allposters.
Warhol for Fall, Part Two
As of this week, I’m still enjoying the preview photos and information about NARS’ Andy Warhol cosmetics collection for fall. The way things go, it’s only a matter of time before saturation sets in, but I’ve gathered a handful of other Warhol-themed items for autumn inspiration.
(You can read Part One here.)
