Healing Through Mindfulness and Words

Since becoming a member of the SCAD FASH Museum, I’ve spent more time thinking about fashion beyond the clothes themselves. Walking through exhibitions, seeing pieces from the closet of André Leon Talley, reading his memoir, and learning more about the history of Christian Dior and the designers who came after him, I keep finding myself returning to the same question: What happened to personal style? Not fashion. Not trends. Not luxury. Style. What struck me most about Talley

Right now, I feel like I’m running out of time. My mother is gone. My father is 63. I am unmarried, no prospects, no children. And yet,...

My mom passed away at 50. As I near 29, the thought strikes me: if I only live as long as she did, then more than half my life has...