With the holidays around the corner and the new year on the horizon, I—like many others I know—have found myself in deep reflection. I would be lying if I said this year was an amazing one; in fact, it was…
With the holidays around the corner and the new year on the horizon, I—like many others I know—have found myself in deep reflection. I would be lying if I said this year was an amazing one; in fact, it was…
(Featured image: Eva Yiwei Xu [left] and I at the All Comes From Nothing SS16 Preview at Bene Rialto in Manhatten) I don’t know if you can tell already, but this issue is brimming with fashion features. Can you blame…
Is it just me, or does August always seem to sneak up on you? Part of my job as a magazine editor is to think about each month several months in advance (I’ve, technically, been planning for August since April), but still—this…
Each year, I always look forward to summer vacation so much that I forget about much else—including the fact that Cliché turns a year older each June. I know—bad parent, right? But that’s just the thing: while working on this…
I’ll be honest: I’ve been looking forward to April for months, and it’s not because I love the warmer weather after a long winter or the colorful blooms (but I do). I’ve been looking forward to April since last May…
If you know me at all, you’ll know I have a love-hate relationship with winter. On the one hand, I love winter fashion—dark colors, oversized sweaters, ankle boots, wool scarves… there’s something just so cozy about it all. I could…
Whenever I hear the song “Auld Lang Syne,” I immediately think of George Bailey surrounded by pretty much the entire town of Bedford Falls on a snowy Christmas Eve. Ever diligently—and as George has, in the past, done for them—the town’s…
The first thing I noticed when I stepped off the escalator at the Crowne Plaza in Times Square for Couture Fashion Week was how beautiful everyone was. Like, everyone: the beaming hostesses, the clusters of guests, the sharp businessmen and reporters, and, of…
Summer is a strange thing: we wait all year long for it, and once it arrives, it seems to be gone again in the blink of an eye. June rolls in quietly like an old friend, July comes in fits…
Exactly two years ago when I first became the new Editor in Chief of this magazine, I was putting this thing together at my kitchen table, collecting photographs from talented, generous photographers, and writing articles with a small group of…
This time last year, I had one eye glued to my senior portfolio and the other on a map of Eastern Europe, planning for my first overseas vacation. The excitement and anxiety was palpable as May 15 inched nearer and…
It is no secret that I’m not a big fan of February. Setting aside the unmistakable lure of Valentine’s Day and the countdown to my birthday on March 2 (same as my celebrity crush, Chris Martin of Coldplay), February is…
