Red is the color of extremes. It can evoke passion, seduction, violence, anger, love, danger and adventure. I love it's potential for being over the top. Red is all over town right now because when combined with green it conveys that it is a holiday and time for...

Accidental Icon Wears Black Mesh Skirt: ENDA, White Sheer Shirt BLK DNM, Embroidered baseball jacket: 3.1 Phillip Lim, Boots: Acne, Shooting Stars Earrings: Vintage Every time I wear this jacket I literally get stopped every few blocks with requests about who makes...

One of the biggest holiday treats for fashion lovers in New York City are the window displays at all of the big department stores but especially those at the famed NYC clothing store Barneys. This year's theme is "Chillin Out" and includes real ice castles as well as...

Fashion and Art A Kind Of Woman Yohji Yamamoto The Tomes of 2015 Fashion and Commerce Staging a Situational Fashion Revolution Why the CFDA wants to Change the Fashion System Fashion Designers A Portrait of Rei Kawakubo By Those Who Know Her Best Nike Presents New...

I have just completed two very busy days and this morning I am gathering up my resources to get through the next three. I am moving through the tunnel and am almost through. In some places the tunnel has been dark. I have interviews to complete, papers to grade, field...

This day begins the last week of the fall semester and I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Starting with my mother being ill; emergency after emergency; lots of great Accidental Icon occurrences; the strangeness of having warm weather even in mid-December;...

Horse around (def.) To play around roughly with something or someone, possibly abusing someone or something. To join someone in boisterous play; to participate in rough play with someone. To engage in frivolous activity to goof off The term "horsing around" conjures...

There are just some days when I have a restless aggression. It reminds me of growing up with four brothers who could never contain their bodies from what was called "horsing around". Though on the surface playful in nature, the behavior always contained elements of...

“Everything that drowns me makes me wanna fly” — @cecideslia There are just some days when you feel like taking flight. This impetus can come from an external or internal occurrence. It can be urgent or a gentle whisper. These are the times when you want to feel the...

This Thanksgiving weekend I have much gratitude for the wonderful people who are in my life. These include family, friends, students, colleagues and the many wonderful persons who read my blog and comment regularly. Though some weeks there is literally not a second to...

Sometimes when you want to stop feeling like a machine that repeats the same thing over and over, you need to reprogram and try something unexpected and new. Different for me this week is wearing luxe fabrics like silk duchess rather than my working class and...

Lately I have been thinking about the notion of work. There are many reasons for this. I suppose the first being that right now I am doing a great deal of it. There is the professional work I do as an academic, the personal work I do as a caregiver and then the...

When a human perceives a threat, the body activates the stress response. The stress response occurs in both your body and brain. The stress response triggers a very short circuit in your brain that directs us to fight or to flee and your body starts doing...