REMEMBERING // Chloé

REMEMBERING // Chloé

by | Nov 1, 2019 | Journal, PARIS, STYLE

A Canadian in Paris has the last laugh. I will never forget day that I was accepted into the Intensive Course for Fashion Design and Pattern Making at ESMOD, Paris.  At 25 years old I was sitting in my parents’ TV room, excited and frightened by the prospect of...
LISBOA // Fábrica do Pastel Feijão

LISBOA // Fábrica do Pastel Feijão

by | Oct 5, 2019 | LISBON, PORTUGAL, RESTO

Bean pastries in the heart of Alfama. In 2009, renowned Chef António Amorim reinvented the bean pastry, a traditional Torres Vedras sweet that dates back to the nineteenth century, and entered it into a pastry contest which he won in 2015.  Two years later, Amorim...
Being Rachel @ Bloomingdale’s

Being Rachel @ Bloomingdale’s

by | Sep 18, 2019 | Journal, NYC

An ode to my Rachel Green moment at Bloomingdale’s. Twenty years ago to this day, I started my first full-time job in fashion at the iconic Bloomgindale’s head office in New York, New York. I was hired to be their first-ever Planning Assistant in the...
Lisbon // 100 Maneiras

Lisbon // 100 Maneiras

by | Sep 5, 2019 | LISBON, PORTUGAL, RESTO, Travel

A taste of Bosnia in the heart of Lisbon. Serbian-born Ljubomir Stanisic has been busy changing the face of Portuguese fine dining at his 100 Maneiras restaurant since 2009.  The small, intimate interior is the product of a four-year long mission of renovations that...
LISBON // brunch @ Basilio

LISBON // brunch @ Basilio

by | Apr 5, 2019 | Dog Friendly, LISBON, PORTUGAL, RESTO

Vegeterian brunch done right.  And, avec dogs. Named after one of the owner’s dogs, Basilio recently opened on the small yet resto-packed street of Rua dos Bacalhoeiros (literally: street of the cod fishing boats) and wasted no time in attracting queues of...