The Perfect Leather
It’s one of the only categories of clothing where I don’t try to restrict myself, because I love having a coat for every occasion, every temperature, and every type of outfit.
And honestly, with New York temperatures, coats are probably the thing we wear out the most.
Anyway, here are three new ones, and I fell mega ultra in love with this white duffle-coat from Coach, which has gone straight to my top five favorite things to wear. It’s sublime, warm, and the leather details are incredible. People stop me in the street every three minutes to see where I got it!
He was pivotal in the creation of the “open floor plan” (which is kind of crazy to think didn’t exist as an idea even a century ago!), but what is perhaps most endearing was his dedication to urban planning – he was so progressive for his time that he was enthralled with looking at ways to sufficiently and beautifully home people as life moved away from the country and to urban centers.
But Le Corbusier didn’t just create pocket-sized apartments, he was thoughtful about space and his works are all pretty astounding and often visually striking. And he was thinking about this before many others, carving out the ideals of modern architecture before it existed!