State & Lake

“Only he who bestirs himself can advance spiritually. The fool who uses extraneous aids for this, in the form of the ready-made opinions of others, only walks his path as if on crutches, while ignoring his own healthy limbs.” –  Abd-Ru-Shin :  Source: In the Light of Truth series
I am fond of Abd-Ru-Shin though admittedly, [...]

A few years ago, some friends and I got together to critique some of the designs we saw that year from the various Fashion Weeks.  Our conclusion:  designers hate women.  The clothes were anything but wearable, haute couture translated into “hate culture” and the shoes were God awful.
I understand the desire to have a model [...]

Yes, that’s right, Italian Vogue is going black and it couldn’t come at a better time.  With the loss earlier this year of one of Yves St. Laurent’s muses, Katoucha Niane, whose body was found near the Garigliano bridge in Paris, the death of Yves St. Laurent who was the first to bring black models [...]

I have a friend who swears by this store.  Granted, I’ve never been but I’ve heard good things and knowing the store carries some top notch designers like Samantha Treacy, Carmen Marc Valvo — the designer behind the beautiful gown Queen Latifah wore to the Oscars — and Tracy Reese, I’m sure when I am [...]

I love the “flow” of her clothing and I particularly love the colors she chooses. Heather Jones started as an artist, drawing and painting, which was later transferred to her garments. Currently, a range of artists transpose her designs and colors in what she calls “a marriage of hand painting, batik [...]

I have always loved Lauren Hutton because she is a woman with beautiful bone structure. It’s just something about a woman’s face I notice. Additionally, her face tells a story of a woman who owns herself, a woman who will not allow others to define her. That is something else I notice [...]

Fashion isn’t just to decorate women, but to reassure them, give them confidence. — YSL
This image launched my interests in both photography and fashion. The photograph was taken by Richard Avedon and features one the highest paid models during the 1950s, Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba (1927-1990), later known as Dorothy Horan, but best known [...]