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More than just a transaction
“So how’s the no-buy year going?”
A colleague asked me this loaded question over dinner on a work trip to Italy in May. His tone was smug, as though he already knew about my moment of weakness in Milan two days earlier. Accountability was...
Monumental textiles
I discovered the work of artist Sheila Hicks as a textile student at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her soft sculptures and fiber installations were proof of what I felt instinctively: textiles are monumental. In Hicks’s work, the yarns...
Magical realism at the Orchid Show
This spring, I took my coworkers to one of my favorite places in the city: the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. I planned our field trip when the sidewalks were still mountain ranges of grimy snow. By some cosmic coincidence, we ende...
Why I'm not buying clothes in 2026
The last time I bought clothes for myself was on Sunday, December 7th, 2025 at the Field and Supply Holiday Market Pop-up in Manhattan. With its many aisles of artisanal wares, the “modern makers” fair didn’t disappoint. I bought a skirt ma...
The poetics of yarn
On a cold winter afternoon, I visited ACA Gallery on Tenth Avenue to see “Textile Truths: Faces of Resilience,” an exhibition by Afro Caribbean multimedia artist, Kandy G Lopez. I’d learned about her works in fiber through her cover story i...
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