My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. This is the Vladimir Nabokov quote you will find on Fatima Bhutto’s Twitter page. No mention of her mastery as a poet and author, beginning with Whispers of the Desert, a book of poetry that was published when she was (ahem) 15 years old.
Last year at a Golden Globe after party, I spot what can only be described as the most beautiful person I had ever seen. Yes, empirically speaking, Heidi Klum is gorgeous. But it was more than that that had me relatively spellbound.
Sometimes you meet a person and just click. You fall into an easy banter, find them equal parts inspiring and entertaining, and you feel absolutely tickled to have made a new friend. (Something that gets harder as you get older – if you were born after 1985, trust me on this).
It was about two years ago at a party for Kerry Washington’s cover of Elle Magazine that I met Ms. Katie Lowes. Let me tell you something – she’s awesome.
Last year I had the good fortune of meeting the lovely Dianna Agron on one of those magical New York nights where all worlds collide, and acquaintances become friends, and strangers become buddies.
You know when you get invited to a dinner party, where you will know very few people, and wonder who you will be seated next to? You are as excited as you are nervous, because it could go either way. Someone super cool, or someone….well, not so much.
You see them coming from a mile away. They are the modernized realization of Rainbow Bright… times two. I met the Beckerman Twins (Samantha Beckerman & Caillianne Beckerman) last year at a dinner hosted by The Coveteur (my friends and fashion savants) & The Outnet (where I buy fantastic finds, like this & this).
Over a perfect dinner at Whitehall in NYC, I meet Elettra Wiedemann for the first time. We are with stylist extraordinnaire, Chloe Hartstein, and my beauty guru, Daniel Martin. And while ordering mushy pea fritters, a plate of oysters, a few branzini, and frites for days, I look over at Elettra and think — “My lord, she is so beautiful.
If you’re a fashionista, you read Man Repeller. If you like to laugh, you read Man Repeller. Frankly, if you listen to the likes of TIME Magazine, Forbes, or Fast Company, all of whom have cited Leandra, with her cheeky & brutally honest, fashion driven site, as one of the most creative & influential people in the blogosphere, then you also read Man Repeller.