Environment

This week’s Intimate Discovery:  Sophisticated, Loungewear Define the American Summer Style

[lightbox color=”#000000″ type=”image” title=”” link=”http://lingeriebriefs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/FemmeFatale-AK-1.jpg”][/lightbox]It’s pushing 100° in New York today and I am hunkered[lightbox color=”#000000″ type=”image” title=”” link=”http://lingeriebriefs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/DSC_0316-copy-1.jpg”][/lightbox] down in my house doused in the balm of artificial air conditioning.  I much prefer the outdoors and boy do I wish I had a few pieces of the Anne Klein loungewear, delivered this spring for woman … Read More


[lightbox color=”#000000″ type=”image” title=”” link=”http://lingeriebriefs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/9DKOD00Z2.jpg”][/lightbox]This morning it was the tulips and the bay

Clear inside a crisp May day

Today, I feel clean, like spring

Lifted from the gray wash of yesterday

This balance between the air and water and flower

Is so fragile and holds such power

Within one hour the train will move me away

And the city tide will flow in and steal my day

Shortly … Read More


Royal Fun ~ Wild & Free

[lightbox color=”#000000″ type=”image” title=”” link=”http://lingeriebriefs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/england-433.jpg”][/lightbox]The Monarchy is the Hollywood of The British Isles.  I could pretend that I am immune to the frivolity of pop culture, but in fact, I find it to be the ultimate brain drain.  I enjoy the escape.  The marriage of William and Kate, the hype of which has risen to a feverish pitch, is just days away and I wonder if the… Read More


[lightbox color=”#000000″ type=”image” title=”” link=”http://lingeriebriefs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/3326892925_48fca6dc11.jpg”][/lightbox]I have never had a propensity for birds.  To me, they always provoked images of tiny flying dinosaurs.  I did not understand the great fascination with these flighty creatures until I made the acquaintance of Lily, the beautiful Moluccan cockatoo that resides at my local garden shop.   Lily lives in a large white cage, the delicate wire frame of which manages to enhance her noblesse … Read More


[lightbox color=”#000000″ type=”image” title=”” link=”https://lingeriebriefs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Water-droplet-1.jpg”][/lightbox]The recent Tsunami in Japan has made us all think about the fragility of life, the ability of a seemingly tranquil and universal substance to transform itself into a harbinger of wrath capable of destruction and despair beyond human comprehension.  Nature has managed to remind us of the power of water and its impact on our lives.  For me, the presence of water has informed … Read More


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There is a moment when the Magnolia blooms

These buds are there all winter

They rest cocooned in a lacey canopy

Stagnant on this tree

Me watching at the bedroom window

Perched above

Waiting for the great escape.

The petals will open this spring

Enormous bowls of silken pink

Curled into the sun

Transforming the tree and me to a place of poetry… Read More


Yin and Yang

[lightbox color=”#000000″ type=”image” title=”” link=”http://lingeriebriefs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/IMG00139-20110115-1752.jpg”][/lightbox]Bougainvillea and cactus, ocean and desert, fishing skiffs and yachts, hummingbirds and whales, warm people and extraordinary privacy: On the southern tip of Baha California in Mexico, I have discovered a way of living that reflects the perfect balance of a very casual, but classy existence. We are building a home in Cabo San Lucas, a place where escape is possible but a large and … Read More


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