“You can take me out of Manhattan, but you can’t take me out of my shoes!”- Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) Sex and the City If shoes are your thing no doubt you've heard of Stuart Weitzman. With retail stores across the U.S.A. and with its shoes sold in over 70 countries the brand is on top of the luxury footwear heap and "has earned a worldwide reputation as the embodiment of great American Style." Since the first shop opened on Madison Avenue in New York in 1995 Jane Gershon Weitzman, Stuart's wife and "sole mate", has been commissioning artists to create fantasy shoes...
She Collects Shoes, He Collects Books
Oh, the perils of posting - and discovering that the posts are actually read.On Tuesday, I wrote about a friend and book collector who was considering tapping into his retirement savings to buy highly desired rare books. I feared for his sanity - and that’s not all: I privately extended an invitation to him to sleep on my couch after his wife found out about the plan.After posting the article, This Is Your Brain On Books, and alerting him to temporary room and boarding availability when his wife kicks him to the curb, I received the following response from him:“My...