LIKE MARVEL VILLAINS, most fashion writers have origin stories. Mine began with a navy nylon Prada purse, salvaged from a Boston thrift store when I was a teen in the 1990s. Scuffed with black ...
There were two floors of boots, shoes, dresses, mink coats, bejeweled hats, and enough silk scarves to equip Dr. Deborah Birx for a month of TV appearances. There were hundreds of bracelets, necklaces ...