blink my day

Meet 63-year-old Lyn Slater, who has, until recently, been an ordinary professor at Fordham University. One day she went to meet a friend for lunch outside the Lincoln Center during New York Fashion Week. Foreign journalists suddenly surrounded her, mistaking her for a fashion icon and attracting spectatorsIt was a defining moment that turned Lyn into an ‘Accidental Icon’. Her blog of the same name, inspired by the experience, soon began making international waves. She is now a public voice against ageism in the fashion industry and the world.

“Fashion and my style help me struggle against that invisibility that comes with age.“

She was once asked about the old notion of ‘dressing for one’s age,’ and her response was clear:

A Kingston, New York bookstore has a new display: books by authors for “shithole” countries.

Watch what happens when Meryl Street stops by the Vogue offices for an interview with Anna Wintour. 

Ghost Hotel

This abandoned hotel in the highland jungles of Bali might look like an ancient ruin, but it’s actually the remnant of a thoroughly modern saga, for now the jungle reclaims the now abandoned structure.