For Small Business Saturday tomorrow, I’m highlighting my friend Heidi Wynne’s brand. Heidi designs her collection in the Hudson Valley where she is currently renovating a country house. She used to be my neighbor on the Upper East Side and we met when her brand was very new and her focus was cashmere wraps. Heidi’s […]

Small Business Saturday was started in 2010 to encourage people across the country to support small, local businesses. I can’t think of a better small business to highlight today than that of my friend Heidi Wynne. Heidi founded her own line of ethically-sourced cashmere from Nepal and straw bags from Indonesia, Madagascar and Morocco a few […]

What I love most about Europe are all the little specialty stores. It’s comforting to come back year after year and see that they are still open and haven’t been pushed out by rent increases so common in New York. After the Black Friday shopping gluttony at big box stores in the US, there has […]

Try not to shop till you drop on Black Friday and please save some stamina to support Small Business Saturday on November 26th.  I am very lucky to live in New York where shopping is almost an Olympic event but it’s the small businesses and unique little stores that make it special.  Bleecker Street used […]