[Photo by Hanneli]Hanneli Mustaparta always finds the most charming and beautiful Advanced Style around the world. I am so happy when she share her photos with me. She shot this elegant woman in Paris.
Advanced Style Paris
[Photo by Hanneli]Date Archives 2010
[Photo by Hanneli]Jacquie Tajah Murdock
I was so lucky to meet Legendary Apollo Theater Jazz Dancer Jacquie Tajah Murdock while walking near Union Square today. This gorgeous woman,turning 80 this year, talked to me about the importance of education and staying active. She also mentioned that she’d love to be featured on The Tyra Banks to show that style is ageless.
A Flower In The Hat
I met Vicky at The New Museum the other day and asked if I could take her photo. When I was young my grandma and I used to watch My Fair Lady over and over.Vicky’s charming white gloves and flower in her hat not only reminded me of the film but were the perfect accessories for a lovely Spring day. Vicky emailed me later that day and wrote,”Even when I was young I loved to check out all generations of women and men who dressed a little different from the average Joe. If you’re a visual person it’s simply a luscious treat to see this form of live art…. in motion.“
Advanced Style Video: Debra and Tziporah on The Healing Power of Style
[Video By Lina Plioplyte for Advanced Style]
The other day I talked briefly about The Healing Power Of Style and how style and dressing up can be used to elevate the spirit. Debra and Tziporah feel that through self expression and the art of dressing up they are bringing joy to themselves and others around them. Debra always says that Fashion is fun and that creativity is healing. My mom and grandmother always encouraged me to express myself and be creative and Debra and Tziporah inspire me to continue to live a life filled with art, beauty and self expression. I hope they inspire you as well. Remember you can email Debra at Debrathenutritionista@gmail.com . Not only is she a fabulous artist but an amazing Reflexologist as well!
Lucy Jarvis
I met Lucy last June when she came into the New Museum with a friend. She left a lasting impression on me with her amazing style and wonderful presence. Since that moment I have oftentimes looked back at her photo wondering when I would see her next. The other day as luck would have it, Lucy walked into the New Museum and I couldn’t contain my excitement. I ran up to her and asked if she was the woman I had taken a photo of last year. She said. ” Yes, but how do you remember me?” I replied that I could never forget someone as stylish and wonderful and her and we walked outside to take some new photos. She stood in the rain as I snapped away. Turns out Lucy is a celebrated television producer, read more about her amazing career below:
In a remarkable broadcast career spanning nearly fifty years, Lucy Jarvis has made her name by achieving the impossible. In 1963, she was in Moscow filming a documentary when the Cuban Missile Crisis erupted. Undeterred, Jarvis fired off a cable to the White House demanding that President Kennedy end his “little argument” so that she could continue shooting. Afterward, Kennedy joked: “I told Khrushchev if he got the missiles out of Cuba, I would get Lucy Jarvis out of the Kremlin!” The Kremlin was the first of many award-winning documentaries and specials that Jarvis would make for NBC News. Savvy, connected, indomitable, there were few doors that she could not pry open, from the restricted inner sanctums of the Louvre and Scotland Yard to the impenetrable (or so it seemed) enclave of China’s Forbidden City. Along the way, Jarvis also produced a string of investigative documentaries about the crucial social issues of our time, from gun control to drug abuse to the imbalances of the medical system. When she left NBC in 1976 to become an independent producer, Jarvis was one of the first women in history to launch her own production company. Through it all, she credits her success to motherly advice: “She made me believe there was nothing I couldn’t do, and I believed it and, therefore, did it.”(Paley Center for Media)