Weekend

What's the opposite of Rumspringa?

You know that Rumspringa thing the Amish do—where for a year, teenagers are unleashed from the community to live in the outside world and are then given the choice to willingly return to a more traditional lifestyle? Every time I leave New York for a long weekend, it's like Rumspringa, but opposite. Four days away in the countryside up in Hanover, NH, and it's more than a little difficult to come back.

Fashion Hate

"The core code of conduct governing fashion can sometimes be characterized as jungle law. According to the unspoken rules of the business, the person you had dinner with last night might, if it is expedient, cut you dead at a fashion show the following morning. Somehow this ugly reality is found usual and acceptable." - Guy Trebay, New York Times

It's a Corgi Coronation Mug!

A Word on Synapses

"Neuroscientists explain that synapses occur inside the brain when we’ve made a connection between various different things. The more random the components connected, the more synapses occur. Synapses are the basis of creativity. In other words, synapses firing equals creative joy." - Fast Company meme story

One year ago today, StyleBistro NY HQ 1.0

Today's my one-year StyleBistro-iversary—and what a year it's been! I'm so proud of my team and how far we've come in the past 12 months. Here's a look back at day one, hour one of StyleBistro's first day in its first-ever New York City office. Me and Alicia, the company's first and then-only New York City employees, an open-plan loft space in Chelsea, moving furniture, the whole thing. Today, we're 25-strong in the Village.

Behold: June 1, 2012 -

Ville Ahonen 'Ennen kuin kuolen' shot by Chris

Finnish Gummy Candy Haul 2013

Other people who don't-didn't-won't drive

I can't drive, I'm in my mid-30s, and, so, I tend to get a lot of crap from people I don't know very well about my abstention from the great American pastime of operating a motor vehicle. Once, someone even said to me: "You should learn to drive—get some independence!" As if knowing how to drive put him on a higher plane of self-sufficiency—obviously not, from just a quick comparative cataloguing of our life experiences—whatever, he was a dick.

Anyway, there's a great story in the latest issue of Tatler about not knowing how to drive—and it's not one of those "Old Person Learns to Drive for the First Time" schticks. In it, the author Mary Killen, talks about how she doesn't drive—and how people like us are in good company.

Here are some people you may or may not have heard of who don't-didn't-won't drive:

- Albert Einstein

- Sir David Attenborough

- David Mitchell

- David Sedaris

- Manolo Blahnik

- Philip Treacy

- Brian Eno

- Lord Melvyn Bragg

- Adele

- David Starkey

- Ricky Gervais

- Lady Gaga

"I have a lazy, Woody Allen-ish view that anywhere you can't walk to, or get to by Tube or taxi, is innately suspect," journalist Matthew D'Ancona told Tatler. "Non-drivers are one of the few minorities it is still socially acceptable to ridicule; I fully expect to find a flaming cross outside my house one evening."

So. There it is.

Tea and Truth in Helsinki

Our old flat in London is for sale

Vuokko Nurmesniemi's House

Looking through some photos from last summer's trip to Helsinki. Getting ready to go back in a few weeks.

 

Alvar Aalto House

Heading back to Finland in a few weeks and taking a look at some of the photos I took last year.