The Sketch Book

2015: MAKE LEMONADE

As evening descends on Nolita on this final night of 2014, I sit on my sofa and sip a lemony mescal cocktail. Oh sweet sofa. What a year we’ve had. Where to begin? Usually on new years eve I fe...

The Queen of Spring Street

Meet Tay. She's a four part composition painted in sumi and watercolor, floated on white mat to expose deckled edged paper, framed in burnished gold shadowbox frames and hung for all to see at ou...

december 2014

Happy December! This is an illustration inspired by the one and only Olivia Palermo, by the way that snow falling makes Central Park feel intimate and hushed like a secret tucked in the middle o...

73SPRINGSHOP - The Greatest Shopping Experience You Will Ever Have

I am back to round out the rest of your December schedule with more events focused on ME. I assume you've already planned your outfit for my Dempsey & Carroll 2015 Calendar event on December ...

Dempsey & Carroll 2015 Calendar Event

Hello! Exciting news! As you can see from this invitation I designed for the event, I'm here to invite you to join me at the Dempsey & Carroll Lexington Avenue showroom on December 2nd to to...

daphne: street style in soho

  boots: Joie  |  scarf: Vince   Hello! It is a blustery Fall Friday here in Manhattan. I've had a busy week full of launching my newest and most magnificent product to date, the 2015 Art Cale...

Daphne on the plaza

Last night I went to the ballet. Don't you just love that sentence. It should be followed by an entire coming of age novel set in 1940's era England.  But really, I did go to see ABT perform la...

A Story About Oscar

(illustration property of Shannon Ables, Simply Luxurious Life. Dress design, Oscar de la Renta)   I feel unqualified to write about the loss of Oscar de la Renta, like an unwelcome intruder in...

Meet Daphne

jeans (jbrand) /  shoes(madewell)  /  bag (celine)  /  hat (rag & bone)  / button down (marc jacobs)   I have some grievances to air with you, dear readers. Whyyyy did none ...

Welcome to October

Welcome to the tenth month of 2014. A month for quiet afternoons in galleries. The buzz of the summertime city has quieted, the colors have deepened, the light has dimmed. A perfect time to spen...