Autumn Picture Op

Creative Friends
We got together with some stylish, creative people at the Cowgirl Hall of Fame in the West Village. There's also an East Village and a Greenwich Village, which actually may encompass parts of the West Village, in New York City. It takes a village for 14 creative, lively and colorful people to have lunch at the Cowgirl Hall of Fame.

The occasion was the visit to New York of two California ladies, Suzi Click and Gretchen Schields. Now that Ari Seth Cohen, Advanced Style blogger, movie maker and author of two Advanced Style books, has moved to Los Angeles, we New York style mavens are getting to meet our west coast friends, through the style auspices of Ari.

 Gretchen Schields, jewelry maker.

Gretchen lives in Laguna, California.

She is wearing one of her own creations.
More on Gretchen here.

Suzi Click, creator of artisan apparel

and accessories.

Suzi is from Los Angeles.

She is wearing a hat, jacket and jewelry

of her own design.
More on Suzi here.

After our lunch we walked to the Greenwich Village

home of Alice Carey. 

L to R: Suzi Click, Gretchen Shields and Elke Kuhn.

Elke is wearing a fabulous necklace of her own design.

She really got into the cowgirl spirit with her boots,

hat and saddle-shaped bag.

There was a flurry of picture taking in Alice's

courtyard. Me wearing La Cerise sur Le Chapeau hat adorned

with a Dulken and Derrick orange rose, beads of my own creation,

Agnès b. blouse and my new Margaux custom

ultramarine ballet flats.

Photo courtesy of Diana Gabriel.

 Arlinda and Alice Carey.

 Joyce Carpati

 Diana Gabriel wearing

earrings of her own design.

 Couple-about-town, Eva Kobus-Webb and

Bill Webb.

 Debra Rapoport, milliner 

and creatrice extraordinaire.

Ari Seth Cohen, Richard Cramer and moi.

Other friends,

other times.

 Sue Kreitzman, artist and jewelry maker,

was in New York in August.

We got together at The Crosby Hotel for tea.

 We attended the opening of a show of drawings by

Joana Avillez at The Picture Room.

Joana, wearing a spectacular citron-hued coat,

is on the right.

With her is Valerie of The Idiosyncratic Fashionistas.

 At The Picture Room.

Valerie and Jean, The Idiosyncratic Fashionistas, and me.
Photo by Joana Avillez

Jean is wearing one of my

bead necklaces.

À Bientôt!