While some are still desperately trying to add those extra inches with sky-high stilettos, a revolution in the shoe department is underway and we at NJAL have let out a sigh of relief. You can pluck and tweeze all day (and night) long, but feet can only take it that far. So after seasons of staggering on mounting heels an end to the balancing act has come. Today we are hot for the more subtle glamour: the low heel.

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In 1973 my father was diagnosed with lymphoma, and began chemo. Even though I was very rebellious at the time I remember it was horrible to see him so sick.

The phrase ‘you get your chance to try in the twinkling of an eye, eighty years with luck or even less’ has always stuck with me and has reminded me how short our stay here is and how precious it is.

My Dad survived his cancer and stayed with us another eight years. In that time we became friends. He treated me to many wonderful things like my first trip to Italy, a cruise in the Caribbean on a chartered sail boat and the start of my college education. He taught me to look at the world and life as a gift.

I still miss him and always will.

“Dovima with Sacha, Cloche and Suit by Balenciaga, Café des Deux Magots, Paris, August, 1955,” by Richard Avedon, in “Avedon Fashion 1944-2000,” at I.C.P. (via Art : The New Yorker

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