Monthly Archives: September 2025

………………..I would like to wish all of my friends of the Jewish faith a very…..Happy Rosh Hashanah!………Happy New Year!!

…………………Here in the state of Connecticut, each year we have to pay a tax for each individual car we own…..The cost of the tax depends on the age and model of the car!……I owned THREE cars……One was Jac’s Lexus SUV, which was over 10 years old……..I had a GMC Yukon Denali truck which I used for work and was now just too big, and I also have a two door 2002 convertible, which is now considered an ANTIQUE…….I had gotten the truck when I was going back and forth to QVC to hold lots of garment bags in the trunk….Now that I no longer make that trip, and the truck was just so big, I hardly drove it….and I didn’t need three cars!….so I traded in the truck and Jac’s car, and bought myself a new Lexus….of course in WHITE……Jac and I had a joke…..we would say….”We have one white house, three white cars, three black dogs, and two dumb clucks!”……well….things have changed a lot…..I still have one white house, but now two white cars. I will never get rid of my little convertible!….which I only use in the summer to tool about…….The three black dogs and my sweet “dumb cluck” are now waiting for me in a better place.

…………………….It was such a beautiful day yesterday that I decided to take a walk….training for my European trip where I know I’ll be doing a lot of walking!……As I was walking I started to notice all of these interesting trees and bushes….some were beautiful….some were strange and some even funny looking…..so I decided to snap some pictures……every single one caught my eye…….The bush [second photo from top left], reminded me of a huge gum drop, and the pine tree next to it reminded me of Northern California…..I specially loved the row of gnarly tree trunks, and the hundreds of pine cones at the top of the trees…..I would spray paint some of them gold, and mix the gold ones with the natural ones, and make a pine cone wreath……..I’ll just have to take more walks and snap more pics….It makes the walks much more interesting!

…………………..I have mentioned my good friends ROBYN & ARMANDO so many times that I thought it was time to put a face to the name….Armando passed away….too soon…..many years ago…In a world of billions of people….they were able to find each other…..a rare and wonderful thing………When I look at this picture….all I can think of is……PURE JOY!

………………….”DINNER WITH ROBYN”……….Last night I had dinner with one of my dearest friends…….ROBYN COSIO………..Robyn had just flown in from LA the night before, and we made plans to meet for dinner at a sweet little French restaurant, COGNAC…..at 7 the Ave and 58th Street…..Robyn and I realized we will have been friends for 48 YEARS!…In two years we will celebrate knowing each other for 50 YEARS!!!!!……I met Robyn when we were in our early 20s…eons ago….I had hired Robyn to do the makeup on the models for my Anne Klein show…..and she did them until I left Anne Klein in 1994……She had left NY and moved to LA, but always made the trip back to do my shows…..She married an incredible man named Armando Cosio, who was also a hair and make up artist….to the stars……He did Linda Evans hair and makeup all of the years she was on “DYNASTY”. He later joined Robyn to also do the makeup for my shows…..I remember the first time they came together….The models were hesitant about letting a makeup artist they didn’t know do them….but after they saw the first few models he did the makeup for….they all started to line up for him to do theirs! He was truly a genius, and one of the best makeup artists I ever worked with….and I worked with almost all of them…….Robyn has transitioned from makeup to BROWS!……She has clients lined up on both coasts waiting for an appointment to shape their brows….she even wrote a book….called “THE BROW”…It shows how brows have changes through the centuries…..from shaved off, a la Elizabeth the First, to a thin line a la Jean Harlow…. t0 thick arched brows….a la Joan Crawford………It was Robyn’s birthday last week, so I came to dinner bearing LOTS of presents…..I asked for a booth in the back of the restaurant so Robyn could go through her loot uninterrupted…..For years she has been asking me for something of Jac’s….they were extremely close, and Jac would fly out to LA to visit Armando and Robyn. Jac adored Armando, one of the sweetest people to have ever walked on this planet….Unfortunately, both Jac and Armando left us….both the loves of our lives………..First, I gave Robyn one of Jac’s PRADA  nylon “mail bags”. It was the only bag Jac carried….Prada doesn’t even make that style anymore….They SHOULD, it was one of their most popular bags, and they should bring it back….Jac had a few of them, and I gave Robyn one of her black bags that was practically new…..She freaked, and said that was going to be the bag she always carries from then on……I gave Robyn an assortment of Jac’s things…all from our days at Anne Klein, and Robyn knew them all, and even which shows I did them for…..There was a soft muted pink cashmere/wool men’s oversized style blazer [so in right now], a gaberdine olive drab shirt/jacket….a 6 ply thick ribbed black cashmere pullover with a funnel neck….a Bottega Veneta black satin woven evening bag with a huge silk tassel, a black crocodile “dagger belt”…..scarves and many other things….Then she started to open another brown bag filled to the top with jewelry! One after the other she open the black drawstring bags to exclaim over another wonderful piece….She was overwhelmed……well it was her BIRTHDAY!…….After three and a half hours, eating a delicious meal, and going through her bag of goodies….it was time to leave….She had her first client early in the morning, and I had to drive back to Connecticut……Parting with Robyn is never easy……who knows when the next time will be that we meet again?