But Wagon! My idea of LA is very specific. Not general. In details. The minutiae. I'm seeing sex and jewels, not ice but rubies and sapphires and skin and sex .

theimagist has been becoming too much of a formula for me recently so I decided to look for a new challenge in writing. The only thing I can think of that is grueling but rewarding was long form prose. So here's the first excerpt from a burgeoning attempt to "fictionalize" some of my adventures in fashion. The following is an introduction to a seminal figure I met very early on when I first ventured into the business.

miumiu.com is a genius bit of work in progress