Fabrics are a game changer when you live somewhere drastically hot or cold. I’d know because I grew up in Karachi’s hot and humid summers and spent my teen and adult years in the United States warding off temperatures as cold as 40 degrees below zero (Minnesota, Massachusetts, New York). I always knew wool was…
View PostWhen I got a full-time job in NYC after graduation, I was buying breakfast, lunch, and dinner almost everyday. At that time, images of professionally dressed women grabbing a bagel and coffee with a yellow cab in the background were all the rage online. They made my younger self feel like I fit right in…
View PostMore than any day this winter, today I felt grateful for a capsule wardrobe. I woke up late, and since I’d forgotten to prepare my breakfast last night, there was that situation to deal with. I ate an apple with peanut butter and chugged a cup of coffee, so I could get dressed only to…
View PostIt snowed all day today. Engulfed in a blanket of white fluff Amsterdam looks like a dream. The city’s public transport, however, becomes unreliable on snow days and I didn’t want any part of it, so I decided to work from home. Luckily I’d no meetings, just emails and a tall stack of regulatory papers…
View PostI recently disabled my Instagram account because it became very time-consuming and prevented me from writing here. At this point, I’m not sure if or when I’ll be back on the gram, but I’ll definitely be using my blog to channel all creativity. In that pursuit, I’m starting a new blog series where I can…
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