She is either very pretty or downright beautiful, depending on your point of view, but most of all she is good-looking in an unethnic American way, like the girl from the long-ago Breck shampoo ad.
She has clear, intelligent hazel eyes and picks at her food in the manner of small-boned women who have trained themselves to eat sparingly without calling attention to it. ‘
Then again, Burch is, by her own admission, “a total perfectionist. I can see,” she adds, “if a picture’s off by a 16th of an inch.” The details, animate as well as inanimate, appear to fall in place for her, as if in deference to her force field, her cleareyed, determined idea of how things should be.
There is nothing overtly tough-seeming about her, for instance, yet her friend Gigi Mortimer tells me that Burch hits the ball so hard in tennis her nickname is “Mighty Mouse.”
— From Daphne Merkin’s profile of Tory Burch in last week’s NYT T Style magazine, which I’ve just now gotten around to reading (it’s the one with the bizarrely photoshopped picture of Viggo on the front where he looks like a 13 year old sk8r boy). So there are a lot of problems with this “I don’t know how she does it” piece, but these quotes really stood out to me as the types of things my high school should consider putting in its recruitment materials - Burch is probably our most famous alumna. These descriptions totally embody the Irwin’s girl. You can imagine I was very happy there.I got up in the snowstorm on Saturday morning and went to an indoor farmer’s market (thanks, brave friends who joined me!). The good news about that was discovering that Sun Street Breads is going to be opening a proper bakery at 46th and Nicollet in the Spring! After this heroic effort (6 inches of snow in mary janes, yes inappropriate footwear!), reinforcing my belief in my ability to drive in the snow, I deserved a break. It was even better than being hungover, because I felt my lazing was virtuous.
But I watched 16 and Pregnant on MTV. I know, I know I am so behind the times on this, but DAMN. First of all, these bieber-looking boyfriends, it’s just shocking how young they are (the young men much more so than the young women). And it does seem like this show is serving an important function in dispelling some of the myths discussed in the blog post I link to above. In one episode I watched, the young mother’s boyfriend is getting a scholarship to university (where they had planned to live in married student housing), she says, “I thought having the baby would bring us closer together.” Oh honey no. The whole thing was awful, but it did seem important…for a different audience, maybe. (this episode was also interesting because the young woman’s mother kicked her out of the house after she refused to get an abortion. that wasn’t really discussed. actually, there’s so much not discussed. the silences are fascinating.)
