A few days ago, models walked the runway at Chanel Metiers d’Art pre-fall 2014 fashion show in Dallas. As usual, the production was outstanding and host to a crowd of nearly 1000 celebrities, top Chanel customers in Dallas and around the country, supermodels and members of the international fashion media . Lagerfeld showcased the company’s Métiers d’Art to vivid effect with clothes that trumpeted the American West—Cowboys and Indians clichés and all. Historically, Ralph Lauren has owned this fashion territory, but Lagerfeld seized upon it with gusto but also with characteristic deftness. “It’s a reinvention of...

Four times a year, every season, normally on a Monday when I am off work, I hop into my car and drive to my local Ulta store and buy three nail polishes. It’s become my little ritual for the last several years. People change their handbags with each outfit, I like to change my nail polish. No I don’t have manicures every time I change my nail color, I do it myself. I learned at a very early age how to paint my nails. My parents thought that young girls should not paint their nails or wear make-up until they were at least in high school, I was in the fourth grade when the obsession began. I had to catch the bus every morning,...