Fashion
Fashion Events & Trends
Personal notes from fashion events and brand collaborations. On November 15, 2012, I hosted an event at Topshop Nordstrom at Chandler Fashion Mall in Arizona. On May 4, 2012, I attended the Lucky FABB West Conference at the Annenberg Beach House in Santa Monica, CA.
Coverage includes conversations with figures like Jessica Alba and designers like Zac Posen, along with references to Lucky Magazine, Paige Jeans and Macy's.
Running on Happiness is a personal blog about life, happiness, beauty and personal style, written in long-form reflections gathered over several years. Rather than chasing trends for their own sake, the writing treats style as a lens on the everyday: what a favorite hat, a well-worn pair of jeans, or a favorite piece of jewelry can say about mood, season, and the person wearing it. The tone is warm and unhurried, closer to a journal shared with a friend than to a review of anything.
Beauty appears here as curiosity and experiment rather than as a rulebook. Posts about DIY beauty attempts, personal care rituals, and trial-and-error discoveries sit alongside reflections on confidence and self-acceptance. The underlying argument is simple: happiness is less a matter of finding the perfect product than of paying attention, of noticing what feels good and letting go of what does not. Small rituals of care are treated as genuine sources of pleasure.
Fashion is covered through events and trends, with notes written from openings, launches, and brand collaborations attended over the years. Instead of a detached summary of runway silhouettes, the writing records conversation, atmosphere, and the feeling of a garment in motion. Attention is paid to fabric, fit, and the way a piece behaves in real life, all in service of a broader question about how clothes shape the days we live.
Alongside fashion and beauty, the blog follows a running motif that gives the site its name. Running is presented as a metaphor and a practice: miles accumulate, paths unfold, and the body keeps a quiet ledger of effort and reward. There is a recurring sense of journey, of steps taken without a clear destination, and of the particular clarity that arrives when movement becomes routine. The metaphor extends naturally to the writing itself.
Personal reflections supply the connective tissue of the archive. These passages turn toward memory, instinct, and the pull of the world, often returning to images of ocean, sunlight, wind, and moonlight as shorthand for moods that resist easy naming. The prose moves between the concrete and the abstract, using sensory detail as a way into larger questions about meaning, attention, and what it means to feel genuinely alive on an ordinary day.
Guided by instinct rather than schedule, the blog describes itself as running on happiness, on following a path that feels right even when the route cannot be fully seen in advance. That idea of a magnetic pull, of being pulled gently toward work that fits, appears throughout the writing. It is a quiet argument for trusting accumulated impressions over outside validation, and for building a life around the things that consistently make you feel more like yourself.
The visual design of the site reinforces the editorial mood. A white background and near-black text keep long paragraphs easy to read, while a solid black header and footer frame the page like a printed journal. A classic serif display face anchors the title, set against a clean sans-serif for navigation and body copy. Square corners, generous margins, and an absence of boxes or shadows let the words and images stand on their own.
Browsing the archive reveals a calendar of years, with posts distributed month by month and topics recurring in loose cycles. Reading in order offers a portrait of a period of life assembled from small observations rather than grand events: a hat, a garden, a flickering candle, salt air, a song, a walk in the sun. The through-line is consistent even as the subjects shift. It is a record of paying attention, and of finding, in the accumulated detail of daily life, something worth calling happiness.
