Joan Didion and her typewriter, March 31, 1972. Image: Jill Krementz

Jill Krementz remembers the great Italian jewelry designer, Elsa Peretti.

As a new documentary about the seminal writer arrives on Netflix, we dissect the storied personal style of Joan Didion.

Bumming is a bummer.

From tiny writing desks to giant painting studios, the only thing all of these creative studios have in common is that they inspired their successful inhabitants to create greatness.

Anais Nin // "We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations."

How does one write about a great female social activist’s style without it coming off diminishing? This internal struggle has been swirling around in my mind before and as I begin to try and accomp…

Who's afraid of a standing desk? Well, not Virginia Woolf! Notable female figures have used standing desks to enhance everything from health to productivity.