A recent trip to beautiful and vibrant Thailand was the perfect backdrop to some of Tory’s favorite resort looks. See the feature…

January’s weather calls for two things — a cocktail and a warm fire to drink it by. Here, drink recipes from spots with the best fires, some on city-scraping rooftops or built on beaches, from around the world.

“I like quite a bit of color and pattern, which can be harder to wear on the streets of London or New York, but perfect for swanning about Ibiza or St. Tropez.”

We love color and pattern, too! Our Resort collection is all about ultra-bright hues and bold prints, which we think look great mixed together.

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Download now: Skinny Love, Birdy’s cover of Bon Iver’s hit. Birdy — otherwise known as Jasmine van den Bogaerde — is the 15-year-old musical wunderkind that Europe can’t get enough of….And she’s on her way to the U.S. soon.

Writer Charla Krupp, who recently passed away from Breast Cancer, had a knack for writing how-to books with a can-do spirit. How Not to Look Old or How to Never Look Fat Again aren’t preachy. Instead, Charla’s tips are down-to-earth and accessible, like how a sexier pair of glasses can make you look younger or a v-neck instantly slims. As an editor at InStyle, Glamour, People StyleWatch and More, she won legions of fans.  Charla’s family and friends have set up the Charla Krupp Memorial Fund for Women in Media at the University of Illinois. Here’s how to give.

Very Classy‘s Derek Blasberg on when it’s ok (and not ok) to use your BlackBerry….

Acceptable
1. Lunch (unless you’re meeting with your boss or your mom): it’s a work day!
2. Trains, taxis and airplanes: but please, never be the obnoxious fool who has loud conversations.
3. Expectant situations: if you have a pregnant family member or a sick friend.

Unacceptable
1. In the big leagues: if you’re with a more senior boss or an elderly family member.
2. At a private home: if you’re having dinner at a friend’s house, focus on them and the party at hand.
3. Funerals, film sets and weddings: it’s mortifying to be that girl who has her phone go off at an inopportune moment.

Sophie Pera, Town & Country‘s Fashion Market Editor, is one of the chic-est magpies around town. She showed us how she’d style one of our favorite resort jackets — the Hadley — and shared her best advice. Read More

New York band fun. is so fun it deserves extra punctuation. Keyboardist Andrew Dost tells us how Xanadu brought the trio together. Read More

Edith Wharton was born in New York City — a few blocks from our Chelsea offices, actually — 150 years ago. Through novels like The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, she perfectly captured (and satirized) American bourgeois aspirations. Perhaps Wharton’s greatest passion, though, was The Mount, a home she built in Lenox, Massachusetts, and into which she poured her extensive knowledge of architecture, interior design and gardening. When she wasn’t writing Pulitzer-winning novels or hosting peers like Henry James, she could be found planting cabbages and strawberries in the garden. Here’s to you, Ms. Wharton.

Shun Lee — known as much for the perfect dumplings as the surreally-stylish decor — is our favorite Chinese spot in New York City. We asked them what to order for the perfect Chinese New Year dinner. (If you can’t visit or order in, you can mix up their signature ginger mojito at home.)

We lost two giants last week with the passing of Etta James and Johnny Otis. They live on through their music and the countless generations they have influenced.

Hong Kong’s Geneva Vanderzeil, the stylish diy-er behind A Pair & A Spare, told us what she’s doing on Chinese New Year in our latest Day in the Life…. See the feature…