Laura’s Substack

Just Write

Thoughts gleaned from writing a whole big book.

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April 2024

All the Cool Girls Get Fired

Me and my pal Kristina O'Neill were. So we are writing a book—with stories from women who also got canned—about what comes next. Hint: it's great.

Apr 22, 2024 • 

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January 2024

Oh my, January!

A brief update from a hectic lady.

Jan 13, 2024 • 

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December 2023

GO ON! CHOOSE LOVE.

It's so easy to feel impotent when Everything Sucks, but wait, I have a solution!

Dec 3, 2023 • 

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November 2023

I CAN'T QUIT LEOPARD PRINT

Some say, "Leopard is a neutral," but either way, this girl's got herself a problem.

Nov 19, 2023 • 

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LAURA THE EXPLORER

My very first memory, aged not yet three, is of traveling. Now, a few years older (heh), on an adventure to Oaxaca and Las Vegas, I made a whole lot of…

Nov 9, 2023 • 

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October 2023

EMPATHY NEEDS A HUG

Feeling for others can tear you to bits, but in the end, it makes you whole.

Oct 16, 2023 • 

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September 2023

BELLISSIMA: WHAT VERSACE MEANS TO ME

My longtime love for the house that wears its heart - and gold, and chains, and leopard print, and Medusa heads - on its sleeve.

Sep 29, 2023 • 

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THE GREATEST FASHION SHOW ON EARTH

Today, we gobble up and spit out fashion while simultaneously wondering where the showmanship went. But in an album of my old photographs from London, I…

Sep 23, 2023 • 

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I LOVE THE LADIES

The designers I wear daily are women. I don’t wear them because they are women; I wear them because they are good.

Sep 13, 2023 • 

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August 2023

HIGH (ON A) CONCEPT

Next in my hero meeting series, the time great Chinese artist Liu Bolin made designers "invisible." And I gave them snacks.

Aug 28, 2023 • 

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MEETING YOUR HEROES

The first in a series about the images I’ve played a part in making, and the magic people I met making them. First, the great Mike Nichols.

Aug 16, 2023 • 

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