Death by Olsen: Dispatch from Fashion Week
When Nerissa Pacio Itchon and I became friends in college, we were something of an odd couple, style-wise. I was curvy, Jewish-looking and curly-haired, and my fashion choices might have been described as skater-raver-grunge, though I neither skated nor raved. Nerissa was skinny, Filipina and, miraculously, seemed to get her hair cut in a different style every week without ever losing any length. At first I mistook her for a sorority girl (the enemy!), although her look had hip-hop accents—and s
