When planning to travel to Italy a few months later, I mentioned the trip to Liliya. She connected me with a friend living there who had been a coworker from a TV station back in Russia. And over lunch in Milan, Julia Berezina and I became fast friends. Julia is now our resident beauty expert.

The first outfits I featured on the blog were those I photographed on the streets . I was shooting street style in New York one day when I came upon this woman with fabulous shoes. I met filmmaker and shoe-lover Liliya Anisimova. And the next day, we began collaborating on the blog.

The three of us – despite geographic distance – are so much of the same mind. We see style/fashion as a way to breathe art – and fun! – into our everyday lives.