A new year.
I started writing this post at the start of last week, when the year felt wide open with possibility. 6 days later and I had to come back and completely revise these opening lines. 2025 has already handed out cruel fates for thousands due to the fires in Los Angeles this past week. It’s unfathomable really and puts into harsh relief just how much I have to be grateful for – even if not a single thing more came to me this year.
That being said, as the rest of us find ways to offer help to those in greater need, I’ll share what I had planned.
If you read my 2024 recap – you’ll know that I started last year with a bit of fear over losing the momentum I’d started in 2023. But that’s not what happened. I doubled down in almost every aspect of my life and felt like I was rewarded with a lot because of it. This year, I don’t feel as scared. I feel confident that even if I have to sidestep here or there (and I undoubtedly will.. nothing is linear in life), I’m capable of continuing to think in decades, act in days.
While I always create a private list of specific things I want to accomplish (both big and small, lighthearted and lofty), this year I also put together a moodboard (shown above) that I thought would be fun to share. It captures a bit of what I’m hoping to attract:
- Home Decor – now that we’ve bought our apartment I’m itching to do a bit of redecorating to really make it ours.
- Audrey Hepburn at the barre – representing balance and poise, both of which I hope to have.
- Runners on a track with the words ‘every day is a new day’ – both for the fitness of it all and my hope to run faster and even more this year, and also for the mantra to view each day as a new opportunity.
- A sleeping beauty of sorts – to remind myself that despite a challenging job and busy schedule, I want to prioritize rest when I can.
- New York in all her glory – what a gift to live here, I want to keep taking advantage of all she has to offer.
- Travel destinations – I’m always hoping to see more of the world each year, as well as return to places that really make me feel inspired and happy.
- Paris specifically – because I want to dust off my high school/college French and restart lessons in some capacity.
- A vintage car – a nod to wanting to get my driver’s license again. Mine lapsed several years ago and I’ve been a passenger princess ever since, but it would be nice to take the wheel again.
- A great head of hair – my own took a real beating last year for various reasons, and so I’m on a quest to restore the health of it and grow it out again.
- A manuscript – while I’m not sure I’ll finish my long mulled over novel in 2025, I do want to commit to making writing a regular practice.
- Fashion sketches – representing my work (and a reminder of what I love about this industry and why I started), but also because I really want to ruthlessly edit my own closet this year and continue to be very clear on how I want to dress and the overall style I want to cultivate in my forever wardrobe.
May your year be filled with health, happiness and hopefulness. Thinking of all of those in LA that are going to deserve those things more than ever.