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Let’s be candid—creativity, much like life itself, is a chaotic experiment. Over the past few years, I’ve embarked on what I can only describe as a steady creative binge. Leather goods? Made them. Denim goods? Check. Wrote a book? Yep. Even managed to compose a song. The funny thing? All of this from someone who once questioned why anyone would attend an Ivy League school to study English. I mean, let’s be real, reading The Old Man and the Sea made me want to throw the book (and myself) into ...

I kicked off my New Year’s resolution a little early this year—because why wait for January when your jackets are staging a mutiny in December? The grand (albeit loosely cobbled-together) plan involves eating healthy and exercising, all because the arms of my favorite jackets decided they’ve had enough of me.