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Welcome to Lux and the City, a semi-weekly newsletter about the fashion industry, the entertainment world, and all the other parts of my life I might want to let you in on. You can subscribe here and follow me on Instagram @LUXURYLAW.

Hey Tribe,

I should start with some honesty: I might be showing up fashionably late to my own party here! I really wanted to get this column out to you way before today, but if it hasn't been a busy season. It's been crazy, to say the least. It was just one thing after another.

Let me explain. First, we shut down the Met to do Halsey’s visual album, and they only ever shut down the Met for the Gala. Maybe you haven't gotten to see it yet, but I did the costume design: 23 fabulous, glamorous Renaissance-inspired looks, enough archive Vivienne Westwood to make you shed a tear.

We were really only supposed to do six looks, but...you know. More is more, isn't it? I'll tell you all about it in a future column. In the meantime, you have to go see it on HBO Max. Your assignment before we meet again.

Anyway, then it was the Venice Film Festival!

Then fashion week in New York.

Then NINE clients for the Met Gala. (More on that next week.)

Oh, and The Hollywood Reporter named me STYLIST OF THE YEAR!

And my Zendaya won the CFDA Fashion Icon award! She's youngest to ever win it.

So please: excuse my lateness.

I guess I just explained what I want to talk about with this newsletter. The chaos of this life. The gloriousness of this life. I want to talk about how I got here, and what I'm up to, and what I'm thinking about, and where I am, if I can manage to remember. It’s gonna be fun! I've been doing this for eight years. In all that time, my focus has always been on building the brands of other people. I’ve only ever wanted to elevate my clients to be the best, most daring versions of themselves. It’s exciting and even glamorous work, and I love it more than anything.

But something’s telling me it might be time to step out from the shadows of my lovely clients. Throughout my career, anyone who’s watched from afar has only really gotten to know me a little at a time. You’ve only gotten to see the images I’ve helped create for the stars we all love. You’ve gotten to know me as the Image Architect. You’ve gotten to know me through my work with Zendaya, with Ariana, with Céline, with Anya, with Lewis.

That’s only a little piece of this life. Like looking through a peephole into a room where a ball is happening, but you can’t get a good look at anyone. But now I want to bring you to the ball! I want to take you behind the velvet rope. Arch Digest photographing my home was an honor, but it was just the start. I want you to be a fly on the wall in my world, in my career, in this strange and beautiful world I found myself in all those years ago. This world I still wake up to every morning, only to fall in love with it all over again.

I’m gonna do this thing twice a week. I hope you'll join me next week? We're gonna talk all about the Met.

I want to hear from you in the comments! What do you want to know? What’s been on your mind? What questions do you have for me?

Until then,

Law