PositiveVogue....Natasha Stagg approaches her life in New York from 2011 to 2019 as if she is not living in it. Her voice is a dry, all-seeing third eye, volleying from a helicopter view of the city to a street-level perspective. Sleeveless, a series of essays, some previously published and some new, is an anti-fantasy of New York, and the antithesis of what is usually projected in films, books, and movies. There is no grime and there is no glamour ... Stagg, a former magazine editor who has since ventured into the world of freelance and moonlights as a copywriter for Balenciaga, uses laser precision when speaking about the world of fashion ... Sure, many of these subjects aren’t explicitly New York–related—instead, they’ve all come into Stagg’s life while she worked and lived in the city. But when New York itself does directly appear, Stagg approaches it honestly.
