Alice in Fashionland

While I had always secretly considered myself a closet fashionista, in my dark private moments, the actual honor hadn't been officially thrust on me until recently, when I started "Critical Shopping" for the New York Times.

Since then I have been on a total-immersion fashion crash course, flung headfirst into racks of swish, slash, trash and occasional genius, and walking out of my house with… » Full Story on Salon.com