I live in Chocolate City, Work for NPR, am currently working on an MA in Interior Design, Love my roommate, friends and Kitteh, "Bits." Day to day I find more and more beauty lurking in the oddest spots. Rouge My Knees is an accumulation of notes on what I find whets my curiosity for all things toxic and pretty.
I love sharing my view of the world through the photos and links posted here. 
A film about Irina Ionesco and her daughter Eva. Via Catparty. I just about fainted with excitement.
Iris Apfel. I love that she will rock neon and not because it’s trendy.
the rare bird shares her beautiful and BOLD Manhattan Apartment in the June issue of Arch Digest.
“I don’t care what people think…I learned a long time ago…I was 19 and had a very traumatic experience….and I learned that I have to go to bed with myself at night and that I have to please myself…and as long as I don’t go out of my way to offend anybody that I love, upset my mother or my husband…I’ll do my own thing. And if the public doesn’t like it, it’s their problem, not mine.”
Filed under: femme icons
Jean Cocteau wrote during a filming that “her undressing was planned and executed like a house moving”.
Maria Felix, the Mexican Rose, once gifted Cartier a baby crocodiles so the jeweler could create an exact replica in the form of a necklace that in turn breaks down to two bracelets.
