Haute Mess

At seventy-eight years old, I've learned that people tend to underestimate a woman of a certain age. They see the silver hair, the slow shuffle, the adorable dog in the matching outfit, and they assume the mind has gone soft right along with the body.

They'd be wrong.

My name is Dora Lee Griffen, and I've spent my life in the fashion industry, from my revolutionary 1987 collection to my current small shop just a block from my penthouse at the Royal Griffen Hotel. My family once owned this gra...