Vogue
August 2009

She’s Come Undone, Spider Veins
"I found myself sitting in the waiting room of the promisingly named Vein Treatment Center, an entire brownstone on East 65th Street devoted to the eradication of these dreadful things, run by the distinguished phlebologist Luis Navarro, M.D. Warm, gentlemanly, originally from Barcelona, Navarro – a pioneer who opened his vein oasis in 1982- walks around his desk and takes a friendly seat next to me." “Small spiders, he says evenly, casting an expert eye up and down my pale, outstretched, unstockinged legs…”