Carol Troy is a journalist and photographer whose work has appeared in Conde Nast Traveler, Vanity Fair, and The New York Times. She was also an editor at Rags and Oui, where she collaborated with Helmut Newton.
Jaunts from San Francisco to NYC keep her energy charged. She writes and lectures on fashion and photographs both Napa Valley wine people and the Friday St. Helena Farmers Market.
See Carol's Cheap Chic house at the New York Times Magazine, 2005:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/style/tmagazine/troy.html?ex=1172293200&en=424b139990730399&ei=5070
September 2013 GQ-style Japanese magazine Popeye has 200+ pages on Cheap Chic, millennial style.