She’s still got “it.” The late Tina Chow–jewelry designer, restaurant hostess, best-dressed fashion icon, muse–has her second New York magazine cover this week, featured as the epitome of the New York City It Girl. Her first cover, just over than 31 years ago, which tells the whole story of her life and death as one of the first prominent women to succumb to AIDS, is one of the saddest yet most inspiring magazine pieces I ever wrote. Read it here.