Very thrilled to not only share with you all the release of my sister Blanca's newest album, "Butterfly Core," but her arrival at Uber. She has a huge following at a certain other online social club, and by joining us here she'll be able to flex her visual creativity in ways she couldn't there.
Archive for July, 2008
Bold and Gold
Jonesing For More of Amazing Grace
It’s four more months before the newest release in two decades from Madame Grace Jones, but the first track, “Corporate Cannibal,” has already dropped in the visually arresting form of Nick Hooker’s new video featuring the rakish diva.
Inside Joker? The Dark Knight Nurse
Is it art imitating art (OK, fashion) imitating art which was already imitating art (of the low-brow kind) when Heath Ledger’s Joker appears onscreen in “The Dark Knight” in a strawberry blonde flip ’do and nurse uniform?
Q&A: Tarina Tarantino Toys with Barbie
Tarina Tarantino’s Pink Plastic Party
To celebrate the launch of her very own Barbie, bauble and bags designer Tarina Tarantino rolled out the pink carpet to a few hundred of her friends Thursday night at her signature boutique on Melrose Avenue.
Making a Noise at the Silent Movie Theater
As Ava Garter untied the ribbon to release from her curvy frame the extensive skirt covered in hundreds of real peacock feathers and reveal a sparkling crystal G-string, the loudest hoots of encouragement lavished on the budding burlesque star came from her fellow broads in the black of the theater—certainly me, as well as longtime friend Dita Von Teese, stylist Negar Ali, fiction writer Amanda Goldberg, Chloe Sevigny,…and Liz Goldwyn, who enlisted Ms.
Mad Mad Hatters
Land of Awws: These Boots Were Made for Rambling
Traded in the strappy YSLs and sparkling knuckle dusters for a pair of hiking boots and the Ring of Kerry, which actually isn't something you slip on a finger at all but a loop around Ireland's scenic south-western Iveragh Peninsula.
Rewind: A Hot Cuppa with Vivienne Westwood
Hair Apparent: When Amazons Ruled
Partying in Obsolete
Fifty is a milestone. Like 16, 21 and, I recently learned, 40 before it, 50 claims its own category, a cottage industry brimming with its own cards, napkins, styrofoam gravestones, and other commercial and cultural trimmings to mark the moment.
