If you've been wondering why it's been near impossible to score anything by Stephen Sprouse on eBay or elsewhere in recent months, well, the reasons that have been silently building are finally out of the bag with Monday's summation in WWD.
Archive for November, 2008
Giving Good Gobble
My favorite part about Thanksgiving?
Ok, sure, it's partly Andy's slow-roasted turkey inside the small, black clay army tank that is the Kamado grill. But what gets me up early every year like a kid on Christmas morning is the annual Gobble Gobble Give, a DIY community gathering to feed the homeless.
DVF Thinks Botox is for Babies
Trunk Show: Ceramicist Maria White Mebane
On Saturday, please join us at A+R Venice for a very special trunk show with internationally celebrated ceramicist Maria White Mebane.
Her work is featured prominently in the new book featuring some of the biggest design stars around the world, Nature: Inspiration for Art & Design, published by Barcelona's Monsa.
Green with Envy
On the eve of her quickie divorce announcement in a London High Court Friday (ok, it was actually Wednesday night), Madonna was ruffling feathers of another kind in New York at a celebration for Gucci's new Tattoo Heart handbag.
Diamonds in the Buff
You could feel the collective sucking of air out of the hallowed Bing Theater at LACMA last night as Ava Garter stripped off her sparkling matador costume before a couple of hundred audience members–mostly members of the museum's Costume Council, which comprises mostly of ladies who get goose bumps at being called a socialite.
Not to be Missed: From Burlesque to Couture (Tonight!)
Supper with the Proenza Schouler Pack
Plodding a bit this morning (and it’s already a late morning for me) due to a late night supper given for Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough of Proenza Schouler at the Chateau Marmont.
Limited Lust: Steven Meisel and Melvin Sokolsky
Herms Hits the Road with Smart Car
24-Hour Party People at Paper Dept. Pop-Up
Tonight! Paper’s 24-Hour Department Store
Alexander McQueen Hits Target
I already felt like I was in an alternative universe, a surreal place where a usually apathetic population actually exercised its right to vote and cast a referendum to send to the White House an intelligent, dignified man who happens to be black.
The First Lady of Style
As if to underscore the trailblazing magnitude of this journey to the White House, Michelle Obama has consistently chosen modern looks and American designers (Isabel Toledo, Isaac Mizrahi, her hometown designer Maria Pinto, even Target) that distinguish this corporate lawyer and "mom-in-chief" (her words) from so many first ladies before her.
VOTE.
Hanging By the Telephone
Postcards from the Edge (of Echo Park)
From Saul William’s sublime, mind-blowing verse to John C. Riley’s pointedly candid humor to a straight-up shot from fathers Flea and Pierre de Reeder of Rilo Kiley (with babes in arms), the video postcards we shot a few weeks ago at Shepard Fairey’s Studio One Gallery and which finally began making their way online this last week are a reminder of the creative riches realized in this landmark presidential campaign.
