February 2009
January 2009
“For the haters, there’s an Anti-Valentine’s Day dinner at the...”
– Gothamist: New York City News, Food, Arts & Events
Oh good lord, food fetishists, get out of our house! Seriously, between this menu, the last two issues of Bon Appetwat, and the most recent Martha Stewart Industrial Complex publication, I’d swear up and down that the guys who live...
““We are trying to push the envelope with this,” she said. “We thought it was...”
– Front Row - Alexander McQueen and Target Woo Oklahoma - NYTimes.com
McQueen for Target due in March. I’m excited. Cindy’s excited. So should you be. I probably won’t buy anything, since I’m still wearing all the Erin Fetherston and Alice Temperley stuff I got a couple of...
The Bacon Explosion - Take Bacon. Add Sausage.... →
The “Bacon Explosion.” Officially too much bacon. Yes, there, it’s truly possible to have too much bacon. This be nasty.
<3 pvb, grossed out
“The house in question is a hundred-year-old brownstone which our landlords...”
– The Haunting: Ghost Story (via Jezebel)
First of all, I’d like to say “Sadie, don’t be an alarmist…yet.”
Secondly, I’d like to say that you’re probably hard pressed to find a brownstone that doesn’t have some kind of energy. As of late,...
Beth Ditto to Design 80s-Inspired Line - BlackBook →
Hey world, I have a great idea! Why not have people with real fashion chops collaborate with retail designers to introduce wearable and desirable clothes for “plus sizes” (that’s US 10 / UK 12 and up, kids…pretty normal sizes at the small end) instead of garish club garments. We really don’t need another flourescent pink oversize asymmetrical tee-shirt with leggings...
“…Since then the members have found that their aesthetic — from their...”
– Franz Ferdinand Moves Away From the Style It Made Mainstream - NYTimes.com
I am totally sure that Franz Ferdinand are the only band who feel this way. Other things I learned from this article: Growing up is hard, and no one liked “Do You Want To” quite as much as we did.
<3 pvb
Sunday Fashion Update
I’m subjecting you to the highlights now so that I can actually get some work done tomorrow.
First, Demeulemeester. Nick Cave did the show music, and his eldest walked. This stuff is gorgeous. Demeulemeester is consistently one of my favorites for ladies’ wear, but I have to confess that I wasn’t aware she has a menswear collection. Goth cavalry anyone?
Per usual, the...
Michael Pitt for Yves Saint Laurent →
Watch Michael Pitt looking sad, moody, vulnerable, slightly baked, and pretty sexy while une femme française dit des jolis mots. (This is the best 5 minutes I’ve had in a while.) To view the whole video, click on the “Men FW 09-10” link on the lower left. <3 pvb
“It’s not a commune or based on the 1960s,” Ms. Redmond said. “It’s about choices...”
– Living Together - A Home Designed for Both Privacy and Togetherness - NYTimes.com
This is very familiar in this city where real estate is so important. Now, if Cindy and I could just scrape the money together to have my couch reupholstered…
<3 pvb, upstairs neighbor
A Last Note on Knitwear: Newborn Lamb Wears... →
(via Vonelle)
You think it’s cute too, don’t you? Admit it!
Endorsement - Ellen Christine Millinery →
Late Saturday afternoon, Cindy and I were wandering down 18th Street after running some errands and stopped to window shop at Ellen Christine’s and Authentiques. We found Ellen locking up for the night, but she invited us in out of the cold to look at hats while she walked her dog. (Evidently, we look trustworthy.) After half an hour or so of experimentation of different hats, visits with...
“Our capacity remains undiminished. But our time of standing pat, of protecting...”
– Text - Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address - NYTimes.com
Is it just us, or did our spanking-new, hotass President just tell the entire country to pull up their big girl panties?
Also, click here if you’d like to hear David Harrington’s (Kronos Quartet) and Cintra Wilson’s awesome...
“Here are the spiritual heirs of the quite wonderful and very beautiful Rook:...”
– The Quietus | Reviews | Shearwater — Rook
I’m not sure Chris Roberts means heirs here — I think he wanted to say ancestors — but outside of that (and the fact that he refers to Rook as Shearwater’s second album — which technically is true in the UK — the...
Four magic words: John Mayer Variety Show. On CBS.... →
"Deliciously Excessive" -- The Beautiful Helen of...
Cabaret, theatre, and dance all at once, and in lingerie? No, it’s not Weill’s Mahagonny or a Kiki & Herb revival. It’s Company XIV’s production of Weaver’s The Judgement of Paris. It’s a Baroque panto, kids! While looking at all kinds of awesome high-tone Wiemar depravity and boys in corsets, you too can learn about what happened when Paris got the...
“Sometimes it’s as if every moderately successful girl I meet, to the extent that...”
– Death In Paris: Suicide And Abuse In Fashion’s Top Echelon (via Jezebel and Tatiana the Anonymous Model)
Last week Cindy and I had tea with Madison, a mutual friend of ours who is a doctoral fellow at Yale and former star of Sartorialist. (He will shortly be one of our hotass models.) ...
“This, I thought, is the true meaning of Sephora. This is war — and war paint,...”
– Critical Shopper - Sephora - At Sephora, Waging the Battle for Beauty - NYTimes.com
Oh Cintra Wilson, I’ll even forgive you for using Sephori — rather than Sephorae — as a plural since you asked how to make yourself look less dead. This is a question of high importance for those...
India on the Brain
Maybe it’s PBS’s Story of India, but it’s been Bollywood Flashback in my head for a couple of days. Here are some vids to take you back about 12 years or so to a time that I was listening to KUT’s awesome world music show every Friday night before I’d go out. This was a time of something not-so-affectionately known as “Asian Breaks”…and it’s...