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Michael Monroe of Hanoi Rocks at the John Varvatos Store, NYC, 05.06.10
My second glam-rock show of the year, and who other than Michael Monroe, once the Hanoi Rocks frontman, as the perfect entertainer to grace the toy-sized stage at John Varvatos? Yes, the John Varvatos store on Bowery, which makes sense in a way, since the space was once home to the famed CBGBs.
Slow Fashion and Eco Chic: A Night at Scandinavia House
Opening at New York’s Scandinavia House on May 5 is the Swedish Institute’s fashion-centered exhibition, Eco Chic: Towards Sustainable Fashion. This traveling exhibition (stops so far have included Berlin, Kiev and Istanbul) aims to raise awareness of the destructiveness of the current textile industry while educating consumers on more eco-friendly alternatives.
My Valentine’s Day With Ms. Wintour
On the Sunday of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2010, I stood in line like Anna Wintour, yet unlike her, I kept standing in line and my line was for the standing room, so I was just standing to stand. I couldn’t stand it anymore.
Mercedes-Benz New York City Fashion Week, September 2009: One Madman’s Musings After a First Time in the Tents
The past week I was tardy because it was Fashion Week, the week before it was Rock Week, the one before I got a girlfriend, and the one prior I joined Tau Zeta Kappa. The models outside of the shows have all been posing, for me I thought, until I realized that they in fact were not and instead were flashing their tights for middle-aged photographers, though not from the middle ages, and these girls/photogs were too professional to be of an age.
Williamsburg Fashion Weekend @ Glasslands, Brooklyn, NY, 2.20.09 and 2.21.09
The shows took place at the beginning and the end of the world, on Kent Avenue in Brooklyn at Glasslands, a windowless venue that we found to be at fire code capacity early on Friday night. This event began in May 2007, with this particular installment organized by Arthur Arbit (also King Gurvy) and Tom [...]
Roisin Murphy at The National Arts Club, NYC, 02.19.2009
Fashion Week wouldn’t be complete without an appearance by Roisin Murphy, who is slowly but surely branding herself Stateside as a style icon-meets-nouveau diva.
Williamsburg Fashion Weekend, Secret Project Robot at Monster Island, 10.4.08
In the husk of a new construction across the street the poet writes on an old typewriter, the sound resides, spelling out “p u r p l e pe o p l e,” bouncing across the red brick building’s courtyard. A dog barks, someone yells “not tonight” into a telephone, with a somewhat slurry voice…
The Hours Play in Style at PRADA, NYC, 9.08.07: Sentimentalist Magazine Review
On a recent Friday night at the PRADA boutique in Soho, British power-pop band The Hours debuted in the U.S. They played on a stage in front of New York’s most fashionable people, with lights flashing blue and yellow and a giant disco skull hanging above the audience. The show was a fitting wrap-up for [...]
Bête Noire Menswear Preview : Sentimentalist Magazine Online Exclusive
It was a humid Sunday evening at dusk somewhere in the Garment District, perhaps a strange time for the unveiling of a new menswear line with the mysterious name of Bête Noire, but strangely appropriate as well, since this collection is far from your typical NYC 9 to 5 menswear fare.
