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DON'T LEAVE ME THIS WAY Matsuda (sob) closes its NY showroom and shop. The incredibly cool Spooky goes out of business.Bernadette Corp breaks up into a million parts and Kenneth Richard shutters his Soho boutique almost as quickly as he opens it. Sometimes it seems like a curse hangs over NY's underground design culture. Which is why we're burning insence and sacrifcing virgins in the hopes that the Steven Alan & Seth Shapiro guided "Hotel" boutique will catch fire (well not literally). All the best gentlemen.
NUR KHAN-HE'S OUR MAN The scene was socialite/entreprenuer Nur Khan's downtown pied-a-tierre where the full assemblage of downtown glitterai (from models to actors to editors to hustlers ) were crawling up and down the stairs. Without a doubt, Andre Balaz's Christmas shin-ding had just been usurped in the holiday chic stakes. I mean over here you've got that titanic talent, Leonardo de Caprio chilling quite comfortably with Hollywood's hottest, Matt Damon (hmmmm). Faithful Elite icon Shalom (sans Amber) is all coiled up with her mysterious new boyfriend. Helena is purposefully NOT discussing the Micheal Hutchensen drama when an unlikely but deliriuosly Sapphic pairing brings the room to a halt. Is that comidienne-cum-diva Sandra Bernhardt locked in a steamy tango with Chloe designer Stella McCartney? Yes it is!That Stella has certainly gone decadent in record time partying hardcore with old mates like Kate Moss and new best friends like Mad-donna. And has mommy-to-be Sandra staged some comeback or what? I mean what with that Surface cover being all hers and her one-woman NY show still packing em in, looks like Sandra is about to be hot all over again. Eat that In-grate, ...errr ...IN-griiiid!
SEXY MOTHER
Club-Of-The-Minute Subphonic: In the new frontier of DUMBO an ill sound generation makes their joyful noise heard. Venture there.(Bell 212-946-1998 for further details) Read-Of-The Minute 1:
CD-Of-The-Minute 1: Madonna "Ray Of Light"/Maverick As stated above, let us all file out obediently to the Virgin superstore and actually buy a Madonna CD, something we vowed would never happen. Its fierce for real. Look-Of-The-Minute(Girls Division): The most modern girls in Ibizia were wearing Yohji Yahmoto's gorgeous Spring 98 see-through velvet dresses with Tommy Hilfiger thong sandals and Calvin Klein underwear. Kicks-Of -The-Minute. The Jil Sander Pumas. Close your eyes and feel the climactic genius of the thought alone. (I do believe those were multiple orgasms we just had) Read-Of-The-Minute 2. Paradise by Toni Morrison (Knopf).Because she achieved the unimaginable, she left Charlie Rose toungue-tied. Boite-Of-The-Minute 2Seven7. Just down the street from the NYW offices, just up the block from Pablo R's loft. We feel a love affair coming on baby. CD-Of-The-Minute 2 Roni C: Reprasent,. State of the art drum n' bass and one of the most significant recordings in the brief history of this genre. YOU MUST BUY THIS CD! Look-Of-The-Minute (Boy Division) Soul Boy #4.Clear wraparound Balderamas+that classic one zip Helmut Lang denim jacket+ Joseph's camel coloured cashmere turtleneck+Dolce Y Gabbana's tan hipster trousers finished off with black snakeskin Patrick Cox's =the look that will get you prime seating at Asia de Cuba every time.*Mwah* Girl-Of-The-Minute. Her name is Amy Lemon. She is fifteen years old. She has already walked Jil Sander,Anna Sui and Marc Jacobs. She just shot the new CK ad with Steven Miesel. All we have to say is, Amy Lemon is the most devastatingly modern girl we have laid eyes on in years. She makes mince-meat of Karen Elson. She is everything that is described in So Ya Wanna Be A Supermodel and NYW will move heavan and earth to nail a feature on her in the Summer of 98. This we swear on the dangling fibres of our Margiela jumper. Amen. Show-of-The-Minute. If only for that spectacular image of the Nike store display you must dash down the Matthew Marks Gallery and revel in Andrea Gursky's monumental photographic studies. Label-Of-The-Minute Jeremy Scott, the bad boy American in Paris giving us the ultimate in avant-garde T-shirts is the label to covet right this minute hon. You heard it here first. |
The
decision of Paris modeling giant Marilyn Gaultier to open a
New York division is wreaking havoc on the most susceptible of titans,
Elite Model Management. Having copped one of Elite's most notorious
bookers--JD and having grabbed quite a few malcontented Elite
faces (led by Michele Hicks)--Maril;yn has bolted into the
forefront of the agency wars. To add further insult to injury Elite
has also seen the loss of two of its freshest stars, Kirsty Hume
and Trish Goff to DNA and even more painfully, the
defection of Stella Tennant to Women Model Management.
Elite however, is not the only establishment losing face(s) to the
new mavericks. Laura Ponte formerly of Next has nestled
nicely at Marilyn, as has the resilient Amy Wesson, formerly
of Company Model Mangement and what's this we hear of IMG sending
overtures to Chandra North at Women. Stay tuned for the inevitable
migration of even bigger and better girls to what has abruptly become
a very unstable business...In further news of defection, couture darling
and NYW covergirl Ines Rivero (also formerly of Elite) has
bolted Metropolitan in favor of the newly revised ID Models(formerely
known as American Models). OK Inez no more agency jumping for you!
So
speaking of babymothers, NYW's resident social-climber was doing a
power breakfast with a certain music mogul when the subject of Madonna's
forthcoming CD "Ray Of Light" arose. (Say "New Age"
y'all. ) "Here. I will kill your ass if it ends up on the Internet,
" he growls as he slides the advance tape across the table. Later
thinking, "Who cares!" we drop the tape into our deck only
to to be hit with some seriously ill electronic rumblings worthy of
the best drum n bass re-mixers. Murky, self-indulgent (aurally and
emotionally) but super-melodic, "Ray of Light" joins Everything
But The Girl's immortal "Walking Wounded" in the the
Adult Contemporary Electronica hall of fame. Producer William Orbital
turns Madonna out and you really should buy this celestial gift
from Miss "I-am-Earth-Mother-I-no-longer-roar". (OK Liz
Does that get us into the Roxy release party or what?)
Spoon
magazine. Panic on the streets of Paris: a new savior has come
to redefine the fashion magazine. Let's just say it might be a tad
difficult to tuck a copy up in your Kelly bag .