Loco for Coco

Can I tell you about...Yutaka Sone. The other night, my BFF and partner in crime Christine Y. Kim invited me to go to his opening at the David Zwirner gallery ( www.davidzwirner.com) in Chelsea. The opening involved 3 different artists but Yutaka was my favorite. This is what Christine had to say about him: Yutaka Sone is a internationally celebrated artist from Japan. He plays with forms from rollercoasters and snowflakes to abstract compositions... in fiberglass, painting and other media. While his works are contemplative and sweet, his style is totally middle-aged-wealthy-cosmopolitan-woman-on-5th-Avenue-and-57th-Street!

Like many Japanese...he's obsessed with labels, Coco Chanel in particular. For the opening, he scoured NY city for the perfect Chanel outfit, including size 11 pumps! As you can see from the photo, he's quite a class act and relatively toned down compared to Christines' hot sexy ensemble. What brought them together was their obvious love for Coco. Christine was wearing a snowflake Chanel brooch and he shrieked when he saw it. I think he secretly wanted to snatch it off her jacket. I could see him lusting after it. I had to take a photo of them. I, of course, prefer Christine's white patent bag...and yes, it's mine. Of course!
He exhibited paintings and sculptures. The sculptures were crafted in clear lucite and the paintings had an Aspen Apres Ski theme. One especially appropriate and coincidental was a snowflake piece that kind of resembled Christine's brooch. Of course I had to take another photo of that.
We then rushed uptown to Bergdorfs for the Proenza Schouler cocktail party but we were too early so we ended up killing time at the bar at the Four Seasons hotel down the street. She had a Pinot Noir, I had a Silly Goose and shared mini Kobe beef burgers.
We were so chill by the end, we decided to skip the party and called it a night. There's always another party to attend and next time we'll come...fashionably late and be on time.

One Elle of a story

Can I tell you about ...Elle.com? Yesterday was just like any other day. I sat on my desk, had my coffee and logged on to the numerous websites and blogs I check out on a daily basis when lo and behold: I see my bag on Elle.com's front page in the Style Scout section! You can just imagine how thrilled I was. I click on it and there is a feature of my next Fall collection. I know it's a little early to be thinking of Fall while we're still waiting for Spring but hey, this is fashion. Life is on fast forward... forever.

Cheryl Locke, Elle's adorable and statuesque beauty, fashion editor and the Style Scout, dropped by my showroom a few weeks ago to preview Fall 2007 and took some pictures. I was hoping of course that those photos would end up where they are now. but you can't really assume these things.

Within hours I was swamped with emails from fellow designers and friends about the feature. It turns out I'm not the only one who reads Elle.com daily. Its a small, small cyber world we live in.

Here's the feature. Just click "skip commercial" to get directly to the story. Check it out while you can because next week I'll be joining the "archives".

MadHattan

Can I tell you about...Easter Sunday in New York? It's been a tradition that every Easter Sunday, New Yorkers parade down Fifth Avenue showing off their masterpieces. Calling them hats would be putting it mildly. Marie Antoinette may have been an inspiration for some of these brave souls. 'Everything but the kitchen sink' made it on top of some of these creations.
I asked my Mom take some photos of these whimsical hats. On a side note, my Mom is quite the photographer as you can see. She's been taking photographs as a hobby since I was in high school. She joined a photographer's club and was the only woman. Needless to say, when their club would photograph female nude subjects, it brought about an awkward and uncomfortable energy in the room. But that's another story.

Back to these fantastic hats. Aren't they just fabulous?! I love it when people shake off their inhibitions and go to the extreme, even if it's just for a few hours once a year. Okay, so maybe these folks also do something outrageous for Halloween but nonetheless, I think it's great.
Looking at these photos makes me miss Wigstock. That's what I love about New York, anything goes.