“Set between two historic landmark buildings, Diane von Furstenberg’s beautiful flagship store in the Meatpacking District is capped off by her luxurious penthouse apartment. The building, designed by Work Architecture, connects an open crystalline, green-roofed penthouse to the floors of the store and offices with a clear central staircase. The iconic stairway fills the building with light, making the fashion house glitter from within.”
- Via Inhabitat
It’s camping season, so I think I’ll pick up this bad boy before heading out.
“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them.”
- John Waters, Role Models
Stylist: Hunter Lohse
Photographer: Shelley Murphy Godfrey
Hair: Christina Svec
MUA: Jill Ventimiglia
Model: Ian Scott Stewart
Publication: Study Breaks March 2012
The Model Alliance and CFDA are trying to crack down on designers who aren’t paying their models their fair share:
“An initiative aimed at securing better working conditions for models has launched an effort to stop labels from refusing to pay the models they hire.
After recent heated discussions surrounding Marc Jacobs and the designer’s refusal to back down from his decision to pay his models in clothing instead of cash, the Model Alliance is pushing to pass The Freelancer Payment Protection Act, still under review in the State senate.
If passed, the law would protect models and other freelancers in New York by allowing them to file complaints against clients unwilling to pay what they owe, while also protecting models from theft by their own agencies.”
Via Daily Mail
“…but it is disheartening when one of the most influential pop artists of the 20th century is tossing out the world’s umpteen-millionth “Mickey” retread as a lead single. She’s the one who deserves better.”
- Pitchfork’s review of MDNA
“Cary Grant was a fucking bore, who sucked the air out of any room he was in.”
- Frank Langella, Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women as I Knew Them
“It’s a great problem, very complicated, to recreate the work of a genius. Like trying to rewrite Faulkner,” Bergé said. “To put your stamp on the name of Yves Saint Laurent requires someone who has talent, conviction, rigor, a demanding nature and a great sense of color.”
Bergé called Slimane “a man of talent who can preserve the genius and legacy of Yves Saint Laurent.”
- Pierre Bergé gives his stamp approval to Hedi Slimane’s replacement of Stefano Pilati at YSL.
Shirley Manson on Lana del Ray: “She’s beautiful. She’s really talented. She’s the real deal, and I think that’s threatening to people. She clearly has an aesthetic and clearly has worked hard before she got to this point in her career. She has a past? God forbid, they lambasted her for having a musical past. It’s good she’s failed and she had the wherewithal to try again. Shouldn’t we be applauding her for that?”
Via Vanity Fair
