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That day in Feb 2022 when NYC Mayor Eric Adams announced that Covid Restrictions have been ended, and how I had reacted over the course of that week (opens the original)
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“I think it’s all designed to drive us crazy. Everything hiding in plain sight, yet nothing ever admitted, or acknowledged.”—Celia FarberCelia Farber’s must-read essay, “How Much Truth Do We All Have To Produce Exactly? Is Anybody Else Wondering When We Get The Toy In The Cracker Jacks Box?”, jarred a “falling out of an airplane” feeling I had had in Feb 2022. That knotted-up feeling in the pit of the stomach one can feel when a trau
1994: Kim Gordon’s fashion show for her X-Girl clothing line staged on the streets of SoHo to coincide with Marc Jacobs’s F/W ’94 comeback show held in an intimate loft nearby (opens the original)
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On Saturday, April 9, 1994—one day after America had learned of rock musician Kurt Cobain’s (Nirvana) death, rock musician Kim Gordon (co-founder, bassist, vocalist, and songwriter for Sonic Youth) and her fashion co-designer/co-founder Daisy von Furth (younger sister (or step-sister) of rock musician Julia Cafritz (Pussy Galore))—with the help of two of their friends—Sofia Coppola and Spike Jonze, debuted X-Girl—a casual clothing line for women, in an outdoor fashion show on the streets of SoHo
Couture-Level Show Takes Over Iconic Pierre Hotel Grand Ballroom | NYFW (opens the original)
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I’m mashing some things together in this post. No essay to tie it into a story. Instead, a series of what I call “brush strokes”… In this one, the brush strokes are high-end fashion, fashion/celebrity/event photographers, luxurious venues, and, one might say, an unexpected juxtaposition. And, two recommendations…Designer: NARDOS | S/S ’27 | NYFW:NARDOS’s show took place this morning at 9am in the Grand Ballroom of the iconic Pierre Hotel.NARDOS in one word: Elegant. Ready-to-wear that feels like
September 11th, 1776: The Staten Island Peace Conference; And, what if the Twin Towers were not built in the Glass & Steel Brutalist style? (opens the original)
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On this day, 250 years ago...About a future path that was foreclosed upon…The Staten Island Peace Conference—September 11th, 1776From Wikipedia:The Staten Island Peace Conference was a brief […] diplomatic conference [*] held between representatives of the British Crown and its rebellious North American colonies in the hope of bringing a rapid end to the nascent American Revolution. The conference took place on September 11, 1776, a few days after the British had captured Long Island and less th
NYFW Shows to be streamed on Rockefeller Center Ice Rink’s Big Screen (opens the original)
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Update: What I witnessed on the evening of 9/12/2026:it’s only 8:28pm. Shouldn’t they now be streaming—on their big screen above their ice rink statute, the day’s NYFW fashion shows as reruns? I guess Rock Center ain’t no Times SquareUpdate: 9/12/2026, 1pm:There might not be a separate “stay-at-home” web stream provided by the Rockefeller Center–CFDA partnership. “NYFW Live” may simply refer to the streaming of live and recorded NYFW runway shows onto the big scr
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