just what we needed!

yep, louis vuitton has made a skateboard! for $8,250.00 you can get the limited edition (actually there’s only 3 of them!) and the proceeds are benefiting the free arts NYC program. it obviously comes in a classic brown louis vuitton suitcase, decorated with steven sprouse’s pink graffiti as part of the launch of vuitton’s sprouse inspired collection. you know, just in case you’re in to that sort of stuff… by kv

CATEGORIES: eye candy, objects

Andrew Richardson


Was checking andrew’s correct spelling on the web and saw this.

“This shot was part of a story we did with madonna. The guy in the mirror is Andrew Richardson, who was an assistant stylist. Another picture I took of him eventually ended up on the cover of Italian Vogue, but he was never really a model. I shot him from time to time, and I think he posed for me just for fun, or maybe to meet madonna! Next to him is Mars, a circus performer from Russia. He walked the tightrope.”- Steven Meisel

I cant confirm the facts and having worked with andrew a few times I simply cant see how this could be him, but maybe in younger days… if so he must have looked rather hot… as a boy or a girl. by zz

CATEGORIES: musings

The perfect gift – le labo

le labo store on elizabeth street, new york city


each winter the task of gift hunting weighs upon us and we run around new york looking for that perfect gift. this last winter I met the frenchman, fabrice le labo, one of the founders of le labo fragrances. charming as you’d expect from a young frenchman, but also quite intellectually aware and a lovely candidate for a drink, at least in my book.

the shop on elizabeth street is unassuming, like most shops on my old street where I lived for 12 years before i moved to tribeca. but inside you’ll find a dashing selection of scents not only custom made but also bearing your very name. i had one of my dear clients from LVMH here from paris and guess what she asked for upon her arrival? to have her favorite scent picked up for her at le labo. our intern of course obliged. the reason? the only place le labo is available in paris is at the overplayed glam store colette. But now you can walk into their NY or Tokyo stores and get the full experience. for unfortunate uptowners there’s barneys but who shops there anymore? maybe mark borthowick ; ) by uh

CATEGORIES: beauty, fragrance, ny places

Of Walking in Ice

In the winter of 1974, filmmaker Werner Herzog made a three week solo journey from Munich to Paris on foot. He believed it was the only way his close friend, film historian Lotte Eisner, would survive a horrible sickness that had overtaken her. During this monumental odyssey through a seemingly endless blizzard, Herzog documented everything he saw and felt with intense sincerity. This diary is dotted with a pastiche of rants about the extreme cold and utter loneliness, notes on Herzog’s films and travels, poetic descriptions of the snowy countryside, and personal philosophizing. What is most remarkable is that the reading of the book is in continuity with the experience of watching his films; it’s as if, through this walk, we witness the process in which images are born. Out of print since 1979, this limited pressing done by promising new publisher Free Association. by xy

CATEGORIES: books

a skin too few

in memory of a great man, writer, and his music. the documentary on our beloved river man, mr. nick drake. see it if you can get a hold of a copy. by dd

CATEGORIES: clips, must see films